Tag: spain
Spanish scrambled egg breakfast
A quick recipe for Desayuno de la BurguesÃa: scrambled eggs with saffron, paprika and lots of other goodies!
Estrella Morente
A shining light of modern flamenco comes to Brussels, bringing three centuries of tradition and a modern sensibility.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Something appeals to me about the Thyssen-Bornemisza and it’s not just the fine collection of paintings.
Museo Reina Sofia
Madrid’s museum of Spanish art, particularly renowned for its collection of twentieth century works and an exhibition dedicated to the Civil War.
Madrid by bike
With such wide rights of access to cyclists, Madrid is the perfect city to see on two wheels.
Toledo
Half an hour or so by train from Madrid’s Atocha station, Toledo is readily accessible to visitors yet remains happily aloof from overdevelopment.
Barcelona
The Barcelona of my expectations turned out to be a bit different to the Barcelona in reality.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Kunsthistorisches Museum
An impressive art and archaeological collection and one of the world’s finest, housed in a vast, palatial building in Vienna.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Tawdry minds think alike
A bit of April fooling around on the Wikipedia homepage got me thinking about English humour.
- Originally published: 1 Apr 2011 in Humour
The Royal Tenenbaums
No small feat: Anderson the director who breathed new life into Gene Hackman.
- Originally published: 5 Feb 2007 in Film
Double Indemnity
A crackling script but surprisingly short on dramatic tension.
- Originally published: 7 Oct 2007 in Film
Shaun of the Dead
Genre parodies based on the smalltown nature of little England. It’s becoming a whole subgenre unto itself.
- Originally published: 8 Jul 2007 in Film
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.