<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494</id><updated>2012-01-31T18:31:40.116Z</updated><category term='Viatges'/><category term='Català'/><category term='London'/><category term='General'/><category term='Aviation'/><category term='Actualitat'/><category term='English'/><category term='Books'/><title type='text'>London calling!</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>76</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3442215186752716279</id><published>2010-11-04T17:48:00.004Z</published><updated>2010-11-04T17:59:30.058Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Allplane: my new aviation blog</title><content type='html'>As if I had not enough work with starting up &lt;a href="http://gourmetorigins.com"&gt;GourmetOrigins.com&lt;/a&gt; I have decided to take advantage of the great opportunity that the net offers to anyone wishing to pursue its passions and since this week I am going to write regularly about aviation, airlines and air travel at &lt;a href="http://allplane.blogspot.com"&gt;Allplane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reality I have had this blog for quite some time already, but I had left it quite unattended and with a very basic layout. A few days ago I unveiled a major redesign, that includes a whole set of new features and much better integration with the social networks I use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, you can also follow allplane on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150316970100437&amp;id=626275436&amp;ref=notif&amp;notif_t=feed_comment#!/pages/Allplane/114761081921882"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/allplane"&gt;, Twitter&lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/55486501@N03/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3442215186752716279?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3442215186752716279/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3442215186752716279' title='6 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3442215186752716279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3442215186752716279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2010/11/allplane-my-new-aviation-blog.html' title='Allplane: my new aviation blog'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-5772518188122776375</id><published>2010-04-05T13:25:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-05T13:39:31.928+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>Emprenedors i Valors</title><content type='html'>Com a emprenedor, m'agrada descobrir nous projectes interessants, especialment quan son de gran qualitat i els tenim a tocar de casa. Aquest es el cas de Valors.org, un magnific projecte editorial que en &lt;a href="http://www.joansalicru.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joan Salicrú&lt;/a&gt; lidera des de Mataró. Val la pena, no us ho perdeu!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.valors.org"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.valors.org"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 109px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/S7nZt764szI/AAAAAAAAMPI/Vd4AAG2QYog/s320/Valors.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456631806738084658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-5772518188122776375?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/5772518188122776375/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=5772518188122776375' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5772518188122776375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5772518188122776375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2010/04/emprenedors-i-valors.html' title='Emprenedors i Valors'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/S7nZt764szI/AAAAAAAAMPI/Vd4AAG2QYog/s72-c/Valors.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2062743036896543629</id><published>2010-03-19T10:11:00.004Z</published><updated>2010-03-19T10:17:41.882Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>My new internet project: GourmetOrigins.com</title><content type='html'>This is it! After several years working in a large company I have decided to start on my own, and here is the result:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gourmetorigins.com"&gt;http://gourmetorigins.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well...the site is still under development, but you can get an idea of how it will work. GourmetOrigins.com is going to be an easy and direct way to find everything you wanted to know about the origins of your favourite foods: where are they made, how, by whom? The map-bsed interface also makes it possible to explore and discover thousands od fine quality foods that are difficult to find and, consequently, little known outside their areas of production. So, do not wait anymore! come visit GourmetOrigins.com and explore a world of lavours!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to leave any comments or suggestions&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2062743036896543629?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2062743036896543629/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2062743036896543629' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2062743036896543629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2062743036896543629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-new-internet-project.html' title='My new internet project: GourmetOrigins.com'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2537158077107903999</id><published>2009-08-05T00:28:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-05T00:43:36.753+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>The end of an era</title><content type='html'>This Sunday I passed by the Border's bookstore in Oxford Street, London, and could witness what looked like the perfect illustration of the end of an era...well maybe I am exaggerating a bit... but that was what I felt when I saw the "Liquidation, Store Closure" and "All 50% off, selected items 1 pound" signs...the picture in the interior was a bit disheartening: a big mess...piles of books with no order, clients scavenging for bargains, hardly any interesting book left. I love bookstores, but it's been more than a year since I bought anything in them, I would found it hard to believe it a few years ago but Amazon has managed to take me away from brick-and-mortar bookstores and my guess is, given the fantastic job Amazon is doing, more an more people will be following the same path. Expect more bookstore closures...and be there early to get the best bargains!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2537158077107903999?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2537158077107903999/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2537158077107903999' title='8 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2537158077107903999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2537158077107903999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-of-era.html' title='The end of an era'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-5872475599124558145</id><published>2009-04-14T20:26:00.016+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T21:34:53.668+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Visualizing European unity: Gorizia/Nova Gorica</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SeTv7i0i6lI/AAAAAAAALP4/n6LFiVDbOGg/s1600-h/Image071.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SeTv7i0i6lI/AAAAAAAALP4/n6LFiVDbOGg/s320/Image071.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324644465697286738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone knows about the Berlin wall, but for decades there was another divided city in Europe, and by divided I mean, literally, traversed by a wall. After WWII ended, Italy had to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Peace_with_Italy,_1947"&gt;surrender some territories&lt;/a&gt; of what now are Slovenia and Croatia to the newly created Yugoslavia. Italy managed to retain most of the city of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorizia"&gt;Gorizia&lt;/a&gt;, but the train station and its surrounding area went to Yugoslavia, that started to develop a new city, Nova Gorica, that mirrored the Italian one across the border. Although Yugoslavia was officially a non-aligned country, the wall that separated both cities was a physical barrier between the communist East and the Western world. The wall run next to people's houses and through gardens and the magnificent entrance of the station, in Yugoslavia, was facing anything but the wall, giving the situation a surreal touch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately, this is now over. Slovenia joined the EU in 2004, with Italian and Slovenian prime ministers meeting in the center of the station square to celebrate the event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I visited the station, there was no activity whatsoever and by looking at the wooden interiors, it seemed that the time had stopped in 1947. It is now possible to walk but not drive across the square, as a marking stone, some flowers and a low-lying fence still act as barriers and demarcate the line. A monument in the center of the square, just where the border lies, commemorates the end of the division .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this &lt;a href="http://fronterasblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/ciudades-divididas-nova-goricagorizia/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;(in Spanish)there are some interesting pictures.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-5872475599124558145?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/5872475599124558145/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=5872475599124558145' title='31 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5872475599124558145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5872475599124558145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2009/04/visualitzant-la-europa-unida.html' title='Visualizing European unity: Gorizia/Nova Gorica'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SeTv7i0i6lI/AAAAAAAALP4/n6LFiVDbOGg/s72-c/Image071.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>31</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2589146277057521459</id><published>2009-03-09T23:39:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-03-09T23:43:24.661Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>The Pyrenees from Tuixent (Alt Urgell), Catalonia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SbWo4SbNk4I/AAAAAAAAKzA/sitZnFi1XRU/s1600-h/Image022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SbWo4SbNk4I/AAAAAAAAKzA/sitZnFi1XRU/s320/Image022.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311337020525482882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2589146277057521459?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2589146277057521459/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2589146277057521459' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2589146277057521459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2589146277057521459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2009/03/pyrenees-from-tuixent-catalonia.html' title='The Pyrenees from Tuixent (Alt Urgell), Catalonia'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SbWo4SbNk4I/AAAAAAAAKzA/sitZnFi1XRU/s72-c/Image022.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3617153660372933214</id><published>2009-02-16T22:54:00.012Z</published><updated>2009-02-17T00:54:27.886Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>My Blog picks: WWII panorama</title><content type='html'>Today I am presenting a site that I just found that is developing a very interesting project: to document with pictures a large number of scenarios related to WWII. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the &lt;a href="http://ww2panorama.org/about"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A useful resource for those, like me, that like to read extensively about this epic conflict. No other war in history has been fought in such diversity of places. We can now also see in one click how these locations currently look like.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3617153660372933214?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3617153660372933214/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3617153660372933214' title='2 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3617153660372933214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3617153660372933214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-blog-picks-wwii-panorama.html' title='My Blog picks: WWII panorama'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-7912299581205172532</id><published>2009-02-12T00:57:00.005Z</published><updated>2009-02-12T01:06:42.740Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>My blog picks: Fronterasblog.wordpress.com</title><content type='html'>Aquest és un &lt;a href="http://fronterasblog.wordpress.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; que per als que, com a mi, els fascinen les curiositats geogràfiques, està ple d'informació interessantísima. No parla exclusivament de fronteres, però si que una part substancial dels posts (els millors, segons la meva opinió) tracten d'aquelles fronteres que tenen característiques que les fan especials, com per exemple els &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclavament"&gt;enclaus&lt;/a&gt;, alguns exemples, com &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ll%C3%ADvia"&gt;Llívia&lt;/a&gt;, són prou coneguts per al públic català, però a Europa i al món hi ha molts altres casos, alguns, com el de l'arxipèlag o constel·lació (no se m'acut altra forma d'anomenar-lo) d'enclaus de &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau"&gt;Baarle (Bèlgica/Holanda)&lt;/a&gt; de proporcions surrealistes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-7912299581205172532?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/7912299581205172532/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=7912299581205172532' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7912299581205172532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7912299581205172532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-blog-picks-fronterasblogwordpresscom.html' title='My blog picks: Fronterasblog.wordpress.com'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-6581061943719342692</id><published>2009-02-10T23:33:00.007Z</published><updated>2009-02-11T00:07:34.344Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><title type='text'>El català i el romanx, llengües germanes</title><content type='html'>Aquesta setmana passada he tingut la oportunitat de visitar la zona on es troben les fronteres d'Itàlia, Àustria i Suïssa, la &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Venosta"&gt;Val Venosta&lt;/a&gt; en italià o Vinschgau, que és el seu nom alemany. La gran majoria dels seus habitants parla l'alemany, tot i que l'italià també és oficial, ja que aquest territori &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_I#Italy"&gt;va a passar a formar part d'Itàlia al final de la Primera Guerra Mundial&lt;/a&gt;, el que em va cridar l'atenció, però, és que tot sintonitzant la ràdio del cotxe vaig poder sentir un tercer idioma, que no era ni alemany ni italià i que sonava com si fos català. Es tractava d'una emissora &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanx"&gt;romanx&lt;/a&gt;, ja que la Val Venosta/Vinschgau es troba al costat mateix de l'extrem més oriental de Suïssa, el &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisons"&gt;cantó dels Grisons&lt;/a&gt;, on una part de la població té el romanx com a llengua nativa. Tot i haver viscut durant un temps a Suïssa, era la primera vegada que escoltava parlar romanx, i això s'explica, perque, tot i ser una de les llengües oficials de la Confederació Helvètica, només la parlen un 0,5% dels seus habitants (de 35.000 a 50.000 persones aproximadament) i aquests es concentren en un dels racons més remots i muntanyosos dels país. De fet, com explica la wikipedia, els parlants de romanx, a més de ser pocs, no ocupen un territori compacte dins del propi cantó dels Grisons i estan distribuits en una espècie d'"illes" o enclaus lingüistics en contacte amb territoris italianòfons o germanòfons. Per al catalanoparlant que entra en contacte amb el romanx, la primera reacció podria ser de certa sorpresa, ja que paraules i frases senceres semblen pròpiament catalanes, encara que amb un accent especial, per a la oïda d'un catalanoparlant sona una mica com català parlat per alguna persona de llengua nativa germànica. Tot i que demogràficament no són dues situacions comparables, no deixa de sorprendre com català i romanx semblen haver evolucionat paral·lelament des del llatí, una al peu dels Pirineus, l'altra dels Alps.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-6581061943719342692?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/6581061943719342692/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=6581061943719342692' title='3 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6581061943719342692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6581061943719342692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2009/02/el-catala-i-el-romanx-llengues-germanes.html' title='El català i el romanx, llengües germanes'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-8105043379784886508</id><published>2009-02-08T18:25:00.013Z</published><updated>2009-02-08T20:28:01.591Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><title type='text'>Itàlia: escenes variades</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SY8-nd35zCI/AAAAAAAAKuw/Rhglr-Xl_v0/s1600-h/P2074586.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SY8lI3Fg7eI/AAAAAAAAKto/pOzNl4w505g/s320/P2014080.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300496120594623970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SY8koEw5cOI/AAAAAAAAKtg/qdX25nIVjWQ/s1600-h/P2034138.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SY8koEw5cOI/AAAAAAAAKtg/qdX25nIVjWQ/s320/P2034138.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300495557330563298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imatges: Venezia, Verona, Trento, Süd-Tyrol/Alto Adige, Dolomiti&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-8105043379784886508?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/8105043379784886508/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=8105043379784886508' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8105043379784886508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8105043379784886508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2009/02/italy.html' title='Itàlia: escenes variades'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SY8-nd35zCI/AAAAAAAAKuw/Rhglr-Xl_v0/s72-c/P2074586.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-60070425891038543</id><published>2009-01-21T23:52:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-01-21T23:59:01.266Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Planespotting at Heathrow's T5</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SXe2vspSegI/AAAAAAAAJ-s/54sqebMbOZw/s1600-h/Image006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SXe2vspSegI/AAAAAAAAJ-s/54sqebMbOZw/s320/Image006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293900817551751682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SXe2lU0iIGI/AAAAAAAAJ-k/63J7WnerhT0/s1600-h/Image005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SXe2lU0iIGI/AAAAAAAAJ-k/63J7WnerhT0/s320/Image005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293900639357771874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This last holidays I found myself for the very first time at Heathrow's new Terminal 5. The views were very good, as the new modern buildings provide a considerably better view than any than any the old terminals, however, the terminal is totally monopolized by BA, so there was no much variety in the type of planes to be spotted. I have to admit, that the venerable 747 remains a very impressive aircraft though!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-60070425891038543?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/60070425891038543/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=60070425891038543' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/60070425891038543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/60070425891038543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2009/01/planespotting-at-heathrows-t5.html' title='Planespotting at Heathrow&apos;s T5'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SXe2vspSegI/AAAAAAAAJ-s/54sqebMbOZw/s72-c/Image006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2120139634800400664</id><published>2009-01-09T23:59:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-01-10T00:09:47.623Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>My blog picks: Abulafia</title><content type='html'>I want to congratulate the excellent and highly recommended science blog &lt;a href="http://www.blogabulafia.blogspot.com/"&gt;"Abulafia" &lt;/a&gt;for having reached it's 10,000th visitor just before moving into the New Year! Well done and I wish you many more visits in 2009!...and by the way, Dodger, thanks for the &lt;a href="http://blogabulafia.blogspot.com/2008/12/com-em-molo-quan-em-perfumo.html"&gt;mention&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2120139634800400664?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2120139634800400664/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2120139634800400664' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2120139634800400664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2120139634800400664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-blog-picks-abulafia.html' title='My blog picks: Abulafia'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-4044403976985319327</id><published>2008-12-17T22:46:00.013Z</published><updated>2008-12-17T23:19:16.128Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>Tardes de museu</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SUmFy_s7hDI/AAAAAAAAJIY/66GRSmc1Qs8/s1600-h/Image006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SUmFy_s7hDI/AAAAAAAAJIY/66GRSmc1Qs8/s320/Image006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280899149208454194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Els dos últims caps de setmana he visitat dos magnífics museus de Londres dedicats a un esdeveniment que va marcar profundament Europa i on el Regne Unit hi va participar de forma destacada. No són tan coneguts com la National Gallery o el Museu Britànic, però per al que ens interessa la història de les dues guerres mundials, l'&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum"&gt;&lt;a href="http://london.iwm.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.00b&amp;PHPSESSID=3c6d86f4801f858509725d8c4ab71756"&gt;Imperial War Museum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a tocar del Big Ben, i el &lt;a href="http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/index.cfm"&gt;museu de la Royal Air Force a Hendon &lt;/a&gt;(al Nord de Londres) són llocs de visita obligada. Les col·leccions són impressionants, el &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17"&gt;B-17&lt;/a&gt; americà de la fotografia (us sonarà si heu vist la pel·lícula "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Belle_(film)"&gt;Memphis Belle&lt;/a&gt;") és només un entre desenes d'avions, vehicles i artefactes originals que s'hi poden trobar, a més aquests museus estan totalment "tematitzats" per a fer més interactiva la visita, per exemple a l'IWM es pot visitar la recreació d'una trinxera de la primera guerra o experimentar la sensació de patir el "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz"&gt;Blitz&lt;/a&gt;" nocturn en un refugi de la segona. Al museu de la RAF projecten una pel·lícula sobre la &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_d%27Anglaterra"&gt;Batalla d'Anglaterra&lt;/a&gt; en un hangar ocupat pels avions que la van protagonitzar, perfectament alineats, cara a cara, amb efectes de llum i so que acompanyen la narració...història del segle XX en estat pur!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-4044403976985319327?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/4044403976985319327/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=4044403976985319327' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/4044403976985319327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/4044403976985319327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/12/tardes-de-museu.html' title='Tardes de museu'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SUmFy_s7hDI/AAAAAAAAJIY/66GRSmc1Qs8/s72-c/Image006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-321068725589617761</id><published>2008-12-17T22:38:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-12-17T22:42:32.086Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>I així anem...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.lavanguardia.es/economia/noticias/20081216/53600420880/aeropuertos-sin-reforma.html"&gt;Article interessant &lt;/a&gt;sobre perquè la gestió aeroportuaria a Espanya és una de les més centralistes dels món (i sembla que n'hi ha per estona...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-321068725589617761?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/321068725589617761/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=321068725589617761' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/321068725589617761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/321068725589617761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/12/i-aix-anem.html' title='I així anem...'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-6909082555594526546</id><published>2008-10-28T22:22:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-10-28T22:49:38.316Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>Crazy weather!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SQeT00YaN-I/AAAAAAAAI5g/EH-eMCpZZPM/s1600-h/PA293824.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SQeT00YaN-I/AAAAAAAAI5g/EH-eMCpZZPM/s320/PA293824.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262337225229219810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is London tonight...and we are still in October!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-6909082555594526546?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/6909082555594526546/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=6909082555594526546' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6909082555594526546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6909082555594526546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/10/crazy-weather.html' title='Crazy weather!'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SQeT00YaN-I/AAAAAAAAI5g/EH-eMCpZZPM/s72-c/PA293824.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-1823252940944582287</id><published>2008-09-27T21:56:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-27T22:30:08.003+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>"Trackejant" bitllets</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SN6lcPVzcbI/AAAAAAAAIpA/AVt0KOEqfaE/s1600-h/Euro_banknotes.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SN6lcPVzcbI/AAAAAAAAIpA/AVt0KOEqfaE/s320/Euro_banknotes.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250816120133480882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Us heu preguntat mai a quins llocs ha estat el bitllet de 10 euros que porteu a la butxaca? o a on anirà a parar el que heu fet servir vosaltres per pagar el dinar?...doncs aquest vespre estava surfejant internet, sense saber exactament que buscava, i he trobat la resposta a aquestes preguntes. Hi ha aficionats al tema que es dediquen a introduir els números de sèrie dels bitllets que cauen a les seves mans en un pàgina web on es pot anar seguint el recorregut del bitllet pel món. Suposo que per als aficionats europeus la introducció de la moneda única ha augmentat notablement l'interès d'aquest joc. La pàgina per seguir els bitllets d'euro és  &lt;a href="http://ca.eurobilltracker.com/"&gt;EuroBillTracker&lt;/a&gt;. Com a curiositat sembla que Finlàndia és, de llarg, el país on relativament hi ha més "traquejadors". A les latituds mediterrànies sembla que no està tan estès, però despés de fer un cop d'ull a la web, tot apunta que a Barcelona hi ha un nucli petit, però actiu, seguint la tradició molt catalana de ser uns "early adopters" de tot tipus d'entreteniments (de fet la pàgina té una versio en català). En tot cas, sembla que els pioners van ser els de la pàgina "&lt;a href="http://www.wheresgeorge.com/"&gt;Where's George?&lt;/a&gt;" que com podeu deduir pel nom, es dedica a fer un seguiment dels bitllets de dòlar. Les observacions d'aquesta web s'han arribat a fer servir per a estudis sobre la difusió de possible epidèmies, com explica aquest article de la &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_George%3F"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. També hi ha pàgines per a altres divises com la lliura esterlina, el franc suís o la rupia índia, en &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_tracking"&gt;aquest enllaç&lt;/a&gt; en trobareu unes quantes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-1823252940944582287?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/1823252940944582287/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=1823252940944582287' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1823252940944582287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1823252940944582287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/09/trackejant-bitllets.html' title='&quot;Trackejant&quot; bitllets'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SN6lcPVzcbI/AAAAAAAAIpA/AVt0KOEqfaE/s72-c/Euro_banknotes.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-1727671988288349650</id><published>2008-09-22T20:20:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T21:08:06.611+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>The Isle of Wight</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNf7C0JZsAI/AAAAAAAAIog/ApQ9MxPuhTk/s1600-h/P9213585.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNf7C0JZsAI/AAAAAAAAIog/ApQ9MxPuhTk/s320/P9213585.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248939916499988482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNf0Eyk5EcI/AAAAAAAAIoY/CenVP8BQ6ng/s1600-h/P9213615.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNf0Eyk5EcI/AAAAAAAAIoY/CenVP8BQ6ng/s320/P9213615.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248932253856764354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfzzYERxyI/AAAAAAAAIoQ/Qh0ZJg0iy6g/s1600-h/P9213614.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfzzYERxyI/AAAAAAAAIoQ/Qh0ZJg0iy6g/s320/P9213614.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248931954682873634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfzeqKr7jI/AAAAAAAAIoI/0f0sNkFJjhk/s1600-h/P9213607.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfxefSb1hI/AAAAAAAAInA/7__dI8s4PLM/s320/P9213580.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248929396820792850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfxHQzeLdI/AAAAAAAAIm4/Ipbp-c5tVok/s1600-h/Image064.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfxHQzeLdI/AAAAAAAAIm4/Ipbp-c5tVok/s320/Image064.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248928997795835346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfxAaYmrUI/AAAAAAAAImw/oDyqDY_pXvY/s1600-h/Image060.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfxAaYmrUI/AAAAAAAAImw/oDyqDY_pXvY/s320/Image060.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248928880108416322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfwEYP3B-I/AAAAAAAAImo/zYg2OQT6xhc/s1600-h/Image062.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNfwEYP3B-I/AAAAAAAAImo/zYg2OQT6xhc/s320/Image062.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248927848742717410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Views: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Catherine%27s_Point"&gt;St.Catherine's lighthouse&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.14479"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_House"&gt;Osborne House&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solent"&gt;The Solent&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton"&gt;Southampton Harbour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-1727671988288349650?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/1727671988288349650/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=1727671988288349650' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1727671988288349650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1727671988288349650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/09/isle-of-wight.html' title='The Isle of Wight'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SNf7C0JZsAI/AAAAAAAAIog/ApQ9MxPuhTk/s72-c/P9213585.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-903116278246374137</id><published>2008-09-14T12:42:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-14T13:14:08.557+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>A day in the Cotswolds</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz8EcBreCI/AAAAAAAAIbU/IMqfSs9F9bI/s1600-h/Image073.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz8EcBreCI/AAAAAAAAIbU/IMqfSs9F9bI/s320/Image073.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245844819152697378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz72d4td_I/AAAAAAAAIbM/zJzbPgq3LAU/s1600-h/Image074.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz72d4td_I/AAAAAAAAIbM/zJzbPgq3LAU/s320/Image074.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245844579133782002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz6aPsJJwI/AAAAAAAAIas/ZIJ-mVwr-BI/s1600-h/Image071.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz6aPsJJwI/AAAAAAAAIas/ZIJ-mVwr-BI/s320/Image071.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245842994775009026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz87fNJOlI/AAAAAAAAIbc/XFNCJQ7rpng/s1600-h/Image075.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz87fNJOlI/AAAAAAAAIbc/XFNCJQ7rpng/s320/Image075.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245845764898896466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz5Yz67OvI/AAAAAAAAIac/Syhzb_BUpjM/s1600-h/Image060.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz5Yz67OvI/AAAAAAAAIac/Syhzb_BUpjM/s320/Image060.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245841870629321458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz59Wg-dKI/AAAAAAAAIak/fUdoFOeHRdA/s1600-h/Image063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz59Wg-dKI/AAAAAAAAIak/fUdoFOeHRdA/s320/Image063.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245842498391012514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Images of a Saturday in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotswolds"&gt;Cotswolds&lt;/a&gt;. It hardly gets more English than this!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-903116278246374137?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/903116278246374137/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=903116278246374137' title='5 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/903116278246374137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/903116278246374137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/09/day-in-cotswolds.html' title='A day in the Cotswolds'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SMz8EcBreCI/AAAAAAAAIbU/IMqfSs9F9bI/s72-c/Image073.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-8027952805783139161</id><published>2008-09-11T19:57:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T20:53:27.763+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>La Diada a Londres</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-1923f8833b094e0c" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v5.nonxt2.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D1923f8833b094e0c%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330425631%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D220A1922545C8FCD3A95E3D4745F9D7A2A7422D.2621E76260BAD98B4A644ED635F0143453267A5B%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D1923f8833b094e0c%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DcENOMwIs8u8D0qAoG0bsW36I3NM&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v5.nonxt2.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D1923f8833b094e0c%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330425631%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D220A1922545C8FCD3A95E3D4745F9D7A2A7422D.2621E76260BAD98B4A644ED635F0143453267A5B%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D1923f8833b094e0c%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DcENOMwIs8u8D0qAoG0bsW36I3NM&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interpretació de l'himne nacional, els Segadors, amb acompanyament musical durant la recepció per commemorar de la Diada Nacional de Catalunya a St.James' Park, Londres (organitzada conjuntament per la delegació de la Generalitat al Regne Unit &lt;a href="http://www.catalansuk.cat"&gt;CatalansUK&lt;/a&gt;, el &lt;a href="http://www.ccescocia.cat/"&gt;Centre Català d'Escòcia&lt;/a&gt; i l'&lt;a href="http://www.anglo-catalan.org/"&gt;Anglo-Catalan Society&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: Si ja sé que la qualitat de la imatge i del so no són gaire bones, no hi havia gaire llum i està gravat amb un telèfon, però, bé, he pensat que tenia un cert valor simbòlic.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-8027952805783139161?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=1923f8833b094e0c&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/8027952805783139161/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=8027952805783139161' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8027952805783139161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8027952805783139161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/09/la-diada-londres.html' title='La Diada a Londres'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-5622217456770258161</id><published>2008-07-20T21:16:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-20T21:41:54.236+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Farnborough Air Show 08</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SIOdo7h9piI/AAAAAAAAF3Q/SF9rFyCmvIw/s1600-h/P7203049.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SIOdo7h9piI/AAAAAAAAF3Q/SF9rFyCmvIw/s320/P7203049.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225193319180379682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One more edition of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnborough_Airshow"&gt;Farnborough Air Show&lt;/a&gt;, the great gathering of the aerospace industry, that takes place every other year in this airfield of Hampshire, near London. This time was spectacular as always. Here is a close view of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_380"&gt;Airbus 380&lt;/a&gt;, an amazingly quiet and agile plane, considering its size, as the public could realize during its flyover. Coincidentally, on my way back to London I could see one of the two A380 already in service flying over the city, a Singapore Airlines A380 on a "real" flight to the Asia. It's a question of time that they become a familiar sight in the London skies.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-5622217456770258161?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/5622217456770258161/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=5622217456770258161' title='2 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5622217456770258161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5622217456770258161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/07/farnborough-air-show-08.html' title='Farnborough Air Show 08'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SIOdo7h9piI/AAAAAAAAF3Q/SF9rFyCmvIw/s72-c/P7203049.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-7006779056134675493</id><published>2008-07-14T21:43:00.028+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-15T22:59:40.810+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Summer weekends in England</title><content type='html'>Summer in England is great for sightseeing, quite sunny but not too hot, and there is no shortage of places to visit beyond the classical Oxford and Cambridge, as this island is literally packed with history. So, after visiting the home of the Royal Navy and the old glories of the time when Britannia ruled the waves (&lt;a href="http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/06/sea-sun-and-ships.html"&gt;see previous post&lt;/a&gt;), the following weekends have taken me to two other places of historical significance for this country, and both within easy reach from London.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, &lt;a href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page557.asp"&gt;Windsor castle&lt;/a&gt;, the largest castle in the World still in use&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvDzBQ_bgI/AAAAAAAAF1c/UjFkCAAjRTE/s1600-h/P6292872.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvDzBQ_bgI/AAAAAAAAF1c/UjFkCAAjRTE/s320/P6292872.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222983474146668034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Windsor Castle courtyard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvCQ6JtMVI/AAAAAAAAF1U/jHCu8HhTiho/s1600-h/P6292878.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvCQ6JtMVI/AAAAAAAAF1U/jHCu8HhTiho/s320/P6292878.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222981788609884498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A platoon of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_Guards"&gt;Guards&lt;/a&gt; in full dress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvBg4Rc_AI/AAAAAAAAF1M/U4RIdb88HAg/s1600-h/P6292881.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvBg4Rc_AI/AAAAAAAAF1M/U4RIdb88HAg/s320/P6292881.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222980963471784962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tower with Royal Flag (the flag on top means that She is in!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sussex"&gt;East Sussex&lt;/a&gt; Coast, the point where &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_conqueror"&gt;William the Conqueror&lt;/a&gt; landed with his &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans"&gt;Norman&lt;/a&gt; knights to change the history of this island forevermore. The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings"&gt;Battle of Hastings&lt;/a&gt;, that represented the beginning of the Norman occupation of England and a move towards stronger links between Britain, France and the European mainland and away from the Scandinavian sphere of influence. It is remember not only by the name of the village that stands on the ground where it took place, called simply "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%2C_Sussex"&gt;Battle&lt;/a&gt;", but in the impressive remains of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Abbey"&gt;abbey&lt;/a&gt; that the Normans built at the site. Also nearby the fishing village of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings"&gt;Hastings&lt;/a&gt;, a place that has seen better times, and the picturesque medieval village of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye%2C_East_Sussex"&gt;Rye&lt;/a&gt;, an old port now several km. inland, that has preserved a cozy atmosphere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvGhXaYbbI/AAAAAAAAF2M/0-hG9c4NPaU/s1600-h/Image023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvGhXaYbbI/AAAAAAAAF2M/0-hG9c4NPaU/s320/Image023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222986469388873138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Battle Abbey&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvGT8wGSFI/AAAAAAAAF2E/1S689IpCKYQ/s1600-h/Image021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvGT8wGSFI/AAAAAAAAF2E/1S689IpCKYQ/s320/Image021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222986238893901906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The battlefield&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvFIl8GepI/AAAAAAAAF18/-ckjHEWUOe8/s1600-h/Image011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvFIl8GepI/AAAAAAAAF18/-ckjHEWUOe8/s320/Image011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222984944280042130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Postbox, notice the initials VR, Victoria Regina (aka Queen Victoria), looks like this postbox has been around for a while&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvE6_xqWAI/AAAAAAAAF10/ruzgIPMHxQw/s1600-h/Image010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvE6_xqWAI/AAAAAAAAF10/ruzgIPMHxQw/s320/Image010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222984710697408514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking pictures at Rye's main street&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvEi_eloaI/AAAAAAAAF1s/Y22qjp_7mEE/s1600-h/Image005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvEi_eloaI/AAAAAAAAF1s/Y22qjp_7mEE/s320/Image005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222984298300547490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A solitary beach in Hastings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvEGCpZC2I/AAAAAAAAF1k/tlCXVtW7R18/s1600-h/Image007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvEGCpZC2I/AAAAAAAAF1k/tlCXVtW7R18/s320/Image007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222983800934959970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The East Sussex Coast&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-7006779056134675493?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/7006779056134675493/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=7006779056134675493' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7006779056134675493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7006779056134675493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/07/summer-weekends-in-england.html' title='Summer weekends in England'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SHvDzBQ_bgI/AAAAAAAAF1c/UjFkCAAjRTE/s72-c/P6292872.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-8950962365365991883</id><published>2008-06-23T23:19:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T23:46:05.235+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Sea, sun and ships</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SGAj8gKJokI/AAAAAAAAFy4/l9m-uSvWXqQ/s1600-h/14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SGAj8gKJokI/AAAAAAAAFy4/l9m-uSvWXqQ/s320/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215207890826666562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SGAiHK_qRBI/AAAAAAAAFyg/io9tM4_DZCQ/s1600-h/10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SGAiHK_qRBI/AAAAAAAAFyg/io9tM4_DZCQ/s320/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215205875100828690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SGAjnP5GG4I/AAAAAAAAFyw/dHy7JaurvuM/s1600-h/16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SGAjnP5GG4I/AAAAAAAAFyw/dHy7JaurvuM/s320/16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215207525682912130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here are some pictures taken at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth"&gt;Portsmouth&lt;/a&gt; last Sunday, besides the sunny (and windy!) day, great contrasts between the old warships of the Royal Navy, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hms_victory"&gt;HMS Victory&lt;/a&gt;, that led the British forces at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar"&gt;Trafalgar&lt;/a&gt; in 1805 and where &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Nelson"&gt;Nelson&lt;/a&gt; died (it is still in commission with the Royal Navy, so it is the longest serving warship in the World!) and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warrior_%281860%29"&gt;HMS Warrior&lt;/a&gt; of 1860, and the futuristic spire (Dubai style) that dominates the modern docks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-8950962365365991883?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/8950962365365991883/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=8950962365365991883' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8950962365365991883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8950962365365991883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/06/sea-sun-and-ships.html' title='Sea, sun and ships'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SGAj8gKJokI/AAAAAAAAFy4/l9m-uSvWXqQ/s72-c/14.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-6399426681190145969</id><published>2008-06-18T23:03:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T23:09:23.064+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Midsummer night flight to London</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SFmGTnWGAmI/AAAAAAAAFxQ/8jWf3rsNpgk/s1600-h/Imagen+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SFmGTnWGAmI/AAAAAAAAFxQ/8jWf3rsNpgk/s320/Imagen+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213345715195347554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A close view of BA Boeing 757 at Barcelona airport, there is quite a lot of light outside but it is actually 10pm! Picture taken from an Easyjet A319 while waiting to take off for Stansted.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-6399426681190145969?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/6399426681190145969/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=6399426681190145969' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6399426681190145969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6399426681190145969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/06/midsummer-late-flight-to-london.html' title='Midsummer night flight to London'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SFmGTnWGAmI/AAAAAAAAFxQ/8jWf3rsNpgk/s72-c/Imagen+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2202201542976009317</id><published>2008-06-10T21:11:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-10T22:08:39.981+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Gamle Danmark</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SE7rommSVSI/AAAAAAAAFqI/8YlJVxN8fSg/s1600-h/P6072697.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SE7rommSVSI/AAAAAAAAFqI/8YlJVxN8fSg/s320/P6072697.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210360901702669602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SE7p6FAK4zI/AAAAAAAAFqA/QbXdKTnDBOw/s1600-h/P6082788.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SE7p6FAK4zI/AAAAAAAAFqA/QbXdKTnDBOw/s320/P6082788.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210359002898817842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SE7lp7j6Y6I/AAAAAAAAFp4/WdMmXfb-wmc/s1600-h/P6082798.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SE7lp7j6Y6I/AAAAAAAAFp4/WdMmXfb-wmc/s320/P6082798.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210354327439958946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SE7g2HjAfiI/AAAAAAAAFps/nYwzawU4fBc/s1600-h/P6072669.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SE7g2HjAfiI/AAAAAAAAFps/nYwzawU4fBc/s320/P6072669.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210349039257681442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Pictures: Nyhavn (Copenhaguen), beaches and sunset at Langø&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OYu0umIwYrw&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OYu0umIwYrw&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video: Danish National Anthem by Miriam Jul Rasmussen&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2202201542976009317?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2202201542976009317/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2202201542976009317' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2202201542976009317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2202201542976009317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/06/gamle-danmark.html' title='Gamle Danmark'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SE7rommSVSI/AAAAAAAAFqI/8YlJVxN8fSg/s72-c/P6072697.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-8625779686174143875</id><published>2008-05-31T14:54:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-31T16:27:57.831+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>Visita Presidencial</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SEFuZMT5xAI/AAAAAAAAFQY/uj4KDH6aouU/s1600-h/catalansUK08+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SEFuZMT5xAI/AAAAAAAAFQY/uj4KDH6aouU/s320/catalansUK08+006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206564023297491970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SEFkp8T5w_I/AAAAAAAAFQQ/G1GKolcG-E0/s1600-h/catalansUK08+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SEFkp8T5w_I/AAAAAAAAFQQ/G1GKolcG-E0/s320/catalansUK08+009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206553315944023026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SEFeQcT5w9I/AAAAAAAAFQA/3IQSi32y7Ak/s1600-h/Image011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SEFeQcT5w9I/AAAAAAAAFQA/3IQSi32y7Ak/s320/Image011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206546280787592146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquest dimecres &lt;a href="http://www.catalansuk.cat/"&gt;Catalans UK&lt;/a&gt;, conjuntament amb la &lt;a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/canadaBlanch/"&gt;LSE Cañada Blanch Centre,&lt;/a&gt; va tenir un convidat d'honor, en &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi_Pujol_i_Soley"&gt;Jordi Pujol&lt;/a&gt;.  Aquesta, però, no era la primera vegada que l'ex-president visitava la &lt;a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/"&gt;LSE&lt;/a&gt;. El 2005 ja vaig tenir la ocasió de conèixer-lo personalment en ocasió de la trobada que vam organitzar amb els companys de la LSE Catalan Society. En aquesta ocasió, l'agenda estava marcada per una conferència, sobre la situació política després de les eleccions del març, i la presentació del &lt;a href="http://www.grec.cat/llivirt/mp.pgm?NUM=003902941&amp;amp;F=84370451"&gt;primer volum de les seves memòries&lt;/a&gt;. L'acte va transcórrer en un ambient molt distès i en acabar la part més "formal" de la conferència, pronunciada en anglès, en JP es va passar al català per adreçar-se directament als nombrosos catalans que ompliem la sala. No van faltar els tocs d'humor, sobretot en referència al seu domini de l'anglès, que van desfermar les rialles de la sala, i el missatge clau: "la situació del país no és ideal, però s'ha de ser optimista, hem passat temps pitjors".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Després de la conferència, el pic-pica, la presentació de llibre, amb tot el públic fent rotllana entorn d'en JP, mentre aquest, llibre sota el braç, caminava sense parar, fent cercles, explicant el que havia representat començar a escriure les seves memòries, en una escena desenfadada i directa que no desentonaria al Estats Units. Després d'això, la oportunitat pels assistents, la majoria de la meva mateixa generació, de conversar cara a cara amb l'home que ha dirigit el país durant la major part de les nostres vides i la veritat, és que, en el tracte amb la gent, dóna la sensació que et conegui de tota la vida.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-8625779686174143875?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/8625779686174143875/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=8625779686174143875' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8625779686174143875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8625779686174143875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/05/visita-presidencial.html' title='Visita Presidencial'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SEFuZMT5xAI/AAAAAAAAFQY/uj4KDH6aouU/s72-c/catalansUK08+006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-7058980803901861288</id><published>2008-05-15T23:01:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T20:09:07.140+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>El govern visita Londres</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SCy3_ZEJlKI/AAAAAAAAFMc/vbVWIW9d7DY/s1600-h/Image006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SCy3_ZEJlKI/AAAAAAAAFMc/vbVWIW9d7DY/s320/Image006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200733969394013346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SCy3G5EJlJI/AAAAAAAAFMU/aJxg5fAloEs/s1600-h/P5142475.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SCy3G5EJlJI/AAAAAAAAFMU/aJxg5fAloEs/s320/P5142475.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200732998731404434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SCy2spEJlII/AAAAAAAAFMM/FOjdpVHY_f4/s1600-h/P5142471.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SCy2spEJlII/AAAAAAAAFMM/FOjdpVHY_f4/s320/P5142471.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200732547759838338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setmana plena d'activitats per als catalans de Londres...dimecres, acte de celebració del primer aniversari de &lt;a href="http://www.catalansuk.cat/"&gt;Catalans UK&lt;/a&gt;, amb la presència del vicepresident de la Generalitat, Carod Rovira, el conseller d'interior, Saura, el director de l'Institut Ramon Llull, Bargalló i tot un megacrack de la comunicació, en Miquel Calçada, "Mikimoto", que va acabar el seu discurs amb un molt britànic "Déu salvi la Reina!",  amb el que, tot sigui dit, el vicepresident va discrepar una mica, més que res per coherencia republicana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dijous: al migdia inauguració de la delegació de la Generalitat a Londres i a la tarda acte d'&lt;a href="http://www.lavanguardia.es/premium/publica/publica?COMPID=53462946527&amp;amp;ID_PAGINA=22088&amp;amp;ID_FORMATO=9&amp;amp;turbourl=false"&gt;entrega de la col·lecció Bernat Metge&lt;/a&gt; i conferència de Josep Lluís Carod Rovira a la London School of Economics sobre l'acció internacional de Catalunya. Algunes dades interessants que han sortit durant el discurs, sembla ser que el català és la desena llengua en traduccions del món i la vintena amb més presència a internet. Això últim ja m'ho crec més, sobretot si comptem l'aportació dels blocaires de la capital del Maresme (ja sabeu de qui parlo!).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-7058980803901861288?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/7058980803901861288/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=7058980803901861288' title='2 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7058980803901861288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7058980803901861288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/05/el-govern-visita-londres.html' title='El govern visita Londres'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/SCy3_ZEJlKI/AAAAAAAAFMc/vbVWIW9d7DY/s72-c/Image006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-4758330828485635595</id><published>2008-05-04T16:34:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-04T16:49:58.357+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>I ja en van 4!</title><content type='html'>Aquest estiu &lt;a href="http://www.continental.com"&gt;Continental&lt;/a&gt; doblarà la freqüència dels seus vols Barcelona-Nova York a dos diaris, el que suposarà que, com a mínim fins a l'octubre hi haurà 4 vols diaris directes a la "Big Apple". Sí, ja sé que això és poc comparat amb altres ciutats europees, que molts d'aquests vols porten sobretot turistes i que el simple fet que això sigui notícia és un símptoma que no tot acaba d'anar bé...però tot i així trobo que és una molt bona notícia que aquesta ruta s'estigui consolidant, que hi hagi prou massa crítica de viatgers per a omplir els vols i que, encara que ho tenim difícil per a ser un hub transoceànic, hi ha potencial per anar millorant i estic segur que així serà...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-4758330828485635595?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/4758330828485635595/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=4758330828485635595' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/4758330828485635595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/4758330828485635595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-ja-en-van-4.html' title='I ja en van 4!'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-1663171426096985290</id><published>2008-01-21T19:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-21T19:53:20.317Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>100,000!!!</title><content type='html'>The Catalan version of Wikipedia has reached the 100,000 article mark, putting it in the group of of languages with more articles in relation to the number of speakers. Congratulations! Well done!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://ca.wikipedia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-1663171426096985290?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/1663171426096985290/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=1663171426096985290' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1663171426096985290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1663171426096985290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2008/01/100000.html' title='100,000!!!'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-8761374844392560223</id><published>2007-12-06T20:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-12-18T23:58:20.363Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Milà, Barcelona i la singularitat aeroportuaria</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/R1heei7e_aI/AAAAAAAADZ0/GPQxLGQg_OI/s1600-h/300px-Alitalia.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/R1heei7e_aI/AAAAAAAADZ0/GPQxLGQg_OI/s320/300px-Alitalia.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140962853508808098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;...i de Madrid a Itàlia, perque allà el futur del sector aeri també està donant molt a parlar...i és que s'espera una solució per als problemes d'&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alitalia"&gt;Alitalia&lt;/a&gt; de la mà d'un nou propietari, el problema és que depenent de com es reestructuri la companyia segurament una de les dues bases (Roma o Milà) concentrarà tota l'activitat de la companyia i per ara sembla que Roma té les de guanyar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evidentment al Nord d'Itàlia creuen que seria absurd eliminar les connexions intercontinentals des de Milà, que al cap i a la fi, és la capital econòmica del país. En contra seva tenen el fet que el tràfic aeri a Milà està dividit entre dos aeroports i tots dos tenen problemes de localització, d'accesos i de dimensió (parlo en base a tercers i a comentaris d'amics italians, ja que jo personalment no hi he estat) i també la seva proximitat a altres hubs europeus importants, com Munich,  que estan ben connectats amb les riques ciutats del Nord d'Itàlia i, obviament, el fet de no ser la capital (sona familiar?) en un estat unitari i bastant centralitzat com l'italià. A més molt possiblement al final la decisió sigui política, ja que l'estat és el principal accionista i qui ha de vendre les accions. Milà podria aviat passar a encapçalar, fent companyia a Barcelona, el ranquing de les ciutats europees més grans desprovistes de vols intercontinentals i que no són la base de cap companyia aeria gran.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-8761374844392560223?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/8761374844392560223/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=8761374844392560223' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8761374844392560223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/8761374844392560223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/12/mil-barcelona-i-els-aeroports-italians.html' title='Milà, Barcelona i la singularitat aeroportuaria'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/R1heei7e_aI/AAAAAAAADZ0/GPQxLGQg_OI/s72-c/300px-Alitalia.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-6120436815154890641</id><published>2007-12-06T19:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-12-07T19:00:22.577Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Reprenent el blog...</title><content type='html'>Després d'unes setmanes que l'he tingut bastant abandonat m'he decidit a tornar a escriure alguna cosa en aquest blog...i es que tornant al tema dels posts anteriors i que tant m'interessa, l'aviació comercial, hi ha hagut novetats interessants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pel que fa a Barcelona, &lt;a href="http://www.ba.com/"&gt;British Airways&lt;/a&gt; obrirà properament &lt;a href="http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/flights/2007/11/ba-launches-fou.html"&gt;una nova ruta entre Barcelona i l'aeroport de London City&lt;/a&gt;, el més petit de la capital britànica, que es toba molt a prop del cente de negocis i per tant té una clientela predominantment de negocis. L'aeroport en qëstió té una pista tan curta que no hi poden aterrar avions més grans que l'&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A318#A318"&gt;A318&lt;/a&gt;, que és el més petit de tota la familia Airbus. Així doncs, és una ruta que no serà gaire important en nombre de passatgers, però té una importància qualitativa, ja que posa Barcelona entre el reduit grup de ciutats europees que tenen accés directe al &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_City_Airport"&gt;London City&lt;/a&gt;, del qual formen part, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich i unes poques més...una ruta pensada sobretot per als passatgers de negocis que ajuda a trencar una mica la imatge d'un aeroport del Prat utilitzat només per "turistes de xancleta". Serà, a més, una nova alternativa i més places ofertades per als que viatgem regularment entre Londres i BCN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'altra novetat destacable és que &lt;a href="http://actualidad.terra.es/provincias/tarragona/articulo/reus_ryanair_catalunya_girona_2020338.htm"&gt;Ryanair vol instalar una de les seves bases a Reus&lt;/a&gt;, en principi serà més petita que la que ja té a Girona, però servirà per rendibilitzar les avui en dia infrautilitzades instal·lacions de Reus i millorarà les connexions del Sud i l'Oest de Catalunya a més de la propia ciutat de Barcelona.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-6120436815154890641?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/6120436815154890641/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=6120436815154890641' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6120436815154890641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6120436815154890641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/12/reprenent-el-blog.html' title='Reprenent el blog...'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-5213736573777949821</id><published>2007-10-03T21:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-10-03T21:45:44.804+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Un sector en constant evolució</title><content type='html'>Tot el que he comentat en el post anterior pot canviar ràpidament si es produeix la consolidació al sector aeri que molts ja donen per feta. En aquests moments tan Iberia com Spanair estan en venda i depenent de qui sigui el comprador el mapa de les aliances pot quedar totalment alterat. La premsa també va plena de notícies sobre Vueling, que està passant per un moment difícil.  Tot i que té un bon producte, té una mida relativament petita i opera en un mercat tan extremadament competitiu que pel que fa al seu futur no es pot donar res per garantit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-5213736573777949821?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/5213736573777949821/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=5213736573777949821' title='2 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5213736573777949821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5213736573777949821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/10/un-sector-en-constant-evoluci.html' title='Un sector en constant evolució'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-6701554505407286997</id><published>2007-10-03T01:06:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-10-03T21:27:46.599+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>T-SUD</title><content type='html'>Ja s'ha ajudicat la famosa nova terminal de l'aeroport del Prat, amb una espècie de solució salomònica entre els dos principals pretendents, &lt;a href="http://www.oneworld.com/"&gt;Oneworld&lt;/a&gt; (Iberia) i &lt;a href="http://www.staralliance.com/"&gt;Star Alliance&lt;/a&gt; (Spanair), a més de Vueling (de la casa, però amb un futur incert).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La veritat és que en el moment d'escriure aquest post no conec els ben bé els criteris tècnics en que s'ha basat aquesta decisió, però com a observador extern de tot el que està passant al voltant del Prat si que puc fer algunes consideracions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Si ens fixem en criteris purament quantitatius, Iberia i les seves associades, com Clickair, encara són les que transporten més passatgers, però no fa gaire bon efecte que s'emmporti la part del lleó de la nova terminal tenint en compte que és una companyia que mai ha apostat per Barcelona, fins al punt de pràcticament abandonar l'aeroport del Prat recentment. Quin projecte té Iberia per Barcelona? està clar que per Ibèria Barcelona sempre serà un aeroport secundari. De fet, ja li convé que sigui així. Té sentit econòmic per a Iberia centralitzar les operacions en un sol hub, com fan la majoria de companyies de bandera (Lufthansa en té dos, Frankfurt i Munich, però Alemanya és l'economia més gran d'Europa i és molt central geogràficament).  Per a Iberia en canvi, seria un risc que una altra companyia hi desenvolupés un hub ibèric alternatiu (tot i que, no ens enganyem, és poc probable) i per això va crear Clickair.  És una companyia que ha nascut amb funcions defensives, en part per prevenir que altres companyies posin un peu i mig al Prat. Pot fer alguna aportació interessant, com els extendre el concepte de baix cost als vols de mitjà abast (Rússia, Orient Mitjà), però que pel seu model de negoci és difícil que cobreixi per ella mateixa les mancances del Prat (equilibri entre aerolinies tradicionals i de baix cost i vols intercontinentals).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Es suposava que s'havia de primar aquelles companyies que aposten per Barcelona per a establir rutes de llarga distància, i bé, resulta que &lt;a href="http://www.skyteam.com/"&gt;Skyteam&lt;/a&gt;, de la que formen part Delta i Continental, les úniques companyies que fins a la data han ofertat de manera consistent i continuada vols transoceànics, queda fora de la nova terminal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) El pont aeri va a la nova terminal i a més es reforça amb més facilitats per a que altres companyies afegeixin freqüències. Està clar que Madrid és i serà la principal destinació de lluny des de l'aeroport de Barcelona però, una vegada més, si la idea de la nova terminal era facilitar l'establiment de connexions intercontinentals, omplir-la amb vols a Madrid pot tenir l'efecte contrari. Si tenim en compte que el TGV recollirà gran part de la demanda del tràfic pur punt a punt Barcelona-Madrid es de suposar que el vols a Madrid els ompliran...passatgers de trànsit que aniran a Barajas per continuar cap a altres continents,  de tràfic a la  inversa, ara per ara, res de res.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Així doncs, haurem d'esperar a conèixer més detalls i esperar que les dimensions de la nova terminal permetin compartir-la a diferents tipus d'aerolínia i que això no impedeixi a l'aeroport de Barcelona fer el salt qualitatiu que necessita. Es manté el perill molt real, però, que tot plegat acabi sent una avant-sala de luxe per a la T-4 de Barajas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-6701554505407286997?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/6701554505407286997/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=6701554505407286997' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6701554505407286997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6701554505407286997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/10/t-sud.html' title='T-SUD'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-6347045895647540679</id><published>2007-10-02T18:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-10-02T19:00:13.350+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>Mites</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RwKG8E9ZcQI/AAAAAAAADHk/6Qufd6HwC6k/s1600-h/Greenspan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RwKG8E9ZcQI/AAAAAAAADHk/6Qufd6HwC6k/s320/Greenspan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116800493327839490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Després d'en JC Trichet i en l'Stiglitz avui ha passat per l'auditori de BBG un dels mites de l'economia moderna...ell...en persona!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-6347045895647540679?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/6347045895647540679/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=6347045895647540679' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6347045895647540679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6347045895647540679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/10/mites.html' title='Mites'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RwKG8E9ZcQI/AAAAAAAADHk/6Qufd6HwC6k/s72-c/Greenspan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-9149114888134040105</id><published>2007-09-27T20:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-27T20:25:08.506+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Mèxic directe</title><content type='html'>Després del nou enllaç amb Nova York que comentava més avall, Aeromexico &lt;a href="http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/441335.html"&gt;ha anunciat que obre una nova ruta directa Barcelona-Mèxic&lt;/a&gt;. No sé si dues freqüencies setmanals faran prou atractiva aquesta ruta entre els nombrosos  empresaris catalans amb negocis a Mèxic, els viatgers de negocis requereixen freqüències nombroses per a poder tenir la flexibilitat de reservar i canviar els itineraris en molt poc temps, en tot cas, és habitual també començar amb poques freqüències i si la demanda respon anant ampliant...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-9149114888134040105?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/9149114888134040105/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=9149114888134040105' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/9149114888134040105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/9149114888134040105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/09/mxic-directe.html' title='Mèxic directe'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2463922201657771450</id><published>2007-09-25T22:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T22:57:32.742+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>La Diada a Londres</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RvmEIk9ZcPI/AAAAAAAADHc/yOmOe1Uf4r8/s1600-h/200px-Flag_of_Catalonia.svg.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RvmEIk9ZcPI/AAAAAAAADHc/yOmOe1Uf4r8/s320/200px-Flag_of_Catalonia.svg.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114264134750925042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Aquest és el meu post de l'11 de setembre, que no he pogut publicar abans per raons que ja he explicat dos posts més avall. Bàsicament la celebració de la Diada Nacional va consistir en un tast de vins, organitzat per CatalansUK i amb la participació de les Bodegues Bellod Torres, de &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarral"&gt;Sarral&lt;/a&gt; (Conca de Barberà), que obviament van posar la matèria prima del tast. Tot un descobriment per als que no some experts ja que aquesta bodega es caracteritza per innovar amb varietats de raïm poc habituals a Catalunya, com la &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viognier"&gt;viognier&lt;/a&gt;, amb un sabor difícil de descriure. En definitiva una bona ocasió per brindar pel futur del país tot passant una bona estona...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2463922201657771450?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2463922201657771450/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2463922201657771450' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2463922201657771450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2463922201657771450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/09/11-de-setembre-londres.html' title='La Diada a Londres'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RvmEIk9ZcPI/AAAAAAAADHc/yOmOe1Uf4r8/s72-c/200px-Flag_of_Catalonia.svg.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-1429490805953328525</id><published>2007-09-25T22:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T22:37:12.817+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Tots els camins porten a...Nova York</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/Rvl_YU9ZcOI/AAAAAAAADHU/mLAH_zx5tMI/s1600-h/180px-Americanairlines.arp.750pix.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/Rvl_YU9ZcOI/AAAAAAAADHU/mLAH_zx5tMI/s320/180px-Americanairlines.arp.750pix.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114258907775725794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tots els camins...o tots els avions, perquè l'aeroport del Prat va esgarrapant mica en mic anous vols intercontinentals directes. &lt;a href="http://www.cidem.com/catalonia/en/pressroom/2007/09/american_airlines.jsp"&gt;American Airlines inaugurarà l'any vinent un vol directe Barcelona-Nova York&lt;/a&gt;, que es suma als que ja operen Delta Airlines i Continental Airlines. Hi haurà mercat cap a tots tres? bé suposem que hauran fets els números. En qualsevol cas, espero que aviat hi hagi noves connexions amb altres hubs americans, Chicago estaria bé, per exemple!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-1429490805953328525?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/1429490805953328525/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=1429490805953328525' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1429490805953328525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1429490805953328525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/09/tots-els-camins-porten-anova-york.html' title='Tots els camins porten a...Nova York'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/Rvl_YU9ZcOI/AAAAAAAADHU/mLAH_zx5tMI/s72-c/180px-Americanairlines.arp.750pix.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-709657223338015241</id><published>2007-09-25T21:29:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T23:05:16.974+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>La rentrée</title><content type='html'>Avui torno a escriure en aquest blog després de gairebé un mes de tenir-lo abandonat...finalment després de totes les peripècies que ha representat canviar-se de casa i, sobretot, tornar a tenir internet! però bé, després d'haver solucionat tots aquest tràmits diguem-ne adminsitratius, aprofito per posar aqui un enllaç interessant:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;es tracta de &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkgELScZxxw"&gt;l'aparició d'en Germà Bel al programa La Nit al Dia&lt;/a&gt; per parlar d'infraestructures a Catalunya, especialment de l'aeroport. Durant la seva intervenció explica de manera clara i concisa  la situació del Prat en el context dels aeroports europeus i també és interessant la intervenció sobre ferrocarrils, i com el TGV, per ràpid que vagi no solucionarà altres mancances estructurals que tenim en aquesta àrea (per quan una línia ferroviaria de mercaderies d'ample europeu entre els ports de Tarragona i Barcelona i la frontera francesa?) és un programa que es va emetre ja fa dies, però els temes que s'hi tracten no deixen de ser d'actualitat...per cert, que hi fa aquest home al partit que va crear i ha sostingut l'actual sistema aeroportuari durant tants anys?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-709657223338015241?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/709657223338015241/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=709657223338015241' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/709657223338015241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/709657223338015241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/09/la-rentre.html' title='La rentrée'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-1912076976186030783</id><published>2007-08-16T20:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T23:32:09.656Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (and 12): Domodedovo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsStC8fojOI/AAAAAAAAC0U/O-UnalJbDD0/s1600-h/Domodedovo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsStC8fojOI/AAAAAAAAC0U/O-UnalJbDD0/s320/Domodedovo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099390944200396002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We are at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, after a really intense week, ready to board our British Airways flight to London. While I look through the windows at the waiting lounge I realize what an exciting place for plane spotting can a Russian airport be. At Barcelona airport, for example, around 95% of the planes are either Boeing 737 and those of the Airbus 320 family, in airports with a large number of long haul flights, like Heathrow you can also see Boeing 747s and 777s and 767s or Airbus 340s and 330s. But at a Russian airport you can see all of these plus a whole range of old soviet-era planes, new Russian planes and second-hand Western planes. This picture is a great example of the situation of aviation in Russia.&lt;br /&gt;Let's have a closer look: in the foreground an old soviet-era Tupolev 134 of Rossiya Airlines, next to it an Airbus 310 of S7-Sibir Airlines, one of the largest domestic airlines in Russia. The A-310 although not a particularly old model is hard to see in Western airports as it was not as commercially successful as the A-320 and A-330 models. Further away is another S7 plane, an Airbus of the A320 family. Russian airlines have been adding new Boeing and Airbus planes that are progressively replacing the old soviet models.&lt;br /&gt;We can also see 2 planes from Transaero, Russia's second international airline (the first is Aeroflot), a Boeing 767 (right) and a Boeing 747-200 Jumbo (left), two wide-body long range planes that probably transport Russian tourists to resorts in the Mediterranean, that are popular destinations from Domodedovo.&lt;br /&gt;In the background there is a large number of parked planes and, although it is difficult to tell from this picture, they are mostly soviet-built. For example, just behind the tail of the S7 Airbus 310 there is an Ilushyn IL-96, the Russian equivalent to the Airbus 340, of relatively new design, but that has experienced some problems that have prevented it from selling in larger numbers.&lt;br /&gt;In summary, quite an interesting mix, that is probably going to become more homogeneous, as Russian carriers update their fleets, but as the restructured Russian aircraft industry gets back to the market with new models, it might continue to be more diverse than in the West.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-1912076976186030783?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/1912076976186030783/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=1912076976186030783' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1912076976186030783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1912076976186030783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-domodedovo.html' title='Russia (and 12): Domodedovo'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsStC8fojOI/AAAAAAAAC0U/O-UnalJbDD0/s72-c/Domodedovo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2734961564789838645</id><published>2007-08-16T20:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-16T20:40:14.346+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Russia (11): My encounter with two Russian national symbols</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSn38fojNI/AAAAAAAAC0M/GCowe6tmT3w/s1600-h/Imagen+770.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSn38fojNI/AAAAAAAAC0M/GCowe6tmT3w/s320/Imagen+770.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099385257663696082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSnuMfojMI/AAAAAAAAC0E/FNYIZu0Mi84/s1600-h/Imagen+623.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSnuMfojMI/AAAAAAAAC0E/FNYIZu0Mi84/s320/Imagen+623.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099385090159971522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2734961564789838645?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2734961564789838645/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2734961564789838645' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2734961564789838645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2734961564789838645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-11-my-encounter-with-two-russian.html' title='Russia (11): My encounter with two Russian national symbols'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSn38fojNI/AAAAAAAAC0M/GCowe6tmT3w/s72-c/Imagen+770.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-961267813432327672</id><published>2007-08-16T20:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-28T21:28:58.726+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (10): around St.Petersburg- aristocrats and writers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSjVsfojKI/AAAAAAAACz0/TBDLAFeClbE/s1600-h/Imagen+734.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSjVsfojKI/AAAAAAAACz0/TBDLAFeClbE/s320/Imagen+734.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099380271206665378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saint Petersburg was once the capital of one of the last absolute monarchies, until 1917, and consequently it got its fair share of palaces and royal residences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were lucky with the weather, so we spent a good time enjoying the gardens by the Baltic Sea that were once the preserve of that tiny elite that ruled over this huge country. No need to say that the display of wealth in these palaces was inversely proportional to the poverty of the subjects. While the Russian peasants lived literally like in the middle ages, its aristocrats were so much in their role, that refused to speak anything other than French among themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had also the chance to visit to places that have its honour place in Russian literature, Pavlovsk, summer retreat of the St.Petersburg elite some 150 years ago and setting of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiot_%28novel%29"&gt;The Idiot&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky"&gt;Dostoievsky&lt;/a&gt; (that I happened to be reading at the time of the visit!), and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsarskoe_Selo"&gt;Pushkin&lt;/a&gt; (previously Tsarskoe-Selo), named after the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushkin"&gt;famous poet&lt;/a&gt;, that lived and went to school here.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-961267813432327672?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/961267813432327672/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=961267813432327672' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/961267813432327672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/961267813432327672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-10-around-stpetersburg-palaces.html' title='Russia (10): around St.Petersburg- aristocrats and writers'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSjVsfojKI/AAAAAAAACz0/TBDLAFeClbE/s72-c/Imagen+734.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-6289298294051078035</id><published>2007-08-16T19:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-16T22:16:25.791+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (9): the capital of the Tsars</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSgJsfojJI/AAAAAAAACzs/SvVB6-KYy8A/s1600-h/Imagen+872.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSgJsfojJI/AAAAAAAACzs/SvVB6-KYy8A/s320/Imagen+872.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099376766513351826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSf0MfojII/AAAAAAAACzk/eDOeG79tkJI/s1600-h/Imagen+866.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSf0MfojII/AAAAAAAACzk/eDOeG79tkJI/s320/Imagen+866.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099376397146164354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSfR8fojHI/AAAAAAAACzc/5ex-ybrgm9s/s1600-h/Imagen+839.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSfR8fojHI/AAAAAAAACzc/5ex-ybrgm9s/s320/Imagen+839.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099375808735644786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saint Petersburg was built in a swamp by order of Peter The Great, the Russian tsar that wanted to make it Russia's gate to Europe. The city has a truly European flair and you can realise how its urbanism borrowed from Rome, Paris, Amsterdam...anyway, the result was really spectacular and I liked it, maybe because I like cities that interact with water.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-6289298294051078035?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/6289298294051078035/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=6289298294051078035' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6289298294051078035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6289298294051078035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-9-capital-of-tsars.html' title='Russia (9): the capital of the Tsars'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSgJsfojJI/AAAAAAAACzs/SvVB6-KYy8A/s72-c/Imagen+872.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-5099510414893745089</id><published>2007-08-16T19:25:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-16T22:18:39.907+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (8): On the way to Saint Petersburg</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSa8cfojGI/AAAAAAAACzU/3TrULDSwl6I/s1600-h/Imagen+647.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSa8cfojGI/AAAAAAAACzU/3TrULDSwl6I/s320/Imagen+647.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099371041321946210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSaG8fojFI/AAAAAAAACzM/MtpocDIbh50/s1600-h/Imagen+964.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSaG8fojFI/AAAAAAAACzM/MtpocDIbh50/s320/Imagen+964.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099370122198944850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's time to change the setting, after a few days in Moscow we are going to visit the European capital of Russia. The Nevsky Express, a fast, modern, train that covers the distance between Russia's two main cities nonstop in less than 4 hours, advances through the Russian plains and the immensity of Russia swallows us...on time to see the night opening of bridges in Saint Petersburg...!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: the day after we got back from Russia &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6945261.stm"&gt;the Nevsky Express was the target of a terrorist attack&lt;/a&gt; that injured a number of people.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-5099510414893745089?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/5099510414893745089/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=5099510414893745089' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5099510414893745089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5099510414893745089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-8-on-hte-way-to-saint-petersburg.html' title='Russia (8): On the way to Saint Petersburg'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSa8cfojGI/AAAAAAAACzU/3TrULDSwl6I/s72-c/Imagen+647.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2261133533322971079</id><published>2007-08-16T19:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-16T19:24:48.458+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (7): Cruise on the Moscova</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSWK8fojDI/AAAAAAAACy8/dLtQ_Vv9ojA/s1600-h/Imagen+639.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSWK8fojDI/AAAAAAAACy8/dLtQ_Vv9ojA/s320/Imagen+639.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099365792871910450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSV-MfojCI/AAAAAAAACy0/iGhmIdgGoa0/s1600-h/Imagen+630.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSV-MfojCI/AAAAAAAACy0/iGhmIdgGoa0/s320/Imagen+630.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099365573828578338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSVy8fojBI/AAAAAAAACys/hgx9Mt4BSvI/s1600-h/Imagen+646.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSVy8fojBI/AAAAAAAACys/hgx9Mt4BSvI/s320/Imagen+646.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099365380555050002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2261133533322971079?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2261133533322971079/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2261133533322971079' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2261133533322971079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2261133533322971079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-7-cruise-on-moscova.html' title='Russia (7): Cruise on the Moscova'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsSWK8fojDI/AAAAAAAACy8/dLtQ_Vv9ojA/s72-c/Imagen+639.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-767715212387430941</id><published>2007-08-15T19:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-15T22:06:35.646+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (6): moving around in Moscow</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsNHJP6ZCiI/AAAAAAAACyU/8S0IZxNhU1Q/s1600-h/Imagen+491.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsNHJP6ZCiI/AAAAAAAACyU/8S0IZxNhU1Q/s320/Imagen+491.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098997427329370658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow"&gt;Moscow&lt;/a&gt; is the biggest city in Europe, but fortunately it has also what is probably the most impressive &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_metro"&gt;metro&lt;/a&gt; in the continent. Each of the stations is a real piece of art. People in Russia like to say that this was is because the regime wanted to make the underground a sort of "palace of the working class", like a compensation for the hardships of everyday life during Soviet times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if you are on a low budget there are other ways to move around in the city, one of the most popular ones is to simply stand by the road and make signs to cars to stop. Like hitchhiking, just that in this case when the car stops (and there is no shortage of them, sometimes they even form a queue on the side of the road after making a simple hand gesture), a price for the ride is negotiated, which is often around 200 rubles (6 euros) for rides in the center. Some drivers might be rejected straight away if they do not inspire trust and old cars, like the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AvtoVAZ"&gt;zhiguli &lt;/a&gt;(a sort of Seat 124) are a regular fixture of this transport system.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-767715212387430941?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/767715212387430941/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=767715212387430941' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/767715212387430941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/767715212387430941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-6-moving-around-in-moscow.html' title='Russia (6): moving around in Moscow'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsNHJP6ZCiI/AAAAAAAACyU/8S0IZxNhU1Q/s72-c/Imagen+491.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2991794337498448136</id><published>2007-08-15T19:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-15T22:00:34.131+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (5): the Kremlin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsNDXP6ZChI/AAAAAAAACyM/vE34DIPEc1M/s1600-h/Imagen+566.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsNDXP6ZChI/AAAAAAAACyM/vE34DIPEc1M/s320/Imagen+566.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098993269801028114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsNCFv6ZCfI/AAAAAAAACx8/VMprvTCmLlI/s1600-h/Imagen+567.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsNCFv6ZCfI/AAAAAAAACx8/VMprvTCmLlI/s320/Imagen+567.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098991869641689586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Kremlin"&gt;Moscow Kremlin&lt;/a&gt; (Russian for "fortress") has been the center of Russian power for centuries, except for the period when the Tsars moved to live in St.Petersburg. It is not a single building or palace but a little city inside the city, surrounded by the red wall that gives its name to the famous square. Part of it is open to visitors so that they can contemplate its 4 Cathedrals and their golden domes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2991794337498448136?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2991794337498448136/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2991794337498448136' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2991794337498448136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2991794337498448136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-5-kremlin.html' title='Russia (5): the Kremlin'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsNDXP6ZChI/AAAAAAAACyM/vE34DIPEc1M/s72-c/Imagen+566.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3928806588128325313</id><published>2007-08-15T18:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-15T22:10:43.071+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (4): the trauma of History</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsM_0P6ZCeI/AAAAAAAACx0/w4V2g9utnoc/s1600-h/Imagen+458.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsM_0P6ZCeI/AAAAAAAACx0/w4V2g9utnoc/s320/Imagen+458.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098989369970723298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsM_m_6ZCdI/AAAAAAAACxs/9nUABwn4iac/s1600-h/Imagen+463.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsM_m_6ZCdI/AAAAAAAACxs/9nUABwn4iac/s320/Imagen+463.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098989142337456594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 4 historical events that have shaped Russia's history in the last 200 years: the Napoleonic invasion of 1812, the revolution, the Second World War (that Russians call the Great Patriotic War) and the fall of communism.&lt;br /&gt;Of these, Russians are specially proud of their victory over French and German invaders. In the outskirts of Moscow, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poklonnaya_Hill"&gt;Park Pobeda&lt;/a&gt; (Victory Park) pays homage to those that fought in the Second World War and the nearby Borodino Panorama does the same for the Napoleonic war.&lt;br /&gt;They both contain spectacular panoramic paintings and, in the case of Park Pobeda, an interesting display of Soviet symbolism.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3928806588128325313?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3928806588128325313/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3928806588128325313' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3928806588128325313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3928806588128325313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-4-trauma-of-history.html' title='Russia (4): the trauma of History'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsM_0P6ZCeI/AAAAAAAACx0/w4V2g9utnoc/s72-c/Imagen+458.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3894874835818719058</id><published>2007-08-15T00:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-15T00:27:36.746+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (3): The Red Square</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsI5bP6ZCaI/AAAAAAAACw4/ljNG6v0EPMs/s1600-h/Imagen+510.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsI5bP6ZCaI/AAAAAAAACw4/ljNG6v0EPMs/s320/Imagen+510.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098700868427516322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsI4i_6ZCYI/AAAAAAAACwo/ASULiSP1YiU/s1600-h/Imagen+527.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsI4i_6ZCYI/AAAAAAAACwo/ASULiSP1YiU/s320/Imagen+527.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098699902059874690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here it is, the heart of the Empire! The sole vision of the Red Square and the domes makes it worth to come to Moscow...!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3894874835818719058?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3894874835818719058/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3894874835818719058' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3894874835818719058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3894874835818719058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-3-kremlin.html' title='Russia (3): The Red Square'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsI5bP6ZCaI/AAAAAAAACw4/ljNG6v0EPMs/s72-c/Imagen+510.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-6672855972876207294</id><published>2007-08-14T23:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-15T18:34:14.279+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Russia (2): Past and Present</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsM5Cf6ZCbI/AAAAAAAACxc/vAIMErwbRtg/s1600-h/Atrium.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsM5Cf6ZCbI/AAAAAAAACxc/vAIMErwbRtg/s320/Atrium.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098981918202464690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsI1t_6ZCWI/AAAAAAAACwY/JDsM63pCXUc/s1600-h/Imagen+554.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsI1t_6ZCWI/AAAAAAAACwY/JDsM63pCXUc/s320/Imagen+554.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098696792503552354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Many people in the West associate Russia with the communist regime and with the chaotic times of the decade of the 90's and, certainly, both happened and both left a legacy. Many problems persist, however, to focus only on this would be to ignore that things have evolved and Russia is certainly a booming economy right now, no need to read the Financial Times, signs of the strong economic growth of the past few years are visible everywhere in the streets of Moscow. Symbols of the old regime, however, can still be found in many places in the capital. You can get overwhelmed by the the display of affluence and luxury on display at Moscow's commercial centres, on the way back home, a wall painting at the underground station takes you a few decades back in time...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pictures: Moscow underground and Atrium Commercial Centre&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-6672855972876207294?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/6672855972876207294/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=6672855972876207294' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6672855972876207294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6672855972876207294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/russia-2-past-and-present.html' title='Russia (2): Past and Present'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsM5Cf6ZCbI/AAAAAAAACxc/vAIMErwbRtg/s72-c/Atrium.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-108903297397823048</id><published>2007-08-14T23:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T23:42:44.122+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>обнаружение России-Discovering Russia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsIv3v6ZCPI/AAAAAAAACvg/LWsqZbjB8mo/s1600-h/Imagen+503.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsIv3v6ZCPI/AAAAAAAACvg/LWsqZbjB8mo/s320/Imagen+503.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098690362937510130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have just come back from a week long trip to fascinating Russia. It is really hard to describe the impression that produces the first sight of the St.Bassili domes when you first see it through one of the gates of the Red Square or the Golden domes of the Kremlin or the canals of St.Petersburg. However, over the next few days I will try to give you my account, a kind of travel diary, of what I have seen and experienced in this huge, fast moving country.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-108903297397823048?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/108903297397823048/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=108903297397823048' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/108903297397823048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/108903297397823048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/discovering-russia.html' title='обнаружение России-Discovering Russia'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RsIv3v6ZCPI/AAAAAAAACvg/LWsqZbjB8mo/s72-c/Imagen+503.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3766442039437439982</id><published>2007-08-02T23:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-03T00:04:48.242+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>How would it have been?</title><content type='html'>Interesting article by &lt;a href="http://www.johnkay.com/"&gt;John Kay&lt;/a&gt; in the FT one year ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=piedmont&amp;y=0&amp;amp;amp;amp;aje=true&amp;x=0&amp;amp;id=060808000777"&gt;Dreaming up "history" can help us glimpse the future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;span class="smaller-text"&gt;     By John Kay, Financial Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="smaller-text"&gt;    Published: Aug 08, 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="smaller-text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3766442039437439982?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3766442039437439982/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3766442039437439982' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3766442039437439982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3766442039437439982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-would-it-have-been.html' title='How would it have been?'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-670021779034717084</id><published>2007-07-15T20:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T21:53:42.883+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>A glimpse of the future</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpqHpQC8AAI/AAAAAAAACCI/QMEqAbSxDqg/s1600-h/boeing_0807071.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpqHpQC8AAI/AAAAAAAACCI/QMEqAbSxDqg/s320/boeing_0807071.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087527871820070914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On 8th July Boeing unveiled the first prototype of its new 787 airliner. I do not intend to promote the products of a particular company in this blog, but the occasion is worth a post.&lt;br /&gt;This plane is really the first of the a new generation of aircraft, and when I say new I mean really a breakthrough, not  mere accumulative improvement! Thanks to the fact it is made of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_material"&gt;composite materials&lt;/a&gt; instead of aluminum, it is going to be much lighter, consume less fuel and have much more comfortable cabins.  Airlines seem to recognize the value of all these improvements and are rushing to order their 787s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some pictures of the future of commercial aviation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newairplane.com/"&gt;http://www.newairplane.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-670021779034717084?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/670021779034717084/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=670021779034717084' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/670021779034717084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/670021779034717084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/07/glimpse-of-future.html' title='A glimpse of the future'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpqHpQC8AAI/AAAAAAAACCI/QMEqAbSxDqg/s72-c/boeing_0807071.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-6180381099839765226</id><published>2007-07-09T19:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-09T23:03:56.890+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>El Tour arriba a Londres</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJqbPOApI/AAAAAAAACB4/k2SAAd11pw0/s1600-h/Tour1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJqbPOApI/AAAAAAAACB4/k2SAAd11pw0/s320/Tour1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085278291213812370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJjbPOAoI/AAAAAAAACBw/rz0jU_mzQIg/s1600-h/Tour+Arribada+5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJjbPOAoI/AAAAAAAACBw/rz0jU_mzQIg/s320/Tour+Arribada+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085278170954728066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJdLPOAnI/AAAAAAAACBo/hDXps34y40s/s1600-h/Tour8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJdLPOAnI/AAAAAAAACBo/hDXps34y40s/s320/Tour8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085278063580545650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJNbPOAmI/AAAAAAAACBg/7cqLIUCAMaI/s1600-h/Tour%40Buckingham+Palace.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJNbPOAmI/AAAAAAAACBg/7cqLIUCAMaI/s320/Tour%40Buckingham+Palace.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085277792997605986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJArPOAlI/AAAAAAAACBY/HFFPkocAEEU/s1600-h/Tour3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJArPOAlI/AAAAAAAACBY/HFFPkocAEEU/s320/Tour3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085277573954273874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKIcLPOAjI/AAAAAAAACBI/hunyHnIfS3o/s1600-h/Ciclista.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKIcLPOAjI/AAAAAAAACBI/hunyHnIfS3o/s320/Ciclista.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085276946889048626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Aquest cap de setmana el gran circ del Tour de França va creuar el canal de la Mànega i va venir a Londres per donar començament a l'edició d'enguany.&lt;br /&gt;Reconec que, al marge d'haver anat força en bicicleta, ho ignoro pràcticament tot del ciclisme professional, de totes maneres, la caravana del Tour és un espectacle en si mateix i no el tens cada dia a a tocar de casa, així que vam anar amb en Francesc, "londinenc" del Penedès, a fer una ullada.&lt;br /&gt;La part londinenca del Tour ha consistit en dues etapes, una etapa cronometrada pròleg el dissabte i la primera etapa propiament dita el diumenge, amb final a Canterbury (Kent), molt a prop de la costa del Canal. Nosaltres vam anar a veure l'etapa pròleg, concretament els seus metres finals, al Mall, molt a prop del Palau de Buckingham.&lt;br /&gt;La veritat és que va ser divertit veure tot el carnaval que hi ha al voltant del Tour, la gentada amb diferents banderes, els equips de suport i les caravanes on els equips es preparen...i la cursa, és clar! Era una cronometrada, així que els corredors passaven davant nostre d'un en un i no en bloc com en altres etapes de llarg recorregut. De fet van tan ràpid que gairebé no hi ha temps de veure res, l'arribada dels ciclistes s'intueix perque els aficionats a cada cantó de la carretera comencen a picar les tanques publicitàries com si fossin un tam-tam, i segons després apareix el corredor seguit dels cotxes de suport des d'on li criden consignes. Un segon i ja han marxat, gairebé sense temps de fer la foto...&lt;br /&gt;El volt per la zona d'arribada també ens va permetre veure la zona on es preparen els ciclistes, on cada equip té la seva "rulotte" i cotxes d'assistència, allò que habitualment no es veu per televisió...i una curiositat: veure els gendarmes francesos passejant-se pel Mall de Londres.&lt;br /&gt;El que poso en aquest post és una sel·lecció de les millors fotos, fetes com es va poder amb el telèfon. Ja he dit que no era fàcil! Dani, a veure si reconeixes algú!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-6180381099839765226?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/6180381099839765226/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=6180381099839765226' title='2 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6180381099839765226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/6180381099839765226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/07/el-tour-arriba-londres.html' title='El Tour arriba a Londres'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RpKJqbPOApI/AAAAAAAACB4/k2SAAd11pw0/s72-c/Tour1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2142162188508333123</id><published>2007-07-06T21:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-06T22:06:52.729+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Ciutats globals</title><content type='html'>Seguint el post anterior, es parla molt de la necessitat de fer de Barcelona un autèntic aeroport intercontinental, fins i tot han sorgit &lt;a href="http://www.aeroportintercontinental.cat/"&gt;iniciatives ciutadanes&lt;/a&gt; al respecte, però, quina via s'hauria de seguir per aconseguir-ho?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. L'aeroport hauria de gestionar-se com una unitat de negoci independent de la xarxa d'Aena, si pot ser des de Catalunya, d'aquesta manera els gestors no tindrien cap conflicte d'interessos i si tots els incentius per captar el màxim de tràfic i podrien dissenyar la millor estratègia comercial per aconseguir-ho (parlant amb potencials operadors, rebaixant tarifes aeroportuaries a les compayies que presentin millors projectes, donant facilitats, etc.). En certa manera això és el que està fent el &lt;a href="http://www.bcnair-route.com/"&gt;Comité de Desenvolupament de Rutes Aèries&lt;/a&gt;, en el que les institucions catalanes han de fer la feina que en un altre lloc del món s'encarregarien de fer els managers de l'aeroport.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Ara per ara és difícil que Barcelona sigui un &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_hub"&gt;hub&lt;/a&gt;, perquè no és la "casa" de cap companyia que operi vols de llarga distància. &lt;a href="http://www.spanair.com/"&gt;Spanair &lt;/a&gt;i &lt;a href="http://www.staralliance.com/"&gt;Star Alliance&lt;/a&gt; han sonat molt com a possibles desenvolupadors d'un hub a la nova terminal del Prat, però, tot i que és el és interessant que hi ha sobre la taula, em sembla complicat en el curt termini. Spanair no té avions ni rutes de llarg abast i les companyies del seu grup, com &lt;a href="http://www.airpluscomet.com/"&gt;Air Comet&lt;/a&gt;, són petites, molt enfocades al sector turístic i mantenen la base principal a Madrid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Crec que és més viable que Barcelona es converteixi no en un hub, sinò en l'&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hub_and_spoke"&gt;spoke &lt;/a&gt;d'un nombre de de rutes de llarga distància originant-se a diferents punts del món. Els viatgers amb origen a Barcelona tindrien així la facilitat d'accedir al network d'aquestes companyies en regions llunyanes amb menys etapes. El vol de Singapore Airlines i els de les companyies americanes anirien en aquesta direcció. Aquesta solució potser no permet tantes possibilitats com la de ser un gran hub, però ara mateix segurament és més realista. Segurament a Barcelona hi ha potencial per aconseguir enllaços amb les metropolis i centres financers globals (NYC, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapur, Dubai) i amb algunes ciutats de segon ordre en el concert de l'economia mundial però amb aeroports importants que serveixen de centre de distribució regional (Atlanta, Filadelfia,  Sao Paulo, Bangkok, Johannesburg). L'economia catalana i la posició de Barcelona al món hi guanyarien molt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2142162188508333123?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2142162188508333123/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2142162188508333123' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2142162188508333123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2142162188508333123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/07/ciutats-globals.html' title='Ciutats globals'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3361597065668741252</id><published>2007-07-05T22:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-05T23:35:33.910+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Barcelona més a prop de l'Àsia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/Ro1tjLPOAaI/AAAAAAAACAA/UqFm5YGFcMg/s1600-h/ci_fleet_b777_300er_lg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/Ro1tjLPOAaI/AAAAAAAACAA/UqFm5YGFcMg/s320/ci_fleet_b777_300er_lg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083840005450629538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.singaporeair.com/"&gt;Singapore Airlines&lt;/a&gt; ha anunciat (&lt;a href="http://www.elsingulardigital.cat/cat/viewer.php?IDN=8433"&gt;notícia&lt;/a&gt;) que augmenta la freqüència dels seus vols Barcelona-Singapur passant de 3 a 4 setmanals. És una molt bona notícia per a un aeroport del Prat totalment necessitat de vols de llarga distància, sobretot perque implica que  s'està consolidant una demanda i, posats a ser optimistes, no tindria perque ser gaire diferent en el cas d'altres rutes cap a l'Orient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapur"&gt;Singapur &lt;/a&gt;és actualment un important centre de connexions per a tot a la regió del Sud de l'Àsia i Oceania, una regió molt interessant econòmicament pel seu potencial econòmic. Si tot anés bé els propers passos haurien de ser passar a una freqüència diària i a un vol totalment directe (en l'actualitat fa una parada a Milà, encara que els passatgers no han de canviar d'avió). A veure si serveix d'exemple i altres companyies com &lt;a href="http://www.emirates.com/"&gt;Emirates &lt;/a&gt;o &lt;a href="http://www.jal.co.jp/en/"&gt;JAL &lt;/a&gt;s'animen a connectar Barcelona amb els seus hubs asiàtics...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3361597065668741252?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3361597065668741252/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3361597065668741252' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3361597065668741252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3361597065668741252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/07/barcelona-ms-prop-de-lsia.html' title='Barcelona més a prop de l&apos;Àsia'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/Ro1tjLPOAaI/AAAAAAAACAA/UqFm5YGFcMg/s72-c/ci_fleet_b777_300er_lg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2340765358750352435</id><published>2007-07-01T16:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-02T20:32:16.740+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>Aire Pur!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RofIb7POAZI/AAAAAAAAB_4/EMFo6IyyUa8/s1600-h/photo07.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RofIb7POAZI/AAAAAAAAB_4/EMFo6IyyUa8/s320/photo07.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082251086594441618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avui és un gran dia per als no fumadors que vivim en aquest país, ja que entra en vigor la llei antitabac anglesa, gràcies a la qual ja no estarem forçats a respirar fum de segona mà.&lt;br /&gt;Al contrari d'algunes opinions oposades a la llei, jo no crec que aquest tipus de lleis siguin en absolut incompatibles amb un ideari liberal. Em sembla bé que es reguli l'ús d'un espai comú, l'aire en un espai tancat, davant d'una activitat invasiva com el fumar, de la mateixa manera que, tot i que un pot fer el que vulgui a casa seva, si hi ha veïns possiblement no podrà organitzar-hi un concert de rock a les tres de la matinada i tampoc es pot conduir de qualsevol manera en una via pública.&lt;br /&gt;Espero que el govern català prengui exemple i protegeixi aviat els no fumadors de la mateixa manera, amb una llei eficaç i d'aplicació general i no la broma de llei que tenim ara.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2340765358750352435?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2340765358750352435/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2340765358750352435' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2340765358750352435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2340765358750352435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/07/aire-pur_01.html' title='Aire Pur!'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RofIb7POAZI/AAAAAAAAB_4/EMFo6IyyUa8/s72-c/photo07.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2928256718290696248</id><published>2007-07-01T16:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-01T20:46:32.869+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>Les mil i una nits...al dia!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RofCFbPOAVI/AAAAAAAAB_U/RkZOgzS2GDU/s1600-h/Terribas5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RofCFbPOAVI/AAAAAAAAB_U/RkZOgzS2GDU/s320/Terribas5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082244102977618258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RofCArPOAUI/AAAAAAAAB_M/o4Kbsqp6IaI/s1600-h/Terribas4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RofCArPOAUI/AAAAAAAAB_M/o4Kbsqp6IaI/s320/Terribas4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082244021373239618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La setmana passada el mític programa &lt;a href="http://www.tv3.cat/ptvcatalunya/tvcPrograma.jsp?idint=126213162"&gt;La Nit al Dia&lt;/a&gt; va arribar a les 1000 edicions.  No només hem tingut el luxe de poder disfrutar de la professionalitat i el "savoir faire" de la Mónica Terribas durant tot aquest temps, però també de poder assistir a la seva conferència a la &lt;a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/"&gt;LSE&lt;/a&gt; l'endemà mateix (d'aquí el títol d'aquest post!). Per cert, amb un presentador també de luxe, com en &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Preston"&gt;Paul Preston&lt;/a&gt;. El moment curiós de la nit va ser quan va arribar el torn de preguntes i per uns moments va semblar que ningú s'atrevia a aixecar el braç...i és que m'imagino que tothom tenia molt interioritzat que aqui és ella la que fa les preguntes! Com sempre genial! Endavant i per molts programes més!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2928256718290696248?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2928256718290696248/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2928256718290696248' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2928256718290696248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2928256718290696248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/07/les-1001-i-una-nitsal-dia.html' title='Les mil i una nits...al dia!'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RofCFbPOAVI/AAAAAAAAB_U/RkZOgzS2GDU/s72-c/Terribas5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-9006924644493967694</id><published>2007-06-19T20:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T20:17:55.982+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Planespotting</title><content type='html'>Arrel d'&lt;a href="http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20070615/51362192631.html"&gt;aquesta notícia&lt;/a&gt; que publicava La Vanguardia l'altre dia vaig descobrir &lt;a href="http://www.iberianspotters.net/"&gt;aquesta pàgina&lt;/a&gt; dels "plane spotters" de la Península Ibèrica. Jo seria una mica un "plane spotter d'estar per casa" ja que sempre em fixo en els avions quan tinc l'oportunitat de ser en un aeroport, però els plane spotters seriosos poden passar hores en un aeroport fent fotos i anotacions...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-9006924644493967694?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/9006924644493967694/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=9006924644493967694' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/9006924644493967694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/9006924644493967694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/06/planespotting.html' title='Planespotting'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-145821756574662489</id><published>2007-06-12T20:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-14T21:55:14.551+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Aeroports flotants</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/Rm7vYhshtNI/AAAAAAAAByc/T4LjwpDznrs/s1600-h/chubu_centrair_international_airport.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/Rm7vYhshtNI/AAAAAAAAByc/T4LjwpDznrs/s320/chubu_centrair_international_airport.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075257034734154962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un aeroport és una instal·lació gran i sorollosa, a l'Àsia han trobat la solució: construir-los sobre el mar. És el que han fet a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubu_Centrair_International_Airport"&gt;Nagoya &lt;/a&gt;(Japó) (foto) i &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_International_Airport"&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/a&gt;. Aquesta podria ser una possibilitat també per al futur creixement de l'aeroport de Barcelona. &lt;a href="http://www.gavamar.com/index1.htm"&gt;Aquesta pàgina &lt;/a&gt;per exemple ofereix molta informació al respecte i fa poc també va sortir a l'Avui aquest &lt;a href="http://www.ramontremosa.com/ramonnews/data/upimages/ARTICLES_AVUI/2007_03_01_El_potencial_del_Prat.pdf"&gt;article &lt;/a&gt;d'en &lt;a href="http://www.ramontremosa.com/"&gt;Ramon Tremosa&lt;/a&gt;. Crec que és una proposta molt interessant per a Barcelona i Catalunya, ja que no disposem de terreny suficient disponible a una distància raonable de la ciutat (el més proper seria la Segarra o l'Alt Camp), mantindria l'aeroport proper al centre i a l'àrea logística del port, però sense molestar la gent perquè les aproximacions es podrien fer sobre el mar. L'únic punt que no tinc clar és que passaria amb els corrents marítims, que tinc entès que a la nostra costa van de Nord a Sud. És podria produir una acumulació de sediments davant del port de Barcelona? De fet és el que va passar quan es va construir el primer port de Barcelona. Bé, suposo que si algun dia es planteja aquest projecte es tindrà en compte...mentrestant, res ens impedeix començar a imaginar...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-145821756574662489?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/145821756574662489/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=145821756574662489' title='3 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/145821756574662489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/145821756574662489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/06/aeroports-flotants.html' title='Aeroports flotants'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/Rm7vYhshtNI/AAAAAAAAByc/T4LjwpDznrs/s72-c/chubu_centrair_international_airport.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-923105742262073130</id><published>2007-06-05T19:50:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-05T23:18:15.243+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Catalonia in the British press</title><content type='html'>Last week &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Independent &lt;/span&gt;published an incredibly biased article about Catalan language that rather than a piece of balanced journalism looked more like a compilation of the usual arguments of those sectors of Spanish public opinion most hostile to Catalan identity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately, thanks to the fast reaction of &lt;a href="http://www.catalansuk.cat/"&gt;CatalansUK&lt;/a&gt;, the association of Catalan residents in the UK, that sent an letter to The Independent, next day British readers were able to get another point of view on this issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2594158.ece"&gt;Read the original article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reply (&lt;a href="http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article2606415.ece"&gt;published &lt;/a&gt;in The Independent, 2/6/07):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt; The rich history of Catalan &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sir: In an article on the situation of Spanish in Catalonia (30 May), the writer seems to wish to defend "the language of Cervantes" against the alleged attacks on it by those who apparently impose "regional tongues".&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Catalan is a romance language, with a thousand years of literary history and double the number of speakers of, say, Norwegian. Would the writer define Henrik Ibsen's language as a "regional tongue"? So, what is it, in his view, that makes the language of Gaudi, Casals, Dali, Miro or, for that matter, Cesc Fàbregas, inherently inferior? Cervantes himself is unlikely to have agreed with him since in El Quijote he refers to Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc, one of the pinnacles of our literary history, as "the best book in the world".&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Our language and literature is studied in more than 30 countries. Catalan studies were introduced in Britain in the 1940s, and the Anglo-Catalan Society, founded in 1954, is thriving. Twenty British universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, offer Catalan courses.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Catalan was persecuted by Spain for almost 300 years; only since 1980 has the autonomous Government of Catalonia been able to devise policies which enable Catalan children to be taught in their own language.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Catalan Government, like any other serious institution, implements the Spanish Constitution, the Catalan Charter of Autonomy and the laws passed by the democratically elected Catalan Parliament.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;All teenagers must be fully proficient in both Spanish and Catalan by the time they leave compulsory education. This is because we feel that a bilingual society can only be positive.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In Catalonia, the situation of Catalan is still one of inferiority in relation to Spanish. Most TV and radio stations, newspapers, films and commercial labels on products are in Spanish, and few judges can speak the language.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This means many Catalans still cannot use their mother tongue when they go to the cinema, buy their food or decide to file a lawsuit.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We are proud that Catalan is not a political weapon, but a language and a literature which enrich the Spanish and European heritage.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;ROGER SUAREZ&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;CATALANS UK, LONDON SW1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-923105742262073130?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/923105742262073130/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=923105742262073130' title='5 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/923105742262073130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/923105742262073130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/06/catalonia-in-british-press.html' title='Catalonia in the British press'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-4081965075560368921</id><published>2007-06-03T22:43:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-03T22:47:56.015+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Sunday in Suffolk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RmM2eTv43PI/AAAAAAAABr0/GhYD2trSWcU/s1600-h/Leaning+Houses.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RmM2eTv43PI/AAAAAAAABr0/GhYD2trSWcU/s320/Leaning+Houses.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071957499674418418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RmM2RTv43OI/AAAAAAAABrs/deuoKckpV24/s1600-h/Market+Square+3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RmM2RTv43OI/AAAAAAAABrs/deuoKckpV24/s320/Market+Square+3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071957276336119010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavenham"&gt;Lavenham&lt;/a&gt;, Suffolk, 3/6/07&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-4081965075560368921?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/4081965075560368921/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=4081965075560368921' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/4081965075560368921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/4081965075560368921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/06/sunday-in-lavenham-suffolk.html' title='Sunday in Suffolk'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RmM2eTv43PI/AAAAAAAABr0/GhYD2trSWcU/s72-c/Leaning+Houses.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-2533632062353323152</id><published>2007-06-03T22:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-03T22:39:38.441+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>City of London from Primrose Hill</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RmM0gjv43MI/AAAAAAAABrc/3M_jU4Pi5jE/s1600-h/City+from+Primrose+Hill+1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RmM0gjv43MI/AAAAAAAABrc/3M_jU4Pi5jE/s320/City+from+Primrose+Hill+1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071955339305868482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-2533632062353323152?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/2533632062353323152/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=2533632062353323152' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2533632062353323152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/2533632062353323152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/06/city-of-london-from-primrose-hill.html' title='City of London from Primrose Hill'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RmM0gjv43MI/AAAAAAAABrc/3M_jU4Pi5jE/s72-c/City+from+Primrose+Hill+1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3927889572597842487</id><published>2007-05-30T20:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-30T20:25:59.834+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>Patrimoni històric (2): Catalunya</title><content type='html'>He parlat de Culloden en el meu post anterior, perque, si a Escòcia han fet un bon centre d'interpretació en un prat de gespa, a Catalunya, amb el patrimoni que hi ha, es podrien valoritzar indrets que han presenciat batalles importants de la nostra història, com fa als Estats Units el &lt;a href="http://www.cr.nps.gov/"&gt;National  Park Service&lt;/a&gt;, per exemple. En el cas català un lloc destacat l'ocuparia, per exemple, el poble en runes de &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbera_d%27Ebre"&gt;Corbera d'Ebre&lt;/a&gt; (Terra Alta), que encara avui es pot visitar tal com va quedar després de la batalla de l'Ebre, però també llocs no tant impactants de visitar, però que també mereixen ser recordats, com &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_del_Bruc"&gt;el Bruc &lt;/a&gt;(Anoia), sí, el del famós timbaler!, o &lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croada_contra_la_Corona_d%27Arag%C3%B3"&gt;Panissars &lt;/a&gt;(La Jonquera, Alt Empordà), on el 1285 un exèrcit invasor francès va ser derrotat, preservant així la independència catalana durant uns quants segles més.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3927889572597842487?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3927889572597842487/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3927889572597842487' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3927889572597842487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3927889572597842487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/patrimoni-histric-2-catalunya.html' title='Patrimoni històric (2): Catalunya'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-7038423727952409098</id><published>2007-05-30T19:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-30T23:26:23.458+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>Patrimoni històric (1): Culloden</title><content type='html'>En la meva darrera visita a Escòcia vaig tenir l'oportunitat de visitar el camp de &lt;a href="http://www.culloden.org.uk/english/index.html"&gt;batalla de Culloden&lt;/a&gt;, lo de "camp" és literal perque es tracta d'un simple prat al afores de la ciutat d'&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness"&gt;Inverness&lt;/a&gt;. Tot i així, aquest prat té una importància especial per als britànics i especialment per als escocesos, ja que aqui s'hi va lluitar, el 1746, l'última batalla en sòl britànic, on els &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising"&gt;rebels jacobites&lt;/a&gt; escocesos van ser aniquilats per l'exercit britànic consolidant així la unitat política de l'illa.. Per a un català el que pot sobtar són les similituds de Culloden amb l'11 de setembre: els escocesos s'involucren en una guerra dinàstica on recolzen el candidat estranger perdedor. Quan les coses es posen malament, aquest aconsegueix marxar, però els escocesos de les terres altes (Highlanders) són els que en pateixen les conseqüències amb la repressió i la destrucció del seu medi de vida i de qualsevol aspiració política. Al mateix temps altres escocesos que havien sigut fidels a la corona aprofiten per a fer-se un lloc en el nou ordre. El fet és que, atesa la importància del lloc, s'hi ha construit un museu molt modern on s'expliquen molt bé tots aquests esdeveniments i el seu context històric.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-7038423727952409098?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/7038423727952409098/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=7038423727952409098' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7038423727952409098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7038423727952409098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/patrimoni-histric-1-culloden.html' title='Patrimoni històric (1): Culloden'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3294513350765334221</id><published>2007-05-27T19:54:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-27T19:59:22.899+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Lunch Break</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlnU9Dv42vI/AAAAAAAABnU/tssH51X9pb4/s1600-h/Finsbury+lunch+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlnU9Dv42vI/AAAAAAAABnU/tssH51X9pb4/s320/Finsbury+lunch+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069317001025477362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3294513350765334221?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3294513350765334221/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3294513350765334221' title='4 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3294513350765334221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3294513350765334221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/lunch-break.html' title='Lunch Break'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlnU9Dv42vI/AAAAAAAABnU/tssH51X9pb4/s72-c/Finsbury+lunch+1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-1129220989126324860</id><published>2007-05-27T19:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-27T19:53:56.484+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Tribute to the Cutty Sark</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlnRTDv42uI/AAAAAAAABnM/5pPGdS976_0/s1600-h/Cutty+Sark+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlnRTDv42uI/AAAAAAAABnM/5pPGdS976_0/s320/Cutty+Sark+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069312980936088290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlnRMDv42tI/AAAAAAAABnE/Hhaqa7XgXgs/s1600-h/Cutty+Sark.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlnRMDv42tI/AAAAAAAABnE/Hhaqa7XgXgs/s320/Cutty+Sark.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069312860677003986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Last Monday, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutty_Sark"&gt;Cutty Sark&lt;/a&gt;, one of the landmarks of London, was heavily damaged by a fire while in a dry dock next to the Maritime Museum in Greenwich (London). I had the chance to visit it in a sunny day last summer and take some pictures. Here's my tribute to the ship that was once among the fastest in the World, sailing from Australia to London in just two months.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-1129220989126324860?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/1129220989126324860/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=1129220989126324860' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1129220989126324860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1129220989126324860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/tribute-to-cutty-sark.html' title='Tribute to the Cutty Sark'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlnRTDv42uI/AAAAAAAABnM/5pPGdS976_0/s72-c/Cutty+Sark+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-4007171044128050556</id><published>2007-05-23T18:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-24T01:03:25.043+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Actualitat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><title type='text'>En defensa dels Mossos d'Esquadra</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlSCQDv42oI/AAAAAAAABmc/TNggRPhAbgY/s1600-h/escut.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlSCQDv42oI/AAAAAAAABmc/TNggRPhAbgY/s320/escut.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067818693094333058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En aquest post no parlaré dels fets concrets on darrerament han estat involucrats els mossos. L'estat de dret ja té mecanismes per investigar les responsabilitats que se'n derivin i sancionar si s'escau. Del que si parlaré és del linxament mediàtic de tot el cos de Mossos d'Esquadra que s'està produint i que s'aprofita per posar en qüestió tot el model policial català,  un dels pilars de l'autogovern. Sembla que els mossos tenen una greu manca de lideratge i se'ls está fent servir com a arma política. Això també ho aprofiten aquells  que qüestionen que Catalunya tingui la seva pròpia policia, que intenten desprestigiar els mossos  i sembrar la desconfiança entre els ciutadans. Els estan sotmetent a un judici polític. Un judici, això si, sense proves i on el veredicte ja es coneix abans de començar. Només dos exemples:&lt;br /&gt;1) en plena onada d'assalts a cases es va fer quedar als mossos com uns inútils, la realitat és que molts d'aquests assalts es van produir a les comarques de Tarragona i del Baix Llobregat, encara sota la responsabilitat de la Guàrdia Civil! 2)  Repetir moltes vegades una afirmació no la converteix en veritat. Dels molts comentaris que he llegit de l'estil "la Guàrdia Civil era més efectiva"encara no n'he vist cap recolzat per dades objectives que demostrin que això realment és així. Ni un de sol!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De fet a la &lt;a href="http://www.gencat.cat/mossos"&gt;web dels mossos&lt;/a&gt; hi ha estadístiques, seria interessant fer una comparativa amb el rati de delictes resolts per altres forces policials, controlant per variables com l'increment demogràfic, l'àmbit rural/urbà, etc. També cal tenir en compte que els mossos es despleguen en un moment en que la sensació d'inseguretat per noves formes delictives creix a tot Europa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em sobta que es facin aquestes comparacions amb altres cossos policials, perque la situació anterior no era precisament ideal. No us perdeu aquest &lt;a href="http://www.elmundo.es/papel/2004/01/18/catalunya/1563258_impresora.html"&gt;article sobre le desplegament dels mossos a Sant Adrià&lt;/a&gt; que fa 3 anys va publicar un diari tan poc sospitós de simpatitzar amb el nacionalisme català com El Mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En definitiva, que s'investigui el que s'hagi d'investigar i s'aclareixin les responsabilitats, però estaria bé que els mitjans demostressin una mica de rigor en parlar de la nostra policia, perque ens hi juguem molt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-4007171044128050556?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/4007171044128050556/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=4007171044128050556' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/4007171044128050556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/4007171044128050556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/en-defensa-dels-mossos-desquadra.html' title='En defensa dels Mossos d&apos;Esquadra'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlSCQDv42oI/AAAAAAAABmc/TNggRPhAbgY/s72-c/escut.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-1723462042554545419</id><published>2007-05-21T20:20:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-21T23:34:36.864+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Aviation and climate change</title><content type='html'>The UK Government has decided to double the amount of airport tax every passenger has to pay when buying an air ticket, apparently to help tackle climate change. In my opinion this is a way for the government to raise a lot of money through a very regressive tax that will do little to tackle climate change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure, climate change is an important concern and we must do something about it but with this measure it's going to affect specially young travelers, that have grown up used to working and living in a Europe without borders and will, I hope, continue to do so. The new taxes can exceed by far the price of an average low cost flight but they will be peanuts with respect to the price of a business class ticket. Moreover, it will be unfair to tax all airlines equally, as their carbon emissions are not equal. Ironically, it is low cost airlines that are currently flying the newest and most efficient fleets. For example, &lt;a href="http://www.easyjet.com/ca/Reservar/index.asp"&gt;Easyjet &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.ryanair.com/site/CA/"&gt;Ryanair &lt;/a&gt;have fleets made of brand-new planes that consume a lot less fuel and pollute much less than the older planes flown by most full service (and full-cost!) airlines. Why not just put airlines in a carbon trading scheme?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I leave it here for now, but expect more posts soon about aviation and global warming...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-1723462042554545419?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/1723462042554545419/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=1723462042554545419' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1723462042554545419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1723462042554545419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/aviation-and-climate-change_21.html' title='Aviation and climate change'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-145350851082986348</id><published>2007-05-21T19:31:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T22:01:22.932+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Més sobre aeroports</title><content type='html'>Per complementar el post anterior, afegeixo uns quants links addicionals:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vilaweb.cat/www/noticia?p_idcmp=2323514&amp;p_edi=General"&gt;Article&lt;/a&gt; amb molts links interessants sobre el present i futur de l'aeroport de Barcelona i la seva importància per a l'economia catalana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bcnair-route.com/"&gt;Llistat de companyies&lt;/a&gt; que operen vols directes de llarga distància des de Barcelona:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.delta.com/"&gt;Delta Airlines&lt;/a&gt;: New York (JFK)-diari i Atlanta-diari (estiu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.continental.com/"&gt;Continental Airlines&lt;/a&gt;: New York (Newark)-diari&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usairways.com"&gt;US Airways&lt;/a&gt;: Filadèlfia-diari (estiu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.singaporeair.com/"&gt;Singapore Airlines&lt;/a&gt;: Singapur- 3 setmanals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aerolineas.com.ar/"&gt;Aerolineas Argentinas&lt;/a&gt;: Buenos Aires -2 setmanals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.avianca.com/"&gt;Avianca&lt;/a&gt;: Bogotá-2 setmanals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.airtransat.com/"&gt;Air Transat&lt;/a&gt;: Montreal-1 setmanal (estiu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En cap cas, però, s'hi troba la companyia Iberia, i remarco això perque en alguns llocs, com en la aquesta &lt;a href="http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?cid=1045569607363&amp;amp;pagename=Estandar%2FPage%2FAeropuerto&amp;SMO=7&amp;amp;SiteName=BCN&amp;c=Page&amp;amp;MO=1"&gt;pàgina oficial de l'aeroport&lt;/a&gt;, s'hi anuncien uns suposats vols directes d'Iberia que en realitat no existeixen. Per exemple, els que llegiu aquest blog des dels USA podreu comprovar com s'anuncia el vol &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;directíssim&lt;/span&gt; Barcelona-Chicago, una informació enganyosa, perquè s'ha de canviar d'avió a Madrid. Si &lt;a href="http://www.aena.es/"&gt;Aena&lt;/a&gt; tractés igual totes les companyies també haurien d'incloure com a destins des de Barcelona totes les ciutats a les que es pot arribar fent escala a Frankfurt, París, Amsterdam, etc. Que no us donin gat per llebre!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-145350851082986348?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/145350851082986348/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=145350851082986348' title='3 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/145350851082986348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/145350851082986348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/ms-sobre-aeroports_8287.html' title='Més sobre aeroports'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-5146044314140814613</id><published>2007-05-20T15:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-20T17:54:49.230+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviation'/><title type='text'>Qui crea la demanda?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlBpqTv42nI/AAAAAAAABmU/XDFVBMsS-zo/s1600-h/Ryanair2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlBpqTv42nI/AAAAAAAABmU/XDFVBMsS-zo/s320/Ryanair2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066665756368362098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Ryanair &lt;a href="http://www.avui.cat/article/tec_ciencia/1145/ryanair/obre/noves/rutes/des/girona.html"&gt;ha anunciat&lt;/a&gt; que obre 9 noves rutes des de l'aeroport de Girona, concretament  a Granada, Malta, Bratislava, Fes, Marràqueix, Graz, Hamburg, Wroclaw (Polònia) i Billund (Dinamarca). Amb aquestes destinacions es podrà volar directament des de Girona a 48 ciutats europees. El que és sorprenent és que fa només 5 anys el nombre de vols regulars des d'aquest aeroport era exactament 0!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Els intents de posar en marxa un vol diari a Madrid van ser un fracàs rotund i se'n va donar la culpa a la falta de demanda. Ryanair, però, ha demostrat que amb un producte adequat els viatgers hi són, fins i tot per volar entre Girona i "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;metropolis&lt;/span&gt;" com Blackpool o Doncaster.&lt;br /&gt;Dic això perque, a un altre nivell,  l'aeroport del Prat té un problema similar al que tenia Girona fa uns anys: té una oferta de vols que segurament està per sota del seu potencial real. El Prat és un aeroport amb força activitat, el 9è d'Europa per nombre de passatgers, però amb un nombre rídicul de vols intercontinentals directes. De fet és l'aeroport europeu amb el menor nombre de vols de llarga distància en relació amb el nombre de passatgers. Aeroports de mida similar com Munich o Roma o fins i tot més petits, com Manchester o Brusel·les, disposen d'un nombre de connexions molt superior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Davant d'aquesta situació, que genera una preocupació comprensible al nostre país, alguns han apuntat a la  demanda insuficient. El típic exemple que es posa és el dels vols directes a Xina que no van complir les expectatives i es van suprimir. Aquests vols, al meu entendre, tenien dos problemes: 1) les companyies que els feien no tenien una xarxa de connexions potent a Barcelona que ajudés a omplir els vols i 2) amb una frequëncia d'un sol vol setmanal és difícil atraure viatgers de negocis perquè la flexibilitat és mínima. Una vegada més el producte potser no era l'adequat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La solució potser vindrà del mateix lloc: aprofitant l'acord de cels oberts amb els Estats Units, Ryanair posarà en marxa una filial per a fer &lt;a href="http://search.ft.com/iab?queryText=ryanair&amp;y=0&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;aje=true&amp;x=0&amp;amp;id=070412008831&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ft.com%2FftArticle%3FqueryText%3Dryanair%26y%3D0%26aje%3Dtrue%26x%3D0%26id%3D070412008831&amp;amp;referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ft.com%2Fsearch%3FqueryText%3Dryanair"&gt;vols transatlantics de baix cost&lt;/a&gt; des de les seves bases europees.  Serà Girona la primera base de vols intercontinentals del país? Si res no canvia, tot apunta que si, i una vegada més Ryanair haurà creat la demanda aparentment del no res.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-5146044314140814613?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/5146044314140814613/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=5146044314140814613' title='2 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5146044314140814613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/5146044314140814613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/qui-crea-la-demanda.html' title='Qui crea la demanda?'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RlBpqTv42nI/AAAAAAAABmU/XDFVBMsS-zo/s72-c/Ryanair2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3921700782679437437</id><published>2007-05-18T22:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-19T23:16:59.398+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Dinner with the media</title><content type='html'>Yesterday evening the Caesar's Hotel in Bayswater hosted one of the regular meetings of the Catalan community in London, organized with the support of &lt;a href="http://www.catalansuk.cat/"&gt;Catalans UK&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.ceao.cat/"&gt;Fundació Catalunya Empresa Oberta&lt;/a&gt;. This time the event had as guest speakers the correspondents in London of &lt;a href="http://www.lavanguardia.es/"&gt;La Vanguardia&lt;/a&gt;, Rafael Ramos and &lt;a href="http://www.elpais.es/"&gt;El Pais&lt;/a&gt;, Walter Oppenheimer, together with Xesco Reverter of the Catalan public broadcaster &lt;a href="http://www.tv3.cat/"&gt;TV3&lt;/a&gt;. The topic of the day: the recent election in Scotland and the victory of the &lt;a href="http://www.snp.org/"&gt;SNP&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There  was diversity of opinions but there was a shared sense of admiration (and let's admit it, some envy too!) for the way the United Kingdom handles its internal national differences and recognizes Scotland's nationhood, and how issues like a possible referendum of independence can be openly discussed without the political tension getting to unsustainable levels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For similarities between Catalonia and Scotland, here's an &lt;a href="http://www.elsingulardigital.cat/cat/viewer.php?IDN=6006"&gt;interesting article&lt;/a&gt; by Marta Vilella, another Catalan Londonite, by the way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3921700782679437437?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3921700782679437437/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3921700782679437437' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3921700782679437437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3921700782679437437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/dinner-with-media.html' title='Dinner with the media'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-7276915549414529796</id><published>2007-05-16T19:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-16T22:02:33.802+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books'/><title type='text'>Tintín</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RktLjTv42lI/AAAAAAAABmE/10gDueonWcI/s1600-h/tintin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065225275876891218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RktLjTv42lI/AAAAAAAABmE/10gDueonWcI/s320/tintin.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Els fans de Tíntin, entre els quals em compto, ens hem llevat avui amb la &lt;a href="http://www.avui.cat/article/cultura_comunicacio/1091/spielberg/sassocia/amb/peter/jackson/portar/cinema/històries/detintin.html"&gt;notícia &lt;/a&gt;que l'Spielberg prepara una pel·lícula sobre el nostre heroi. No és la primera vegada que s'intenta fer i la veritat és que els resultats fins ara han estat poc convincents...Bé, farem un vot de confiança. Potser aquesta vegada del talent combinat amb les noves tecnologies d'animació en resulta alguna cosa a l'altura de la genialitat d'&lt;a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/HergÃ©"&gt;Hergé&lt;/a&gt;, de qui, per cert, enguany es celebra el centenari. Des d'aquí, doncs, els millors desitjos per a l'equip de realització, però no ho tindrán fàcil: no és senzill superar una obra mestra! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-7276915549414529796?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/7276915549414529796/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=7276915549414529796' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7276915549414529796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/7276915549414529796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/tintn.html' title='Tintín'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RktLjTv42lI/AAAAAAAABmE/10gDueonWcI/s72-c/tintin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-1206599485861401225</id><published>2007-05-15T22:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-19T15:05:51.614+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>War and Peace</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkoxQpVOo-I/AAAAAAAABl8/ijewlq0XcjI/s1600-h/Napoleons_retreat_from_moscow.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064914892974105570" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkoxQpVOo-I/AAAAAAAABl8/ijewlq0XcjI/s320/Napoleons_retreat_from_moscow.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I started reading War and Peace by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_tolstoi"&gt;Tolstoi &lt;/a&gt;during my last trip back from Barcelona and I could not stop...it is no short read, the edition I have is over 1000 pages in two volumes, but if you are interested in European History and the true Russian spirit you should not miss it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A good complement to understand more of the historical setting is &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moscow-1812-Napoleons-Fatal-March/dp/006108686X/ref=sr_1_7/102-1826306-9521722?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;qid=1179266487&amp;amp;sr=1-7"&gt;1812 &lt;/a&gt;by Adam Zamoyski.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-1206599485861401225?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/1206599485861401225/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=1206599485861401225' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1206599485861401225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/1206599485861401225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/war-and-peace.html' title='War and Peace'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkoxQpVOo-I/AAAAAAAABl8/ijewlq0XcjI/s72-c/Napoleons_retreat_from_moscow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-825607518714198768</id><published>2007-05-15T21:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-15T21:32:05.680+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Languages</title><content type='html'>As it seems that only 0,001% of the World population speaks &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language"&gt;Catalan&lt;/a&gt; (so many people out there!), I have tagged each post with a language label, so those who just want to read the posts in English can select the label on the right side of the blog and then will only see the posts in that language.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-825607518714198768?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/825607518714198768/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=825607518714198768' title='6 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/825607518714198768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/825607518714198768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/languages.html' title='Languages'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-3123089904462466117</id><published>2007-05-14T23:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-15T21:00:01.744+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><title type='text'>Isle of Skye</title><content type='html'>Si teniu la ocasió d'anar a Escòcia, no us en oblideu de passar per &lt;a href="http://www.skye.co.uk"&gt;l'illa de Skye &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quan sigueu allà veureu perquè!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-3123089904462466117?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/3123089904462466117/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=3123089904462466117' title='1 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3123089904462466117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/3123089904462466117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/isle-of-skye.html' title='Isle of Skye'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-9021002822743359952</id><published>2007-05-14T23:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-15T22:09:40.997+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viatges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Scotland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkjnXpVOo8I/AAAAAAAABlo/oohJMZA8oSc/s1600-h/P5080494.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064552174396023746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkjnXpVOo8I/AAAAAAAABlo/oohJMZA8oSc/s320/P5080494.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkjikpVOo7I/AAAAAAAABlg/fqXy-194AvA/s1600-h/Imagen+031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064546900176184242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkjikpVOo7I/AAAAAAAABlg/fqXy-194AvA/s320/Imagen+031.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkjiAZVOo6I/AAAAAAAABlY/smUHzCynGT8/s1600-h/Imagen+018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064546277405926306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkjiAZVOo6I/AAAAAAAABlY/smUHzCynGT8/s320/Imagen+018.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkjhIJVOo4I/AAAAAAAABlI/GrYHIcj8UIw/s1600-h/P5060354.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064545311038284674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkjhIJVOo4I/AAAAAAAABlI/GrYHIcj8UIw/s320/P5060354.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A land of wide horizons... and not only in the purely geographical sense! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-9021002822743359952?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/9021002822743359952/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=9021002822743359952' title='0 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/9021002822743359952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/9021002822743359952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/scotland.html' title='Scotland'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N0XeVdd1Mek/RkjnXpVOo8I/AAAAAAAABlo/oohJMZA8oSc/s72-c/P5080494.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209112177012490494.post-9022167693770120742</id><published>2007-05-14T22:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-15T21:00:47.129+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Català'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English'/><title type='text'>Ja era hora!</title><content type='html'>Ja està! ja tinc blog,...finalment després d'un temps llarg en que tenia la idea al cap però no trobava el moment per realitzar-la, m'he decidit a crear un diari de la vida aqui a Londres i també un punt de trobada amb tots el amics dispersos pel món, que són els que més m'han encoratjat per embarcar-me en aquesta aventura digital. Així que aqui està i espero que el disfruteu i em feu arribar els vostres comentaris!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Done! I had been thinking about writing my own blog for quite a long time, but never had the time to do it, but finally the time has arrived! I hope this will be help me keep in touch with all the friends spread around the globe...Please have a look and let me know your impressions!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2209112177012490494-9022167693770120742?l=miquelros.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/feeds/9022167693770120742/comments/default' title='Comentaris del missatge'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2209112177012490494&amp;postID=9022167693770120742' title='5 comentaris'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/9022167693770120742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2209112177012490494/posts/default/9022167693770120742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miquelros.blogspot.com/2007/05/ja-era-hora.html' title='Ja era hora!'/><author><name>Miquel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00659241506955788423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry></feed>
