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Como la trucha al truchoThis issue of EV being a Valentine’s special and also marking two years for me as editor got me thinking – in all this time, I’ve never explained how I came to live in Madrid.If you ask people and make a point of counting, a surprisingly high proportion of English speakers in Madrid came to live here because of love.I hold my hand up, too.

It was June 2005. At the time home for me was the east of France and the company I worked for had sent me to Madrid on a project for a month. In Madrid, Shakira and Alejandro Sanz singing La Tortura were on the radio, thousands of volunteering madrileños were carrying the largest flag ever constructed through the streets for the city’s 2012 Olympic bid candidacy celebration, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith was filling the cinemas and a packet of Lucky Strike was 2.20€.It’s funny what things jump out at you when you arrive in a new place – here, the mass of greasy chicken bones and serviettes you wade through in bar where the tapas are good, the shock of city centre prostitution-in-your-face the first time you see the girls of Montera, the extreme dryness of the air which turns bread to toast in 15 seconds and leaves you with dried blood in your nostrils in the morning.

My room, above the Bajos de Argüelles, was too hot to sleep in with the window closed and too noisy (from the student nightclubs below) to sleep in with it open. Joining in and going out was the only option for self-preservation. Despite trying to keep my mind on cold beer rather than hot women, I did meet the girl and the rest of my stay was as curly as her hair. We parted promising only to meet up for a short holiday in Scotland (take the, ehm, heat out of the situation). But three months later, I was on a plane from Geneva to Madrid, and this time I didn’t have a return ticket.

Love steamrollered all – even an ideological feud over whether it’s acceptable to leave the toilet seat up (which went on for a couple of months before I finally ceded in a trade off for an end to excessive numbers of mousse/face cream/perfume/girl stuff bottles around the bathroom basin area).

Madrid is a great place to be in love and to fall in love. But if you’re not into that kind of thing, the rugby’s on page 20.

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whAT’S oN?mAdrId AgENdA compILEd IN coLLABorATIoN wITh ESmAdrId

Simon MunneryDate: 20 February (box office 7:30pm) Tickets: 17€ box office, 15€ presaleVenue: Sala Taboó (c/ San Vicente Ferrer 23, Metro Tribunal)

Comedy

Simon Munnery - also known by his stage names of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium - came to the fore of British alternative comedy’s rise in the 90s and has never swayed from these chaotic alternative roots since. His stand-up could be described as often satirical, often political and almost always surreal. Simon is an integral part of that style of surrealist comedy that underpins all the best comedy that has come from England since Monty Python, through League of Gentlemen to most recently The Mighty Boosh. He appeared first in 1994 as part of the original Comedy Zone line-up at Edinburgh, with Stewart Lee, Mark Lamarr and Chris and George. In 1996 he created the legendary Alan Parker - Urban Warrior - a self-appointed spokesperson for the dispossessed generation and prophet to the disconnected masses who seeks to smash the system with subversion, some placards and a spray-can. The League Against Tedium was an altogether more surreal and weird proposition which lurched between uncomfortably confusing and hilarious, full of biting satire. Since 2004, Munnery has been staging his current series of shows, Simon Munnery’s Annual General Meeting, at the Edinburgh festival and it has become something of an institution – known for him heading out into the streets with the audience to continue when the shows run out of time. People can expect a totally unpredictable, chaotic show littered with poetry and some genuine pearls of comic genius.

Madrid’s indie fans come out of hibernation on 5 February for a date with Arctic Monkeys at Palacio Vistalegre. They’re touring their third album, Humbug, which was released in August and it's a record brimming with ideas and displaying a wider raft of influences than their earlier efforts. Arctic Monkeys have developed their sound, adding depth with every release. In doing so their music has become less immediate, with fewer hooks, but no less compelling. The direction they are heading in is unlikely to recapture the hype of their debut, but that's a prospect they are clearly not afraid of as they pursue something altogether more interesting and exciting. (See full Arctic Monkeys feature in EV issue no.38)

Arctic MonkeysDate: 5 FebruaryVenue: Palacio Vistalegre

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on stage the bAllEnding: 14 February Venue: Teatro Valle-Inclán

The Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and the Centro Dramático Nacional present an original take on this work that combines

theatre and dance. Sergi Belbel brings together the talent of actresses Anna Lizaran and Francesca Piñón and ballerina Sol Picó in his production of irène Némirovski’s novella.

nino brAvo, the MuSicAlEnding: 14 February Venue: Teatro Häagen-Dazs Calderón

A chronological journey through the life and career of Nino Bravo featuring previously unseen images, interviews

and, of course, his timeless songs. A MidSuMMernight’S dreAMEnding: 28 February Venue: Teatro Sanpol

La Bicicleta company presents a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s most magical and fun comedy, which

revolves around the unrequited love of four young lovers in the palaces of Ancient Greece. gArricKEnding: 21 March Venue: Teatro Compac Gran Vía

The Tricicle group return to Madrid with a show that pays tribute to David Garrick, a famous 18th-century english

actor. The man had such a flair for comedy that even doctors recommended his performancesas a sort of magical remedy. huMble boyEnding: 4 April Venue: Teatro Bellas Artes

verónica Forqué leads the cast in Charlotte Jones’ play about a mother and son living in the fictional village of Moreton in the

Mold. A production by Miguel Narros with fun and ingenious dialogues.

exhibitionsMAntleS for eternityEnding: 14 February Venue: Museo de América

A splendid collection of 80 funeral pieces that include textiles from the culture of Paracas alongside a variety of valuable and

beautiful trousseaus and belongings. All the works belong to the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru.

hAnnAh collinS: ongoing hiStory. filMS & PhotogrAPhSEnding: 21 February Venue: Caixa Forum

the raveonettesDate: 3 FebruaryVenue: Sala Heineken

Super bowl XlivDate: 7 FebruaryVenue: Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida

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There are some exhibitions that come and go, and then there are the ones that stay with you. Hannah Collins strives

to do the latter with her ambitious exhibition that pulls together a collection of three of her most prominent films and related photographs: La Mina, Parallel and Current History. Collins has received numerous awards including the european Photography Award and the Olympus Award. The themes permeating her exhibition about the struggles of people in modern society and the bringing to life of intangible experiences through images are sure to leave you walking away with a new found sense of perspective. Charlene lidyard

the frenzied AlPhAbetEnding: 1 MarchVenue: Museo Nacional Centrode Arte Reina Sofía

The exhibition brings together two renowned figures of Latin American art from the second half of the 20th century,

whose paths crossed in Brazil: Argentinean León Ferrari and Swiss Mira Schendel. the greAteSt Show in the worldEnding: 7 MarchVenue: Museo del Traje

Museo del Traje organises its yearly exhibition of works that are usually stored in the basement. On this occasion, the

world of the circus is unveiled revealing toys, posters, dolls, cutouts and robots... A trip down memory lane.

chinA’S hourEnding: 21 MarchVenue: Matadero Madrid

Organised by Casa Asia, the exhibition comprises recent projects by 17 Chinese artists who worked with different media,

including digital drawings, installations, video, video installations and performance art. dutch PAinterS At the PrAdoEnding: 11 AprilVenue: Museo del Prado

The exhibition comprises a large selection of works from the museum’s collection of 17th-century Dutch

painting. in addition to this show, the Prado will concurrently display another painting in the adjacent room: The Company of Captain Reijnier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw by Frans Hals and Pieter Codde.

fAScinAted by the eAStEnding: 20 JuneVenue: Nacional de Artes Decorativas

With this show, the museum analyses east-West relations from the 4th century BC to present times. Porcelain, ceramics,

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the Swell Season (Stars of Once, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová)Date: 28 FebruaryVenue: Sala Heineken

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raymond vs raymondUsherUsher brings his first release since the disappointing Here I Stand with a title inspire by his recent divorce. As his best and most personal album, Confessions was on the back of his break up with Chilli from TLC. Could lightning strike twice? Oh My Gosh and Traffic will be hitting the clubs hard.

rebirthLil Wayne What do you do when NME, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone and Kanye West proclaim you as the greatest rapper alive? Go out and record a rock album of course! With the world at his feet, Weezy takes a left turn that no one expected. Generally, industry reviews have been far from flattering. Lets hope Mr Milli gets back to doing what he does best sooner rather than later.

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What goes into a great love song? Adam Ciotkowski examines the recipe that makes a masterpiece and serves up his own menu of five favourite love songs. February

Valent ine 's Day 2010

S hort of locking yourself away in a soundproof room, avoiding love songs on Valentine’s Day is

a pretty much impossible task. Indeed, avoiding love songs at any time of the year isn’t easy, given that a love song is essentially any song about being in love and this forms the thematic basis of the over-whelming majority of musical compositions. So whether on Valentine’s Day you’re smug and smitten, living the Disney dream of eating the same strand of spaghetti as your significant other and wading through rose petals, or wheth-er you’re painfully aware of your singledom and out on the pull in desperation, or sullenly boycotting the event at home, love songs are the cornerstone of music and what better time to celebrate them?

Although love songs in some form or another have been about since forever, The Beatles seem like an apt place to start in the modern era. ‘Beatlemania’ was built around the love song. The early years of The Beatles saw the invention of the con-vention: the infusion of ‘rock and roll’ with love-themed lyrics condensed into-three minute pop songs.

But as brilliant and influen-tial as these songs were, they lacked the ingredients to make them truly great.

Something missing from the early love songs of The Beatles was elucidated some years later by Haddaway, who quickly followed his query, “What is love?” with “Baby don’t hurt me.” As well as having an early nineties Eu-rodance classic on his hands, he had pointed out that, on a spectrum of emotions, love is next to pain.

Often the best love songs are the ones that tug on the heartstrings. Early tracks by The Beatles such as I Feel Fine and Love Me Do sound a bit too much like good fun, lacking emotional complex-ity. Whereas a few years later with, what is widely regarded to be one of their finest love songs, Something, there is an added intimacy as George Harrison delicately bends the strings on his heartfelt guitar solo.

In more recent years the con-ventional love song has taken the form of ballads reeled out by boy bands, girl bands, reality TV stars and male and female solo artists. The for-mula is incredibly simple but rarely pulled off, hence the constant stream of throwaway music. When an artist does strike success, love songs have a habit of falling victim to their own popularity. Take James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful for example. It sold fantasti-cally well, it was number one for an age and universally loved. Yet after a few weeks of it incessantly beating every-one around the head (albeit a somewhat self-induced beat-ing), it became universally hated. It wasn’t long before James Blunt’s reward for writ-ing a good love song was a barrage of unfortunately easy puns on his surname.

The difference between a good love song and a bad one is a fine balance. The conven-tions are there for a reason but it’s easy to sound trite or overly sentimental. The advice is often to steer clear of lyrics so obvious as “I love you,” a wordsmith is sup-posed to be more poetic and eloquent, but there have been plenty of occasions where “I love you” has gone down fine, such as Tracy Chapman’s Baby Can I Hold You.

The titles of love songs have often featured names, addressing the song to an in-dividual, but the name itself must be chosen carefully. The Beatles’ Michelle is a classic with its sophisticated French chic. Barry Manilow’s ode to a woman named Mandy on the other hand just doesn’t quite do it – I can’t help but think that Mandy is actually a post-op Andy.

Love songs are a fine art form. The expression of the deepest human emotion is understandably a common pursuit, but one that is no-toriously difficult to achieve successfully. From the vast ocean of them I’ve picked out five that I’ll be listening to on Valentine’s Day:

Barry White Can’t Get Enough of Your LoveNo list of love

songs is complete without the ‘Walrus of Love’. With a voice guaranteed to make any woman weak at the knees, Barry White had the most overtly sexy music. Although I generally lack the smoothness to put it on with any sincerity, surely this is the time of year that I can pull it off.

Snow Patrol Chasing CarsA perfect straight-up love song that has

been played countless times at weddings. In a way it’s senti-mental drivel, but that doesn’t really matter.

Kraftwerk Computer Love Distant and withdrawn yet

deep and effective, it’s one of the first electronic love songs and one of the finest tracks by the pioneers of electronic music. Coldplay borrowed the tune for Talk making it the best track on X&Y.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Maps The simplicity of the drums and reverberating

guitar projects Karen O’s ach-ingly beautiful vocals on the most painfully charming indie love song in recent years.

Beach Boys God Only KnowsEverything is perfect: the instru-

mentation, the lyrics, the delivery of the vocals, the strangely dis-cordant opening line of “I may not always love you” before it turns into a disarmingly open love song with beautiful harmonies at the end. In my opinion, it’s the finest love song ever written.

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EL consuLtorio dE Lingo star

Hola Lingo Star Estoy desesperada. Llevo 5 años con mi novio español, dos de ellos viviendo juntos y ya no sé lo que siento por él. Él sigue teniendo la misma ilusión que al principio de la relación pero yo estoy como apagada. Además, me he dado cuenta de que empiezan a interesarme otros chicos. ¿Qué hago? Gracias por tu ayuda Paulina

Hola Paulina No voy a decirte que rompas con tu novio porque en la vida no todo tiene que ser blanco o negro. Igual antes de tomar una decisión tan importante deberías sentarte y hablar con él. Podéis encontrar una solución de forma conjunta, estoy segura. Mucho ánimo y sobre todo piensa siempre en lo importante que es la comunicación en la pareja. Espero que sigáis celebrando muchos días de San Valentín juntos. Susana

Hola Lingo Star Salgo con una chica española hace un par de años. Yo soy americano y tengo ganas de pasar un tiempo en mi país donde creo que podría tener una vida mejor. El caos es que ella no quiere irse para allí. Dice que nuestra relación allí nunca funcionaría. ¿Por qué sería así si nos queremos? Matt

Hola Matt He escuchado historias similares a la tuya en varias ocasiones. La verdad es que una pareja mixta puede

acostumbrarse a vivir en un contexto y claro, puede ser complicado acostumbrarse a una nueva realidad. Pero yo creo que puede funcionar siempre que los dos pongan de su parte. La postura de tu novia me parece un poco egoísta. Puedes animarla hablándole de las posibilidades que podría tener en tu país y por supuesto dejarle claro que no es un cambio para siempre sino una etapa más en vuestra relación. Mucha suerte. Susana

Querida Susana Vivo en Madrid con mi mejor amiga de la universidad. Con ella he vivido tantas cosas y me he dado cuenta en estos últimos meses que estoy enamorado de ella. Por suerte, en todos estos años ella no ha tenido ninguna relación seria sino más bien historias pasajeras pero no quiero ni pensar que pasaría si ella se enamorara de otro de verdad. ¿Debería confesarle lo que siento por ella? Gracias por tu ayuda James

Estimado James Supongo que a estas alturas tu compañera de piso y amiga sospechará algo sobre lo que sientes por ella. Si sois tan amigos puedes hablar abiertamente con ella pero ¿no piensas que si ella sintiera algo especial por ti te lo habría dicho después de tantos años? Mi consejo es que intentes salir con otras mujeres. Puede que estés confundiendo la cercanía con el amor y eso siempre es un riesgo. Susana

Vocabulario Survival SectionEstación > ski resort Monitor > instructor Cursillo > short course Alquilar > rent Telesilla > chair lift Pista > ski slopeForfait > day ticket Guantes > gloves Gorro > hat Gafas > glasses Botas > boots Bastón > ski pole

Expresiones útiles

> Hace frío > Está cubierto > Está nevando

> Hay dos abiertas > Todas las pistas están cerradas

> El de día cuesta 25 euros > El de medio día cuesta 18 euros

> Hay un mapa en nuestra página web.

> Sí, alquilamos la ropa, las botas, los esquíes y los bastones

¿Qué tiempo hace?

¿Cuál es el estado actual de las pistas?

¿Cuánto cuesta el forfait?

¿Cómo puedo llegar a la estación?

¿Se pueden alquilar equipos?

Diálogo IPaul llama por teléfono a la estación de Navacerrada para hacer reservas para el próximo fin de semana.

T: Puerto de Navacerrada ¿dígame?

P: Hola, me gustaría ir a esquiar el próximo sábado. ¿Cuál es el estado de las pistas?

T: Están todas abiertas y la calidad de la nieve es excelente.

P: Muy bien T: ¿Algo más? P: Sí, quería saber cuánto

cuesta el forfait? T: El de día de fin de semana son

35 euros por adulto. P: Ah, perfecto. ¿Se pueden

alquilar los equipos? T: Sí, tenemos esquíes y equipo

deportivo. P: Fenomenal. Una última

pregunta: ¿es posible alojarse en la estación?

T: Sí, hay dos hoteles próximos a la estación.

P: Muy bien, me gustaría hacer una reserva para dos noches…

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Dices Oyes

the seCtion for learning spanish LINgo STArwordS by SuSANA LopEzAdvanced Section

Pura vida (2003). José María MendiluceAriadna es una joven barcelonesa, funcionaria de la ONU, que trabaja en Nueva York. Lleva una vida rutinaria al lado de Tom. La

pesadez de esa rutina le hace buscar un proyecto de la ONU en el extranjero para así cambiar de aires. Gracias a esto descubrirá Costa Rica y lo que es la verdadera Pura Vida. Una historia de amor llevado a sus últimas consecuencias en la que se dejan entrever las dificultades surgidas por diferencias culturales muy marcadas.

Te di la vida entera (1996). Zoé Valdés Finalista premio planeta 1996 Una novela sobre el deseo, la esperanza y el desencanto que retrata sesenta años de la vida

de una mujer cubana. Te di la vida entera es la historia de la Niña Cuca, que con poco más de dieciséis años llega a La Habana prerrevolucionaria. Después de un baile enloquecido y un largo y apasionado beso, la Niña Cuca cae perdidamente enamorada de un hombre que desaparece sin dejar rastro. Pero ella sabe mantenerse fiel a su promesa, y ocho años más tarde, cuando por fin se reencuentran, inician una desenfrenada historia de amor. Pero la felicidad abandona pronto a Cuca, una mujer a quien la vida le cambia cada vez que escucha un bolero.

Como agua para chocolate (1989). Laura Esquivel La novela narra el amor de una joven, Tita, que vive en una ciudad fronteriza mexicana en tiempos de la

Revolución mexicana. Inmersa en un ambiente familiar muy tradicional y de costumbres arraigadas, su vida cambia cuando se enamora de Pedro y su familia no acepta la relación.En la novela los sentimientos se mezclan con la gastronomía y por ello, las cebollas serán el motivo de lágrimas o las perdices despertarán pasiones incontrolables.

La Regenta (1884-1885). Leopoldo Alas Clarín Es la historia de Ana Ozores, casada con el antiguo Regente de la Audiencia de la

ciudad, Víctor Quintanar, hombre bondadoso pero maniático y mucho mayor que ella. Viéndose sentimentalmente abandonada, Ana Ozores empieza a ser cortejada por el donjuán provinciano Álvaro Mesía. Para completar el círculo, el canónigo magistral D. Fermín de Pas (confesor de Ana) también se enamora de la Regenta y se convierte en inconfesable rival de Mesía. Una novela muy al estilo de Madame Bovary que refleja la sociedad hipócrita de la época.

El amor en tiempos de cólera (1985). Gabriel García Márquez La novela cuenta la historia de Florentino Ariza que es capaz de esperar 53 años, 9

meses y 4 días al que considera es el amor de su vida, Fermina Daza. La historia se desarrolla a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX en la costa de Colombia; en tiempos que reina la penuria y varias guerras civiles azotan al país. A las ciudades costeras llega la epidemia del cólera y los síntomas del amor se confunden con los de esta enfermedad.

Mi vida sin mí (2003). Isabel CoixetAnn tiene 23 años, dos hijas, un marido que pasa más tiempo en paro que trabajando, una madre

que odia al mundo, un padre que lleva 10 años en la cárcel, un trabajo como limpiadora nocturna en una universidad a la que nunca podrá asistir durante el día... Vive en una caravana en el jardín de su madre, a las afueras de Vancouver. Esta existencia gris cambia completamente tras un reconocimiento médico. Desde ese día, paradójicamente, Ann descubre el placer de vivir, guiada por un impulso vital: completar una lista de “cosas por hacer antes de morir”.

Al sur de Granada (2003). Fernando Colomo Gerald Brenan, un joven idealista inglés llega en los años veinte a un

pequeño pueblo de la Alpujarra granadina. A lomos de unas mulas llegan a los pocos días sus dos mil libros: ha venido a España para cumplir su sueño de ser escritor. Pero la tranquilidad que buscaba se verá pronto alterada por la sucesión de acontecimientos que comienzan a desencadenarse con su presencia.Conoce a Juliana quien le lleva a vivir la plenitud del amor físico, algo que su educación victoriana nunca le permitió imaginar.

La pasión turca (1994). Vicente ArandaDesideria Oliván es una mujer casada de educación convencional que vive en Huesca. Su vida

tranquila y costumbrista cambiará radicalmente al realizar un viaje junto a Ramiro, su marido a Turquía. Desideria descubre que unos simples contactos físicos, unos simples roces de piel con piel, pueden hacer que su mundo se tambalee. Se trata de Yamam, un guía turco que acompaña al grupo de turistas. Nada ni nadie podrán evitar que Desideria, presa de un sentimiento que le sobrepasa, inicie y culmine una relación furtiva con Yamam.

Cosas que nunca te dije (1995). Isabel Coixet Los protagonistas de esta película, Ann y Don son dos jóvenes que han perdido

la ilusión por vivir. Viven inmersos en la soledad de sus pensamientos, en una apatía que les impide sonreir, que no les deja luchar por buscar una salida.El destino hará que Ann y Don se conozcan por un instante, por un intenso, bello y silencioso momento, aunque ella nunca sabrá que es la persona con la que habló por teléfono, a la que le descubrió sus sentimientos... ellos se necesitaban porque buscaban lo mismo: esa felicidad perdida, ese amor que les fue robado, esas sonrisas que ya no son capaces de mostrar, porque no son más que algo artificial, como sus vidas...Es sin duda una historia agridulce con las puertas abiertas a la esperanza.

Chachachá (1998). Antonio del Real Una divertida comedia sobre el amor, la amistad y otras mentiras, donde nada es lo que

parece, ni nadie es quien parece. Es la historia de dos amigas, Lucía y María, muy jóvenes y muy guapas que lo comparten todo excepto a Pablo, el novio de María. Lucía está enamorada de él en secreto y no desistirá en sus intentos de seducirle.


TOP 5 historias de amor libros y

películasSusana makes her list of all-time favourite Spanish language love stories on film and in books.

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Vintage Port ColleCtion - Croft Cellar

Are you looking to switch off? Are you already tired of Madrid and its craziness? Would you like to surprise that special person? Just an hour plane journey from Madrid, you

can find peace and relaxation in the north of Portugal. Porto is a romantic, enigmatic and picturesque destination.

We arrived in Porto on a bright summer’s day. My first contact with the city reminded me very much of the north of Spain - Galicia, to be specific. As soon as we checked ourselves in, we decided it was time to explore the city, a beautiful place with so much to see. I’ve always been a huge fan of tourist buses and it looked like the best plan as it was a bit warm to be traipsing around. The route takes approximately an hour and gives you a great overview of the city and its history. The old town has been a settlement for 2000 years and is now on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites.

One of the 'must-sees' in Porto is the São Francisco cathedral. It’s a massive Romanesque construction and the interior is just breathtaking with the heavily carved and gilded woodwork that covers most of the inside walls. There are statues of saints re-enacting famous religious scenes. Those with an appreciation for a different type of religion will want to take a tour of the Estadio do Dragão, home of 2004 Champions League winners FC Porto and architecturally one of the most striking stadiums in Europe.

If you arrive in Porto by air, you shouldn’t forget to visit the main train station, São Bento. It’s the most ornate I’ve seen in my life. The interior is decorated with colourful mosaics depicting various scenes. You can easily spot the tourists – we’re the ones standing in the way of the locals trying to get home, staring up in amazement.

Another really nice thing to do in Porto is the Six Bridge River Cruise on the Douro (where you actually only see five bridges). The cruise lasts about an hour and is a very pleasant distraction. On the boat, you will find out that the urban area is divided into two cities by the Douro River: Porto on the north side and Vila Nova de Gaia on the south bank. By the river banks there are plenty of bars, restaurants and cafés where you can eat or just enjoy a coffee under the sun. On the Gaia side of the river, there are lots of wooden port boats. They have one large sail and a long rudder that the boatman controls from a platform at the back of the boat. There’s a festival each year where they race them. A walk down the river bank will take you two centuries back in time: old style crafts similar to Venetian gondolas, the famous port cellars and neoclassical appearance houses.

Without a doubt, one of Porto’s main attractions is the port wine cellars mostly located on the other side of the river, that is in Vila Nova de Gaia: Croft, Sandeman, Graham’s are among the most popular brands.

The cellars are the best place to discover the Portuguese wine and its history. All of them are open to the public and give the visitors the opportunity to taste the local drink and learn a bit about the production process. We got the chance to visit the Graham’s cellar that is a bit further away from the tourist center and to do so we were picked up on a free bus that took us to their premises. By the end of the visit we were offered a taste of different ports along with some local cheeses. All for free!

Talking about food, you will notice that north Portuguese dishes are slighty different to those you can have in the south of the country. There is a lot of chicken and pork in their cuisine, but what stands out the most is cod. You can’t leave the city without trying the

cod in at least three different varieties. The locals usually have it with vinho verde (green wine) - another typical Portuguese product. The best places for lunch are pastelerias, which, as the name suggests, are cake shops – but only at the front. Beyond the pastry counters you will find a restaurant area with excellent quality food at a much cheaper price than a menú del día in Madrid.

If you feel like having some fast food, you are in luck in Porto as they created their own sandwich. It was named francesinha (little Frenchie) by a returning emigrant from France, who tried to adapt the croque-monsieur to Portuguese taste. It is made with toasted bread, cured fresh sausage, roast meat or ham and covered with molten cheese and a hot thick tomato and beer sauce, served with a side order of chips. It can be a bit heavy for the summer, but it’s just perfect on a cold day.

If you are up for some shopping, don’t miss out Rua Santa Catarina, the high street with hundreds of shops, most of them selling shoes. There are tiny shops that just sell buttons or costume jewellery and jewellery shops that make your credit card shrink in fear, it is an enjoyable walk even if you can’t afford to buy anything.

For those who want to feel the rhythm of the night, Porto has a wide range of choices. The nightlife is more vibrant during the summer season when both locals and tourists get together in the Ribeira district, where a number of bars and cafés with outdoor seating are located. There are also some big fashionable clubs in the Foz district. If you are looking for live music, Aniki Bobo is a Porto classic.

And the following morning, you might still get some time for a last walk down the Douro river before heading off to the airport, hopefully a little bit more in love after the most romantic weekend ever. Amo-te Porto!

If you feel like having some fast food, you are in luck in Porto as they created their own sandwich. It was named francesinha (little Frenchie) by a returning emigrant from France

Looking for a romantic weekend out of Spain that’s both easy to get to and affordable? Susana

López found the perfect place and fell a little more in love in Porto.

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The city, the smog, the horns, the crowds, the endless nights out – it was all taking its toll on the nerve endings and wearing me down. Trapped, claustro-

phobic, tired, I needed a break. A couple nights of quiet. A quick va-cation, on a budget, away from the city and club and caña temptations. So, where to then? Well, just10€ and a two hour bus ride away, we decided that Cuenca was the most appropriate option.

So, with the aim of relaxation and fresh air, and an itinerary like a blank Word document, Cuenca turned out to be the perfect destina-tion. We hadn’t booked a hostel, we had no idea what to do, and we had a limited amount of Euros to spend – but a city so small in size and so untouched by the average guiri poses little threat to such stresses. My advice to you, regardless of your travel routine, is to follow suit. As you’ll see straight out of the bus station, there are signs all over the city pointing you in whatever direc-tion you need to go, and without a clue as to what to do, we followed them through quiet, winding streets until we made it to the centro turistico where we found free maps, restaurant and hostel listings, bike rentals, walking guides, and day trip excursions to the mountains and la ciudad encantada. The woman at the kiosk highlighted on the map a typical path from the new city (like Toledo, Cuenca’s divided by a river into modern and medieval) to the old, and we were on our way.

Thusly informed, we trotted along, climbing slowly, fallen leaves crunching underfoot, towards the

narrow but sturdy red iron bridge connecting both sides of the river valley and leading to Cuenca’s poster child of landmarks – las casas colgadas. High up on the bridge, we stood for a minute to take in the view. Modern Cuenca sprawled out to the front and left, with green hills resting in the background. The river below, its banks spattered with shades of autumn yellows, curved to the right around the cliff face of

the old city and out of sight; and to our immediate right, staring down at us with the taunting careless-ness of a reckless adolescent, the casas colgadas teetered precariously out over the cliff edge, ready at any moment to topple down into the valley below.

Photos snapped, bridge crossed, we passed under an arch and into the chilly shadows of quiet, cobbled corridors. Meandering silently past cathedrals and museums, through tiny plazas, and in and out of the thin autumn sunshine, we took in the occasional views of the sur-rounding sierra, letting cars pass close by and reminding ourselves that some fortunate folk actually get to call this place home – sharing morning coffees with centuries of history and stunning views from their tiny windows. I hoped they didn’t take it for granted.

A few minutes later and we had

made it to the top of the road and to the seeming end of civilization. In every direction but back towards the city, hills stretched out for miles – the only sign of life being gentle wind swept wisps of the occasional burning chimney in the distance. I checked the time. We’d only been in Cuenca for two hours and had al-ready reached its abrupt end. Well, we came, we saw – time for a meal, a caña, and a place to hang our hats for a couple nights. And so we did.

For day two of the trip we’d booked an excursion into the mountains in search of la ciudad encantada – the Enchanted City. With its name straight out of an Indiana Jones flick, I had high hopes – but for what exactly I can’t really begin to explain. And it was perhaps a good thing I had no direction in which to point these lofty expectations, as it turned out to not be a city at all. High on the mountain and hidden amidst dense blankets of forest, our destination, we discovered, was a natural park made up of crazy rock formations, eroded into bizarre shapes by centuries of mountain-top wind gusts. There was kind of an eerie, stifling silence as we wound through the corridors of towering stone – an improb-able, unique landscape dropped awkwardly into the woods like a unit of misplaced paratroopers. Some rocks had names (la tortuga, el puente romano, los elefantes) to indicate their likenesses – a bit cheesy, I’ll admit, but entertaining for the eye and enough to keep my mind away from city stress.

After a couple hours using up every ounce of the city’s enchantment, we headed over to the hostel across the street for a lunch of cured venison and wild boar products (the food

in Cuenca, I have to mention here, was excellent – rustic, hearty, home cooked mountain food) before con-tinuing on through the surrounding woods for an afternoon hike.

There being no real public parks for such ventures, we soon found our-selves on what some signs indicated to be private hunting grounds (what would a proper vacation be, after all, without a little law breakin’?). Hey, we had five hours to kill until our driver returned and no other method for killing time. What else were we to do? Anyway, so after about a half hour of following the spine of a gently undulating ridge, we came at last to an unobstructed view. Below, red roofs of a village peeked up at us from the wide valley – the turquoise waters of its lake shimmering with whatever glints of sunlight the low lying cloud blankets would let through. To the right the ridge stuck out in folds of foothills and forest, and opposite, the Sierra de Cuenca, with its cream cloured cliff faces, stretched off to the north and east and out of sight. All was still and silent. A carpet of caterpillars cov-ering the forest floor was the only movement for miles.

Finally, in this moment of com-plete, golden silence, the pent up tension from so much city noise and hustle all at once melted away. Happy to rest, relax, and rejuvenate from a 15-month streak without a weekend off, this was a gift to my Monday morning self. Know the feeling? Do yourself a favour then, amigo – take the two hour trip, hydrate, eat heartily, and wake up to start your week with the fresh air of Cuenca still lingering in your lungs. This is a trip you will most certainly not regret.

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the casas colgadas teetered precariously out over the cliff edge, ready at any moment to topple down into the valley below.

About two-hours’ drive west from Madrid, Cuenca has all you need to disconnect from the capital. Matt Johnson returned refreshed and eager to share its enchantments.

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lent is a time for cleansing. Don’t eat meat. Give up cursing. Go to church. All that jazz.

Carnival, on the other hand, is a time for partying.

Starting 40 days before Easter, Carnival celebrates all that is good in life: song, dance and indulgence. Somehow, the British and other Anglo-cultures even manage to make pancakes for Shrovetide. But let’s focus on what’s important: merrymaking.

While the celebration may vary from place to place, revelry remains a common truth throughout Carnival’s various incarnations. Predominantly a Roman Catholic celebration, the word Carnival stems from the Old Italian carnelevare, or lifting the meat, a direct reference to the Lenten practice of abstaining from meat. In anticipation for all that fasting and sacrifice, then, it only makes sense to cram in all the jollies possible before that suffering begins.

Whether in New Orleans, Tenerife, or the epicentre of all things Carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Carnival is synonymous with enormous celebrations. As the ideal of Carnival festivities, Rio proclaims its version as “Probably the most famous party in the world,” in the city’s handbook. Think elaborate costumes, 24/7 parties, non-stop dancing and for some, almost an entire week without work. That’s a helluva bender. And while the etymology of Carnival refers to the removal of meat, there’s usually plenty of skin to go around. Beautiful women parade the streets in strategically placed feathers and otherwise next-to-nothing, flowing amidst rivers of percussive music that provokes the

party forward. African-influenced Samba dances epitomize Rio’s Carnival in many ways; in particular, the batucada style seen throughout Carnival, with its multitude of drums, percussion instruments and whistles, inspires like few sounds on Earth. Samba schools plan song and dance shows and compete in the Sambadrome for four consecutive nights, beginning each night at 8 p.m. and ending around 5 a.m. Thousands of Brazilians and tourists alike flock to Rio to witness the parades, and many more watch on television around the country, though many other Brazilian cities have their own takes on the festival.

In New Orleans, Fat Tuesday is recognized as the biggest day of its Mardi Gras, the term used to refer to its Carnival celebration—which, incidentally, translates to ‘Fat Tuesday’. Here in the Big Easy, partygoers meander up and down the streets and participate in huge parades with fantastic floats, all the while trying to collect as many beads as possible. A common image of New Orleans’ Mardi Gras is of women on the street flashing men up on balconies in order to obtain more beads. Though it’s a common occurrence, there’s a lot more to the pre-Ash Wednesday festivities than that. The official colours of Mardi Gras are purple, gold and green, representing justice, power, and faith, respectively. Krewes, or groups that plan the parades, put together other-worldly floats and toss out beads, toys, and coins with their emblems on them to partygoers, who often themselves are dressed in outlandish costumes.

In Spain, Cádiz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife hold the biggest celebrations. In fact, Carnival in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of the largest of the Canary Islands, happens to be the second-largest such

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celebration in the entire world. Check out EV’s article on Cádiz from the January 2010 issue (no. 38, also available on www.europeanvibe.com) for more on that party. As for the party in Tenerife, think first about the general atmosphere found in the Canary Islands. Take that beautiful weather, breathtaking vistas, and party atmosphere, and then turn the dial up to 10. Festivities begin with a parade the Friday before Carnival, and things carry on into the wee hours, all the while with costumed revellers dancing and singing into the sunrise. From there, an official Carnival takes place, as well as the street Carnival, with both parts happening every night. On the official side, contests of murgas, comparsas, rondallas and musical groups take place nightly, with song and dance routines filling the air. On the streets, people party like it’s going out of style. Each year has its own theme—with 2010’s being, “Tenerife, story of a Carnival”. The festival commences with the ‘Burial of the Sardine’, though the weekend brings the Saturday and Sunday of the Piñata. The party is often so loud, that even the locals complain about the noise. Even so, they can’t put a halt to the out-and-out craziness that ensues after that opening parade.

Realistically, any of these versions of Carnival should provide unforgettable experiences—though it’s entirely possible to not remember details, given indulgences. That’s what digital cameras are for. All this explanation doesn’t even delve into other spins on the festival in places like Venice, Germany, or Croatia. Sure, festivals come and go, but Carnival has an exotic, borderline-crazy connotation. And rightfully so. So pack your party pants, bring an appetite for excess, and get ready to indulge in a bacchanalian fiesta like no other.

la vida es un CARNAVALCarnival around the world

Flit around the world with Ryan Craggs on his quest to find the best spots to celebrate Carnival this month.

Food

eat out guide


Indian

Taj Mahal c/ Belén, 12 Chueca/Alonso Martínez

Bright, colourfully furnished indian restaurant located in Madrid’s trendy Chueca area. Open since 1985, it is a busy little place and quite reasonably priced at around 18/20€ per head. 3 course lunch or “menu del día” is served from 1.30pm- 4.30pm, dinner from 8.30pm- 12.30am. Open every day. Tel: 91 391 4586

American

Il Piccolino Della Farfalla c/ Huertas, 6 Antón MartínLa Farfalla c/ Santa María, 17 Antón Martín

Centrally located Argentinian steak house with a rustic, welcoming atmosphere. enjoy traditional Argentinian cuisine such as pizza, pasta, and grilled meat. variety of vegetarian options available. Open every day ‘til late. Average price 15/20€ per head, lunch menu only 9,50€.Il Piccolino Della Farfalla Tel: 91 369 4391La Farfalla Tel: 91 369 4691

Modern/International Cuisine

Toma c/ Conde Duque, 14 Plaza de España

Creative cuisine in a casual, friendly atmosphere. Lunch served Tuesday to Friday, dinner served Tuesday to Saturday, brunch served on Sundays. Tel: 91 547 4996

Chill Out Caché c/ Cardenal Cisneros, 11 Bilbao

Chill Out Caché, an amazing place to discover. An atmosphere with an oriental touch, where you can “tapear”, try our creative cuisine or have a tea or cocktail on one of our spectacular Balinese beds. Tel: 91 445 5157 www.chilloutcache.es

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Monks Bar & Restaurant c/ Capitán Haya, 23 Cuzco/Bernabéu

enjoy contemporary grill cuisine such as burgers, chicken, and shrimp in untraditional eastern décor while watching your favorite sports on a big screen. Conveniently located near Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Tel: 91 556 6776 www.monks.es

Artemisa Tres Cruces, 4 ( Gran Vía). Tel: 91 521 8721 Ceres Topete, 32 ( Alvarado). Tel: 91 553 7728EcoCentro de Esquilache 4 ( Rio Rosas/Cuatro Caminos). Tel: 91 553 5502El Granero de Lavapies Argumosa 10 ( Lavapiés). Tel: 91 467 7611 El Vergel Pso de la Florida, 53 ( Príncipe Pío). Tel: 91 547 1952Isla del Tesoro Manuela Malasaña, 3 ( Bilbao). Tel: 91 593 1440La Bio Tika Amor de Dios, 3 ( Antón Martín). Tel: 91 429 0780 La Mazorca Paseo Infanta Isabel 21 ( Atocha). Tel: 91 501 7013

El Estragón Pl. Paja, 10 Madrid de los Austrias La Latina

A pleasant surprise for non-vegetarians. Rustic, Andalusian tavern-style décor, extensive and surprisingly tasty menu. Located in the heart of the bustling La Latina area. Open every day, 1pm- 4.30pm, 8pm-12.30pm. Tel: 91 365 8982

Vegetarian

A great selection of healthy and freshly prepared foods. Menus with appetizer, main and drink from 6€; choose from burgers, quesadillas, fajitas, spaghetti, salads, sweet crepes, etc. COMe AND eNJOy THe TASTe OF WONDeRFOOD Tel: 647 750 998

Wonderfood Fernando el Católico, 15 Quevedo

The Big Game! Amercian Football final party in an unforgettable atmosphere. Sunday, 7th FebruaryThere are two great bars and two private rooms. Hard Rock offers genuine American food and we create an authentic dining experience in a Rock ‘n’Roll atmosphere: live music and museum.Tel:+ 00 34 91 436 43 40 www.hardrock.com

Hard Rock Cafe Pº de la Castellana, 2 Colón/Serrano

Ernie’s Station c/ Las Fuentes, 10 Opera/Sol

At ernie’s, try a slice of Americana in our 50’s rock n roll diner! Create your own burger by mixing and matching our toppings. Also try our Tex Mex and the tastiest hot dogs in town! Located between Puerta del Sol and the Royal Theater we are something completely different in the heart of Madrid! Check us out on the web at www.erniestation.com Tel: 91 559 7168

Alfredo’s Barbacoa Lagasca, 5 ( Retiro). Tel: 91 576 6271 Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, 11 ( Cuzco). Tel: 91 576 6271 Foster’s Hollywood Magallanes, 1 ( San Bernardo). Tel: 91 445 6110 Pl. Isabel II, 3 ( Ópera). Tel: 91 542 3172 Princesa, 13 ( Pl. España). Tel: 91 559 1914 Gédeca, 6 ( Alonso Martínez). Tel: 91 310 2369Ribs Abada, 8 ( Callao). Tel: 91 884 3728 Peggy Sue’s Diner Eguilaz, 1 ( Bilbao). Tel: 91 445 1087T.G.I. Friday’s Gran Vía, 76 ( Gran Vía). Tel: 91 275 9492Tony Roma’s Gédeca, 17 ( Alonso Martínez). Tel: 91 310 1488

La Kitchen Prim, 5 ( Chueca). Tel: 91 360 4974Mi Mama Carmen Molino de Viento, 4 ( Tribunal). Tel: 91 522 0263Paparazzi Sor Angela de la Cruz, 22 ( Tetuan/Cuzco). Tel: 91 579 6767Mi Mama Carmen Molino de Viento, 4 ( Tribunal). Tel: 91 522 0263

Ciao Apodaca, 20 ( Alonso Martinez). Tel: 91 447 0036La Tagliatella Avenida General Perón, 40 ( S. Bernabeu Tel: 91 556 9046La Tavernetta Orellana, 17 ( Colón). Tel: 91 319 2390Pinocchio Plaza Doctor Laguna, 7 ( Ibiza). Tel: 91 409 0033

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Bazaar San Marcos, 35 ( Chueca). Tel: 91 523 1505Casa Mingo Paseo de la Florida, 34 ( Príncipe Pío). Tel: 91 547 7918La Cueva del Faisán Espoz y Mina,15 ( Sol). Tel: 676 287 654A Cuerpo De Rey Hilarión Eslava, 27 ( Moncloa). Tel: 91 549 4338

La Casa del Abuelo Victoria, 12 ( Sol). Tel: 91 521 2319Malaspina Cádiz, 9 ( Sol). Tel: 91 523 4024

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La Mariachita is a Mexican ‘cantina’ which offers authentic Mexican dishes in a fun ambience with a sophisticated decor.This restaurant is an excellent choice to try some great Mexican food accompanied by typical cocktails, micheladas, margaritas or imported beer.Tel: 91 594 21 40

La Mariachita P0 General Mtz Campos, 11 Iglesia

Chilango Manuela Malasaña, 12 Bilbao

Typical food with a touch of the best of Mexican flavours. The best margaritas and cocktails.Mon to Fri 13.30/16 and 21/24 Sat. 21/24 closed on Sunday Tel: 91 591 4515 [email protected]

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Ayala Japón Ayala, 67 ( Lista). Tel: 91 309 5625 Furama Paseo de la Florida, 2 ( Príncipe Pío). Tel: 91 548 7658

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FILm FIrST

director: Clint eastwood cast: morgan freeman, matt damon & tony kgoroge

spanish title: inviCtus release date: 29 Jan 2010

After the disappointment of Nelson Mandela not turning up to save the day and unite humans and ‘prawns’ in District 9, it should be a delight to see the real-life miracles achieved

by the greatest African leader in reconciliation of the seemingly irreconcilable. Should be…Mandela is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable characters of the twentieth century. Imprisoned for treason as a terrorist for 27 years by the white Afrikaner-dominated Apartheid regime, he was finally released in 1990 and the ban on his African National Congress party lifted after a long worldwide campaign and international pressure. What had been unthinkable just a few years previously came into being when Mandela was elected president after the first multi-racial elections in South Africa’s history. From 1994 to 1999, he led his country through its transition to full democracy, dismantled the apparatus of racial segregation without the bloodshed thought by most to be inevitable and became influential as an international mediator for peace. A shining moment of Mandela’s new ‘Rainbow Nation’ was when he handed

the World Cup trophy to the white-skinned Afrikaner captain of South Africa’s rugby team, François Pienaar. An unprecedented wave of unity swept through the country joining South Africans in jubilation at the Springboks’ triumph.

The journey was almost as fairy tale-like in sporting terms, too. The South African national rugby union side, known as the Springboks after the rapid little antelope indigenous to south-western Africa, had experienced their own period of isolation since the 1977 Gleneagles Agreement had established

the Commonwealth nations’ boycott of sporting contact with South Africa under Apartheid. Apart from four heavily protested-against tours, the Springboks were frozen out of international rugby and excluded from the first two World Cups in 1987 and 1991. Despite having home advantage, South Africa were seeded ninth from a total of 16 teams and their chances were written off by most, the South African sports media being particularly critical of the team’s prospects. The story of triumph in the face of adversity and the uniting of the South African people in support and celebration of their team (considering the Springboks had always been a symbol of hate for black South Africans) would have appeared too ‘comic-book’ were it fiction, but it really happened and Clint Eastwood accepted the challenge of bringing the inspirational story to the big screen.

Eastwood’s dramatization begins with well-kitted up white school kids playing rugby on a lush turf pitch separated from a rabble of barefoot black children engaged in a chaotic game of football on waste ground by fences and a road. Both games are interrupted by the passing of the police escorted Nelson Mandela being released from prison. Some short exposition takes us into Mandela’s presidency and an international rugby match where the new president laments that black South Africans are supporting England against the Springboks.When the Springbok name, emblem and colours are abolished by the National Sports Council for their connection to the Apartheid era, it’s only Mandela’s personal intervention and appeal to members that attains a reversal of the

decision. “Our enemy is no longer the Afrikaner: they are our fellow South Africans … This is no time to celebrate petty revenge. This is the time to build our nation using every single brick available to us, even if that brick comes wrapped in green and gold.”President Mandela invites Springboks captain François Pienaar to tea, where he talks to the rugby player about leadership. Pienaar later comes to realize the president believes success in the World Cup could be a unique opportunity to unite the peoples of South Africa.

So far unsubstantiated internet claims have been doing the rounds for the

last few months that the poem Invictus was never passed to Pienaar by Mandela and that it was in fact an extract from the Theodore Roosevelt speech, The

Man In The Arena, which the president gave to the rugby

captain. Whether it was the Henley poem, the President Teddy speech or simply Mandela’s or Pienaar’s own words that gave the Springboks an edge of inspiration, one seems appropriate for the great man and the other applies rather well to Clint Eastwood’s efforts.

Invictus fits Mandela’s personal struggle:

“It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

While The Man In The Arena corresponds better to Eastwood on this occasion:

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the

arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who

strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming…”

The director who won Oscars for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby certainly has a good crack at this one, but the result is a good film, not a great film. Maybe some of the pacing and development of supporting characters and sub-plots are sacrificed to showcase Mandela as interpreted by Morgan Freeman. And, if this is the case, maybe it was worth it – Freeman is magnificent as Nelson Mandela.

It’s almost as if he’s possessed by the soul of Mandela; I went into the film thinking each man is too well-known and too instantly-recognisable to suspend disbelief, yet later in the showing caught myself thinking, “Doesn’t Mandela look a lot like Morgan Freeman?”

Matt Damon is workmanlike as François Pienaar, doing everything asked of him, including the accent, very proficiently. Some will complain about a lack of a journey for the character, but how much more would there be to tell from Pienaar’s perspective without inventing a different story? No, what would have enriched the film for me would have been to see more of the character arc of the South African black and white communities, beyond that of Mandela’s security staff.

The other, perhaps more trivial-seeming yet important nevertheless, failure of the film to reach epic status is its score. An epic movie needs an epic soundtrack, but as far as music goes, Eastwood didn’t just drop the ball, he knocked it on and collapsed the resulting scrum (it’s shite).

Making a movie with action from a team sport is a minefield and there are many examples of films whose sporting action scenes detract credibility from them. However, and while they are not quite spectacular, the rugby scenes in Invictus are solid, exciting and are faithful to the laws of the game (maybe with one slight lapse when it appears that François Pienaar/Matt Damon [playing flanker] illegally handles the ball in the scrum). If we look at it as

simply a sports movie, it is the best one for years… It just seems to me that the ingredients were there for something even more special.

InvictusIf the South African football team watch this movie on the team bus before their group matches at this summer’s FIFA World Cup, Mexico, Uruguay and France will have something to worry about. Luc Ciotkowski finds out if Clint Eastwood has made South Africa’s own sporting equivalent of Braveheart.

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in 2008 the IRFU decided Eddie O’Sullivan was never going to deliver the 6 Nations and that a change was needed. O’Sullivan had won three triple crowns but

a lot of people felt that it was a poor return for the players he had available. So Ireland turned to the Munster Magician. It is rumoured that Declan Kidney studied Alchemy because everything he touches seems to turn to gold. Kidney had achieved huge success at Munster but his first task would be to help the Irish team banish a few ghosts. The last time Ireland won the tournament it was 1982 and called the Five Nations, and they hadn’t won a Grand Slam since 1948 (their one and only). Ireland had become the bridesmaid of rugby, but in 2009, Kidney walked her down the aisle and gave her away to be married. Ireland would be lucky in having both England and France at home. They started with France. In 2007 France beat Ireland with a last gasp try as the Irish were still celebrating a penalty conversion. But the team of 2009 would not make the same mistake and Ireland got off to

a winning start and showed the world that this Irish team

were taking the 2009 tournament seriously. They followed it up with a win against Italy. Then came England. It was a close game, but the Irish looked in control, only for England to score a try with two minutes to go. An anxious Ireland held on for

victory. With two of the

big guns down they went to Murrayfield. Scotland started well and looked like they were going to upset the party, but Ireland took control in the second

half and ran out winners. Ireland made their way down to Cardiff with the 6 Nations and a first Grand Slam in 61 years to play for. This was history in the making. So many years waiting – and it looked like Ireland would go on waiting until a last minute drop goal secured the championship and, at last, a Grand Slam.

So what can we expect from this year?The World Cup is on in 2011, which means that countries might use this year to bring in new blood and give experience to fringe players.So let’s looks at the teams and let’s start with the favourites:

IrelandWhat a year it was for Ireland. Leinster won the Heineken cup, Paul O’ Connell was captain of

the British and Irish Lions and Ireland finished unbeaten in 2009. The autumn tests are generally used as an indicator of what to expect, and Ireland did very well. They drew with Australia and then beat the world champions South Africa. It will be interesting to see if Ronan O’ Gara remains on the bench like he did in the autumn. Johnny Sexton took over and played really well, but he does lack experience at international level. Ireland has to play in Paris and London this year, so Kidney may favour the more experienced O’ Gara. The Irish team has a good mixture of youth and experience and should give everyone a good run for their money.

FranceFrance impressed during the autumn by beating the world champions, but then lost to New

Zealand. Without a doubt France can play some of the best rugby on the planet, but they must learn to win ugly and to defend a lead. Coach Marc Lievremont enforces a nice playing style, but Les Bleus have won nothing under him and so pressure is mounting. Expect to see some of the best rugby of the tournament from the French.

EnglandThe World Cup seems like centuries ago for the English fans. There’s no doubt that Martin

Johnson has brought change to England, but indiscipline and injuries cost them dearly last year. During the autumn tests they got whistled off against Argentina. They lost against New Zealand and Australia, so England might experiment this year. Don’t write them off, though, as they have game changing players and they can only get better.

WalesWelsh rugby seems to be in crisis. They’re rattled by injuries and have little cover for some

key areas. Yet Wales love a crisis and the writing off of this team might be just the motivation that they need. With some proper planning and some luck, the Welsh might surprise a few people like they have in the past. Warren Gatland has some tough decisions to make about recalls. Write them off at your peril.

ScotlandScottish fans must look at Ireland and Wales with immense jealously but credit has to go to the Scots.

They make Murrayfield a fortress and it’s a pity the players don’t do the same. Not much is expected from the team and that might play into their hands. They beat Fiji and, more shockingly, Australia in the autumn and then lost to Argentina. They will not be walked over easily. Although they might not win the championship, I feel they might influence where it goes.

ItalyIf little is expected from Scotland, nothing is expected from Italy. Italy beat Samoa which ended their

losing run of 2009 and that was the highlight of their year. Italy are getting stronger, but they will be without their captain and it’s hard to see them doing anything in this tournament. Yet surprises do happen.

So, in short, Ireland or France to win with the dark horses being England.

Garreth Nunn previews European rugby union’s big annual event. Ireland begin as favourites to win overall, but surely they can’t make it two Grand Slams in a row, can they?

6 nations 2010

Spain has rugby too. They play in the European Nations Cup, which is nicknamed the 6 Nations B. The winners of the group will qualify for the World Cup in New Zealand. Spain play their home games in Madrid and you can get more info at www.ferugby.com.There is also club rugby in Spain - Madrid-based Olympus XV participated in the European Challenge Cup this year. To get more club rugby information, go to the website above.

Fixtures Saturday, 06 FebruaryEngland v Wales, 18:00Ireland v Italy, 15:30Sunday, 07 FebruaryScotland v France, 16:00Saturday, 13 FebruaryFrance v Ireland, 17:30Wales v Scotland, 15:00Sunday, 14 FebruaryItaly v England, 15:30Friday, 26 FebruaryWales v France, 21:00Saturday, 27 FebruaryEngland v Ireland, 17:00Italy v Scotland, 14:30Saturday, 13 MarchIreland v Wales, 15:30Scotland v England, 18:00Sunday, 14 MarchFrance v Italy, 15:30Saturday, 20 MarchFrance v England, 20:45Ireland v Scotland, 18:00Wales v Italy, 15:30

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England Fabio Capello has whipped his England

squad into fine shape. The team’s play is virtually unrecognizable from the side that crashed out of European Championship qualifying two and a half years ago and much of that is owed to the confidence and discipline the Italian has instilled. England are favourites at odds of 7-1, top scorers in UEFA qualification despite not quite emulating Holland and Spain’s 100% records. The traditional problems of the left side and how to accommodate their best players have been solved, but there are worries in areas where the English are usually strong. They lack real class in goal and there are question marks over who is good enough to partner John Terry in defence and Wayne Rooney upfront. Rio Ferdinand is favourite for the second centre back berth, but his form and fitness this season have been far from encouraging. There’s no doubt that Rooney is central to England’s hopes of winning the tournament – Capello must already be crossing his fingers for the Man Utd striker’s continuing fitness.

USAAmericans have every right to be

more excited than ever before going into this World Cup. Should they emulate their exploits of 2002 and reach the quarter finals, it would be no shock this time. Their astounding performance in last summer’s Confederations Cup won them considerable respect and admiration around the world when they ended Spain’s 35- match world record unbeaten run and took a 2-0 lead into the interval against Brazil (although finally succumbing 3-2 to O Canarinho). Their incredible collective physical fitness makes up for their technical shortcomings on most occasions. Only England look like beating them in this group, but they will approach the opener in Rustenburg with no fear. Donovan for Golden Shoe?

AlgeriaThe team that deprived us of seeing

the silky skills of the Egyptians have plenty of passion and their fans will be proud to watch them in their first World Cup for 24 years. Can they spring another upset like they did against the Pharaohs? In a word, no.They have some decent players, like Wolfsburg’s Karim Ziani and Bochum’s Antar Yahia (matchwinner with that stunner in Sudan that sank Egypt), but not enough quality in their squad to make a big impact, their only chance of points is if they play their very best and catch their opponents on an off day.

SloveniaRussia didn’t heed the warnings to

beware the Slovenes and the late away goal scored by Pecnik in Moscow came back to bite them after Slovenia won 1-0 in Maribor to level the aggregate score. They’ve left several decent sides by the wayside on their road to South Africa, but it’s hard to imagine them overcoming England or the USA. They just might get four points and that just might be enough to go through, but they’ve stretched their ‘just mights’ pretty far already.

GermanyJogi Löw’s team, despite Russia

keeping the pressure on until last September, qualified unbeaten and in convincing style. At 9-1, the bookmakers have placed the Nationalmannschaft at longer odds than England to win the tournament and, for me, they could be well worth a flutter. Miroslav Klose can still poke, head and bang them in and has always stepped up his game at major finals. Michael Ballack’s class and influence will be important, though he will have to exert that without his regular partner in crime – Torsten Frings, a mainstay of the German centre midfield for years, has already been told by Löw that he won’t be going to South Africa. The coach’s tactical nous has been hard to question over the last four years, but he will need his big players to be switched on right from the start after drawing one of the World Cup’s two ‘groups of death’.

AustraliaThe Socceroos can feel

understandably aggrieved at their ill luck in landing such a difficult group,

especially after their impressive maiden qualification from the Asian Football Confederation. Guus Hiddink’s reign as manager was a watershed moment for Australia and now, under another Dutch coach in Pim

Verbeek, they’re a confident and respected outfit in international football. There are plenty of players who will be familiar to fans of the English Premier League, although with age creeping up on them it could be the last time we see the likes of Schwarzer, Neill, Cahill, Emerton, Kewell and Grella at a World Cup. They can qualify from this group, but they will have to treat each game like a final to do it.

SerbiaSerbia have put a long period of

underachievement behind them and finally look as dangerous as they did at the 1998 World Cup. I fancy they could go as far as the semi finals after thumping their way through their group and dumping France into that infamous playoff. Radi Antic is vastly experienced, having managed Real Madrid, Barcelona and taken Atlético Madrid to a Spanish league title and Copa del Rey double (he still spends a lot of the year living in Madrid) and his guidance has been key in making Serbia a solid, consistent unit. They need Deki Stankovic fit to boss the midfield and create things if they’re going to do well.

GhanaLike fellow West Africans Ivory Coast,

Ghana pulled a short straw in terms of opposition for the first round and I don’t expect them to repeat the success of 2006. Nevertheless, plenty of people are backing them to progress and it must be based on the excellent midfield partnership of Muntari and Essien. It was a strong statement of intention for the World Cup that they excused many first team players from last month’s African Cup of Nations in a bid to keep them fresh for the summer. They’re a very good side, I just don’t think they have enough class upfront to take them past their group rivals.

1 Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg

2 Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg

3 Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth

4 Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban

5 Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit

Luc Ciotkowski continues our team-by-team preview of FIFA World Cup 2010 with groups C and D.

GROUP - C

England Germany

Algeria Serbia

USA Australia

Slovenia Ghana

GROUP - D

Pld F A PtsFinbars Celtic 9 96 11 27Triskel Tavern AHFC 8 68 18 24Atletico Cero 9 69 32 22Real Monks 8 76 24 21Five Corners 9 61 48 21Atlético Retiro 9 49 27 16Santana 8 52 33 15A Team Apart 8 48 38 15All Blacks 9 56 66 9Barones de la Birra 8 45 54 7Moores Tribunal 9 40 81 6FC Británico de Madrid 8 33 98 6Finbars 67 9 33 66 4Studio Banana FC 7 24 51 3Madrid Reds 8 37 97 3La Parada Numero 12 8 21 76 0

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top scorersPete Eaves 34 Triskel Tavern AHFCRob Pinnington 29 Finbars CelticEmilio 29 Real MonksDani (Cero) 28 Atletico CeroBeto 21 SantanaPaul Grimley 18 Finbars CelticPaul Collins 18 Finbars CelticFelipe Martin 18 Triskel Tavern AHFC

Studio Banana FC Madrid RedsAtlético Retiro FC Británico de MadridSantana Moores TribunalFinbars Celtic Five CornersReal Monks Finbars 67Atletico Cero A Team ApartAll Blacks La Parada Numero 12Barones de la Birra Triskel Tavern Hepburns

matchday 10 fixtures 7/2/10

FC Británico de Madrid Studio Banana FCMoores Tribunal Madrid RedsFive Corners Atlético RetiroFinbars 67 SantanaA Team Apart Finbars CelticLa Parada Numero 12 Real MonksTriskel Tavern Hepburns Atletico CeroBarones de la Birra All Blacks


Studio Banana FC Moores TribunalFC Británico de Madrid Five CornersMadrid Reds Finbars 67Atlético Retiro A Team ApartSantana La Parada Numero 12Finbars Celtic Triskel Tavern HepburnsReal Monks Barones de la BirraAtletico Cero All Blacks


five-a-side football in Madridresults matchday 8 10/1/10

Five CornersZurdo 5, Koki 5,

Ramiro 3, MyKy 3

La Parada Numero 12Mike Kemp 3, Javi AlbertoAlistair 2

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Finbars 67 Enrique Garriga, Declan Twohig

Ariel Frigiotti

A Team ApartLuc Ciotkowski, Andrew Sikorski 3Gustavo 2, Aymen

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Moores Tribunal Triskel Tavern AHFCJuan Carlos Marugan 3, Michael Conroy, Felipe Martin 6

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Madrid RedsMark Dorian 3, Steve Churnin,

Joe Churnin, Shane Bartlett, Simon Howard

All BlacksMiguel 2, Daniel Andrinal 2, Diego García 3, Daniel Alberti, Rubén Bautista 2

7-10Atlético Retiro

Andres, Mario, AlfonsoAtletico CeroDavid Silva 2, Dani

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Finbars Celtic Studio Banana FC3-0Studio Banana forfeit match

Santana Real Monks-Match postponed

FC Británico de Madrid Barones de la Birra-Match postponed

results matchday 9 17/1/10

Triskel Tavern AHFCPete Eaves 10, Juan Carlos Marugan,

Michael Conroy, Andy Steel

Finbars 67A Player 3

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La Parada Numero 12 Javi Alberto

A Team ApartAymen 4, Andrew 3, EamonnChristian Sampedro 3

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Barones de la BirraJonatito 2, Aitor, Abraham, Tito

Five CornersKoki 4, Ramiro, MyKy

5-6

Real MonksEmilio 6, Jorge 2, Ivan 2, Victor 2, Casar,

Morgan, Dani

Madrid RedsJoe Churnin

15-1

Studio Banana FC Santana0-3Studio Banana forfeit match

Finbars CelticRob Pinnington 2, Paul Grimley 2, Noel Thomson, Iñigo Manterola

Atlético RetiroAndrés

6-1

All BlacksMiguel 3, Diego García 2, Daniel Alberti

Rubén Bautista, Daniel AndrinalDiego García 2

Moores TribunalFaz Pasand 2, Jonathan Russell 2, Michael Nii Kwame, Chris Johnston

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Atletico Cero FC Británico de Madrid3-0FC Británico forfeit match

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Ah, Valentine’s Day, the only time of the

year that I wish I could actually meet the saint that started it all; only to put him/her on the permanent

unemployment list. I often wonder how Valentine’s Day started. How did this particular day become the holiday for everything red, sweet and lovey-dovey? Turns out, there are numerous Christian references to martyrs named Valentine. Obviously this is anything but romantic and the only associations to the modern day celebration of romanticism come in the form of the date, 14 February. It wasn’t until the time of the father of English literature Geoffrey Chaucer that Valentine’s Day began to take shape during a time when the tradition and concept of courtly loved flourished. In the United States, Valentine’s Day is a day of genuine one-upmanship. Often the day does not centre on the deep love or admiration for your significant (or not so significant) other, rather the opportunity to show up all your

buddies and win points for the rest of the year. Call me a bit of a romantic, but I prefer random acts of kindness to forced gift giving, any day. Having said those things, I find a bit of charm in the day despite myself. Young and old alike partake in the festivities and even the most hardened person can find themselves picking up candy hearts.I have been enlightened by many Spaniards that the celebration of Valentine’s Day in Spain is more intimate than in other countries. In that sense, you don’t know how your friends, your parents, or anyone close to you choose to spend their day. Valentine’s Day is for the couples alone and not to be shared with all who are in the direct line of fire. In this way couples behave much differently than in the United States. The one-upmanship that I mentioned before is in stark contrast to the intimate behaviour of the Spanish.More exceptions come in the form of what I like to refer to as the ‘other’ category, the types of things that you simply do not have easy access to in the United States. These things are places and history. Bars, parks, palaces, castles, charming squares - what can be more romantic than that? The only

place you can find the above mentioned in the US is while sitting in your typical American chick-flick. Pardon me, but I prefer the ambience of these places in real life. Here, in Madrid, is the perfect opportunity to try them out.It’s in these places that I find the perfect Valentine’s Day in Madrid. A woman that doesn’t want roses, candy and expensive jewellery on the big red day. Preposterous, right? Or a sign of the changing tastes and expectations of women. I prefer the latter. In the end I would rather have the most expensive item of all, time. Ask anyone and they’ll agree time is the most costly of all the gifts that you can give to a person. Time requires thought, dedication and above all the desire to set aside all other things that require your attention in order to be with one person.

Having said that, these are my top choices for a day well spent on San Valentín in Madrid. First up, the Retiro: perfect for the empty wallet, weather permitting. The Retiro not only benefits from gorgeous scenery, but also the paddleboats. Nothing screams romcom movie more than a day in paddleboats. Seal the deal by bringing

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A girl ’s opinion

How similar are the ideas of girls and guys on how their partner would give them the best Saint Valentine’s Day ever in Madrid? Pay close attention for some top tips.

Gifts: For a Girl in Madrid

with a budget of 40€: Picnic in Retiro

Park. Include flowers from Tirso de Molina, paddleboat ride and chocolate of choice.

with a budget of 75€: Day trip from Madrid.

My favourites, Segovia: Dinner near Roman Aqueduct included.

with a budget of 200€: Dinner under the canopy

of botanical trees in Atocha train station. Wine, good food and great ambiance.

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delicious snacks and if you must, flowers. A tip regarding flowers: more is not always better. The best flower I ever received was plucked fresh from the crevasse of two pieces of cement along a sidewalk. If you desire to purchase your flowers, the famous flower market of Tirso de Molina is the perfect place. Not only will you find variety (with perhaps eight different sellers) you will also find the freshest flowers around. Another enticing option for those of you who are of the nerdy variety – there is a great museum pass that allows you entry into the all three of Madrid’s greats (Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen) for a reduced price. If the thought of dredging through miles of artwork doesn’t whet your appetite, then there is always a great day trip outside Madrid. One of my favourite day trips and only 20 minutes away, Segovia. Not only is it beautiful, but the people are friendly and in the shadow of the ancient Roman aqueduct lies the perfect place for romance. Add in the fact that the train ticket will only put you out 15€, and you’ve got a great day on your hands.

No Valentine’s Day could be complete

without food! If you prefer to go out rather than brave the mighty stove then there is a hidden gem in the Atocha train station. This delightful restaurant sits above the Atocha botanical garden and under this canopy of lush trees you can find the perfect unique site for a romantic dinner. Feeling brave? Nothing is better than a home-prepared meal, so roll up your sleeves and give it a shot, you just might surprise yourself.

I ’s February. Girls are cooing like the slowly

returning spring birds as they walk dreamily past window displays of

chocolate boxes and lavender-scented gift baskets, eyes are rolling in the heads of men as they stare regretfully at soon to be empty bank accounts, and lonely singles are stifling sniffles between sorrow drowning gulps of cheap wine. The city’s littered with pastels and flower petals, and the urge to punch that table hovering, rose offering, blinky-light sunglasses vendor for his unwanted interruption to your weekend tapas tranquility has reached its breaking point.

And for me, well, with nails scratching backward trenches through the dirt, the black hole of Valentine’s Day sucking me deeper into the cheesy pit of pink hearts and teddy bears, all manners of manliness fly out the window as I try putting pencil to paper. Honestly, I can’t help but curse those bastards over at Hallmark for shoveling this corporate-induced holiday down my protesting throat. But is it really as bad here as it is back home?

Well, as far as I can tell, Valentine’s Day in Madrid is really much like anywhere else in the world – it’s just the people that make it different. And where exactly does this difference lie? Well, does the term “PDA” mean much to you? No? Okay then. Allow me to reminisce.

It's a Friday night in February. Stuck in limbo somewhere underground – my last ride of yet another week of countless hours logged tunneling down the teacher’s rabbit hole. Weekend freedom just stops away, I lean against the door to balance myself with the rocking rumble of the metro car. Rush hour over, I share space with a litter of silent Spaniards - all yawning, checking watches, antsy and eager as myself to head home and forget about real world responsibilities for 48 hours or so. People watch me and stare as always, the obvious foreigner, dartingly averting eye contact when I catch their gaze. It was great having blond hair before the Madrid metro entered my life. Anyway.

The car screeches to a halt as the cautionary intercom lady’s voice warns us all of the eminent danger of catching feet in the gap. “Al salir, tengan cuidado para no introducir el pié entre coche y anden...” A young couple enter, holding hands, and before the doors even begin closing, lock into a passionate embrace. Public displays of affection (or PDA) yet another aspect of culture shock I’ve yet to shake. Get a damn room already. That’s the price you pay I guess for failing to

cut that parental household umbilical chord before the age of thirty – instead of inconveniencing Mom and Dad with your romantic exploits, we the public passengers fall subject to your shameless groping. I try not to watch.

Pet peeves vexing, I curse my dead iPod as the sticky smack of wet tongue wrestling reminds me that, Oh yeah – tomorrow’s Valentine’s Day. I close my eyes and let out an exhausted sigh, silently wishing that the teleport machine would go ahead and get itself invented already. Rumbling down the tunnel still, the car gives a sudden lurch around a bend and the couple, hands wandering in eager exploration, take a tumble backwards, pinning me to the door. Annoyed, I give a light shoulder shove to dislodge the guy’s heel from my foot, and they’re back at it. Atencion! Estacion en curva…

Three stops to go. Please please please just let this be over. Barrelling through the blackness, the train gives another sharp shift. Once again, six pair of feet and a sandwich of bodies against the door. I push a little harder. They continue eating each other’s faces. I feel my own getting hot. Another lurch, another bump, another push. I’ve been on the metro for so many hours this week, after being coughed on and jostled and stared at and assaulted by the musk of countless shower neglectors, my head’s about to explode. I should have been rounding third on this celebratory home run trot but instead I’m being used as a wall prop for the raging hormones of two horny lovebirds. I may as well be getting humped by an army of red-rocketing Rottweilers.

One stop away now, the train turns sharp to the right, forcing the couple to slam backwards, trapping me yet again. I throw another shoulder, harder still. They don’t move. I lean into it a little more and try again. Nothing. Their weight now completely resting on me - the stupid American human wall - I cock back an elbow and jab it hard into an as of yet unbruised kidney. Startled from his dry humping the guy’s head snaps around, noticing me for the first time – his eyebrows a V of anger and his lips flapping out lisps of threatening protests. I smirk in passing, just in time to exit as the pearly gates of Friday night freedom open wide, welcoming me to weekend paradise. Happy Valentine’s Day, asshole! If I only knew then how to say this in Spanish…

Alright, so maybe that was all I can really recall from last year’s go ‘round, and maybe also at this point you’re wondering, “Why the bitterness? Why be such a Valentine Scrooge?” Well, single or not single, I can’t really help but feel that we’ve let ourselves be duped into falling for the trap. A Hallmark holiday back home, a Corte Inglés fiesta in Spain, don’t we have enough opportunities to celebrate our significant others without the greeting cards and knickknacks?

Anyway, since Valentine’s Day is here and I, like many, will participate, let’s flip this holiday on its ear for a minute and take a different angle to freshen things up. Normally more of a guy-buys-girl-gifts type of affair, what can you ladies do to convert your man into a Valentine’s believer? Well, check out the gift ideas on the left (divided by budget) to get on the right track.



Gifts: For a Guy in Madrid

Whether you’re low on cash or just

tonteando, you can still make it a day to remember. Head over to Xanadu, Madrid’s very own indoor ski slope catering to all skill levels as one idea (madridxanadu.com). Want something a bit more relaxed? Wine tasting classes are offered in several locations throughout the city with the average price around 30€ per person.

Sticking with the snow thing, take a bus

out the mountains and go skiing or snowboarding for a day with everything included for around 40 bucks per person. Check out valdesqui.es for more info. Or how about a football match? Tickets can be purchased online and prices vary, but if you haven’t been to a game yet, well, here’s your excuse.

Why not get your hands dirty and learn some

Spanish cooking skills? There are multiple courses in Madrid ranging in prices. Here’s a link to one of the cheaper ones: spainchef.com.

Thinking further outside the box but along the lines of learning, book a weekend rock climbing lesson in or

around Manzanares el Real (lapedriza.info/ or todovertical.com/home) and spend a night in the mountains at the century old refugio (todovertical.com/refugioginer/index.htm) for just 9€ a night!

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A boy’s opinion

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and principles, Mr. Darcy was an odd kind of White Knight who first of all appeared cold, heartless and aloof, but later transpired to be something else entirely. His character has been an enduring success, to the extent that a century on Hugh Grant has fashioned an entire career out of reprising the role, over and over and over again (except, curiously enough, where he was trumped by the even ‘Darcier’ Colin Firth in Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Diary revival of Austen’s take on the White Knight).

Next, and certainly not to be forgotten, is sex and scandal. These were the two things that readers were in search of in 1960 when they queued around the block in London to buy a copy of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a book that had been banned for more than 30 years for it gratuitous sexual scenes and shocking use of language. These characteristics, however, were the making of the book and nowadays Lawrence’s book is considered one of the finest love stories ever with the sexual scenes enlivening the pages like electricity ripping along a wire. His story charted the magnetic, irresistible but dangerous attraction between Lady Chatterley and Oliver Mellors, her gamekeeper. The love between the two was so alluring to the reader because it was forbidden.

So that’s it for my brief overview. A successful love story is pain and tragedy and triumph and sex and scandal. The only thing that is missing, if you want to have a stab at writing one of your own, is an incompetent man, oblivious to what is going on around him and doing absolutely everything that he can to make the story as awkward as possible. And if you want to read a fine example of this, then I suggest that you go and read High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. It’s staple material for women trying to understand men, and one of my favourites.

It was love at first sight, a flechazo, for Peter Moore and these five amorous tales. But what do they have in common? Is there a formula for a great love story?

f all of the complicated things that we have to contend with as mature human beings – tax returns, plumbing and Méndez Álvaro bus

station being examples – there is still little that troubles us quite as much as love.

Love is life’s great enigma. We can’t decide whether it is an emotion or an ideology. It is impossible to predict when it will come or when it will go. It can be boundless, dangerous, tragic, blissful, complicated or unrequited. And in an attempt to comprehend what we will probably never understand, we’ve spent much of the last few thousand years composing songs, penning sonnets, drawing pictures and writing books. All of them about love, many of them written – for some reason or other – while sat under a tree.

But what makes a good love story? What key traits are shared by those books that lie at the heart of romantic literature?

Well first of all, of course, a good love story requires an equal measure of pain and suffering. Romeo and Juliet, those ‘star-cross’d lovers’ are a perfect example of this: a couple who lived together only in their imaginations, any chance they had of blissful tranquillity dashed

by the feud between their families. Romeo and Juliet are perhaps our most celebrated lovers, and it is telling that their story ends not with them happily fastened together for evermore but with them both dead on the floor.

Pain, then, is love’s ever-present partner. And in many of the great works of literature the two appear together: in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë or The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje.

It is the job of one of literature’s archetypal characters, the White Knight, to ensure that love stories are not all about suffering. Also known as a Knight in Shining Armour or a Knight Errant, such a character is another useful ingredient in a successful work of romantic literature.

I’m assuming that you know, but for any of you that don’t the White Knight is a heroic character who usually appears in the final third of a love story, before sweeping a miserable female off her feet then charging away triumphantly with her, off into the sun.

Of these White Knights, none are more famous or popular than Mr. Darcy, who appeared in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Stiff, awkward and obsessed with form

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five love Stories for a february Flechazo1. Romeo and Juliet2. Pride and Prejudice3. The English Patient4. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

(don’t take on the metro)5. High Fidelity



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But (alas!) I was mistaken, for the minute it started to turn cold again, out came the beige. I truly believe there is, in fact, a direct correlation between the outside temperature and the percentage of people wearing beige. Perhaps someone should do a study on it and measure things and work out a formula. Or something. Of course, I’m aware that people do wear other colours too, so before you start pointing out all the black and blue and grey and other shades generally sported in the winter (incidentally, why do we feel the need to wear depressing colours when it gets cold? Surely we should be wearing stuff that’s as bright as possible to cheer ourselves up? Like red, or orange, or yellow. People should wear more yellow in winter. And turquoise. And pink!) I’ll hold my hands up and say Madrid is not a one-colour city. But there’s still a hell of a lot of beige out there, together with its variants, such as cream (summer beige) and gold (weekend beige). For some madrileños, it seems that beige is not just a colour: it’s a way of life.

At this point, let’s examine just exactly what beige is. Wikipedia defines it as “A very pale yellowish-cream colour”, although “Beginning in the 1920s, the meaning of the term beige expanded to the point where it is now also used for a wide range of pale brown shades”. Imagine my horror as I scroll down to find all manner of ghastly names and tones of my most-hated colour. Ecru. Buff. Tan. Khaki. Desert Sand. French Beige. Mode Beige. And, most ridiculous of all, Cosmic Latte (?!). What do all of these shades have in common? They’re all ruuuuuubbish! And can someone please explain why beige is so bloody popular here? Were those horrid long winter overcoats standard issue during the dictatorship? Or instead of the Masonic handshake, is wearing beige some sort of secret code used by pijos to identify their own kind? Luckily, the beige look seems to be favoured by the slightly older generation, so with any luck its popularity will wane with the passing of the years, although I frequently see poor unsuspecting children trussed up in beige against their will. When this happens I have to fight the urge to run over, give them a big hug and tell them everything will be all right.

It won’t surprise to you then, dear reader, when I admit that I haven’t embraced the beige yet (forgetting a dodgy period in my youth with a certain corduroy jacket, but I prefer not to talk about that). I don’t own anything beige-coloured as I don’t think it suits me, plus I actually find the word offensive: a good example of onomatopoeia where it sounds just as dull as the actual colour. Also, according to Wikipedia “Used as slang, to say something is beige means being boring or dull”. Hear hear! Sadly, not everyone feels the same way, and horror of horrors, beige made an appearance on the catwalks in 2009, which means it will be around in 2010. “Beige doesn’t have to be boring” simpered the fashionistas. I’m afraid I heartily disagree. Perhaps it’s just a matter of time though: the longer I spend in Spain and the older I get, the more inevitable it is that I’ll eventually succumb to the beige. I’ll know I’m properly Hispanicized when I can eat pipas, make a drink last all night and skip down the street in winter clad top-to-toe in beige.

Helen Macrae investigates the curious phenomenon of this sum:posh madrileños + winter = beige

We devised a mindless but rather entertaining game where the first person to spot something beige and shout, “Beige!” got a point, but we stopped when we realized the Spanish word is rather similar

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The Beige Brigade

I’ve always thought that describing the weather in Madrid as, “Nueve meses de invierno, tres meses de infierno” was a more than a little harsh. Sure, it can get pretty sizzling here in the summer months, but for a native of that

distinctly moist land we call Britain where the summer lasts all of, oh…a day (I think it’s the second Thursday in August, or thereabouts), I find being able to walk around in flip-flops and short sleeves without catching frostbite something of a novelty. Likewise, the temperatures nowadays in spring and autumn are reasonably mild and the rain fairly infrequent, which is lucky as a Spaniard with an umbrella is something to be braved at your own peril. Yet despite my naïve British mates thinking Spain is some year-round sun-and-sangria-drenched paradise, there is definitely a winter in Madrid. How do you know when it’s arrived? Is it the drop in temperature and resulting scrabble in the back of the wardrobe for those long-forgotten mittens and scarf? The trees in the Retiro shrugging off their leaves and stretching out their branches like bony fingers clutching at the sky? Or perhaps the giveaway this year was when all that snow unexpectedly fell from the heavens at Christmas and turned the

city into a winter wonderland? No, the official start of winter is, for me, the first day after the summer I spot a child dressed entirely in beige.

When I arrived in Madrid one January with my good friend H, we were immediately struck by the amount of beige we saw on a daily basis. It was everywhere! We ran into it on the streets, in our classes, on the metro, in the bars. The variety of shapes and forms it came in was mindboggling: beige coats, beige trousers, beige handbags, beige hats, beige gloves, beige scarves, beige shoes, beige socks…there were even beige dogs. We devised a mindless but rather entertaining game where the first person to spot something beige and shout, “Beige!” got a point, but we stopped when we realized the Spanish word is rather similar (errr… it’s “beige” in case you didn’t know already. Both languages directly lift it from French, from which the word originates. Whoops!).

As the year marched on and winter turned into spring and then summer, the beige started to disappear. At first I had thought it was because I was becoming assimilated into Spanish culture and had stopped noticing it.

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God help poor Rafa. He’s the man of the moment - for all the wrong reasons. They’re cracking open the cham-pagne over the other end of Merseyside at Everton

and down the motorway in Manchester due to Liverpool’s less-than-impressive season. In fairness though, they’re up against it with a resurgent Aston Villa under Martin O’Neill, a man that would probably have the Afghan War wrapped up in a year for whichever side he was in charge of. Then you’ve got big spenders Man City, under the charge of a bunch of money-crazed businessmen who can outbid anybody that looks sideways at them on the transfer market. And you’ve the more modest but hardworking Birmingham, with Alex McLeish at the helm, who’ve had a decent season so far.

So in my book, the man’s got excuses. You can’t expect to be at the top of the Premiership every year, can you? But when you’re in charge of a club that expects to be at the top every year, then you’re expected to ensure that. He’s been successful in the past with Liverpool and before in Spain so who is the man himself?

Rafael Benítez, the son of a divided fam-ily (Padre-Atlético, Madre-Real), had an unfortunate playing career. He served his time at Real Madrid, playing for their reserves and then lower-division sides Parla and Linares. However, he was forced to retire through injury at 26. He then returned to Real Madrid and put his Physical Education degree to good use as a coach, moving up the ranks. He successfully coached the Juniors, the Under-19s and the reserve side Real Madrid Castilla. He ventured out of the Real fold, managing both Valladolid and Osasuna in unsuccessful spells before leading Extremadura to promotion to the Premier Division. After they were relegated the next season, he took a year out for study before taking the helm of Second Division Tenerife, again leading them to promotion.

It’s Rafa’s time at Valencia that will stand as testimony to the man’s ability as a manager. At a time when Deportivo La Coruña had also come through as a major force, he led Valencia to two La Liga crowns, a UEFA Cup and some decent Champions League runs. The Spanish League can get a bit dull, what with Barça winning it most of the time recently and Real whenever they let their manager do his job. He’s prob-

ably finding England more interesting for this reason now that there are six or seven battling it out in the mixer. Valencia broke the mould and are now an established force in Spanish and European football and Rafa’s influence can certainly be pointed to as a major reason for this.

As always, the politics of football had its effect. Nobody really knows who directs what behind the scenes of a club and who has the final say over things like signings. Benítez’ time at Valencia would come to an end for this reason. Not getting the players he had ear-marked, he fell out with the Director of Football and remarked that he had asked for a table and was bought a lampshade.

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Rafael Benítez has put himself through quite a bit of study in his time. He’s well-qualified for the jobs he’s had, and hard graft as part of Real’s framework has paid off. He’s known for having a ruthless streak when it comes to management, famously demoting goalkeeper Jerzey Dudek the season after he saved Liverpool in the famous Champions’ League penalty shootout. He’s also become a member of the exclusive Unhinged-Premiership-Man-agers club, a group of gentlemen who actually seem to be getting worse after the king of controversy, José Mourhin-ho, left for the quiet life at Inter Milan. After Rafa’s infamous rant at Alex Ferguson, where United’s off-pitch squad were accused of ‘manmarking’ FA officials, Ferguson reckoned he would need to read Sigmund Freud to understand what he’d heard.

And it all comes back to that northern rivalry with the Mancs. The very clear threat of Liverpool being surpassed by United this year with the magic number 19 of League titles is in the back of the Merseyside mind. They are now practically helpless to prevent the unspeakable, short of lying down in front of the other league leaders, and the manager is going to take the rap if it all goes south (or to Manchester). And so it goes with Rafa. This time next season, some grateful top-flight Spanish club should have him at the helm and this season will all be a bad memory.


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Martin Quinn profiles Rafael Benítez, a man who wrestled La Liga away from the Santiago Bernabéu and the Camp Nou on two occasions, took the European Champions Cup to Anfield for the first time in 21 years and even changed footballing culture by luring a host of top class, traditionally loath-to-travel, Spanish players to England.

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St george’s guild An international group for English-speakers getting together the first Tuesday each month for fellowship and an interesting talk on varied topics. No membership fee. contact [email protected]

the British ladies association would welcome new members of any nationality. Our activities are raising money for charities, monthly meetings with speakers and also visits to places of interest. www.blamadrid.com

English Reading circle at the International Institute Library. Monthly meetings to discuss English literature in English. For more information visit www.iie.es or write to [email protected].

Public Speaking and networking group. International group that meets to improve public speaking skills. 2nd & 4th Thursday each month at 2030 Bar Locandita (C/Fuencarral 148)Contact:[email protected] or Chris 695 513 466.

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Madrid Players, English-language theatrical group. We put on plays, small productions, do in-house readings, improvisations, etc. We meet every Thursday. For info call 91 521 16 98 or 91 564 57 01.

the australian club in Madrid meets 9pm first Friday of each month at the Irish Rover, Avda. De Brasil, 7. Metro Santiago Bernabeu. For more info call Jeff on 669 458 341, or visit website: www.australiaspain.com/gudonya, or email: [email protected]

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Madrid Hash House Harriers: meets every weekend rain, shine or credit crunch. We sprint, run or crawl a trail for about one hour somewhere outside Madrid and return to a welcoming can or three of beer. Visit www.madridhhh.com

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