London Dramas II: The Trick that makes me Smile
Living in Dalston, in north-east London, means you end up a long way from a lot of things. Above all, from north-west London. In Dalston, gravestone-white is the predominant colour.…
Living in Dalston, in north-east London, means you end up a long way from a lot of things. Above all, from north-west London. In Dalston, gravestone-white is the predominant colour.…
Tapping through my Spanish language app, I think how different it was for you, all those Christmases ago in the early sixties. We talked about it once in your first-floor…
How do you feel about sharing your home with a stranger? To some people this is an odd, if not downright scary, idea. How can you know they are not…
The party started out as a session of good, and somewhat gay, Spanish music for a small audience made up mostly of Spanish gay men and lesbians living in the…
There is no poet, outside his poetry. Never. Other voices, other incarnations may exist alongside the poet, in conflict with him, but the poet without his flesh, the flesh of…
I tend to think stupid things at night. Sometimes they’re so ridiculous that I can’t stop myself laughing out loud. It’s serious, I’m a head case. I live in London,…
So, what is Christmas like in England? Is it similar to how we do it in Spain? And how do the Spanish festivities match up to those of our European…
It is no coincidence that London’s Somerset House should have chosen the figure of Ferran Adrià to define “The Art of Food”. But we do have to ask ourselves who…
Luis Cernuda runs away from Spain during the war and arrives in England from France. It will be a stay of nine years in the country (1938-1947). Time during which…
Hello, everybody, and welcome to Brit-es.com. The relationship between Spain and Great Britain is as remote as the most ancient nation-states in Europe. We should really talk about Portugal, Castile…