Notes

The La Panadella pass, 710 meters up in the Barcelona municipality of Montmaneu, belongs to that select group of places that have somehow held onto a strategic role for centuries. Back in the 8th century it saw clashes between Christians...

We had set our sights on an abandoned country house. As we got there, though, we met some tenants who kept a small vegetable garden and a junkyard with several old cars that the landowner had bought to strip or restore. The tenants were...

“Ain’t no castle strong enough to save us from death” . One day, all of a sudden, the distinguished residents of this castle locked it up, left and never came back. Since then it has remained unconnected to everything happening...

One of the most bewildering episodes of my childhood took place the day our summer camp sent us on a trip to a pseudo-bullfighting show at a tourist venue (yes, these things were considered normal in 1980s Spain). Over the following two...