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The Pop-Up Parking Lot Attendant

I’ve been hearing a lot of the pop-up shop idea in the last few years, but when I moved to Spain in early 2002 I ran into perhaps a predecessor to this concept: The pop-up parking lot attendant (pupla). Now, I don’t know if this is a European thing or a southern European thing or [...]

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Adjusting to the Spanish Timetable

I landed at El-Altet1 at about 11:00pm. Actually, I landed in Europe and here that is 23:00. This wasn’t the first adjustment that I had to make upon arriving in Spain; the first adjustment was dealing with 17 Celsius at 23:00 on the 4th of February. People in the plane – mostly British folks coming [...]

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