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Not a good start to the year in Spain

Posted on Monday, 2 January, 2012 by John

I’ve just finished talking to a friend in Spain and the whole conversation was taken up with the economy and the new government. After we finished I noticed that El Blog Salmon had an article today on exactly that problem; and you can read the article here. You would have thought that the PP had [...]

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Phrases of the Day

Posted on Friday, 8 January, 2010 by John

Had great fun over the last three days finding out good alternative translations for the following phrases:
Sin ir más lejos = to take an obvious example
sin ir más = por ejemplo
siempre y cuando = as long as, provided (that), providing (that)
trapichear = to trick, to be on the fiddle (especially useful for MPs)
Many thanks to [...]