Homage to Spain’s railways: take the slow train for the best scenic routes | Spain holidays

Stained glass window at Bilbao-Abando Station.

Shared from www.theguardian.com Spain was a slow starter with trains. Its first tracks, between Mataró and Barcelona, covering about 20 miles, were laid in 1848, 18 years after the world’s first intercity line, between Manchester […]

FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP Offers Italian Action at Its Wildest

Shared from nerdist.com Italian directors during the heyday of movie production in that country had to be versatile. Rare were people like Sergio Leone or Dario Argento who could only make a handful of movies […]