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ACROSS
1 Partitioned part of a room (7)
5 Permitted (7) best Here’s the
first of Helen
Macrae’s
BLOG
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of the
9 Porcelain (5) Madrid For Free
10 The spirit of the time (9) www.european
series of
vibeblog.com posts:
11 Incentive (10)
11 12
1 Retiro it up
12 Scheme (4) Madrid’s number one park is huge, easy to get to and,
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14 Manage; control (6) best of all, completely free. Go on a Sunday and count
15 Type of local area network (8) how many kids you can spot trussed up in their Sunday
14 15
best after church (double points for any siblings in
17 Go into solution (8) matching outfits) or have a laugh at all the people
16
18 Merchant (6) sweltering in their rubbish Spiderman/Mickey Mouse
costumes. If you really want to blend in with the
17 18 20 On a single occasion (4) madrileños, wear beige or, if you’re feeling fancy, a bit of
21 Composed for a large group gold (weekend beige).
19

of musicians (10) 2 Snog

20 21 22
24 Without definite limits (4-5) While you’re down at the Retiro you might as well do
as the Spanish do and have a good old snog. Just grab
23 25 Banish (5) your partner, find a highly visible park bench and go
26 Faithfulness (7) for it! See how long you can manage without coming
24 25 up for air, or perhaps try testing how amorous you can
27 Enchantresses (7) get (bonus points for any removal of clothes!) before
someone comes over to tell you off/you’re thrown out
BLOG Problems with by park security. If you don’t have a lady or fella to snog,
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the crossword? then fear not, just try our next tip which is...
Find the answers on our blog:
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3 Stroll down Calle Lavapiés

DOWN Take a walk down this street in our favourite barrio and
you will more than likely get a few lecherous comments
1 Spiny, succulent plants (5) reactions in the body (6) 8 Initiating explosive 16 Ordinary; shouted at you by willing suitors. If none of them take
2 Co-operative savings and 5 Disaffect; estrange (8) device (9) commonplace (8) your fancy, head into one of the many curry houses
loan organisation (8,7) 6 Racing sled where riders 13 Contemplation of the 19 Dark shape cast by instead and see if you can sweet-talk your way into
3 Honorary head of a lie on their backs (4) past (10) the sun (6) some free poppadums.
university (10) 7 Member of a Muslim order 14 Speed boat raised out of 22 City in West Yorkshire (5) 4 Explore the dark side
4 Protein catalysing of ecstatic dancers (8,7) the water by vanes (9) 23 Shout (4) If all the romance is just too much or you’ve recently
had an unpleasant break-up and are feeling particularly
bitter, head back to the Retiro and annoy some
SUDOKU easy puzzle 10 HARD puzzle 10 snogging couples by throwing twigs/stones/frozen peas
at them. Make sure you’re well-hidden before you start
5 3 9 9 and plan your escape route should things get nasty.
5 Be cultured
4 8 5 7 1 3 4 Find out when the various art galleries do their freebie
days and try to pass for an arty type (beret optional).
3 8 4 8 3 9 7 Since it’s free the place will probably be heaving with
both Madrileños and foreigners alike, but while you’re
5 6 3 2 3 1 5 queueing you can play everybody’s favourite game
’Guess the nationality’ to while away the time.
3 7 5 6 9 2 6 Try the swapsies market
Not technically free, but if you do want to buy
4 9 2 6 8 4 3 something from this market (unlikely) it won’t cost you
more than a couple of cents. The stallholders set out
6 1 9 8 9 4 1 their wares (i.e. tat they’ve found in a dustbin) just over
the road from Atocha station most days in the early
evening, and therein ensues a frenzy of bartering until
3 9 8 7 4 5 2 the police show up and everyone gets moved along.
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what’s on?
CULTURAL THEATRE/Dance which became the longest-playing show Exhibitions
on Broadway and won 12 Tony awards. As a

‘Barroco’ (Baroque) MIRO: EARTH

The well-known playwright and theatre An analysis of Miró’s most grounded art
director Tomaz Pandur, who offers a complete The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum presents a
approach to the Western world in a shelter, new show that proposes an itinerary around
the day before this cataclysm, which brought

reference it also has the unforgettable film of

1978 which starred John Travolta and Olivia
Newton-John.
Starting: 30/09/2008
Ending: 30/06/2009
about the French Revolution.While outside Venue: Nuevo Teatro Alcalá
that shelter the world starts to fall apart after Price: from 22 € to 58 €
millenniums of evolution of the structures Metro: Goya/ Príncipe de Vergara
that used to keep it up, the silk starts to get Miró’s art ranging from 1918, when he had
On Saturday 13th September, Madrid is going spoiled and it is torn into pieces due to fear conventions his first individual show, to the year he passed
to leave the lights on all night, and nobody is and poverty. away, 1983. The show focuses on topics that
going to stay home... Starting: 10/09/2008 appeared recurrently in his art: earth, his
Ending: 27/09/2008 Cibeles Madrid Fashion loyalty to the rural and pagan world and his
Venue: Teatro Fernán Gómez (Centro de Arte) Week fascination with excess, fertility and death.
If you didn’t know already, Spanish people don’t really need much Price: 18 € Madrid will accomodate the 48th edition Ending: 14/09/2008
of an excuse to stay up all night. So, Madrid City Council’s La Noche Metro: Colón of Pasarela Cibeles, the main showcase for Venue: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
en Blanco is quite like a red rag to a thoroughbred male bovine with Spanish fashion which bears comparison Price: 4 €
anger management issues and a particular hatred of rags that are LAS TROYANAS Metro: Banco España
(The Trojans)
red. This will be its third time in the Spanish capital and the event has Having inaugurated the Classical Theatre Edward Steichen. A
spread to cities all over Europe and the world after starting in Paris in Festival of Mérida, one of the most exciting photographic epic
2002. Translated literally as ‘White Night’, La Noche En Blanco really This retrospective has become the most
means ‘Sleepless Night’ or ‘All Nighter’, and that’s exactly what it is. complete exhibition of the work of one of the
key figures in the history of photography.
From dusk till dawn, or at least from 9pm until 7am, Madrid’s streets with those in Paris and Milan. Designers Ending: 22/09/2008
and plazas will remain lit up as over 150 arts activities take place free from all over the country will be presenting Venue: Museo
of charge around the city. With the big night happening on Saturday their ideas for the spring-summer 2009 with Nacional Centro de
13th September, temperatures should be pleasant for attendees, who the objective to open up markets all over Arte Reina Sofía
and beautiful classical tragedies comes to the world. (MNCARS)
are expected to run into the hundreds of thousands. Matadero Madrid, directed by Mario Gas. Starting: 15/09/2008 Price: 4 € Free entry:
Ending: 28/09/2008 Ending: 19/06/2009 Saturday, 2:30pm to
Special buses are laid on to ferry all the nocturnal culture vultures Venue: Matadero Madrid Venue: Ifema-Feria de Madrid 9pm; Sunday, 10am
from venue to venue. The focus is on contemporary art and, while Price: 22 € Price: On invitation to 2:30pm.
Metro: Legazpi Metro: Campo de las Naciones Metro: Atocha
the mainstay will be art exhibitions (all the museums are free to get
into) with paintings and photography, there will be all kinds of art beaUtY and tHe beast
forms from light shows to theatre and cinema to music concerts. The Disney classic becomes a magnificent
musical, loaded with magic and poetry.
Exhibition
DON’T
One of the main attractions will be a tribute show to honour the
master director Pedro Almodóvar. Two artists will perform the most
Ending: 07/09/2008
Venue: Teatro Coliseum (Gran Vía, 78)
MISS
iconic songs from the soundtracks of his films. Price: 19,90 € Tesoros
Metro: Plaza de España
The reality of La Noche En Blanco is a little chaotic, as thousands
Sumergidos De
of people out for the event will join the regular Saturday night MUSICALS Egipto (Egypt’s
crowd in the bars at some point, but it does make for a big party Sunken Treasures)
atmosphere. The fact that some families decide to drag out their HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
poor exhausted brats is pretty annoying, especially when you’re ‘High School Musical’ is a brand new music This exhibition started in April, but now is your last chance to see
in a big queue stuck behind some children for whom the novelty showwith songs, dances and a team inspired this unique set of artefacts that Ancient Egypt lost to the sea over a
of staying up late wore off about two hours ago and now they’re thousand years ago. A series of natural disasters washed away large
going to let everyone know how tired and cranky they are. The lumps of Canopus, the ancient port of Alexandria and the entire city
odds of getting a taxi between 4:00 and 5:30 are about the same as of Heracleion to the bottom of the sea near the modern Egyptian city
winning the Spanish Christmas Lottery, so it’s a walk, a night bus or of Alexandria. Franck Goddio and his team had to use cutting edge
crossing your fingers if you decide to go home between those times. technology to bring these treasures that date as far back as the seventh
on the popular Disney Channel films ‘High century BC to the surface. As well as seeing ancient monuments,
If you can put up with the crowds, though, there’s some really cool School Musical’ and ‘High School Musical statues, cult objects, jewellery and coins, you can learn about the
2’. The musical includes surprises, namely, methods used in marine archaeology. It’s best to go on a weekday if
stuff going on. Something I like is seeing the museum-types stopping two new songs, which did not appear in the
off at a bar and looking, well, about as at home as I do in a museum. original film. you can.
But that’s the whole idea, and I already know that come that Saturday, Starting: 25/09/2008 Ending: 28/09/2008
I’ll be looking at an attraction at some point making a tipsy promise Ending: 25/12/2008 Venue: Matadero de Legazpi Madrid (Paseo de la Chopera, 14)
Venue: Teatro Lope de Vega Price: 11 €
with my friends to try and get to a new exhibition every week... Price: from 35,92 € to 48,60 €
Whatever you make of the many different attractions, this is unlikely Metro: Santo Domingo Metro: Legazpi
to be the last sleepless night you spend in Madrid, but it could well
be one of the more memorable ones. GREASE, EL MUSICAL DE
TU VIDA
‘Grease, el musical de tu vida’ (Grease, the
musical of your life) is a faithful version of the
original Broadway show that reproduces its
stage design, its plot and its songs. This big
format musical is intended for all publics and
it brings the charm of the fifties back to the
present; it is an amazing show, with numerous
actors on stage.
The screenplay was inspired by the original
by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey in 1971

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chApLIn In IMAgeS
Using 300 documents including photographs,
posters and film fragments, the show narrates
the story of Charles Chaplin –the actor and
the public figure–, from the creation of the
character The Tramp to the end of his career.
Ending: 19/10/2008
Venue: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Price: Free
Metro: Atocha
THE RENAISSANCE
PORTRAIT: FROM
PISANELLO TO RUBENS
The show traces the development of portrait
painting during the period in which this
lines 33 & 65. Tel: 91 463 2900
e-mail: parque@grpr.com
Planetario de Madrid
Avda. del Planetario, 16.
Tel: 91 467 34 61
Metro: Méndez Álvaro. Closed Mondays
Warner Bros Park
Open daily from June to Mid-September and
on chosen weekends and holidays during the
rest of the year. Call to confirm opening times.
Take the bus from Legazpi Plaza or the train
from Atocha Tel: 902 024 100
www.warnerbrospark.com
Sport
REAL MADRID
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. Avenida de Concha
Espina, 1. Tel: 91 398 43 00
www.realmadrid.es
AtLetico Madrid
Estadio Vicente Calderón. Paseo Virgen del
Puerto, 67. Metro: Pirámides.
Tel: 91 366 47 07 www.clubatleticodemadrid.com
CB Estudiantes
Basketball
Madrid Arena, Serrano 127, 28006 Madrid
Tel: 902 400 002
www.clubestudiantes.com
Real Madrid CB
Pabellon Raimundo Saporta, Paseo de La
Castellana, Madrid. Tel: 91 398 43 32, or check
out www.realmadridbasket.galeon.com
what’s on?
music FESTIVAL DON’T
MISS
Metro Rock
If you have become a Spanish pop/rock addict in your time in Madrid, or if you’d like to initiate
yourself in Spanish music, Madrid’s Complutense University plays host to the third Metro Rock festival.
Moving to September to avoid competition with the giant Rock in Rio, this year’s Metro Rock doesn’t
have the big international names like Franz Ferdinand or My Chemical Romance that it has had on
previous occasions, instead going for big names in Spanish music. Andrés Calamaro will headline,
and Melendi and Los Delinqüentes will also feature on the main stage. However, there are some big
names in electronic music in the dance area: Felix Da Housecat is top of the bill there, and Alexander
Kowalski, Stereo MC’s, Dorian and The Whip all have
sets, too. Absolute bargain if you’ve got a UCM card
or carnet joven.
Date: 20/09/2008
Venue: Complejo Deportivo de Cantarranas, UCM
Price: 40 € (25€ with carnet UCM or Carnet Joven)
If this is not your bag, check out the FESTIVAL
SURFORAMA at Taboó in the heart of Malasaña.
It’s on both Friday 19th and Saturday 20th and its
the first surfer rock festival ever to come to Madrid.
Among others, you’ll be able to catch the brilliantly
named Laika & The Cosmonauts. Like, totally.

Fun Activities music FESTIVAL

genre was born and flourished, the 15th and
16th centuries, and includes masterpieces
which are representative of the achievements
attained in artistic circles both in northern and
southern Europe.
Ending: 07/09/2008
Venue: Museo Nacional de El Prado
Price: 8 € Free entry Tuesday to Saturday, 6pm
to 8pm, and Sunday 5pm to 8pm.
Metro: Atocha
Museums
Reina Sofía
(Santa Isabel, 52) Metro: Atocha
Open: Monday to Saturday 10.00 until 21.00.
Sundays 10.00 until 14.00. Tuesdays closed.
Museo del Prado
(Paseo del Prado s/n) Metro: Atocha
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 9.00 until
19.00. Mondays closed.
Museo Thyssen
Bornemisza
(Paseo del Prado, 8) Metro: Atocha, Banco
de España. Tuesday to Sunday from 9.00 until
19.00. Mondays closed.
Quizzes
Anyway Pub Quiz Night-
Thursday from 23.00 in Anyway Pub. Viriato, 64.
Metro: Iglesia.
IRISH ROVER
Every monday at 21:00, upstairs in the library.
Join us to spark up a brain cell after the
weekend. Avenida del Brasil, 7.
Metro: Santiago Bernabeau.
J&J BOOKS AND COFFEE
Pub quiz, every Friday night at 11pm.
Metro: Noviciado.
MOORES
Pub quiz in English every Monday at 21.45 in
Moores Irish Pub, Calle Barcelo. Lots of prizes
and great fun. Everyone welcome.
Metro: Tribunal.
Theme Parks
Parque de atracciones
(Fun fair) Open Weekends. Metro: Batán. Bus
AeroBalas Sky-diving
School - Aerodromo de Casa de los Weekend Dance
Pinos, Cuenca. Tandem parachute jumps from
110 euros. Call 610 408 831 or 667 512 102
www.aerobalas.com Just when you thought your summer’s dancing to superstar DJs at the macro-clubs of Ibiza, Majorca
Palacio de Hielo - Skating or wherever, were over... The organisers of Summercase and Forward Festival bring the last big dance/
rink, bowling lanes and cinema. C Silvano, 77, electronic music festival of the year to Madrid. The star-studded confirmation list includes Fatboy Slim,
Parque Conde de Orgaz. Metro: Canillas
ZOO-AQUARIUM DE Groove Armada DJs, The Prodigy, Isis, Tiga and Robyn. Originally planned for Saturday 13th,
MADRID the festival organisers had to get special permission to switch the dates to avoid a clash with Madrid’s
Casa de Campo Metro: Casa de Campo. Tel: La Noche en Blanco. If it’s your kind of music, you can’t let this one pass you by.
91 512 3770. Adults: 14.90 €. Children 3-7 Date: 12/09/2008
years old and pensioners: 12.20 €. Children
under 3: free entry. Venue: Auditorio Juan Carlos I
ski-kamel sportour. Price: 55 € DON’T
C Feijoo,9, on the corner with C Cardenal
Cisneros, 72 (Quevedo). Tel: 91 446 0221. MISS
www.skikamel.com
Night Life
Vibe the party @ Star Café
Now legendary international party with
Hip Hop and RnB music taking place every
Wednesday night at Star Café , Serrano Jover
5, Metro Argüelles. Open Bar of beer, sangria
and wine and beer pong games from 11:30
pm - 12.30 am for only 5 euros. From 12:30 till
close, entrance with 2 drinks included for 10
euros. Get on the guest list at
www.europeanvibe.com
Fever @ Joy Eslava
The Ultimate Student Party. Every Thursday
night Madrid’s most famous club becomes a
Disco sensation with spectacular animation
and the best music from the 1970s till
present day. Free entrance or 2 drinks for 10
euros from midnight till 1:30 am, or entrance
price with 2 drinks for 12 euros from 1:30 am
till close. Joy Eslava, calle Arenal 11, Metro
Sol / Ópera. Get on the guest list at
www.europeanvibe.com
SUGAR @ Lokua
Every Saturday night from 12:30am Lokua
opens its doors and becomes the number
one urban club in the city. Check out this truly
spectacular affair with visiting international
DJs and performers. Lokua Club, La Glorieta
de Principe Pio, Metro Príncipe Pío. Get on the
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vibes
The Dandy
Warhols
Zia McCabe
The Dandy Warhols’ bassist and keyboard player, Zia McCabe,
took some time out from her DJ set at Madrid’s Supersonic and ‘one
big night out per tour’ to hang with our writer Helen Macrae.
WORDS & INTERVIEW by Helen Macrae
P
laying together since 1994,
Portland-based quartet
The Dandy Warhols
recently released their
sixth studio album, titled …Earth
To The Dandy Warhols… You’re
probably more familiar with
their music than you think you
are: songs such as Boys Better,
We Used To Be Friends and the
insanely catchy Bohemian Like
You have become ingrained in
pop culture after being featured
on anything and everything,
from film and TV soundtracks
to computer games and mobile
phone adverts. When I met
up with the band’s bass player,
Zia, she was extremely chatty
and down-to-earth, and as she
picked her way through a plate
of pineapple chunks in the
surroundings of Supersonic club
8 sep 08
in Argüelles, she gave
me the low-down on
life as a Dandy.
Helen: Can you sum
up the new album
for me in a couple of
sentences?
Zia: It’s really eclectic. It’s
the first record we’ve
made where we’ve taken
all the songs that didn’t
end up on records, that were kind
of forgotten. It’s been 14 years now,
so the riff for this one or that one
actually might have been written
several years ago. It’s kinda cool that
we’ve been around long enough to
have all these old ones. And it’s the
second record we’ve made at The
Odditorium [the band’s Portland
studio], we’ve never made two
records at the same studio before.
[the lead singer] because I don’t re-
ally know how that happened. The
Mission Control video is so sick, we
teleport down onto the moon and
we’re in our space suits playing our
instruments, Courtney looks like
this German drag queen…
Do your audiences differ much
from country to country?
Definitely, every country is dif-
ferent, every city. I loved playing
Benicássim, it’s a really cool festival.
Paris was a tough nut to crack, but
we’ve really broken through and
created a really hip fanbase there.
Mexico was pretty cool, we opened
for The Strokes there, it was really
neat. And Australia is one of our
best audiences, those guys just
love to have fun, they’re so rowdy.
England’s actually the main coun-
try where it became such a hyped
thing that I played topless, we were
at this festival and I started hearing
this chanting, “Get yer tits out for
the lads”, and it’s getting louder and
louder, the whole crowd. Courtney
finally saved the day, he takes his
shirt off, and goes, “Are you happy
now?” It was the press that blew it
so out of proportion though, we
like playing there, we love London.
What would be your ideal gig?
Well, it’s nice to be in a beautiful
venue, really good lighting, really
hip crowd, really good sound out
front, really good sound on stage,
but there’s always one of those
things missing. But when people
get to a level where it’s so profes-
sional that they have the same thing
every time I think you lose the plot
a little bit and start to nitpick. When
I have a hangover my shows are al-
ways way better because you need
it to be good so bad because you’re
all fragile, and you’re like this has to
rock, and so you really go for it. But if
you’re all rested-up then your mind
Was it a good ex- starts to wander.
perience record-
ing there? Have you ever played any
Oh it’s awesome, really weird gigs?
because most Oh yeah, the worst one was in
studios are so bad Chile. It was like a hockey arena
they’ve got maybe with some local bands, us and
a mini-fridge with Chris Cornell, so we are opening
a coffee pot sitting for hardcore Chris Cornell fans.
on top, and some We’re playing and it sounds awe-
crusty old couch some, we’re having a really good
that everyone’s time, and I’m like, “Wow we’ve
supposed to share. So this is just, it’s never been booed before, this is
so decked-out. We took our video so weird!” It didn’t hurt my feelings
budget and instead of just building thank God, if we were playing
a cheap set you can tear down, we bad I probably would have felt
put in this industrial stainless steel awful, but it sounded good so we
kitchen and shot the video in there. just kept playing. I think maybe
one out of every 100 was
Why did you decide on an a fan, we were seriously
outer space theme for the outnumbered, it was brutal.
new album? That was the weirdest show
You need to ask Courtney by far.
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Coldplay:
the Indie Interlopers
Nadie es profeta en su tierra (a prophet hath no honour in his own
country) is what the Spanish might say. Playing here in Madrid this
month, Coldplay have become one of the biggest bands in the world,
but have struggled for years to shake off criticism from the music
industry itself. Peter Moore explains how they don’t think you’re cool
if you’ve been to school.

B
WORDS by Peter Moore

uzzing with tingles of anticipation, tens of thou-
sands of festivals-goers groaned over their morning
toast on 19th June 2002 as they discovered the list of
headlining acts for that year’s Glastonbury Festival.
There was washed up ‘mocker’ Rod Stewart, Kelly
Jones from the Stereophonics, who sounded as
if someone had just taken a cheese grater to his
throat, and worst of all Coldplay: a miserable
collection of middle class students with a singer that
moaned whilst hunched over his piano.
Just the previous year David Bowie had graced the
Pyramid Stage and immediately prior to him there
had been REM, Radiohead and the Manic Street
Preachers. This year the organisers of Glastonbury,
that mystic diamond amongst British festivals,
were serving up Coldplay for the all important
Friday night slot – a band that Oasis’ former
manager Alan McGee had casually dismissed as a
group of “Indie bedwetters”. Most people took to
comforting themselves with the prospect of the
appearance of Rolf Harris and his wobble-board.
In the event, that warm Friday night transpired
to be one of the most important in Coldplay’s
history. At half past ten, Faithless had waved
their goodbyes, having delivered, as expected, a
swirling ambient hour long sing-along, and an
80,000 strong crowd in front of the Pyramid Stage
was poised for more. Half an hour later, Coldplay
emerged from the gloom in a chorus of flashes,
strobe lighting and the jarring riff of Politik. Some-
where in the next ninety minutes they became one
of Britain’s best bands.
Even if the crowd didn’t know it, Coldplay had hit
a rich vein of creativity during the last year. Their
second full-length album, A Rush of Blood to the
Head was on the brink of a successful interna-
tional release, the first single In My Place was
already gathering significant airplay and follow up
singles Clocks and the wistful ballad The Scientist
were being jealously guarded in a London vault by
expectant Parlophone executives.
Just a year before they had been forced to fall
back upon repeated performances of Yellow and
Trouble during encores, often finding themselves
stranded with too-little material. But that Glaston-
bury evening something fell silently and perfectly
into place. In an odd departure from gig-going
tradition, fresh material was greeted with warmth
as the band debuted a fistful of ‘new ones’.
Lead singer Chris Martin interacted with the
crowd, commiserating with those “Stuck outside
the fence without a ticket” in a couplet of
ad-libbed lyrics. In return, lighters were jabbed

and waved triumphantly in the air. Then, as his
falsetto voice echoed in the Somerset night dur-
ing Trouble, he paused for a moment to allow
the crowd to finish the chorus, then and with
impeccable manners, he admitted, “Thank you.
That was marvellous”.
Fast forward six years and Coldplay’s place
amongst the artistic establishment is assured.
Their performance at Glastonbury not only won
plaudits from critics, it was also portentous.
It was followed by a world tour which lasted
for fifteen successful months, they scooped
the Grammy ‘Record of the Year’ for Clocks
and their album, A Rush of Blood to the Head,
went on to sell more than 12 million records
worldwide. X&Y, released three years later,
delivered an even greater degree of success, and
was crammed with more gems than Victoria
Beckham’s jewellery box. One of which, Speed
of Sound, became the first single from a British
band to trouble the US top 10 since The Beatles
in 1968.
Musically, however, Coldplay remained margin-
alised. Intermittent jibes in the media accused
them of lacking the essential ingredients of
a British indie band. They lacked the edge of
Oasis, the craft of the Arctic Monkeys, the
hedonism of The Libertines and the sheer
misery of Joy Division. They seemed unable
to reinvent themselves as Radiohead did with
Kid A and none of their members were musical
prodigies like Matt Bellamy of Muse. In addi-
tion, they carried the added handicap of being
southerners and distinctly middle class.
Traditionally, Britain likes its indie heroes poor
and northern, raised in chimneys and writing
songs about scruffy pubs and ugly birds. This
was never the case with Coldplay: Martin was
expensively educated, drummer Will Champion
is the son of a university professor and, in ech-
oes of Brian May, guitarist Jonny Buckland was
a student of mathematics and astronomy. Sneers
surrounded the fact that instead of stoically
eking out an existence on the musicians’ dole,
Coldplay had waited until finishing their studies
(Martin graduated with a first class degree in
Ancient World Studies) before signing their five
record agreement with Parlophone.
Some of these deficiencies were deemed
inexcusable by portions of the music press who
were obsessed with edge and innovation. Jim
Pareles, the New York Times music critic was
the author of a typical mauling, dubbing them,
“The most insufferable band of the decade”. For
some, McGee’s ‘bedwetting’ jibe had stuck.
Coldplay had fallen victim to a strange bout
of reverse snobbery. For many they were too
well educated and they always had a safety net,
something to fall back upon. If they had not
been multi-millionaire musicians, they would
have become doctors, scientists and engineers.
It was a familiar curse and one that had con-
stantly bothered the career of one of Britain’s
finest writers, George Orwell. Having attended
the prestigious Eton College and served in the
Imperial Police Force, many felt him unqualified
to lecture on poverty and inequality. Coldplay,
like Orwell before them would find it impossible
to escape from their past.
During the years, however, Coldplay have proven
the majority of the doubters wrong. Much of
the criticism has subsided and a memorable
collaboration with Noel Gallagher of Oasis at a
Make Trade Fair concert signalled that they had
achieved a level of acceptance amongst their
peers. This twist of fortune has stemmed from
the consistent quality of their musical output.
vibes
A Rush of Blood to the Head was voted in Rolling
Stone Magazine’s ‘Top 500 Albums of All Time’, DJ Cosy O’s
Urban Review
Q Magazine awarded X&Y a rare five stars and
a catalogue of their singles have performed
exceptionally around the world. Where U2
has provided the anthems for the eighties and
nineties, Coldplay have usurped them, setting 10 tunes that you should
down the soundtrack for the noughties. have been getting down to
this summer 2008
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One of their finest songs, Talk, provides a
snapshot of everything that is good about the
band. There is a catchy riff, there are Martin’s
imperious vocals, the band’s mastery of the
loud/quiet ethic and a jam to round it off of
which the Red Hot Chili Peppers would be
proud. Gallagher, a man known for his sharp Ne-Yo Missy Elliot
tongue and quick opinions, is unequivocal in his Closer Best Best
2 7
praise of Coldplay, “A top band”, he said. “They
blew me away.”
Meanwhile, Martin himself has emerged a
thoroughly likeable character, a paragon of
English manners and humble to boot. He
maintains that the band has “Perfect faces for Lil Wayne N.E.R.D
radio”, and he often introduces band-mates to A Milli Everyone Nose
3 8
the crowd with gushing pride. “This is Will our
drummer, and probably the best drummer in
the world”, he announced at a recent concert.
“Although, of course, we’re biased and there
are plenty of rock drummers who’d say they're
better, but I’d just disagree”. Similar praise Robin Thicke Nelly
is often dispensed mid-concert by Martin Magic Bay Bay Bay
4 9
to guitarist Buckland and bass player Guy
Berryman.
Almost six years to the week since their
Glastonbury performance, Coldplay were
invited to perform a short concert outside
the British Broadcasting Corporation. The Dizzee Rascal Snoop Dogg
eponymous single from new album Viva la Dance with me Those Gurls
5 10
Vida and Death to All His Friends had recently
become the first British song to hit the top of
the US charts since 1998 and the Spice Girl’s
Wannabe. The band were relaxed and in playful
mood, appealing to local builders, swapping
instruments and Martin joked with the crowd
as film crews hovered overhead, substituting the Busta Rhymes Rihanna
lyrics for Trouble with, “Oh no, what’s this? A Don’t Touch Me Disturbia
helicopter is filming my friends and me”.
“We’re slightly terrified about this record,
> new cd releases
because we've thrown away all our tricks”, Year of the Gentleman
Martin had confessed earlier in the year to Ne-Yo
Entertainment Weekly Magazine. The lyrics One of RnB’s true stars follows up his
were more vivid, many of the jagged riffs had Grammy award winning Because of you
gone, only to be replaced by jangling church album with a more mature effort. It’s great to
bells. They need not have worried for a moment. see the legendary Teddy Riley alongside the
With Coldplay’s trademark efficiency copies of omnipresent Timbaland and Kanye West on
the first two singles were downloaded in their producer duties. There’s no disappointment
millions, breaking even their own impressive and we get more of the quality lyrics and
records. Coldplay’s ‘golden touch’ had returned vocals we have come to expect.
once again. Guy Hands, boss of label EMI crowed
excitedly that Viva la Vida is, “Right across the Blessed
world… the most anticipated album of the year”. Busta Rhymes
“Bussa Bus” drops his new album on the
Today, on stage, Coldplay dress in hand-crafted back of serious success with the awesome
French revolutionary dress, inspired by a single Don’t touch me now. One of the few
painting by the 20th century Mexican artist examples of serious longevity in the hip
Frida Kahlo. Gone are the shabby trappings of hop genre, Busta has had hits with just
the students they once were. They are one of about everyone from Flipmode, Mary J,
the biggest bands in the world, rich and famous Leaders of the New Skool and Mariah.
beyond their wildest dreams. Everything is Sit back and let Busta hype it up!!
carefully crafted, from their music to their
image and their marketing, in carefully
controlled perfection. Even the description
Check out where
of their music, ‘very heavy soft rock’, seems cosy o will be
unnecessarily exact. They have conquered the
musical world, but some amongst the indie
spinning this
establishment there are still some happy to month at
denounce them as interlopers, lacking that
magical, intangible quality. It is proof that, very
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Naples
unsophisticated yet authentic
It doesn’t have the beauty of Florence, the sophistication of Milan, nor the
living-museum of Rome, but Naples is real Italy. As Abha Malpani writes,
if they invented pizza, the Neapolitans must certainly know something.

I
WORDS by Abha Malpani

f a city is known to have a love-
hate relationship with its visitors,
it’s Naples. Italy’s third largest
city, Napoli (as the locals call it),
is located in the south on Italy’s
western coast and is 2,500 years
old. Napoli, which means ‘new
city’, is geographically situated
between steaming volcano Campi
Flegrei on the west and dormant
yet dangerous Vesuvius on the east,
which fortunately hasn’t erupted
since 1944.
Other than being the home to
pizza, inventing the mandolin, and
having noteworthy architectural
history, the city is also known
to be ill-built, a core mafia hub,
and an open museum of 3,500
tonnes of trash. So Naples doesn’t
have the elegance and charm of
Florence or Venice, but it does
have the vibrancy of a diverse
Mediterranean metropolis, well
lived-in by the rich and poor alike.
For this reason, it’s comparatively
lower on the tourist preference
list, but I’d say that’s a great thing,
and reason enough to visit. And
oh my goodness, we mention a
good number of things here but
there are so many places to see and
things to do, a couple of days may
not be enough!
Naples
If you love Italian food, Naples is
where you will get to eat the most
authentic Margherita pizza. It used
to be poor man’s food
but was made famous
by King Ferdinand IV
sometime in the 18th
century. Interestingly Piazza del Plebiscito
enough, there’s a strict
law on how a Margherita pizza
should be made in Naples that
specifies the exact type of flour
and measurements of ingredients
to be used in order to make the
perfect Margherita. Moving away
from pizza, spaghetti is the most
common type of pasta eaten in
Naples and most of the food in
general has Greek, French and
Spanish influence from historical
times, making it a unique and
diverse type of food. Oh, and don’t centre and a main place to wander
forget to try the espresso.
The city centre is where all the
action is, and some of the best
pizza can be bought on the
streets. In the centre is Piazza del old Naples that has 1000 year old
Plebiscito, the largest plaza in the arcades.
there’s a strict law on how a
Margherita pizza should be made in
Naples that specifies the exact type of
flour and measurements of ingredients
to be used in order to make the perfect
Margherita
city that is surrounded
by the Palazzo Reale
(Royal Palace), and the
huge domed church
San Francesco di Paola.
One of the city’s most
ancient and popular squares is
Piazza del Mercato. This square
has always been the centre of
social and business events, and in
the past it was where the public
executions were held.
The most happening areas in
Naples are: shopping street Via
Toledo; Spaccanapoli (literally
“split Naples”), a street that
crosses most of the city’s historic
around looking at sights and
shops; Piazza Dante, the most
popular and centrally located
plaza in Naples; and Via dei
Trivunali, another busy street in

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Like most Italian cities, Napoli
reflects a deep cultural and religious
way of life. It has 448 historical
churches, making it one of the most
Catholic cities in the world. The 13th
Century gothic cathedral “Duomo”
is the city’s most important place
of worship. Dedicated to Naples
patron saint Saint Januarius, every
year on September 19 the cathedral
celebrates the “miracle of Saint
Januarius” when the Saint’s dry blood
liquefies as it is brought towards
the relics of his body. San Lorenzo
Maggiore is another one of Naples
greatest churches built in 1265 that
has extensive Greek and Roman
remains underneath.
You can’t leave Naples without
visiting some of its castles. Built in
the 12th century, Castel dell’Ovo is
the city’s oldest castle. It is located
on a small island from where you
can see spectacular views of Naples
waterfront and at night it lights up
and is a great spot to eat or have a
drink. Its name translates to the “egg
castle” and legend has it that the
poet Virgil hid an egg in a cage in the
castle; if the egg broke, both the castle
and the city would be destroyed.
Another such edifice is Castel Nuovo
which is one of the most significant
architectural fortresses that was
built in the 13th century. Take the
city’s funicular railway system called
Funiculare up a hill and you will come
to Castel Sant'Elmo. It is shaped like a
six sided star and also offers stunning
views from the top.
Nightlife doesn’t get much better than
in the Mediterranean. The city centre,
both new and historic, has a bustling
string of bars and nightclubs.
Just outside Naples, other than the
1200 metre high volcano Vesuvius,
are Pompeii and Herculaneum,
both worth a visit. These cities were
destroyed by the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in year 79 AD. In Pompeii’s
‘Garden of Fugitives’, you can still
see plaster casts of the people
who died in the eruption, some
of which are also in the National
Archaeological Museum of
Naples. In Herculaneum, you
can still see skeletons of the
people who died. The ruins
from these cities are also
maintained and tell tales of the
cities that used to be before
they were wiped away.
All-in-all, Naples is worth a
trip should you want to see a part of
Italy less glorified, less sophisticated,
yet culturally profound. The best
time to visit this city is between
September and December.
travel
ev insider
Tommaso
What is so special about Naples?
Who has never eaten pizza? Naples is its birthplace; the first
Margherita pizza was made here in 1800 in honour
of the queen of the same name. Naples’ history
and traditions are what make it stand out. There
is quite a strong Spanish influence here, too, as
the Bourbons ruled here for quite some time.
What do you recommend visiting?
Never heard of Vesuvius? This is the most
important volcano in the world at the moment for its
shape and peculiarities. It is the volcano that destroyed the city
of Pompeii in the first century AD and you can visit it. Also, you
have to visit the old town, which is full of churches, each built in a
different style from the other.
Is there anything to eat apart from pizza?
Neapolitan food is great for its variety, and well,
Italian food in general is loved all over the world.
You can get the best espresso coffee
in Naples, we invented that, too.
Anything else to look out for?
There is our traditional dance, Tarantella. If you’ve
got a lot of money to spend, you can mix with the
rich and famous on the close-by island of Capri, or
Tarantella
go down the coast to Amalfi.
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Vitoria
Martin Quinn takes a trip to a capital with
no ‘c’ in it. You heard right, Vitoria is the
capital of the Basque Country, and yes, we
have spelled it properly.
I
WORDS by Martin Quinn
once confusingly described this
place as the “Aberdeen of the Basque
Country” due to it being less famous
than the other two main cities, “You
know, including the capital”. It’s like
this. There are 49% of people think
Bilbao is the capital and the other
49% go for San Sebastián. Said in the
company of a Vitorian flatmate, his
annoyed frown now entered me into
the 2% who know that Vitoria is the
actual capital.
Vitoria-Gasteiz, to give it the full
Castellano-Euskera name is in fact
the second biggest city, population-
wise in the Basque Autonomous
Region to Bilbao. There are about
230,000 people that call the place
home. I’d never been to either
Aberdeen or Vitoria when I made
the badly educated statement
but I fancy myself as an armchair
traveller. I’m also prone to random
outbursts.
The city was founded in
1181 by the king of Navarra,
Sancho VI though a local
Vitoria friend told me that excava-
tions have found remains
of ramparts maybe 100 years older
than this. It was built on an earlier
hamlet which gave it the Basque
name Gasteiz. The walls are im-
pressive and the city’s architectural
layout has a layered feeling. The
Gothic Cathedral of Santa María
is undergoing extensive renova-
tions at the moment. You can get a
tour, hard-hat included and see the
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restoration of a fantastic piece of
architecture. There are also various
museums that you can visit so cul-
ture vultures are well catered for.
It’s a vibrant little spot, for the most
part undiscovered by tourists and
the general level of English spoke
having a level that keeps you out of
trouble but pushes you to practice
your Spanish. Contrary to popular
belief, Basques aren’t a bunch of
language snobs and they’ll gladly
help you learn Castellano. Saying
that, a large number were educated
in the local language and it’s a great
source of pride for them. In general,
the people are from the countryside
of Álava province or are second or
third generation immigrants from
Extremadura, Galicia, Castile or La
Rioja.
One thing that they are snobby
about, though is their food.
Basques are food fanat-
ics and cooking is almost
considered macho. The men
love cooking. Apparently, a
few years ago McDonald’s
opened a restaurant in the
city's main street. The outlet didn’t
last long due to disinterest and it
closed down. The cuisine contains a
lot of seafood, given the Basque sea-
faring tradition. An old tale claims
that Basque fishermen arrived in
the Americas between five to ten
years before Columbus but much
further north. The story goes that
they didn’t tell anyone so as to have
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the abundant fishing area to them-
selves. Pintxo (much more elaborate
tapas that are paid for) bars and tav-
erns are everywhere and it’s normal
during the day to drink the laughably
small mouthful of beer that is the
zurito (though it allows you to enjoy
a good number of pintxos in differ-
ent bars without getting drunk). At
night, you may be horrified at the
local habit of sharing drinks! The
katxi is a more reasonable measure
of three quarters of a litre, but one
between three or four people is a
common sight. One will set you back
maybe €3.50-€4.00. The bars also
have a relaxed attitude to stoners
with a distinctly herbal aroma waft-
ing through the streets. The txikiteo
is the name the locals give to the
social tradition of wandering from
one bar to another and you could
find yourself in eight or nine bars in
a night. The beauty of the city is that
it’s nice and compact so everything’s
within walking distance.
Vitoria also has its fair share of
fiestas, Fiestas de la Blanca honour
the city’s patron saint every August,
and one of the biggest moments
is squeezing into the city’s main
square to drink and see a statue of
Celedón shoot down a zip line from
one side to the other. There is an
international jazz festival in July and
the Azkena Rock Festival this year
is between 4th and 6th September.
This year, Marky Ramone will
be performing and so will what
remains of The Doors, known as
Riders on the Storm nowadays.
Other acts advertised include Los
Lobos and The Quireboys.
Vitoria is the home of
Spanish basketball’s current
league champions, TAU
Cerámica, (officially called
Baskonia). They’ve won the
Spanish League a few times and are
major contenders in Europe (Spain’s
only representative in this year’s Eu-
roleague Final Four). Fewer, but still
many, of the locals are football fans
and the majority follow the city’s
second division side, Alavés. The
local team has been up and down
from first to second division since
they reached the UEFA Cup Final in
2001, when they lost to Liverpool.
All in all, it’s a charming wee spot
and three and a half hours will drive
you there from Madrid. The bus
predictably takes longer (about four
and a half), but it is faster than the
train. Ryanair cancelled its flights
to the airport from Dublin and
Stansted last year but Iberia still has
flights from Madrid and Barcelona.
The only other flying option is
Nordjet, if you want to fly pijo of
course. (Yes, Vitoria has them too.)
Rumours of an AVE being complet-
ed in the next eon also abound. So,
if the north’s your thing, have a look
here and rest assured, Aberdeen it
isn’t, there’ll be no oil rigs or deep
fried Mars Bars.
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Travel Events
2008/2009 We have put together our list of
the best festivals and short trips
in Spain and Europe over the next
year. Will Cade takes us through
the events which would make
your year unforgettable.

F
or those of us just coming to Madrid,
the first few weeks are at the same
time an awe-inspiring and painstaking
process. We try to learn the ins and
outs of the city while devouring every experience
this major metropolis has to offer – and between
tapas, museums, and nights out, it has more than
enough to keep us busy. As miraculous as it is,
though, Madrid cannot offer everything; here are
the coolest reasons to go out of Madrid through-
out the coming year.
WORDS by Will Cade

Fiestas de la Vendimia
Riojana/San Mateo Oktoberfest
(La Rioja Wine Festival) Munich, Germany /
Logroño, La Rioja / September 20th – October 5th
September 20th – 27th
Of all the wonderful drinks Spain is
known for, great beer isn’t one of
One experience Madrid can’t offer is a taste them. Spaniards won’t argue with
of small town Spain. For this you’ll have to you about this, but be mighty careful
head a little bit north and drink a quite a saying anything of the like in the
lot of wine. Logroño, the capital of La Rioja, Bavarian capital, Munich – Bavarian
may have a population of almost 140,000, beer is such a point of pride that the
but during this week in September it both city’s two-week beer festival gets
swells in number of people and goes back kicked off by the mayor tapping the
to its cultural roots as the heart of Spain’s first keg, possibly his most important
civic duty.
wine country.
After the festivities begin, walk
The festival coincides with the grape from beer tent to beer garden, or
harvest, and as the tradition goes, you take take a look inside one of Munich’s
part in the foot-crushing of the grapes and historic beer houses, where you’ll
then offer the first glass to the Virgen de see travellers from all over the world
Valvanera. If you’re not a wine connoisseur, sitting beside Bavarians dressed in
seeing the families cooking paella in pans traditional attire. By midnight, the
(also called paellas) big enough for a streets may be covered in spilt beer
and crushed, plastic cups, but by
bull will be well worth your while, not to 3:00 a.m. they’re spotless and ready
mention the bullfights and parades. for the day to come.

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Festival of Lights
Lyon, France / December 8th – 12th
Paris at night is unlike any other city in the
world, its palpable sense of intrigue and
amazement filling the air. But for four days a
year, Lyon illuminates the night in ways Paris
can only dream of. The entire city is adorned
with every form of light imaginable, ranging
from the more traditional torches and lanterns
to laser lights and projected images.
culture
Fiesta de Las Cruces de
Mayo (May Crosses)
Córdoba, Spain / April 30th – May 4th
As spring is blooming, Córdoba is draping itself
in flowered crosses. Churches and households
alike will display their floral artistry, bringing
forth the coming season with a sense of
spirituality and creativity. This is by far the best
time to visit the Andalusian gem, before the
summer heat comes in full blast.

Lyon, the second largest city in France, also
stakes a claim as the country’s culinary capital.
Expect to find affordable French cuisine in
the streets and restaurants while wandering
through the nightly offerings, which include
lantern processions, free concerts, and young
people enjoying the nightlight.
The Moorish architecture in the city
complements the Catholic festival, especially
the Mezquita, the largest and most ornate
mosque in all of Spain. Walking through
its halls, you can catch glimpses into the
country’s Moorish past and see why Spain’s
varied culture is truly one of a kind.

Corpus Christi and Feria

Granada, Spain / June 11th – 20th

This religious festival is celebrated throughout

Spain, but in Granada it coincides with the city’s
annual feria (fair). Fairgrounds are built on the
Hogmanay edge of town, where the majority of action takes
Edinburgh, Scotland / December 29th – January 1st place, but booths with music and food are set
up in the city centre to accompany the religious
New Years Eve in Madrid is a wild night filled with Spaniards partying in the streets and processions.
popping back the traditional 12 uvas (grapes) as the clock clicks down to midnight. But it
can’t hold a candle to the four day long New Year’s festival in the Scottish capital. If the festivities lose your interest, a trip to the
Alhambra will balance out the experience. The
Imagine 15,000 Scotsmen toting a Viking war ship from the centre of town to historic Calton fortified palace narrowly missed out on becoming
Hill and setting it ablaze as fireworks explode in the distance, lighting up the sky behind one of The Seven Wonders Of The Modern World in
Edinburgh Castle – and that’s just the first day. Yes, laddies and lassies, break out your 2007. The tranquility of the largest Moorish palace
bagpipes and partake in the merriment as the days count down to New Years Eve, which remaining in Spain has lured in such writers
culminates in every bar in the city bouncing, a street party with over 100,000 revellers, a as Washington Irving, who wrote Tales of the
fireworks extravaganza and concerts. Alhambra during a short stay there in the 1820s.

Carnaval La Tomatina
Cadiz, Spain / February 19th – March 1st Buñol, Spain, August 26th

Hosting the Mardi Gras of Spain, Cadiz will transform What a better way to top off your
from a southern coastal city into a week long spectacle summer than a massive food fight?
of costumes and street performers. Creativity in The population of this small city about
costume is valued over glamour, so rest assured it can 40 kilometers from Valencia goes from
be done on a student budget. Rather than elaborate around 9,000 to over 30,000 as Spaniards
masks, partygoers usually paint their faces with and travellers alike come together for a
make-up, adding to the loose, rambunctious feel of massive tomato bashing.
the festival.
There have been no casualties to date,
The street performers vary from satirical acting groups but the organizers have instituted a few
and rogue performers to farcical choirs and traditional rules to promote the spirit of good fun.
musicians. Whether you want political criticism or a No bottles or projectiles are to be thrown
few good laughs, you’ll find it in the streets of Cadiz. into the crowd, t-shirts are not to be
torn, and all tomatoes must be smashed
before hurled into the mob. That being
said, everything else is game!

Semana Santa
Seville, Spain / April 3rd – 12th

By April, you’ve probably seen every type of street party known to man, but
you haven’t seen the ornate float processions that hit the streets for Seville’s EV Traveller will be
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in the capital of flamenco or basking in Southern Spain’s slower pace of life. You on ‘traveller’.
might notice the Andalusians don’t always pronounce the ‘s’ in words. But if you
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WORDS by PETER MOORE
Shall God not search this out?
The Murder At Road Hill House
A
s summer creeps towards autumn and Madrid
settles into the well worn groove of another
academic year, it can be the perfect time to
remember those forgotten projects, to wind
down the social life a notch and settle down
with a good book. Filling the void left by the absence
of Harry Potter, the publishing industry has served up
a number of plots fit to fire the imagination. Amongst
the best of these is the unravelling of a factual murder
mystery presented in Kate Summerscale’s book, The
Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or The Murder At Road Hill
House.
In July, Summerscale scooped the Samuel Johnson
Prize for the book defined in the Guardian as a rich
mix of, “Melodrama, murder, suspense and courtroom
drama”. Set in mid-Victorian England, there are echoes
of Sherlock Holmes as Detective Inspector Jonathan
Whicher is despatched to make sense of the curious
sequence of events that led to the gruesome murder of
a three-year-old, who was discovered in the servants’
privy of a respectable English country house.
The author Daniel J Boorstein once observed wryly,
that: “A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a
computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you,”
and from under the sheets is the best place to enjoy
Summerscale’s book, which is written with a
rare talent and a beautiful eye for dialogue. It is
compulsive reading, and it will keep you awake
well into the small hours of the night.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher contains not
just shadows of Conan Doyle, but also of
other Victorian detective novels. The style is
spare, melancholic and equipped with a fierce
period ability for understatement. “I have had
a child stolen and carried off in a blanket,”
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Reading Challenge:
Here is a list of four further page-turners that
we think that you might like to try.
1 The Shadow of
the Wind
only by Carlos Ruíz Zafon
4.90€ One of the most popular
at bookworld
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Spanish novels of the
opposite decade and a worldwide
best seller. The plot is set
in a bleak post-war Catalan landscape and
deals with a mystery surrounding a boy called
Daniel and his connection with a forgotten,
dangerous book: The Shadow of the Wind.
2 The Adventure of
the Speckled Band
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Voted by a selection of
Sherlock Holmes experts at
remarks a puzzled Mr Kent, the father of the murdered the finest of Conan Doyle’s
child at one point. “Where did you lose it?” answered short stories about the coke-
a Mrs Hall, almost as if he was speculating as to the smoking detective. A lady dies suddenly but
inexplicably in an odd country house, uttering
whereabouts of his handkerchief. her finals words about a ‘speckled band.’ Only
Holmes can know what to make of this.
Indeed, this cool, precise language adds a sinister
undertone to the book, as does Summerscale’s 3 Rebecca
economic descriptions of the characters within. This by Daphne du Maurier
is best shown by her description of Whicher himself, The book with the infamous
he was: opening line: “Last night I
“A man of mystery... the prototype of the enigmatic, dreamt I went to Manderley
reserved investigator. He appeared from nowhere, again”, is a perfect example
and even his unmasking was masked with an alias. of a novel with a twist. In
‘Witchem’, the name given him... had suggestions of that wonderful literary cliché, “Things are not
detection – ‘which of ‘em?’ – and of magic – ‘bewitch quite what they seem”.
‘em’. He could turn a man to stone or strike him dumb.
Whicher was five feet eight inches tall, his hair was
brown, his skin was pale, his eyes were blue.”
’s choice
4Sin tetas no hay
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is a vivid page turner, paraíso
full of cloaked clues and anecdotes that reveal the Gustavo Bolívar Moreno
spirit of the age. The Victorians, with their tall La novela en la que se inspira
hats, bushy moustaches, pocket watches and love la exitosa serie de T5 del
mismo nombre, cuenta la
of protocol provide a fascinating cast of characters trágica historia de Catalina,
– and their polite horror at the murder and their una joven de Pereira que
subsequent attempts to be useful to the police and asocia la prosperidad con el tamaño de las tetas.
the investigating authorities provides a touch of dark A sus catorce años se da cuenta de que algunas
humour to the chilling plot. como ella deben resignarse a vivir en la pobreza
sólo por tenerlas pequeñas.
Few tales can claim to be as absorbing
as murder mysteries are; and as the long Se propone por ello conseguir a cualquier precio el
Spanish evenings begin to shorten and the dinero necesario para un aumento de pecho. Lejos
public swimming pools are covered up for está de pensar que los implantes con los que tanto
another year, wading through Summerscale’s soñó, escribirán letra a letra su tragedia personal.
narrative for clues can prove the perfect El autor nos acerca de forma dramática a una
catalyst for re-awakening the mind. Are the sociedad corrompida por el dinero, el narcotráfico
suspicions of Mr Whicher correct? You will
y la prostitución en la que todo vale para ascender
en la escala social.
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Spending three hours in a queue just to
be told you are at the wrong office or to come
back tomorrow with more documents you didn’t
know you needed is nobody’s idea of fun. Ryan
Craggs has been there, done that and got the
certificate (about six months later) and gives you
the info you need to get your papers in order.
WORDS by Ryan Craggs
S
o, you’ve moved to Spain
and have all the grandeur
of Hemingway and Lonely
Planet filling your head;
blistering afternoons chilled by
drinks on a terrace, witnessing
the masculine expression of a
bullfight, scorched earth and
olive trees, jamón in all its forms,
and long nights spent noshing on
tapas and hopping from club to
club with a beautiful someone or
other on your arm. And yes, Spain
does provide all of these things
for the adventurous hispanophile.
Many who venture to the land of
Mediterranean coasts and sangria
waterfalls become permanent ex-
patriates after falling in love with
the language, the people, and the
lifestyle. But there’s one little thing
you may not have counted on
before you packed your bags and
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k p r o b l e ms
shipped off for the idealised new
home: some call it bureaucracy,
some call it an obstacle, but to
most, it’s known as RED TAPE.
Red tape isn’t a local expression
to describe the extremities of the
Spanish flag. No, in fact, red tape
is something every foreigner will
have to deal with when relocating
to Spain. Sure, the EU makes mov-
ing between countries pretty fluid,
but take the case of an American
getting a Spanish visa: Americans
are powerless to the jurisdiction
Upon my arrival home, I gave my
passport to my dad, who politely asked,
“Why is your name spelled wrong?”
of their regional consulates in the
States. Having grown up and lived
in Ohio—yes, the Ohio partly cul-
pable for George Bush’s reelec-
tion—I was under the blanket of
Chicago’s rule. What does that
mean? Well, for starters, I couldn’t
mail in paperwork. Nope, I had to
schedule an appointment 6 weeks
in advance, drive 6.5 hours to the
Windy City, then turn in 5 sheets
of paper and a picture. Time spent
at the office: 10 minutes. Time
spent driving: 13 hours. Time
spent being frustrated: ongoing.
When I was next in line, I gave my
travel buddy a call to pick me up.
I got my $100 Spanish permission
slip in hand, gave it the once-over,
then hopped in my friend’s car and
headed home.
Upon my arrival home, I gave
my passport to my dad, who po-
litely asked, “Why is your name
spelled wrong?”
“You’re joking, right?”
“Not unless you’ve changed your
name.”
Lo and behold, my surname
was spelled G-RAGGS. I hadn’t
picked up on it because of the
font and my desire to exit official
document hell. Needless to say,
Spanish accents don’t sound
as sexy when you’re firing the
words ‘inept’ and ‘idiot’ back and
forth via telephone. And in the
end? I got to mail my passport
back and the problem was cor-
rected in a week. Talk about
much ado about nothing. But
that’s not where the fun stops.
Located on Calle General
Pardiñas, 90, the Comisaría Gen-
eral de Extranjería y Document-
ación isn’t a place anyone will call
a party, but there sure are a lot of
people there – it’s identifiable by
the line waiting around the block.
I lucked out in having my em-
ployer schedule my appointment,
but most have to do it themselves.
This is the place where all non-EU
citizens have to slog through a
line to apply for a NIE. People
camp out to get into this office like
it’s a Star Wars premiere. Before
you go, however, you’ll need the
appropriate papers: passport,
photos, documents detailing your
reason for being in Spain, your
family tree, a report card from
first grade, a receipt from paying
for the application at a bank, the
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application form, and an original
copy of the Magna Carta. The
tricky part is actually the bank
receipt. You have to go to a bank
to pay for paperwork you turn in
at another office. ¡Viva España!
Unless you plan on playing the ka-
zoo in the metro, you’ll then need
to find some work. The easiest
way to do so is by trolling websites
like segundamano, loquo, and
lingobongo for teaching jobs. I put
up an ad as a native speaker on lin-
gobongo and had 15 offers within
a week. It’s best to be choosy, how-
ever, as the quality of academies
varies. In addition, more respected
companies will want to see that
you’re legal, as businesses can be
fined 2,000€ for hiring illegals—
but it’s entirely possible to find
enough work without having
papers. Some experts estimate up
to 25% of Spain’s GDP is ‘black
work’ (undeclared earnings)—
hey, ‘black work’ puts pan integral
on lots of English-speaking tables.
If you’re planning to get married
in Madrid—well, don’t. That is to
say, you’ll have to wait months and
months once you get your empa-
dronamiento and marriage licence.
Just ask EV’s own Luc Ciotkowski,
of the recently-married ilk, how
fun that can be. The solution
can end up being a trip outside
Madrid city limits into a suburb
or village to register for marriage.
One would think that a self-
identified Catholic country with a
decreasing rate of marriage would
make the process a little easier.
One would think, but this is Spain.
No pasa nada (it doesn’t matter).
One last anecdote: in Spain’s
national I.D. database, the gov-
ernment allowed for names of up
to 33 characters, as that was the
longest name in the country at
the time. Of course, a French guy
marrying a Spanish woman came
in with a 34 character name.
Officials asked him if he would
change his name—he politely
declined and the government had
to overhaul the entire system.
Most foreign residents of Spain
would say all the trouble of
Spanish red tape vale la pena (is
worth it) in the end. That won’t
stop them from complaining in
the process, however. Personally,
I’d agree with vale la pena, in this
case, but with one caveat; I think
there’s another saying that must
come along with it concerning
all the hoops to jump through: Es
un coñazo (it’s one hell of a pain
in the ass). That’s something very
few can argue with.
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two private rooms. Open every day 12:30-02:00 am Tel: 91 559 3311
Tel: 91 436 4340 www.hardrock.com www.namaskaar.es
Hard Rock Café Pº de la Castellana, 2 Colón/Serrano Namaskaar c/ Vergara, 7 (Right behind Teatro Real de la Opera) Ópera

Latin American Cuisine

Argentinian Steak Houses
Corrientes Ibiza, 39 ( Ibiza). Tel: 91 504 3457 Brand new Indian restaurant in Madrid! Exquisite
El Gaucho Tetuán, 34 ( Sol). Tel: 91 522 4793 Indian cuisine, in a stunning and central location,
La Vaca Argentina Bailén, 20 ( La Latina). Tel: 91 365 6654 right beside Madrid’s famous Plaza Mayor.
Terrace now open.
Tel: 913 669 099

Curry House Plaza de la Provincia, 3 Sol/Antón Martin

Centrally located Argentinian steak house with a
rustic, welcoming atmosphere. Enjoy traditional
Argentinian cuisine such as pizza, pasta, and grilled
meat. Variety of vegetarian options available. Open
every day ‘til late. Average price 15/20€ per head,
lunch menu only 9,50€. Brand new Indian restaurant located in the Heart
Tel: 91 369 4391 of Madrid. Traditional Punjab dishes served by friendly
Indian staff. Call for details of special Bollywood
Il Piccolino Della Farfalla c/ Huertas, 6 Antón Martín dancing shows performed in the restaurant.
Open 1-4pm and 8pm-midnight.
Tel: 91 523 4570
Brazilian www.currys.es
Curry’s Indian Restaurant c/ Silva, 16 Callao

This atmospheric restaurant specialises in Brazilian food and is located

just off Madrid’s famous Paseo de la Castellana. The house speciality,
“Picanha”, is a dish of flame-grilled meat thinly sliced and lightly
seasoned with rock salt. Try their fantastic caipirinhas while taking in
the beautiful artwork on the walls (they hold regular exhibitions) and Traditional Indian restaurant- offering a variety of
revel in the upbeat atmosphere created by the friendly staff and exotic rich Indian cuisine infused with the best authentic
Brazilian beats. Open Tuesday to Saturday. ingredients. Located in the centre of Madrid and
Tel: 91 399 1475 open daily 1-4 pm and 8-12 pm. Set menu available
Picanha c/ Modesto Lafuente, 15 Alonso Cano everyday from 1-4 pm for 9.95€.
Tel: 91 360 0706 www.gurumadrid.es

Mexican /Tex-Mex Guru Indian Restaurant c/ Echegaray 21 Sol/ Sevilla

Enjoy a wide variety of traditional Indian cuisine.

With over 40 dishes to choose from, you will be spoilt
Tex mex, grill, and excellent margaritas! for choice. Open daily 1-4 pm and 8.30-11.30 pm.
Business lunch only 10€ including IVA and coffee. Set menu and take away food available.
Closed on Sundays. Tel: 91 559 2131 www.restaurantetaj.com
c/ Cruz 13 Sol/Sevilla. Tel: 91 522 3595
El Rincón de Andy c/ Duque Osuna, 6 Plaza de España/ Ventura Rodriguez Taj c/ Marqués De Cubas 6 Banco de España. Tel: 91 531 5059 / 91 521 63 27

Bright, colourfully furnished Indian restaurant located in

Experience the genuine flavour of Mexican Cuisine. Madrid’s trendy Chueca area. Open since 1985, it is a busy
Recommended by the Gourmet pages in El Mundo little place and quite reasonably priced at around 18/20€
and El País. per head. 3 course lunch or “menu del día” is served from
Tel: 91 544 7788 1.30pm- 4.30pm, dinner from 8.30pm- 12.30pm.
www.elpimientoverde.com Open every day. Tel: 91 391 4586

El Chile Verde c/ Hilarión Eslava, 33 Moncloa Taj Mahal c/ Belén, 12 Chueca/Alonso Martínez

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What do you fancy tonight?
eat out guide
Spanish
Traditional Spanish food, in a traditional Spanish
atmosphere, with flamenco music and a terrace right in
the centre of Madrid. Try the typical “croquetas de jamón”
or the house speciality “Don Paco” dish. Open all day from
10am to 2am. Tel: 91 522 9050
La Tía Cebolla Calle de la Cruz, 27 Sol
Enjoy typical Andalusian food, original décor,
oriental dance shows and a cultural fusion every
day of the year… Not to be missed!!
Tel: 90 233 3334 www.medinamayrit.com
Medina Mayrit c/ Atocha 14 Sol/Tirso de Molina
Japanese
“Let’s Noodle”
Madrid’s very first noodle bar. Fast, healthy and
fun food served in the heart of Madrid’s Chueca
district, in a pleasant and modern atmosphere.
Take-away service available.
Open Mon- Sun 1pm-1am.
Tel: 91 522 3333
Circus Noodle Bar c/ Libertad, 13 Chueca
Ayala Japón Ayala, 67 ( Lista). Tel: 91 309 5625
Furama Paseo de la Florida, 2 ( Príncipe Pío). Tel: 91 548 7658
Thai
Authentic Thai cuisine, in exotic, intimate
surroundings. Good service, friendly atmosphere.
English menu available. Extensive à la carte menu,
lunch and evening specials.
Open 12-4pm and 8pm-12pm.
Non-smoking.
Tel: 91 559 8315
SIAM c/ San Bernardino, 6 Plaza de España/Noviciado
The Thai Gardens Jorge Juan, 5 ( Colón). Tel: 91 577 8884
Café Saigón María de Molina, 4 ( Gregorio Marañón). Tel: 91 563 1566
Lebanese
Authentic Arabian Tea House and Restaurant.
Schischa pipes, traditional Lebanese cuisine and
over 60 different kinds of tea! Come and enjoy a
relaxing dinner, try one of our teas and let the oriental
belly-dancing show transport you to a different world!
Shows every Friday and Saturday evening.
Open for lunch and dinner menus.
Tel: 91 559 5785 www.rclasmilyunanoches.com
Las Mil y Una Noches c/ Martín de los Heros, 28 Ventura Rodriguez
www.europeanvibe.com
food
Italian
A touch of Italy in Madrid’s bustling city centre. Enjoy
exquisite pizzas and pastas in a warm and welcoming
atmosphere, courtesy of Rome-born pizza maestro
Roberto Borghesi. Special 3-course lunch menu
available Mon-Fri, only 11.50€. Open Mon- Thurs:
13.45- 16h, 20.45- 24h, Sat. 14h- 16h, 21h- 24h, Sun.
14h- 16.30h. Tel: 91 541 9533 www.borghesi.es
Borghesi c/ Francisco de Ricci, 15 Argüelles
Modern/International Cuisine
New, modern restaurant located in the heart of
Madrid. Fresh, vibrant atmosphere and bright,
comfortable surroundings. Very reasonably priced.
Monday to Saturday, 1pm to 4pm and 8pm to
midnight. (Saturdays 1.30pm opening)
Tel: 91 523 0481
Cubik c/ Aduana,12 Sol/Sevilla
Creative cuisine in a casual, friendly atmosphere.
Lunch served Tuesday to Friday, Dinner served Tuesday
to Saturday, brunch served on Sundays.
Tel: 91 547 4996
Toma c/ Conde Duque, 14 Plaza de España
It is now possible to go and enjoy one of your favourite
meals that you miss from home while watching all
your favourite sport on our plasma screens. We are
open from noon till 2.30am and serve food all day:
authentic fish and chips, battered sausages, curry
chips and a lot more. A perfect day out!
Tel: 91 523 2631
Tony’s Cafe de la Cruz, 11 Sol
Vegetarian
A classic choice for vegetarian cuisine- these are
the two oldest vegetarian restaurants in Madrid
(20 years). Very centrally located. Friendly staff,
traditional décor, and a welcoming atmosphere help
make any customer feel welcome. Open every day
from 1pm-4pm, and 8pm to 12am. Special menus
available for lunch and dinner.
www.restauranteartemisa.com
Artemisa c/ Ventura de la Vega, 4
c/ Tres Cruces, 4
Sevilla. Tel: 91 429 5092
Gran vía/Callao. Tel: 91 521 8721
A pleasant surprise for non-vegetarians. Rustic,
Andalusian tavern-style décor, extensive and
surprisingly tasty menu. Located in the heart of the
bustling La Latina area.
Open every day, 1pm- 4.30pm, 8pm-12.30pm.
Tel: 91 365 8982
El Estragón Pl. Paja, 10 Madrid de los Austrias La Latina
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bar chat
Knowing Madrid and intercambios
The world-famous Hard Rock Cafe in the iconic Plaza de Colón was the setting for this
month’s bar chat. As we chilled out on the terrace on a warm Madrid evening, we talked about
what we wish we’d known when we came to Madrid and the popular phenomenon of the free
language exchange, the intercambio.
interviewing by Luc Ciotkowski
Luc: What do you wish you had
known when you moved to
Madrid?
Susa: I wish I had known my ex-
boyfriend was cheating on me! He
moved here before me and after I
came he got a week off work. He
said he was going back to Brighton,
where we used to live in the south
of England, to visit some friends.
When he was away, I went to check
my emails and I had a message
from him. It wasn’t meant for me,
though, it was for his sister, telling
her how he had slept with a friend
of his the night before. He’d sent the
message to me by mistake and he
was telling his sister all about it, all
you can imagine.
Aifric: Oh my God!
Susa: Yeah, well, later on I found
out he’d been cheating on me, like,
here with all the girls in Madrid.
Will: Wow, that’s pretty nasty.
Patrick: I wish I’d known about the
dollar decline. When I first came
here I felt like I had everything under
control, like I could buy a drink in a
club fine. Now it’s like, if I were still
being paid in dollars, right now I’d
be figuring out how to eat on a
daily basis. It’s fine now: I’m getting
paid in euros. But if I’d known about
it then I probably would’ve changed
something around. It used to be 1.2,
now it’s 1.6.
John John: Mine’s pretty
basic. I guess if
I’d known about
rebajas (sales) the
first time I came
here, I’d have saved so much
money. Not only that, but tercera
rebajas (third and even cheapest
28 sep 08
stage of the sales). When I first
came here, I got a pair of jeans
and like one or two shirts for 80
euros. About two weeks ago, in
the segunda rebajas, for about 70-
something euros I got three pairs
of jeans, four shirts, socks and
underwear at H&M. Oh, and I got a
jacket, my size, for 12 euros.
They start again in February.
Luc: Have you ever done
intercambios (free language
exchanges)?
Patrick: The first time I did an
intercambio, I went with my room
mate. I was talking with this
guy, he seemed like a nice guy,
a rather portly gentleman. And
the first thing he starts talking
about to me in Spanish was all
the whorehouses he had visited –
which he described at the time as,
um, ‘bars’. When he started getting
a little more explicit, it just clicked
and I just like, “Oh, my, God”. And
I looked at my room mate and I
was just like, “We are leaving right
now”. And since then I’ve never
done a public intercambio. I do
it with my Spanish friends: they
practise their English, I practise my
Spanish. But that experience was
enough for me.
Aifric Aifric: I actually
organised an
intercambio once
a week, which was
not as difficult as I
thought it would be, because it’s
more of a casual kind of group that
get together, sit down and have a
chat, as opposed to making it like a
class. So, yeah it’s good. You do get
the occasional weirdo like Patrick
was saying, who comes to pick up
some young Americans, but the
vast majority are lovely.
Luc: On balance, do most people
go to pick someone up or are they
mostly there for the language?
Aifric: You do get a certain amount
of that, but I have to say in general
people have a genuine interest in
improving their languages.
Susa: It’s so different in a group.
I used to organise one, you
welcome people and they mix.
Aifric: You sit down and they just talk
to whoever is sitting beside them,
as opposed to having a big group
of people who arrive in a normal
bar and just talking to random
strangers. For shy people that would
make it very difficult. So no, we had
a lot of regulars who made new
people feel quite comfortable.
Luc: I suppose it’s kind of inevitable
that people will get together when
they’re in bars, with that setting?
Aifric: Oh yeah, especially when
there’s alcohol involved.
Susa Susa: You’ve got to
be careful with the
Spanish you learn
as well, you know. I
have had students
in my class (Susa is a Spanish
teacher) who were like, “But my
intercambio says that this is not
correct”, and I’m like, “I’m sorry, but
your intercambio has no idea”. It’s
more like a social thing than really
learning.
Aifric: You know what I think?
Intercambios are great for practice
and building up confidence in
speaking. A lot of Spaniards are
very shy about speaking English.
They can maybe do writing and
reading fine, but when you talk to
them they get shy.
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Susa: You know, some foreigners
as well don’t hang around Spanish
people, so it’s probably a good way
for them to talk to some Spanish
people. To use Spanish in a real
context.
Luc: Would it be wrong to
just not do classes and use
intercambios to learn Spanish,
then?
Susa: No. As I said, it’s a social
thing. And you need at least an
intermediate level to participate.
Aifric: You definitely need grammar
classes. If you go to an intercambio
with no Spanish, you just don’t
have the vocab to be able to talk
about anything. You need to have
a basic Spanish first, and then you
can do an intercambio.
Will Will: I went to
one, too. Well, the
intercambio was
kinda nice. It an
interesting night,
though, because I think it was the
first night that I’d been in Spain and
could tell that a Spanish woman
was interested in me. Because
usually I have a hard time reading
Spanish women in general.
Patrick Patrick: The best
way to learn
Spanish is to drown
before you can
start to float. So, be
around as many Spanish people
as you can. Read as much as you
can. Because the more words you
read, the more words you look up,
the more words you don’t know,
the more words you see, the more
words you memorise, the more
words you see again and again
and again.
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 film first
WORDS by PETER MOORE
The Air I Breathe
Spanish title: Cuatro Vidas Release Date (Spain): 19 September 2008
Director: Jieho Lee Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Emilie Hirsche, Julie Delpy
If such a place exists as ‘artists’ hell’, then
that is the place to which the creators
of The Air I Breathe should be banished,
for eternity and a day. But before we let
them leave, we should first boil them in
a vat and steam them mercilessly into
repentance over a mound of organic
cabbages.
Perhaps I am getting a little excitable,
but just how did it go so badly wrong? At
first, the signs for The Air I Breathe were
auspicious. Forest Whitaker, fresh from
his triumphant portrayal of the petulant
demagogue Idi Amin, was joined in the
billing by Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser
and Sarah Michelle Gellar. A young
director, Jieho Lee offered the possibility
of a fresh perspective and the tagline was
alluring: “Sometimes the things we can’t
change end up changing us”.
Ninety minutes later I wound up
confused and disappointed. Set in a
faceless ‘Gothamesque’ city, the plot had
intended to portray snapshots of the
grubby underbelly of American society
through four separate, but interwoven
mini dramas. These four vignettes had
been drawn from a Chinese proverb that
suggests that four emotional cornerstones
characterise life: happiness, pleasure,
sorrow and love.
What ensued, however, was vapid and
uninspiring. Grim, broke and laughing like
a lunatic, the best actor of the lot, Forest
Whittaker (Happiness), was despatched
with alarming efficiency by Lee with
30 sep 08
the film just twenty five minutes old.
Affording the Oscar winning actor just
enough time to inexplicably squander
$50,000 on a horse called ‘Butterfly’,
because, ‘he likes butterflies.’
But before you can properly lament the
fact that Happiness was not granted the
slightest chance to justify his name, you
are disturbed by the arrival of one of the
most ludicrous cinematic inventions of
modern times.
The character of Fingers, I presume, was
devised as the film’s sinister, machiavellian
villain: a money-driven mobster intended
to make people’s knees shake like maracas.
But the all-Italian, cool but dangerous, Noo
Yawk Tawkin mafia boss is so clichéd that
Andy Garcia, an elsewhere respectable
actor, is successful only in conjuring a
hilarious caricature.
For the entirety of the film he strutted
about his patch, caught in an endless,
tedious soliloquy, uttering nonsense
about ‘biwsnus’ and ‘wrespect’, stopping
only to shoot the occasional hapless
victim with disquieting alacrity. Fittingly
for a film that was as deep as a puddle,
the origins of his name were equally
glib: Fingers was so-called due to his
predisposition to removing the odd digit
with a rusty pair of scissors. Charming.
As the plot trundled forward, further
ridiculous characters appeared, none
worse than Fingers’ nephew Tony: a
loquacious braggart in town with the
A short collection of better
films you can enjoy in cinemas:
Wanted
Spanish title: Wanted. Se Busca
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman,
Angelina Jolie
A high adrenalin
action flick starring
James McAvoy,
Morgan Freeman
and Angelina Jolie.
Expect a rumbling
soundtrack, an orgy
of muscle flexing and
some cool-as-ice
assassinations.
intention of ‘popping his cherry’. In a film
fraught with unnecessary bloodletting,
The X Files
sadly Tony narrowly escaped a similarly
grizzly fate, due only to Brendan Fraser’s
useful ability to glimpse into the future. Spanish title: X-Files: Creer es la Clave
Director: Chris Carter
With tragic inevitability, things grew Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson,
ever more depressingly bleak, with a Adam Godley, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly
succession of traffic accidents, attempted Mulder and Scully,
suicides and common assaults being the sharpest-dressed
thrown into the mix, before a flash of detectives of the
serendipity arrived to solve all the tragic 1990s make a big
woes of the plot in a glorious stroke of screen reappearance
fortune. Meanwhile Bacon and Gellar for more dour head
struggled admirably with the scraps, scratching, dalliances
buoyed only by the presence of a with alien forces and
an unexpected cameo
creditable indie soundtrack and the odd from Billy Connolly.
sharply directed scene.
The Air I Breathe fails as a work of art on a
spectacular number of levels. Attempting
to straddle the void between an action
flick, a morality tale and a slap stick
comedy, it ends up suffering from an
identity crisis of Clark Kent proportions.
The characters are bland pastiches of
something interesting, the stuff from
which stereotypes sprout, and the script
remains reassuringly awful throughout.
The Duchess
Spanish title: La Duquesa
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes,
The only question that lingered was how Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper
this drivel escaped from the studio and
weaved its way through post production Your fifteenth chance
to see Keira Knightley
without being apprehended at some dressed up in period
point on route. At least, now that it has costume and acting
arrived, we can judge it for what it is: scandalously as an
an ignominious failure, so bad that it is eighteenth century
utterly unforgettable. it-girl.
VIBE STARS
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CINEMAS (V.O.)
>Alphaville Golem
Address: Martín de los Heros, 14
Tel: 915 593 836
Zone: Central
Price: 6.80 €
Metro: Plaza de España (Lines
3 & 10)
Release Date: 5 September 2008
Spanish title: The Strangers
Release Date: 12 September 2008
Spanish title: Wanted. Se Busca
>Pequeño Cine Estudio
Rodríguez (Line 3)

Address: Magallanes, 1
Tel: 914 472 920
Zone: Chamberi
Price: 6.50 €
Metro: Quevedo (Line 2)

>Princesa
Rodríguez (Line 3)

Address: Calle de la Princesa, 3

Tel: 915 414 100 & 902 888 902
Zone: Moncloa-Aravaca
Price: Mon-Fri 6.20 €. Sat & Sun
6.80 €
Metro: Plaza de España (Lines 3
& 10), Ventura Rodríguez (Line 3)
Release Date: 19 September 2008
Spanish title: Cuatro Vidas
Release Date: 19 September 2008
Spanish title: Se Quién me Mató
>Renoir Cuatro Caminos
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wanted Nim's Island Journey to the
Address: Raimundo Fernández Center of the Earth
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Zone: Chamberi
Price: Mon-Fri 6.50 €. Sat & Sun
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Win five cinema tickets

Metro: Cuatro Caminos (Lines
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>Renoir Plaza de España for you and your friends!

Release Date: 19 September 2008
Spanish title: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Release Date: 26 September 2008
Spanish title: Marido por Sorpresa
Release Date: 26 September 2008
Spanish title: La Isla de Nim
Release Date: 26 September 2008
Spanish title: Tropic Thunder
Address: Martín de los Heros, 12 Yelmo Cine Ideal, the biggest original language cinema
Tel: 915 414 100 & 902 229 122
Zone: Central in Madrid, are giving away five free tickets to see a film of
Price: Mon-Fri 6.50 €. Sat & Sun
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Metro: Plaza de España All you have to do is answer the following question:
In The Air I Breathe Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a pop
>Renoir Princesa
Rodríguez (Line 3)
star, however she does not sing any songs herself.
Address: Calle de la Princesa, 5,
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Tel: 915 599 872 & 902 229 122
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Address: Narváez, 42 Good luck to you all!
Tel: 902 229 122
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Tel: 914 473 930
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sport
Ryder Cup
U.S. vs. Europe
Harry Watkinson looks ahead to this
month’s Ryder Cup and looks back through
T
the tournament’s history.
WORDS by Harry Watkinson
hose who know little of golf will
still know of Tiger Woods. Those
who know a bit more of the game
famously referred to as ‘a good
walk spoiled’, are now watching
on in awe as the great champion
continues in his attempt to be
simply called the ‘greatest of all
time’. To achieve this he must first
surpass Jack Nicklaus’ record of
18 major championship victories;
made up of the US Masters, US
Open, British Open and US PGA.
And, after heroically hobbling his
way to another US Open crown, he
now stands only five away from the
magic milestone of 19. But victory
in June came at a price for Woods.
His season came to an abrupt
end after having major surgery to
restructure his knee and save his
career. This left the two remaining
major titles shorn of the most
famous sportsman in the World,
and it also left the US Ryder Cup
team without its star attraction.
Woods’ forced sabbatical imme-
diately led those who both write
about and watch golf to ask wheth-
er subsequent victories for the
lesser mortals on the Tour would
be devalued and that spectator
interest would temporarily drop
off. I myself temporarily bought
into this line of thought until I
attended the British Open in July.
Once there, I was reminded of the
32 sep 08
ryder cup
Sports Diary
25th-7th TENNIS US Open
Sep Flushing Meadows, New York
30th-21st CYCLING
Sep La Vuelta de Espana
31st Aug FOOTBALL La Liga
Atletico Madrid v Malaga
Deportivo La Coruna v Real Madrid
Numancia v Barcelona
FOOTBALL SPL
Celtic v Rangers
3rd Sep CRICKET Cardiff: ODI:
England v South Africa
6th Sep FOOTBALL World Cup
European Qualifying
Andorra v England
FYR Macedonia v Scotland
Georgia v Rep of Ireland
Slovakia v Northern Ireland
Spain v Bosnia-Herzegovina
Wales v Azerbaijan
7th Sep GAA Hurling
All-Ireland Senior Championship - Final
MOTOR CYCLING Donington
Park: World Superbikes
MOTOR RACING Formula 1
Belgian Grand Prix
8th-14th TENNIS Fed Cup final
10th Sep FOOTBALL World Cup
European Qualifying
Croatia v England
Iceland v Scotland
Montenegro v Rep of Ireland
Northern Ireland v Czech Republic
Russia v Wales
Spain v Armenia
12th Sep RUGBY LEAGUE Super
League play-offs
13th Sep FOOTBALL EPL
Blackburn v Arsenal
Liverpool v Man Utd
Man City v Chelsea
ATHLETICS
Stuttgart: IAAF World Athletics Final
fact that a good sporting story can RUGBY Tri Nations
Australia v New Zealand
make all other issues drop away. 14th Sep FOOTBALL La Liga
On this occasion, the story was Barcelona v Racing Santander
found in the unlikely figure of 53- Real Madrid v Numancia
year-old Greg Norman, a 1000-1 Valladolid v Atletico Madrid
shot before the tournament, having ATHLETICS
not played serious golf since 2005. Stuttgart: IAAF World Athletics Final
Norman is a legend of the game, MOTOR RACING Formula 1
Italian Grand Prix
with only Woods himself spending 16th Sep FOOTBALL Champions
more time as World Number 1. League
However, if you had suggested the 19th Sep RUGBY LEAGUE Super
Aussie, known to all as ‘the White League play-offs
Shark’, would be in position to take 19th-21st GOLF Kentucky: Ryder Cup
the ultimate prize, you’d have been 19th-21st TENNIS Davis Cup semi-final
asked to change your medicine. Spain v USA
20th Sep FOOTBALL EPL
The fact he didn’t win made little Bolton v Arsenal
difference. A great story had been Liverpool v Stoke
told and by the end no-one was 21st Sep GAA Football
concerning themselves about who All-Ireland Senior Championship - Final 
was or wasn’t in Liverpool. Don’t FOOTBALL EPL
get me wrong, the game is all the Chelsea v Man Utd
poorer without Tiger prowling FOOTBALL La Liga
Atletico Madrid v Recreativo Huelva
the fairways, but it will survive his Sporting Gijon v Barcelona
absence. So, on this basis, I will 24th Sep FOOTBALL La Liga
predict the Ryder Cup, to be held Barcelona v Real Betis
in Kentucky, will again provide Getafe v Atletico Madrid
the sort of action that has made Real Madrid v Sporting Gijon
it one of the most exciting events 26th Sep RUGBY LEAGUE Super
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long as another great tale is told, Arsenal v Hull
the event will be sure to escape Everton v Liverpool
from the shadow of the man who Man Utd v Bolton
sits at home. Stoke v Chelsea
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Before I go on, it is important for Atletico Madrid v Sevilla
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those not in the know to have a Real Betis v Real Madrid
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competitions. In the red corner,
you have the USA and in the blue
corner, Europe, with the match
ryder cup
Seve found his
Wes Welker

alternating between continents

every other year. Get to 14 ½
ideal match in
points and the trophy is yours. fellow countryman,
September 19-21, 2008
Valhalla Golf Club,
If only it was that simple.
Jose Maria
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. The event officially started in
1927, with USA defeating Great
Olazábal. The
Britain 9 ½ to 2 ½ . This started a two formed one
sequence of matches stretching
across half a century that nearly
of the greatest
always ended with the Stars and partnerships in any
Stripes giving the British boys
a right royal spanking. Victory sport, becoming
Captain Nick Faldo became a formality and interest nigh unbeatable.
dropped away. With its very exist-
team europe ence under threat, the decision And in this duo
“I am delighted that
the committee has
was taken to expand the Great
Britain team to include all golfers
the key to Europe’s
decided to announce in Europe. And at a stroke the continued success
the captaincy for
2008 and can’t say
how excited I am
competition was transformed and
a hero of the Ryder Cup was born.
could be found. NFL 2008-2009
at the prospect of leading the European He went by the name of Seve
side in the U.S.,” said Faldo, the winner of Ballesteros. Cup record. Once every two years WORDS by Tomek PrzybySzewski

three Opens and the Ryder Cup’s record Tiger will say how much he wants

L
points scorer. The sometimes wild and quite to win with his team, and once
often wondrous Spaniard took every two years you will see him ast NFL season ended with the underdog
ev’s players to watch the event by the scruff Giants beating the undefeated Patriots
on the course losing
team europe of the neck and by sheer matches and looking in the Super Bowl, which arguably
Pádraig strength of character and like there were a whole produced the biggest upset in the history
Harrington golfing brilliance took host of places he would of the competition, with the exception of another
Record: 17 matches the fight to the Ameri- rather be. This was
cans. In 1983, the Euro- most patently shown
New York team, the Jets led by Joe Namath
(W-L-H) 7-8-2 (47% beating the Baltimore Colts in 1969.
Point Percentage) peans got within a point when paired with the
of winning and in 1985 Seve Ballesteros World Number 2, Phil The odds are against the Giants making a repeat
Lee they took the trophy Mickelson in 2004. The of their title, the Cowboys however might be a
Westwood for the first time in 28 years. The dream team barely spoke to each more likely candidate from the NFC, although
Record: 25 matches next match was held in America other, they got beat and ultimately
(W-L-H) 14-8-3 (62% teams like Seattle and any of the NFC South
Point Percentage) and once again Europe triumphed the USA got thrashed. So maybe, franchises could produce another surprise.
15-13 after a nail biting finish. just maybe, the absence of Tiger The AFC has the same clear favorites as last
Sergio It was in these two contests that will actually enhance rather than
García the excitement and drama of the hinder the chances of a victory for season. The Colts
Record: 20 matches Ryder Cup came to the fore, and the Stars and Stripes. have a stable of
(W-L-H) 14-4-2 (75% as part of this Seve found his ideal good runningbacks,
Point Percentage) match in fellow countryman, Jose Who knows? Not sure myself, but a great passing game
Maria Olazábal. The two formed what I do know is there is every led by their star
one of the greatest partnerships chance of more magic moments quarterback Peyton
Captain Paul Azinger in any sport, becoming nigh being shown on our TV screens Manning and a very
Brandon Jacobs
team U.s.A. unbeatable. And in this duo the later this month. But, it will
key to Europe’s continued success have some hard acts to follow, as solid defence. The
“I just want to say could be found. there are already many never to Patriots and their incredible trio of Brady, Moss
that it is, I think, the be forgotten moments. In 1991, and Welker will yet again prove unstoppable and,
greatest honour you
can bestow on a The nature of the competition there was the ‘war on the shore’ provided their defensive unit holds up, we may be
professional golfer is means that the golfers play in at Kiawah Island where Bernard looking at another undefeated season.
to ask him to captain partnership against each other Langer missed the final putt on San Diego Chargers look to continue their
a Ryder Cup team, and I’m awestruck by on Friday and Saturday, and then the final green to lose the match. growth, and, provided they stay healthy at key
it,” said Azinger, a member four Ryder Cup on the last day alone. Quickly In 1995, we had old foes Nick
teams (1989, 1991, 1993 and 2002). the contest became a contest of Faldo and Seve embracing in tears spots, they will challenge for their conference
the superior teamwork of the on the 18th after securing the supremacy. Losing Michael Turner won’t hurt
ev’s players to watch since they drafted
Europeans against the greater narrowest of wins; in 1999 there
team U.S.A. playing strength of the USA. And was the sight of the US players a highly productive
Stewart most often it was those going ballistic after and talented Jacob
Cink on the east side of the Justin Leonard holed Hester.
Record: 12 matches Atlantic who picked up an impossible putt and The team to look
(W-L-H) 3-5-4 (29% the prize by forming a then running all over
Point Percentage) unit much more than the 17th green with
out for are the St.
the sum of its parts. In Olazábal still waiting to Chris Long Louis Rams, who
Phil contrast, the USA team putt. And then, in 2004 were hit hard by
Mickelson injuries last year. This season, with Steven Jackson,
Record: 25 matches quite often appeared Justin Leonard and 2006, there has been
(W-L-H) 9-12-4 (44% totally incapable of the incredible sight of Drew Bennett and Marc Bulger healthy and the
Point Percentage) playing with one another. And the Americans being thrashed reshuffling of their offensive line they should
here you will find the reason why out of sight, with Tiger once again bounce back to the top of their division. Adding
Jim they may not miss Woods quite appearing all too mortal... We all ultra talented defensive lineman, Chris Long, will
Furyk as much as some may think. To hope the great man will be back
Record: 20 matches look at the stats you will see for a soon, but that does not mean the help their defence immeasurably.
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The racism, in Spain, falls

mainly on the pitch?

Hablar como los indios. Trabajar como un negro. Engañar como a un

chino. El oro que cagó el moro. Hacer una judiada. Ser muy gitano...
These examples of common expressions show that the Spanish tongue
still contains a lot of racially charged language. But, language habits are
one thing, and people’s attitudes are another.
Peter Moore analyses the topic that has generated much bad press
for the Spanish in recent years and asks an uncomfortable question:

I
“How much racism is there in Spain?”
WORDS by Peter Moore

n June, as Luis Aragonés guided
the Spanish national team to their
first major trophy for 44 years, the
population chewed worriedly away
at their finger nails, expecting at
any moment at emergence of that
usual, horrid twist of fate. It could
be a squandered opportunity in
front of goal, a missed penalty, a
calamitous refereeing decision or
an elbow in the face. Spain had
suffered them all.
But the familiar Spanish curse was
eerily absent. From start to finish
they played with a zealous flair that
led to excitable comparisons with
Brazil, whilst coach Luis Aragonés
peered on from the sidelines,
looking as much like an irritable
taxi driver as ever.
A friend later told me, that if he
was forced to nominate a moment
when he fully expected Spain to
combust, then it had come during
Marcos Senna the semi final with Italy. After 120
minutes of typically stout Italian
defending, the match had fizzled
out into an inevitable penalty
shootout. Half of Spain hid behind
their hands. For a country that had
been suffered a catalogue of woes
from the penalty spot, the prospect
of a few more loomed.
That Viennese night, however,
found the imperious goalkeeper
Iker Casillas in no mood for
respecting tradition. Cuffing away
a smart effort from Daniele De
Senna had conducted his duty with
an effortless flourish, as if he was
doing little more than making a cup
of tea. Manolo el del Bombo thumped
his drum in delight as Spain moved
3-1 ahead.
Rossi, he gave Spain a vital early
advantage that was immediately
seized upon by Marcos Senna. The
midfielder strode straight-backed
and confidently to the penalty
spot. After taking a few measured
steps backwards, he jogged
casually up to the ball and stroked
it smoothly into the top right-
hand corner of the goal, sending
Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon
sprawling in the wrong direction.
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with an effortless flourish, as if he
was doing little more than making
a cup of tea. Manolo el del Bombo
thumped his drum in delight as
Spain moved 3-1 ahead. It was a
deficit from which Italy would never
recover. When Cesc Fàbregas slotted
the winning penalty past Buffon
three minutes later, it signalled the
first Spanish competitive victory
over their Latin cousins since 1920.
Although Casillas, rightly,
remained the hero of the evening,
Senna received praise from all
quarters. His cool self assurance
not just in the penalty shootout but
throughout the tournament earned
him glowing reviews.
It was a seminal moment in Spanish
sporting history. Not only had
they evaded their ‘big tournament’
curse, but they had discovered
their first black sporting hero.
Senna was voted amongst UEFA’s
top ten players and was heralded
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as a “delight” on their official
website. The Spanish sports daily
AS referred to his performances
as “phenomenal”, and in an online
poll by Spain’s most influential
newspaper, El Pais, 35% of readers
voted him Spain’s finest player;
Ashley Cole beating Xavi and Casillas into
second and third place respectively.
Brazilian by birth and black by
ethnicity, the significance of Senna’s
involvement with the national
team was almost as important as
his performances on the pitch. He
was something fresh, symbolic of
the new ‘multicultural’ Spain. The
Thierry Henry reason behind this was stark, for
when Senna is lined up alongside
Spanish heroes of the past two
decades: Indurain, Raúl, Nadal,
Moya, Sánchez Vicario and
Fernando Alonso to name but a few,
then he does not just find himself
surrounded by an array of incredibly
talented athletes, but also by a sea of
white faces.
culture
Race is an acute issue in early twenty
first century Spanish society and
its sporting arenas have often been
attacked as a hotbed of racism; a
breeding ground of bigots who are
happy to jibe and provoke players
simply because of the colour of their
skin. This characterisation has grown
during the past few years, stemming
from the events of a few disastrous
months in 2004 and 2005, when the
scourge of racism seemed to run freely
around Spanish football stadiums.
The spark for the ensuing
controversies was a throwaway
comment by Luis Aragonés to José
Antonio Reyes during a training
match for the Spanish national
team in 2004. Caught on camera,
Aragonés was observed to have
referred disparagingly to the French
International striker Thierry Henry.
“Tell that negro de mierda (piece of
black shit) that you’re much better
than him. Don’t hold back.”
Fury ensued in the British press.
National newspapers queued up to
demand Aragonés’ dismissal. Sid
Lowe, writing in The Guardian,
speculated that, “In England Aragonés
would probably have been sacked,”
and even the sports editor of El Pais,
Santiago Seguroila, agreed. “Luis
Aragonés should have been fired. His
words were intolerable,” he wrote.
However, AS felt that Aragonés’
comments had been taken out of
context, accusing the English of
being “Very serious when it comes
to race, politically correct to the
extreme... just another way of hiding
their own defects”. They were joined
by Antena 3, which cited “absurd
accusations” and “gross exaggerations”.
A month later, however, on 17
November, during a friendly match
between Spain and England in the
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, the fire
was stoked again. Whilst the football
was drab, the crowd weren’t. Waves of
ape-chanting greeted every touch of
the ball from England’s black players,
Shawn Wright-Philips and Ashley
Cole. Marcelino Bondjale, general
secretary of the Coalición Española
contra el Racismo, later said that:
“Eight out of ten people were monkey
chanting. It was more or less the
whole stadium”.
Once again the issue was propelled
to the front pages of national
newspapers.
More incidents followed. In January,
Atlético Madrid were fined £435
after Real Madrid’s Roberto Carlos
was racially abused during the derby
match. In the next months, Paulo
Wanchope of Málaga was racially
abused by a fan with a megaphone
>>
as he completed his warming down
routine and half way through a match
in Zaragoza, the Barcelona striker
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>> Samuel Eto’o attempted to leave
the pitch in disgust after suffering
an hour of racist abuse. “No más!”,
he bellowed, turning on his heels
and making for the dressing room.
Each time he had touched the ball
the crowd had broken into monkey
chants and showers of peanuts had
been thrown onto the pitch. “This is
a struggle beyond the football field,”
he said later. “I made my decision
because fans attacked me for my
colour.”
Once again the foreign press was
unequivocal in its condemnation
of Spain. “Racist insults at Spanish
soccer games are now almost
routine,” wrote Time Magazine in
2006. The Observer of Britain went
further, arguing that the Spanish
authorities were in “Denial about its
racism”.
However, it is important to be fair
and balanced. Whilst barracking of
Lewis Hamilton at a race meeting in
Barcelona the February suggests that
the problem is more than a storm in a
tea cup, racism is not solely a Spanish
problem. A quick sketch of European
football proves this point beyond
question.
Dick Advocat of Zenit St Petersburg
recently announced his intentions
to keep his squad of players
homogenously white, “The fans do
not like black players,” he explained to
international disgust. Meanwhile the
problem of racist chanting in Holland
has reached such seismic proportions
that referees have been empowered
to call a halt to a game in an attempt
to curb the levels of abuse. In France,
racist calling is a frequent scourge
at football stadiums, despite the fact
that the many of their national team
were born in ex-French colonies,
or have close ethnic roots in those
former colonies or French Overseas
Territories.
In the worst occasion of racism of
all, the chairman of Trabzonspor
actually apologised to fans for the
colour of Kevin Campbell’s skin. “We
bought a cannibal who calls himself
a striker. He is coloured. A great
disappointment to the club.”
Then, of course, the English racist
past is as murky as most. Aragonés
himself was quick to point this out
when attacked by English journalists.
“I know who is racist. I remember the
colonies,” he pointed out.
Indeed, it would be wrong to forget
the horrific treatment despatched
to early black players in the English
football team. John Barnes suffered
horribly, because he was middle class,
Jamaican and perceived to be lazy.
For another player, Cyrille Regis,
it was even worse. When selected
to play for England, he received a
bullet through the post accompanied
by a threat: “You’ll get one of these
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Roberto Carlos
Paulo Wanchope
Fury ensued in the British press.
National newspapers queued up to
Samuel Eto’o
demand Aragonés’ dismissal. Sid Lowe,
writing in The Guardian, speculated
that, “In England Aragonés would
probably have been sacked.”
through your knees if you step on
our Wembley turf”.
Lewis Hamilton
Eventually it took four decades, the
introduction of CCTV at football
grounds, the success of a ‘Let’s kick
racism out of football campaign’
and the successful combat of right-
wing groups to rid British football
of racism. Now, in the early twenty
first century ‘racist’ is the worst
charge you can lay against a Brit.
Kevin Campbell
The black US comedian Reginald
D. Hunter lampooned this fact
recently, arguing at a stand-up show
that, “I love being in London and
accusing a person of being racist,
because they’ll follow you around
and buy you drinks for the rest of
the night to prove you wrong.”
In Spain, this same sense of ‘political
John Barnes correctness’ does not exist. This
is proven by the most common
explanation offered for outbreaks
of racist chanting. Juan Castro, a
journalist for Marca explained that,
“Monkey chanting does not have a
racial cause,” he claimed. “It is a way
of insulting the enemy team… The
(incident at) the Bernabéu was a
cultural thing. It was a joke. It wasn’t
Cyrille Regis racist.”
Similar explanations are offered for
the recent incident at Barcelona’s
Circuit de Catalunya with Lewis
Hamilton. A group of Alonso
supporters arrived dressed with
Hamilton t-shirts, black wigs and
their faces blackened. “It is just the
same as imitating a Scotsman by
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Luis Aragonés
wearing an orange wig and a kilt,”
one noted on an Internet message
board.
So, in Spain, are these incidents
as sinister as they are portrayed in
the international press, or are they
just indicative of a national sense of
humour and tendency to be direct?
Certainly you can argue that latter
point. Aragonés for one is known
for his firm opinions (demonstrated
by his recent observation that,
“If (Gennaro) Gattuso is a great
player, then I am a priest”), but he is
certainly not racist. Senna himself
hailed Aragonés “A spectacular
person,” and in reference to his
comments towards Henry he noted
that, “Maybe something escaped, a
word, and he was misinterpreted.”
Incidents at football matches also
may stem from humour, as may some
of the comments in the national
media (Marca infamously noted that,
“Since Guti has started running like a
black man, no one misses Makélélé”),
but in modern society they jar.
The significance of Marcos Senna’s
role at Euro 2008 should not be
missed. And now, as Spain takes bold
strides through the linguistic and
cultural minefield towards a balanced
level of political correctness, they
can do so with a talismanic sporting
hero for inspiration. Perhaps, the
midfielder is a lone sporting pioneer,
but it’d be better to consider him a
glimpse of Spain’s rich multicultural
future.

Girls in Madrid
a survival guide
When you’ve moved to a new city, kicked
off your heels, unpacked your suitcase and
plugged in your straighteners, there are
probably a few things you want to find out.
Although ‘Where’s the nearest bar?’ might be
fairly near the top of the list, there are some
other, slightly more fundamental, matters to
deal with, so with this in mind here’s Helen
Macrae’s basic guide to what every woman
needs to know about living in Madrid.
WORDS by Helen Macrae
1
Let’s get the serious stuff out
of the way first. To register at
a doctor’s surgery you’ll need
to take your social security number
along with your passport to your
nearest health centre to apply for
your health card (tarjeta sanitaria).
The contraceptive pill can gener-
ally be bought over the counter in
Spain, and the morning-after pill
(la píldora del día después) can be
obtained from a gynaecologist, at a
greatly reduced price if you present
your health card. Abortion is legal
here, but only covered by social se-
curity under certain circumstances,
so most terminations are carried
out in private clinics. For more
detailed information, check out
www.angloinfo.com.
2
Now for another serious
matter…shopping! Quirky
boutiques and trendy labels
can be found in Malasaña and
Chueca, whereas for designer togs
and pijos aplenty, head to C/Serrano
in Salamanca. If cheap and cheer-
Spanish men: they
ful is more your thing, the usual
come armed with suspects (Zara, Bershka, Mango,
Blanco, H&M) are dotted all over
different ideas on the city, as are stores of that great
a whole host of Spanish institution El Corte Inglés
things: chat-up lines, (great for those hard-to-find items
but also hard-to-find your way out
personal space, or a shop assistant who will help
aforementioned
you). The streets around Puerta del
Sol (Preciados/Carretas/Arenal)
hairstyles, when are the best place for cheap but
to say I love you lovely shoes. Most places are open
(after a week = scary Monday-Saturday around 10am-9-
pm (El Corte Inglés 10am-10pm)
NOT romantic), although large shopping centres
thus making the and the shops around Sol and Gran
dating game a Vía open on Sundays. The concept
of trousers in different leg lengths
veritable minefield. hasn’t caught on in Spain yet, sizes
here are on the none-too-generous
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discover madrid
side and you’ll have trouble bra-
shopping if you’re much bigger than
a D-cup – you have been warned!
3
With all those shiny new
clothes you’ll need a hairdo
to match. Hairdressers are
generally quite cheap here but
watch out for those added extras
– the price quoted in the window
is often just for the cut and you’ll
be charged more for shampoo,
conditioning cream, blow-dry etc.
Most places aren’t English-speak-
ing so brush up on your vocabu-
lary beforehand. Be aware of the
difference between peinar and
secar – the former includes styling
whereas the latter is just a quick
blast with the hairdryer before be-
ing booted out the door.
4
Waxing is an important
part of your lady MOT and
completely necessary if
you’re considering going anywhere
near the pool/beach. Luckily, Span-
ish women love to depilar, so there
are plenty of reasonably-priced
places and often you don’t need to
make an appointment, unless you’re
planning on a full body job. Most of
the major hairdressing chains offer
beauty treatments, but personal
recommendation is always best, so
ask around.
5
After all that shopping and
grooming, it’s time to treat
yourself to a cocktail or
two! But where? Try La Latina for
cool bars full of urban hipsters,
Moncloa/Argüelles for the student
hangouts, Lavapiés for a more
bohemian vibe and Salamanca/Cas-
tellana if you want to net yourself a
footballer. Party in Malasaña with
the young and funky (botellón
naughtiness comes as standard),
Huertas/Sol for Irish bars, sport
and rowdy stag dos, and Chueca for
a carnival atmosphere and hot men
(they may all be gay, but no harm in
looking!).
6 Of course when you’re out
and about, keep personal
safety in mind. Madrid is
generally not a dangerous city but
as a woman you are more vulner-
able, so use your common sense.
Don’t walk around by yourself after
dark and avoid getting the Metro
alone late at night, taxis are your
best bet. Madrid’s worst problem is
petty crime such as pick pocketing,
so don’t have valuables on show
and watch your belongings at all
times, especially on the Metro, in
restaurants/terrazas, and in more
touristy areas.
7 Unfortunately, there can
also be threats in areas of
your life where you thought
it was safe, such as at work. Apart
from the vague suspicion one
of my students was occasion-
ally putting his hands down his
trousers, I’ve never experienced
anything resembling sexual harass-
ment in the workplace, but if you
do suffer discrimination at work
you can report it. Complaints
can be lodged at Women’s Rights
Information Centres (Centros de
Información de los Derechos de la
Mujer) and a free 24-hour helpline
(900 191 010) can provide advice
on general legal matters and sexual
harassment problems.
8
¡Estás como un queso! As a
sassy girl-about-town you’re
bound to attract your fair
share of attention, so be prepared
for the odd lecherous comment
from men in the street. As per
always, workmen are the worst
offenders. Be dignified about it and
take it as a compliment, even if you
feel like turning round and ram-
ming your stiletto down his throat.
The same goes for ogling - that old
adage ‘it’s rude to stare’ doesn’t ap-
ply here so don’t be insulted…just
stare back!
9
Which leads me nicely onto
my final point: Spanish
men, those mysterious and
often puzzling beings, many of
whom still consider the mullet a
good look. As a Brit, I certainly
find them more direct than my
bloke-shaped compatriots, and
they come armed with different
ideas on a whole host of things:
chat-up lines, personal space,
aforementioned hairstyles, when to
say I love you (after a week = scary
NOT romantic), thus making the
dating game a veritable minefield.
But hey, variety is the spice of life,
so now you’re done reading this
why don’t you get out there and
meet a few for yourself?
sep 08 39
culture
Feeling good to be Spanish?
In a two-part series, Luc Ciotkowski investigates why national pride has
been accompanied for many with shame and how far recent sporting
triumphs have gone to healing the cracks.
WORDS by Luc Ciotkowski
T
he glorious triumphs of
Spain at Euro 2008, Rafa
Nadal’s victories at Roland-
Garros and Wimbledon,
Sastre’s performance on the
Tour de France and the heroics
of Spain’s olympians have most
other nationalities envious, but are
the Spaniards feeling good about
being Spanish? The separatist and
regionalist divisions that currently
exist in Spain are much Rafa Nadal
publicised. However, if
we’re going to answer the
question of whether the
Spanish feel united again,
we must ask if they ever
really felt united in the
first place. To do that, we
need to have a little look
at history.
Spain started to be modern
Spain when Isabella of Castile
and Ferdinand of Aragon unified
the crowns of their kingdoms.
Together, as the Catholic Mon-
archs, they emptied the last of
the Moors out the peninsula,
banished the Jews, set up the
Spanish Inquisition and had the
stroke of luck that Columbus
found them a new continent full
of riches. Catalonia belonged
to the Crown of Aragon, which
over time very much became the
junior partner in the union with
Castile. Castile imposed itself
more on the reconquered south
and Seville was happy to be the
only authorised trading port with
the Americas. Throughout the
Golden Era of the 16th and 17th
centuries, Barcelona saw its im-
portance decline as trade moved
from the Mediterranean to the
Atlantic while Castilian Spanish
became the preferred tongue
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of the empire over all the other
Iberian languages.
A very important thing to bear
in mind during this time, though,
was that the different regions were
actually separate kingdoms, prin-
cipalities or counties, bound to
the Spanish crown, but with quite
extensive self-governing charters
called fueros. While these regional
powers were gradually
dismantled, the Basque
Country kept its fueros
and Basques began
to see them as rights
rather than privileges.
The start of the 19th cen-
tury was a spectacularly
rubbish time for Spain
to get invaded by France, but they
did. Although the first effective
application of guerrilla warfare
helped the Spanish to unite in
ridding Spain of the Bonapartes,
Spaniards quickly realised they
were utterly divided on how a new
independent Spain should be.
A decade later, Spain’s empire was
all but wiped out and Ferdinand
VII taking back absolute power
for the monarchy was making
the country’s political landscape
look very fragile. Before his death,
Ferdinand changed Spain’s laws
of succession, which had before
made it impossible for any female
heir to ascend to the throne if
there were any living male heir, so
that his daughter, Isabella, could
become queen instead of the
crown going to his brother Carlos.
Spain’s traditionalists and staunch
Catholics sided with Carlos and
Carlism was born. The rest of the
century saw the Carlist civil wars
rip deep divisions between the
Part 1
Spanish, and the belated arrival of
the Industrial Revolution in Spain
brought with it the new political
ideologies of Socialism, Commu-
nism and Anarchism.
By the end of the century, pretty
much everyone in Spain was an
’-ist’ of some kind.
The driving forces in Spain’s
Industrial Revolution were Cata-
lonia (textile industry and trade
centre) and the Basque Country
(heavy industries: iron and coal
mining, ship building). It’s dif-
ficult to overstate the importance
of Catalan and Basque industrial
preeminence in the late 19th
century and early 20th century in
shaping today’s political climate
in those regions.
At this stage, we have to note
that a sense of nationalism
was not as keenly developed as
in other European countries;
whether in Aragon, Catalonia,
Extremadura or Andalucia,
people’s first affinity was to the
pueblo. The Catalan nationalist/
regionalist movement grew from
the burgeoning middle class of
workshop/factory owners and
merchants and was more to do
with perceived excessive control
and taxation from Madrid than
anything else. The Basque move-
ment, however, was fuelled by
cultural and racial issues more
than economic ones. What had
always been a rural region with
a deeply traditional and religious
people, was quickly becoming
an industrial centre with mass
immigration from other parts of
Spain and all the ‘ungodliness’
typical of the new industrial
towns and cities. The self-gov-
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erning powers that the Basque
Country had always enjoyed
had been revoked due to their
support of the Carlist side during
the Carlist Wars. The founder
of the Basque
Nationalist Party,
Sabino Arana,
campaigned for
support under
the slogan “God
and self-govern-
ment”. Arana was
responsible for
designing the Basque national
flag (with his brother), reviving
the long in-decline Basque lan-
guage and Neo-Darwinist rants
which wouldn’t have looked out
of place in Nazi Germany, like
this one:
“A great number of
them[non-Basque
Spaniards] seem to be
undeniable testimony of
Darwin’s theory, since
rather than men they
resemble apes, rather
less beastly than gorillas:
do not search in their
faces for the expression of
human intelligence nor
of any virtue; their eyes
only reveal idiocy and
brutishness.”
However, Arana’s ‘racial purity’
fears struck a chord with the
Basques who felt threatened by
the arrival of so many maketos
(non-Basque Spanish).
Indeed, ’ungodliness’ was grow-
ing all the time all over Spain as
the influence and power of the
Church fuelled resentment of it.
A short-lived First Republic gave
an addictive taster to liberal-
minded Spaniards before the
Bourbon monarchy was restored.
Army generals had taken to step-
ping in and seizing control of the
government whenever things
got shaky and, to avoid this,
the conservative Cánovas del
Castillo devised a system of elec-
tion rigging, designed to keep
everyone happy. Conservatives
swapped power with progres-
sives every four years, something
which destroyed parliament’s
last shred of credibility among
the people. Cánovas de Castillo
was assassinated while serving as
prime minister in 1897, his killer
was an Italian anarchist.
This turmoil would be dwarfed a
year later, though, when Spain’s
self-image would hit an all-time
low.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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learning spanish

OPENING A BANK ACCOUNT

ABRIR UNA CUENTA
EN UN BANCO
Vocabulario Expresiones útiles Diálogo
cuenta > account Dices Oyes Colin acaba de mudarse a
abrir > open Granada y quiere abrir una
dinero > money cuenta en el banco.
tarjeta de débito > debit card
tarjeta de crédito > credit card Empleado de banco: EB Colin: C
talonario de cheques > check/cheque book
libreta > bankbook Quiero/quería abrir ¿Eres tú el titular? C: Hola. Buenos días
clave > pin una cuenta EB: Hola. Buenos días. ¿En qué le puedo
pasaporte > passport ayudar?
certificado de residencia > Necesito una tarjeta Necesito tu pasaporte C: Quiero abrir una cuenta en este banco.
residence certificate de crédito EB: ¿Es usted el titular?
titular > account holder C: ¿Perdón?
ingresar > put into an account Voy a ingresar 500 ¿Tienes una dirección fija EB: ¿Es para usted?
sacar > withdrawn euros en España? C: Sí, sí. Gracias.
cajero > cashpoint/ATM EB: Muy bien. ¿Es
comisión > commission Quiero sacar 400 ¿Estás trabajando? residente de la
euros Unión Europea?
C: Sí, soy galés.
¿Cuál es mi clave de ¿Con cuánto dinero EB: Necesito su
acceso a Internet? quieres abrir la cuenta? pasaporte, por favor. ¿Tienes
permiso de residencia?
C: Sí, aquí tengo el papel.
Información útil EB: Muy bien. ¿Con cuánto dinero quiere
abrir la cuenta?
“Bancos” and “cajas de ahorros” are open C: Con 500 euros por
favor. Necesito
Monday through to Friday from 8.30 am
también una tarjeta
to 2 pm. “Cajas de ahorros” are also open de crédito.
on Thursday afternoon until 6 from EB: No hay problema.
October to May. La recibirá en su
Spanish “bancos” are the equivalent to casa en 15 días.
banks while “cajas de ahorros” are more Aquí tiene el contrato. Puede leerlo
similar to a building society in the UK. y firmarlo.
C: Gracias. Ah, pero está todo en español. ¿Lo
tienen en inglés?
There are three main networks of ATMs
EB: No, lo siento.
in Spain: 4B, Servired and Red 6000. C: Entonces voy a tener que dedicarle un poco
Always try to use an ATM from your de tiempo para comprenderlo.

>>
network, otherwise you will be charged EB: No hay problema. ¡No cerramos
a rather steep commission. hasta las 2!
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Intermediate Section
Hola a todos
Aquí estamos un mes más para dar respuesta
a vuestros problemas y dificultades en
España. Esperamos muchas cartas más.
EL CONSULTORIO
DE LINGOSTAR
Hola Susana
Por fin he decidido sacarme
el carné de conducir. El único
problema es que creo que será
muy difícil estudiar todo en
español. ¿Sabes si es posible
hacer la parte teórica en inglés?
Gracias
Leo
Hola Leo
Gracias por tu mensaje. Según
me han comentado sí es posible
hacer el examen en inglés en
Madrid. No conozco ningún
centro en concreto así que te
sugiero que preguntes en tu
autoescuela más cercana.
Seguro que ellos sabrán
asesorarte.
Y ¡buena suerte!
Susana
Querida Susana
He tenido, sin duda, el
mejor verano de mi vida; lo
he pasado trabajando de
camarera en Valencia donde
he conocido a un chico genial.
Es español y vive allí. Me ha
pedido que me vaya a vivir allí
pues quiere seguir viéndome.
¿Tú qué harías?
Un abrazo
Megan
Hola Megan
Me ha encantado tu carta. No
se trata tanto de lo que yo haría,
sino de lo que te diga tu corazón.
Si te sirve de consejo yo una vez
tuve que tomar una decisión
similar pero en mi caso yo era
quién recibía a esa persona
especial en mi país y puedo
decirte que todavía hoy sigo
siendo muy feliz. Dejate llevar por
tus impulsos y recuerda que ¡no
solo se viven pasiones en verano!
Susana
Hola Lingostar
Llevo ya un tiempo estudiando
español y tengo “mucha”
42 sep 08
problema con el masculino y el
femenino pues no existen en
mi lengua. Si las palabras que
acaban en “o” son masculinas,
¿por qué decimos la “foto” y la
“moto? Gracias por tu ayuda
Peter
Querido Peter
En primer lugar, recuerda que
no hay reglas absolutas sobre le
género en español. Las palabras
que acaban en “o” tienden a ser
masculinas pero hay muchos
ejemplos de femeninas. Sobre
tus dos dudas, estas palabras
se usan en español de forma
abreviada pero son en realidad
“la fotografía” y “la motocicleta”.
¿Entiendes ahora mejor por qué
son femeninas?
Sobre “la problema”, recuerda que
todas las palabras que acaban
en –ema son masculinas.
Algunos ejemplos son tema,
teorema, sistema o problema.
Espero haberte ayudado
Saludos
Susana
Hola Lingostar
Estoy harta de mi novio. Es
español y siempre que le pido
ayuda para mejorar me dice
que él no sabe y que es mejor
si se lo pregunto a mi profesor.
¿No crees que debería
ayudarme un poco más?
Petra
Hola Petra
Claro que creo que tu novio
debería ayudarte un poco más
pero tu situación es bastante
común entre las parejas mixtas.
Si no puedes hacerlo con tu
novio, pregunta a tus amigos
las dudas que tengas o intenta
practicar con ellos todo lo que
puedas.
Un beso
Susana
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learning spanish
Advanced Section
La vuelta al
cole
D e esta manera da comienzo año tras año
la campaña comercial de unos conocidos
almacenes españoles. Y es que en Septiembre
todo vuelve: las clases, el curro, la dieta, y lo más
doloroso, las deudas.
Respecto a esto último hay algo que todavía me deja
sin palabras respecto a mis compatriotas: no importa
lo endeudados que estén porque para ellos el verano
es sagrado. Es esa época del año en la que puedes
permitírtelo todo aunque no tengas dinero en efectivo
para abonarlo: desde el “pescaito” en el chiringuito hasta
el cóctel a pie de piscina tropical. Algunos llegan incluso
a pedir un préstamo al banco para no quedarse sin su
escapadita a la playa.
Por suerte las cosas van cambiando puesto que nos
vamos haciendo más “europeos” y cada vez más gente
disfruta de las vacaciones en diferentes momentos
del año. No como antes, hace años cuando el que se
quedaba en casa en Agosto era calificado de ser un “don
nadie”. Recuerdo con pena a una familia del vecindario
que para evitar la humillación de reconocer que no
tenían presupuesto para irse a la playa, se encerraron
en casa con las persianas bajadas ¡durante quince días!
Cuando “a la vuelta” la gente comentaba los blancos
que estaban ellos se disculpaban diciendo que “les había
llovido todo el tiempo”. ¡Patético!
Volviendo al mes que nos ocupa, Septiembre siempre
me ha gustado; simboliza para mí la vuelta a lo
cotidiano, a lo de siempre. Para muchos, sin embargo,
este es el “mes del bajón” ya que al abrir la maleta ya de
vuelta a casa se acuerdan de lo poco que les gusta su
trabajo. No es este el mejor momento para renunciar a
el puesto porque les toca pagar el crédito que pidieron
para disfrutar del crucero por las islas griegas bajo el
régimen de “todo incluido”.
¡Bienvenidos a todos!
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Si acabas de regresar de tus ayudará a sobrellevar la
vacaciones y la vuelta a la vuelta a la rutina.
rutina se te está haciendo Aprovecha las terrazas que
cuesta arriba, sigue leyendo echarán el cierre a finales
y descubrirás que “no todo de mes.
lo bueno acaba el 31 de Ponte en forma. Líbrate de
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for some time? I will also be making a
trip to Madrid sometime in the next
few months to get an apartment, etc.
It will be nice to connect with local
people. todcast@gmail.com Skypename :
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>Clubs
Australian Alumni Association of
Spain Meet, network and socialise with
people who have studied or lived in
Australia and are now in Spain. Email
australianalumnispain@gmail.com to
receive updates on upcoming events.
English Reading Circle at the
International Institute Library. Monthly
meetings to discuss English literature in
English. For more information visit
www.iie.es or write to biblioteca@iie.es.
Public Speaking and Networking
Group. International group that meets
to improve public speaking skills.
2nd & 4th Thursday each month at
2030 Bar Locandita (C/Fuencarral 148)
Contact:standingovationmadrid@yahoo.

com or Chris 695 513 466.
Democrats Abroad Madrid
Info: es.democratsabroad.org
Brand new Aerobics in English
club. Great routines, completely in English
and banging music to boot! Phone Cheryl
on 677244074 or email frenchfancy@
gmail.com for times and location.
Australian Alumni Association
of Spain Meet, network and socialise
with people who have studied or lived
in Australia and are now in Spain. Email
australianalumnispain@gmail.com to
receive updates on upcoming events.
Writers’ group Writers with work
in progress and a view to publication
welcome. Call Charlie on 91 816 2419, or
e-mail madridwriters@patchword.com
The Australian Club in Madrid
meets 9pm first Friday of each month at
the Irish Rover, Avda. De Brasil, 7. Metro
Santiago Bernabeu. For more info call Jeff
on 669 458 341, or visit website:
www.australiaspain.com/gudonya, or
email: gudonya@australiaspain.com
Madrid Players, English-language
theatrical group. We put on plays, small
productions, do in-house readings,
improvisations, etc. We meet every
Thursday. For info call 91 521 16 98 or
91 564 57 01.
We’re an international group
(people from 20 to 35). Guided visits, walks
in Madrid, learning history of Madrid and
making new friends. Sat mornings every 2
weeks. Free. E-mail: Bbbb7@mixmail.com
>Sports Clubs
¡YNWA! MADrid REDS, the Official
Branch of Liverpool FC supporters in
Madrid meets for all televised games at
the Triskel Tavern, calle San Vicente Ferrer,
3; Metro: Tribunal. www.MADridREDS.com ;
info@MADridREDS.com
services
Voleyball We are looking for voleyball together for rides in madrid and out into is a great mixture of hockey and tennis!
players, different ages (m/f ). Send a email the sierra contact me on 914638865 Practices for both men and women. All
to: jl_ag@hotmail.com Hockey! Come along and join us ages welcome. www.madridlacrosse. com
Thai boxing club in Madrid at Somontes sports centre (on the Snooker: Right on Cue and in the
welcomes new members of all sexes & Madrid-El Pardo road) on Saturdays for Frame. Fancy a break and a Snooker
levels to learn this amazing sport, get fit, mixed non-league field/grass hockey experience second to none?
lean & hard. Visit www.muaythaimadrid. on water-based astroturf pitch. Email: Cue Mark on 618 784 550 or email
com email info@muaythaimadrid.com or los_naranjas@yahoo.com.au for more info. break4snooker@yahoo.es
call David on 662164877. Madrid Lions Rugby Club needs
futbolmadrid Los Galácticos –
Friendly international 5-a-side football in
you! All nationalities and player levels
welcome. More information from Charlie >Miscellaneous
Madrid every Wednesday and Saturday. on 636 067 716 and website www.
All abilities and nationalities welcome. To madridlionsrfc.com Pancarta.es is Spain’s leading
play, all you have to do is find out what Youth Baseball. Close to Alcala de print service for international clients.
time, where and sign up on our web Henares. We need coaches, players and Everything from exhibitions to business
board: http://futbolmadrid.proboards49.com anyone able to help us develop a youth cards. All in English! www.pancarta.es 622
Hockey! Come along and join us at league in this area. Tel Jose on: 91 879 142 385 - 931 924 153
the weekends for mixed non-league 3068 (eves) English Speaking Handyman Juan
field/grass hockey on water-based Madrid Club de Lacrosse. 670797638
astroturf. We play at the Federación Interested in playing lacrosse? E-mail: Proinc Construction 918464363
Madrileña de Hockey (opposite the contacto@madridlacrosse.com. Lacrosse Proinc.constucciones@gmail.com
Somontes sports club on the Madrid-El
Pardo road) Email: los_naranjas@yahoo.
com.au for more info.
Cricket in Madrid Madrid Cricket
Club is looking for players of all levels and
nationalities. Play in the Spanish league!
Contact David (670087637) or Manny
(627557572)
Madrid Hash House Harriers still
running (and walking) after 21 years!
Fresh air, exercise, a chat & a beer are our
ingredients to liven up a boring Sunday:
www.madridhhh.com
The Dodge. Dodgeball Practice
in Madrid. www.dodgeballmadrid.
bravehost.com
Basketball Madrid. Meet new
people, get fit and enjoy yourself.
People wanted to practice basketball
>>
once a week. Active social calander.
Contact Rob at 697 345 613 or visit www.
basketballpractice.myfree.org.
Mountain Bike Club. Riders wanted
to set up mountain bike club in Madrid. more services
Male, female riders interested in getting
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>Beauty, health and Fitness American Dentist

Aerobics club Cheryl 677244074
info@7starfitness.com
Personal Trainer www.davidhughes.es
Tel: 662164877.
Hair and Make up artist Shimanda
914457149/699362500 Shimanda11@
hotmail.co.uk
US Psychotherapist David Hugener
915942208
Mobile Hairdresser Sally
918425443
Yoga holidays in Granada
www.kalmayoga.com
Looking for models I am looking
for girls (under 35) willing to pose for
me while I am studying a photography
course and developing my fashion
photography. This could be either in a
studio or outdoors. If you are someone
experimental and openminded about
fashion, and makeup etc, then please
get in contact with a photo attached.
>Accommodation (Caroline) carolinescott3@yahoo.co.uk
Dr. Ivan Cabrera Santamaria
OFFERS FIRST QUALITY DENTAL CARE
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LENS-THIN VENEERS.
orthodontist FOR CHILDREN
AND ADULTS.
Board Certified by the State of Florida (USA)
Licence no: DN0013865
Member of “Colegio de Odontólogos” Spain
Member of the American Dental Association
Tel: 914 458 916
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Metro San Bernardo

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A perfect flat for your holidays
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garage included. 500€ deposit required.
Tel: (Yolanda) 627 834 694.
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>Support Groups Madrid tourism Centre: Plaza

Counselling Madrid.
At Counselling Madrid we provide
confidential counselling services to
the international community. We
help clients dealing with anxiety,
depression, low self-esteem, GAD and
OCD. For more info please visit www.
counsellingmadrid.org or send your
email to joseph@counsellingmadrid.org
Tel 648 087 809
Therapy Group Peter 936759276 or
Claudia 934177860
Alcoholics Anonymous Sam
932211810 – Jim 932845616
> Useful Telephone
Numbers
National information 11818 /
11850 / 11828
International information 11825
Mayor, 27 (bajo), 91 588 16 36 turismo@
munimadrid.es Metro: Sol.
Lost and Found: Paseo del Molino, 7
91 527 95 90 Metro: Legazpi
Cancellation of credit cards
90 0 971231 (free call)
Emergencies: 112
National police: 091
Municipal police: 092
Complaints by phone: 90 210 2112 /
91 548 8537 (Tourist and foreigner
customer service dept)
Teletaxi: 91 371 2131 / 91 371 3711
Barajas airport (T1, T2 & T3): 91
305 8343 T4: 90 240 4704 www.aena.es
Railway: 902 24 02 02 www.renfe.es
24-HOUR PHARMACIES C/Conde
de Peñalver, 27. Tel: 91 402 43 04 Metro:
Goya-Lista. C/Ferraz, 13 Tel: 91 547 05 72.
Metro: Ventura Rodríguez. C/ Goya, 89 Tel:
91 435 49 58. Metro: Goya. C/ Mayor, 59
Tel: 91 559 23 95. Metro: Sol. C/ Atocha, 46
Tel: 91 369 20 00. Metro: Atocha.

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