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MADRID TREASURE HUNT
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2 Contents
3 A bit of Spanish
4 - 5 What’s On in Madrid in the Autumn
6 - 7 Culture: Autumn Leaves
8 Living - Castles of Madrid
9 Madrid news round up
10 History - The human zoo
11 Living - The British Benevolent Fund
12 Recipe - Late Summer Andaluz Almonds
13 - 15 Classified directory
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Grammy Award nominee,Halsey, arrives in Ma-drid to present her new
álbum and play some of her big-
gest hits as a part of her Spanishleg of the Hopeless Fountain King-dom world tour.
The Thyssen´s pioneeringmonographic exhibitionshows the relationship be-
tween both artists and the originsof the impresionist movement.Eugène Boudin was one of the first
French landscape artists to paintoutdoors whilst Claude Monetwas one of the creators of impres-sionism and grew up in Le Havre,where he met Boudin and they lat-er painted landscapes together.
WHAT’S ON THIS AUTUMN IN MADRID
Monet & Boudin. Until 30th September
The Madrid Metropolitan´s selection of the best that can be enjoyed inthe capital this Autumn.
Legendary Irish rockers U2arrive in Madrid to pro-mote their Experience +
Innocence Tour 2018. The supergroup who were last in Madrid 13years ago, are one of the world’sbest-selling bands in history, hav-
ing chalked up sales of over 170million records as well as havingreceived accolades and awardsfrom all over the world includingtwenty Grammys, seven BritAwards and three Golden GlobeAwards.
Cortes. Until 10th October
https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/hernan-cortes-retrato-y-estructura/
https://www.museothyssen.org/
U2 20th & 21st September
http://www.fundacionjapon.es/es/Actividades/Arte-y-Cultura/evento/228/exposicion-yokai-iconografia-de-lo-fantastico
The Japan Foundation andthe Real Academia de Bel-las Artes have put on this
exhibition to officially commemo-rate the 150th anniversary of the
establishment of diplomatic rela-tions between Japan and Spain.The yōkai are Japanese mytholog-ical tales that are shown in objectslike picture scrolls and prints.
Halsey. 17th September
http://iamhalsey.com/
Salvador Sobral 24th & 25th September
http://www.summummusic.com/salvador-sobral/
Heartbreaking EurovisionSong Contest winnerSalvador Sobral gives
his first concert in Madrid as part
of an extensive tour to present hislatest album, Excuse Me, whichincludes his hit song Amar pelosdois (Love for Both of Us).
http://www.u2.com/index/home
The Fundacion Telefonicaputs on this exhibitionabout this iconic artist
who gave up medicine to become apainter. His portraits , some ofwhich hang in the Spanish Con-
gress and Senate buildings tomark the 30th anniversary ofSpain´s first post Franco demo-cratic elections fuse elements ofabstract painting, comics, and cin-ematography for a unique effect.
Yōkai: Iconography of the Fantastical . Until 27thSeptember
Rich Astley. October 12th
80s British icon Rich Ast-ley comes to Madrid aspart of his European
tour promoting his new albumBeautiful life which includes 12songs which were entirely writ-ten, produced and played byhim. http://www.rickastley.co.uk/
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The legendary Swedishband comeback Europeantour to promote their lat-
est album, Walk the Earth. Theirmassive hit The Final Countdownremains a rock anthem.
Europe 7th October
http://europetheband.com/
The Teatro Real 2018-2019season begins withCharles Gounod’s grand
opera based on the work by Jo-hann Wolfgang von Goethe. The
Faust legend of the man whomakes a pact with the Devil in or-der to enjoy unlimited knowledgeand worldly pleasures remains aspowerful as ever.
Faust. Until 7th October
http://www.teatro-real.com/es/temporada-18-19/opera/faust
Irish Indie band arrives inMadrid to present their thirdand latest album Politics of
Living as part of their EuropeanTour.
Kodaline 23rd October
http://www.kodaline.com/ This classic Americanbroadway show based onShakespeare’s great love
story, Romeo and Juliet and whichfeatures the timeless music of Le-
onard Bernstein and StephenSondheim makes it´s theatrical de-but in Madrid. A showstopper ifever there was one.
https://www.westsidestory.es/
The Opera Locos - Until 7th October
http://www.teatroscanal.com/espectaculo/the-opera-locos-yllana/
The WiZink Center will beturned into a German BeerHall for the 5th Madrid
Octoberfest featuring lashings of
beer ( this year headlined by KönigLudwig) with lots of Bavarian funand laughter. 15 Euro admissiongets you a litre of beer and table.
Madrid Oktoberfest 2018 27th -29th September
http://madridoktoberfest.es/
Emotions – Flamenco
The best flamenco in townin a wonderfully intimatesetting bring together
dancing, vocal and guitar stylesthat explode on stage.
http://teatroflamencomadrid.com/
For those familar with theReduced ShakespeareCompany, The Yllana
Company styles a similar formatbased on opera and musicals.
Founded in 1991 their most fa-mous shows include Splash!, 666,Olimplaff and Action Man haveseen by more than 1.5 million peo-ple in 44 countries.
Organised by the IndianEmbassy and Casa de laIndia the festival´s 3rd
and final part is taking place on25th September with Bhinna Vin-yasa combining Indian literature,poetry and art.
The Festival of India - 25th September
http://www.teatroscanal.com/espectaculo/festival-de-la-india-2018/
West Side Story. From 3rd October
WHAT’S ON THIS AUTUMN IN MADRID (cont.)
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Autumn, or Fall as our literallyminded American friends like tocall it, is a wonderful time to be inMadrid. To begin with it signalsthe end of the malignant summermonths. Life is no longer all aboutbaking to death marinated insweat, or clinging to narrow rib-bons of shade like Second WorldWar escapees desperately tryingto evade the enemy spotlights.Hangovers will no longer drainyour body of all liquids, so youwake up, penniless, probably re-pentant, and looking and feelinglike that Neolithic man who wasretrieved from a bog after thou-sands of years.
On the downside all theMadrileños have comeback from holiday, many
of them at the same time on thesame day in the same hundred-kil-ometre traffic jams, leaving themdoubly anxious to get back to thedaily routine of shouting at eachother, and getting in one another’sway.
It is a particularly beautiful timeof the year, especially if you likebrown and orange, and are fasci-nated by the premonition of on-coming death and decay. Leavesfall from the trees and turn allcrunchy, a perturbing metaphorfor the cycle of life. Of course Ma-drid, hopefully for at least a fewmore million years, will inevitablyrepeat the cycle, as autumn andwinter rapidly give way to springand then yet another terrifyingsummer. Not so for us frail mortalsfor whom the autumn years, de-
spite Hollywood’s attempts to tellus otherwise, are a sign that we areapproaching the end of our journeyon the road to eternal oblivion. Allthe more so now that the demo-graphic time bomb, and the pre-vailing neo-liberal madness meanthat many of us will probably endup living off dog food in our pen-sionless retirement, or suddenlyexpire shackled to a desk, bewil-dered and confused by the pace oftechnological change.
On some days in autumn rainactually falls from the sky bringingtender relief to the parched vegeta-tion, and causing utter chaos onthe roads, as it spreads panicamong the citizens who have for-gotten what rain actually is, as theylook anxiously to the skies worry-ing as to how they have angeredthe Gods. For the Madrileños be-lieve that water from the sky repre-sents a terrible danger, which willgive all their children pneumonia,just as they believe that all illnessesare caused by changes in tempera-ture, or treacherously lethaldraughts.
Autumn also brings some of theloveliest days in Madrid as crispcold temperatures combine withclear blue skies to create perfec-tion. Beer guts can now be con-cealed beneath coats and jumpers,elderly northern European touristsare forced to abandon their dis-turbing combination of socks andsandals in favour of proper shoes,and for better or for worse, all thathuman flesh that has been on dis-
The Autumn Years
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play since mid-June is graduallycovered up.
Actually “gradually” is the wrongword. Madrid is a city which likesto embrace polarities. It has notime for airy fairy northern Euro-pean notions of nuance, or subtletones of grey. The culture reflectsthe climate which tends to lurchbetween hot and cold. Subsequent-ly many Madrileños organise theirwardrobe in accordance with thecalendar. On a certain date sum-mer will be deemed to be over, andoperation put-everything-away-until-next year begins. This oftenoccurs regardless of the actualweather, leading to some problem-atic clothing decisions on the oddday when summer suddenly de-cides to strike again. Once shortsand t-shirts have been stowedaway, popular wisdom dictatesthat they must not be touched untilthe earth is at exactly the right mo-ment in its annual voyage aroundthe sun.
If autumn is a metaphor it istempting to conclude that Madriditself is approaching its autumnyears. It is still the greatest city onearth, but the first signs of decayare starting to wrinkle its once ten-der visage. It still hasn’t had thesoul sucked out of it completelylike London or Paris, or dare wesay Barcelona, but it is slowlystarting to buckle beneath the irre-sistible weight of globalisation.Every day a once proudly seedySpanish bar gives way to anotherannoying global food franchise.Bars that used to give you tapas aresteadily replaced by Tapas Bars.Addicts of the quintessentially Ma-drid fried squid sandwich have tohunt far and wide for their fix, asthe wok and the pizza spread like avirulent rash making the globaltourist feel very much at home.The noxious health and safety cul-ture has also seeped its way in tothe very fabric of Madrid life sothat the authorities feel obliged todecorate the RENFE station in Sol,charmingly known to locals as “theWhale”, with inane stickers warn-ing potential morons that climbingon it might lead to falling off it.Even the traffic has grown calmer,as order steadily begins to sub-sume the city’s natural instinct forchaos.
Perhaps it was all inevitable. Thewild adolescence of the 80s, andearly 90s couldn’t go on forever.All parties must come to an endparticularly when they involvemass heroin addiction, and an ap-pealing but often self-defeatingdisregard for anything beyond do-ing what you feel like. For decadesthe Madrid Tourist Board did itsupmost to keep the city a safelyguarded secret, but even they havebeen unable to stem the unstoppa-
ble tide of global homogenisationand its foot soldiers, the interna-tional tourists.
But there’s still life in the olddog. The Retiro is still the perfectplace to spend a Sunday morning,and it still hosts one of the fewstatues in the world of the Devil.Pickpockets continue to ply theirtrade in the Rastro where evennow you can buy a second handplug, or a broken ashtray. Lavapieshasn’t entirely lost it’s edge, andChueca and Malasaña continue totransmit the city’s relentless ener-gy, even if they have tarted them-selves up just a little bit too much.
Change comes to all things but ifyou’re lucky enough to catch one ofthose divine autumn days when agentle sun sits high in a soft bluesky, and there’s an agreeable coolchill in the air, you may yet cometo understand why the local prov-erb says “from Madrid to heav-en….”
By Steve Jenkins
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Why Madrid lies at the heart ofthe historical Kingdom of Castileand, under the Spanish Constitu-tion of 1978, became one of 17 Au-tonomous Regions of Spain. Tothe north of Madrid lies Castilla yLeon and to the south Castilla laMancha and sandwiched in be-tween, Madrid, albeit without a‘Castilla’ title. But what remainsof the ancient castles that are nowleft in this central pocket of landthat were once part of the morehistorically elegant and powerfulProvinces?
Not too many unfortunately butthe few that do survive are wellworth a visit and several can becovered easily in a day drivingthrough some very attractivecountryside. Starting in the city ofMadrid:
1 - Muralla Árabe, Catedral de laAlmudena
IN the IX Century the Moorsbuilt La Almudena (an Ara-bic word stemming from ‘al
mudayana’ meaningcastle/citadel) in a place theycalled El Magerit, now known asMadrid. In 1083 King Alfonso VI(he who gave the name ‘Gatos’ toMadrileños) captured the castle aspart of the Catholic Kings’ eventualconquest over the Moors in Spain.Over the centuries the castle fellinto ruins. The current Royal Pal-ace was built in 1739 by King Car-los III and in 1883 the Cathedral ofLa Almudena was built over theremaining ruins, parts of which,however, can still be seen today.
2 - Castillo de la AlamedaNOW take a short drive out to-
wards Barajas airport for a visit tothe Castillo de la Alameda, some-times referred to as the Castillo deBarajas or Castillo de los Zapata,named after the family that built it.The castle was built between 1431and 1476 and was later occupiedby the Mendoza family. It was am-plified by a Palace in 1575 but sub-sequently destroyed by fire in1695. What remains are an outerramped buttress and the ruins ofthe original castle. The castle issurrounded by a fence for visitorsto walk around the perimeter butaccess to the actual ruins is re-stricted.
3 - Castillo de Buitrago de Lozoya
NORTHWARDS now up the A1and within less than an hour youwill come across the village of Bui-trago de Lozoya. The village lies tothe east of the Sierra de Guadarra-ma and nestles on a peninsula sur-rounded by the river Lozoya. Thevillage is one of the few in theCommunity to have maintained itswalls, which originate back to theXI century under the Moorish oc-cupation of Spain. The castle sitswithin the walls and was extendedin the XV century in Gothic-Mudé-jar style. It has a rectangular plan,with seven towers of variousshapes. The interior is in ruins,but visitors can walk around insideand along the perimeter walls. Inthe grounds of the castle there is afull-scale replica of a ‘trebuchet’ amedieval-type of siege enginewhich uses a swinging arm tothrow a projectile at the enemy.
4 - Castillo nuevo de Manzanaresel Real
WESTWARDS next through thevalley of Lozoya in the direction ofRascafría. A worthwhile break isto visit the beautiful Monasterio deSanta María de El Paular, a formerCarthusian monastery built in1390 under the orders of EnriqueII of Castile.
5 - Castillo Villafranca del CastilloWESTWARDS on towards San
Lorenzo de El Escorial, passing theValle de los Caídos. The Monas-tery in El Escorial, built by FelipeII in the XVI century, whilst not a‘castle’, is well worth a visit due toits significance and splendour. Outof El Escorial south in the direc-tion of Majadahonda, take the exitfor Villafranca del Castillo and fol-low the sign to the ESAC (the Eu-
ropean Space Astronomy Centre).The Aulencia Castle, also dubbedCastle of Villafranca, sits at the topof a little hill overlooking the ES-AC, an interesting contrast be-tween the old and the new. It is anoriginal example of a Spanish no-ble Mudéjar castle. In the XIV cen-tury it passed into the hands ofGarcía Fernández and in the XVcentury Álvarez de Toledo, a mem-ber of the court of Juan II de Cas-tilla, took possession. During theSpanish Civil War in the 20th cen-tury it was used as a fortress in theBattle of Brunete. Nowadays, onlyruins remain and access by thepublic is not allowed.
6 - Castillo de Villaviciosa de OdónSOUTHWARDS again for a
twenty-minute drive and you willreach the town of Villaviciosa deOdón.The Castle of Odón is a pal-ace-fortress complex built in theXV century by the Counts ofChinchón. In this location in 1496,the Marquis of Moya, Andrés Ca-brera y Beatriz Fernández deBobadilla built the first castle.During the Revolt of the Comun-eros in 1521 however, captains Di-ego de Heredia and Antonio deMesa knocked it down.In 1583 donDiego Fernández de Cabrera yBobadilla, third count ofChinchón, commissioned its re-construction giving the castle amore asymmetric profile. Two cen-turies later, in 1738, King Felipe Vof Spain bought the county andgranted the title of Count ofChinchón and ownership of thecastle to his son, Infante Luis. He,in turn, commissioned VenturaRodríguez to restore the castle andgave the locality its present name,Villaviciosa de Odón.
7 - Castillo de la CoraceraSOUTH WESTWARDS and a
40-minute drive on the M501 willtake you to the town of San Martínde Valdeiglesias. Coracera Castlewas declared an Historic HeritageSite by the Comunidad de Madrid.It was built in the mid-1400s byDon Álvaro de Luna, Constable ofCastile and a favourite of King
Juan II. Today it is part privateand part public property. In orderto revitalise it, plans were made totransform it into a multiple usespace: to hold exhibitions, lec-tures, chamber concerts as well asactivities relevant to its potentialuse as a Museum of Wines of Ma-drid.
8 - El Castillo de BatresSOUTH EASTWARDS towards
the town of Batres you will find theCastle of Batres, first built in theXV century for the family of thesame name.The Batres castle isvery well preserved. The restoredfortress is surrounded by a moat, ariver and forested land. The fa-mous poet Garcilaso dela Vegaonce grew up there. The castle iscurrently used for weddings andconferences.
9 - Castillo de Torrejòn de VelascoEASTWARDS and a short drive
in the direction of Parla you willcome across another castle built inthe XV century and sometimes re-ferred to as the Castillo de Puñon-rostro. The first refence to a castleon this site goes back to the XIIIcentury and was used by severalnoble houses, including the Houseof Alba. In the VXI century thefortress was used as a prison fornoble criminals and in the XVIIIcentury was nearly destroyed dur-ing the War of Independence.
10 - Castillo de Villarejo de SalvanésEASTWARDS again towards the
Autovía A3 and the final castle onthis circular tour of the Communi-ty of Madrid. There is no consen-sus as the origins of this castle onlythat it was built around the XI cen-tury under the influence of theMoors as a defensive post on theroad between Madrid and Toledo.This unusual looking building is allthat remains of the original for-tress. The structure has 8 towers,which is not normal consideringthe typical Spanish style only in-cludes 4. There is a small galleryinside the castle and visitors canaccess the roof for views over thesurrounding town and country-side. The Community of Madrid,as well as the capital itself, is hostto such rich historical features thatremain with us to this day. Visit-ing these places allows us to travelback in time for brief moments,whilst enjoying the present.
By Barry Haslam-WalkerFRICS
LIVING
CASTLES OF MADRID
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The 2018 / 2019 sees fiveMadrid teams in the Liga;Real Madrid, Athletico
Madrid, Getafe, Leganes as well asnewly returned Rayo Vallecanowhose stadium´s closure till mid
October has put a spanner in theliga fixture arrangements.
Outside La Liga the 2018 / 2019season also sees the Madrid Metro-politan proudly sponsoring the FCBritanicos.
Madrid dominates La Liga
The Madrid based NationalCommission for Rational-izing Spanish Timetables
(ARHOE) received a boost thismonth for its campaign for Spainto return to Greenwich Mean Timeas the European Union´s weighedin on the debate of time zones andthe EU spring/autumn clockchanges rule.
A recent EU conducted poll onwhether or not daylight savingshould be abolished attracted arecord number of participants,with 4.6 million people fromthroughout the European Uniontaking part in the online poll sup-porting a Europe wide change tothe 1996 EU rule obliging all mem-ber states to adhere to the daylight
saving hour clock change twice ayear.
Spain is technically in the GMTzone which it was in until Francotook it out in 1940 to align it toGermany. Many including ARHOEbelieve that a return would boostSpanish productivity and improvethe work/life balance by bringingpeople´s daily routines in line withother European´s. “Perhaps Spainshould be in another time zone,”said Spanish Foreign Minister onthe publication of the poll. Spainpresently has the latest start andlatest finish day in Europe withmany Germans and Swedes al-ready tucked up in bed whilstSpaniards are still tucking intotheir dinner.
Going Going Gone
Madrid Mayor ManuelaCarmena´s promise tohave the Gran Via car
free by the end of her expectedterm of office in May 2019 looks setto be fullfilled with the announce-ment by José Manuel Calvo, herminister for the remodellingproject that the works will be fin-ished as early as 15th November2018.The works, that have causedconsiderable disruption to one ofMadrid´s main traffic arteries andstill divide opinion as to the wis-dom of closing it down to throughtraffic.
From November the Gran Viawill only be open to bikes, buses,and VTC vehicles and will have
widened pavements and will createa new APR ( residential priorityarea) which will further reduce ac-cess.
The works which also include theplanting of 248 trees to “greenify”the central zone and it is no secretthat City Hall has unpublishedblueprints for the banning of allprivate vehicles in the entire cen-tral area which it is hoped will gosome way to improving Madrid´soften poor air quality and pollutionlevels.
The Conservative Popular Partyhave said they will re-open it totraffic should they be elected in themunicipal elections scheduled forMay 2019.
Gran Via works and remodelling to finish early
http://www.fcbritanico.comSpain mulling return to Greenwich Mean Time
Spain's new governmenthas passed a decree to ex-hume the remains of the
late General Francisco Francofrom The Valley of the Fallen,some 50km north of Madrid.
The mausoleum, where the latedictator was buried after his statefuneral in 1975 is seen by many asa symbol of his fascist regime anda justification of the coup and sub-sequent victory in the Civil Warthat raged between 1936 and 1939.The Valley of the Fallen is also theresting place of over 30,000 deadfrom both sides. Far-right support-ers of Franco still pay homage tohim at the site.
The Spanish Cabinet passed alegislative decree to legally safe-guard the exhumation of Franco.But doubts remain as to what will
happen to the Valley of the Fallenonce his remains are exhumed.
However Prime Minister PedroSánchez has backed down from aproposal by the PSOE in 2017 toturn the site into “a place of re-membrance for the victims of theCivil War and the Franco dictator-ship.” Doubts remain as to the sitesfinal status.
The site was opened by Franco in1959 and was built to commemo-rate all of the victims of Spain’sCivil War with the remains of itsover 30,0000 bodies from bothsides. However the mausoleum on-ly has the marked graves of Francohimself and José Antonio Primo deRivera, the founder of the Spanishfascist party the Falange.
MADRID NEWS ROUND UP
Sept. - Oct., 2018 - The Madrid MetropolitanMadridMetropolitan.com10 HISTORY - THE HUMAN ZOO
WHY did Madrid host a Hu-man Zoo and where and whendid this ‘spectacle’ take place?
The where is the Retiro Park(Parque del Buen Retiro),literally Park of the Pleas-
ant Retreat. The Park was estab-lished by King Philip II whenMadrid became the capital ofSpain in 1561 and for the next twocenturies was the privileged pri-vate retreat of the Royal family.
In the 1630’s several iconic build-ings were erected, two of which arestill standing: the Casón del BuenRetiro which served as a ballroom,and the Salón de Reinos (Hall ofKingdoms), its wall decorated withpaintings by Velázquez and fres-coes by Luca Giordano.
Water was a distinguishing traitof the Park from the outset: thegreat pond, Estanque del Retiro,which served as the setting formock naval battles and otheraquatic displays, the great canal,the narrow channel and the cham-fered or bellflower pond, created—along with the chapels— the ba-
sic layout of the Park and its gar-dens. Buen Retiro was describedas "The world art wonder of thetime when Spain was the foremostpower in the world”. The Park wasopened to the public in 1767 andbecame the property of the Munic-ipality in 1868. Countless statues,including statues of the GothicKings of Spain (read edition WhyStatues of the Kings of Spain) andcommemorative monuments havefilled the park and converted it in-to an open-air sculpture museum.
Near the Rosaleda (rose garden)there stands a unique statue, theFountain of the Fallen Angel,erected in 1922, whose main sculp-ture El Angel Caído is a work byRicardo Bellver which representsLucifer falling from Heaven. It isclaimed that this statue is the onlyknown public monument of Satan.
AND even more weird the statuestands 666 metres above sea level– the number of the beast! TheCrystal Palace (Palacio de Cristal)was built along with its artificialpond in 1887 for the PhilippineIslands Exhibition, a glass pavilion
inspired by the Crystal Palace inLondon, undoubtedly the gardens'most extraordinary building. Dur-ing the late 18th and 19th centu-ries, the period in history ofcolonial expansion, western civili-sations held a fascination of thenatives, exotic animals and plantsin those colonies. Madrid was sec-ond only in Europe, after Vienna,to open an Animal Zoo in the Reti-ro Park in 1787.
AND with the opening of theCrystal Palace in 1887 hosting thelargest and most complete HumanZoo in Europe. 45 natives from theIgorot tribe, people from variousregions of the Philippine archipel-ago, mostly the mountainous is-land of Luzo, whom the Spanishcolonialists were keen to display inthe Retiro Park. An entire villagewas built to exhibit these unfamil-iar people in their ‘natural habitat’,with thousands of curious specta-tors paying for a glimpse into theirexotic world. The darkest corner ofRetiro Park -Madrid’s erstwhilehuman zoo. One hundred and thir-ty-one years ago, some might haveargued that this was an innocentdeal – the Igorot people were paidgood money to come to Spain andpromised a return ticket. Theywere also shown around the coun-try that had conquered theirs –and they got to meet the Queen.
But when they were then taken toa replica village vaguely similar totheir own and told to wear theirtraditional clothes and act outtheir daily life in front of thou-sands of curious visitors, they
might have got a hunch that theyweren’t just on the trip of a lifetime.
Boats were built, and the smalllake that we see in front of theCrystal Palace was extended andstocked with fish. This enabled thehuman exhibits to fish using meth-ods passed down from their ances-tors. Meanwhile, the publicwatched closely in morbid en-chantment with their ‘native’ tech-niques.
Even though many in societyfound the concept of a human zoodistasteful, public fascination forthe exotic world was gaining steamand other human zoos were builtin the capital cities of Europe.There are various articles claimingthat Madrid looked after their hu-mans better than many other hu-man zoos in Europe at the time.There was a relatively low deathrate with ‘only’ four out of 45 na-tives dying as a result of poor livingconditions in the Park.
Madrid’s natives in the humanzoo were promised a return jour-ney, which they were granted, butonly after Madrid rejected Paris’srequest to exhibit the Igorot peo-ple. Madrid feared that conditionsin France’s capital would furtherjeopardise their health and there-fore agreed to pull the plug on thehuman zoo, sending its inhabit-ants back to the Philippines byboat.
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The British Benevolent Fund(BBF) needs some help from peo-ple willing to commit some timeand skills to a very worthwhilecharity.
The background to this isthat there is a very inter-esting history to the origi-
nation of the BBF. The story goesthat in the 1920s, Spanish aristoc-racy depended on British nanniesto help bring up their children andat the end of their service therewas no payoff or pension. The stat-utes go back to 1933 but records ofhelping British people go backeven further.
From that time the activities ofthe British Benevolent Fund ofMadrid took place under the aus-picies of the British Embassy witha voluntary committee and chair-man but with fundraising andgrants taking place to help peoplein need in the Madrid area only.
During 2015 it was agreed to reg-ister the fund as a national associ-ation in order help British peoplethroughout all of Spain.
The cases the BBF deals withcome through the various BritishConsulate offices in Spain andthrough over 30 partner charitieswhich are dealt with by a Case Sup-port Committee who can agree fi-nancial help on an immediatebasis.
The BBF has a grants policywhich is applied effectively tothose deserving cases but the over-riding philosophy is one of benev-olence to assist British citizenswho for whatever reason findthemselves with no alternativesource of help. In these circum-stances where there is no one elseto turn to the BBF is there to help.The BBF does not provide longterm continued support to caseswhose situation may not be sus-tainable in Spain but with a one-time grant will improve their qual-ity of life. In extreme cases the BBFmay assist people wishing to re-turn the UK as an alternative toremaining in Spain.
Each case considered by the BBFis very different to the previousone. The circumstances of each arevery varied but the constant is the
desperationfelt at a time ofneed andmany of thetestimonialsreceived afterthe BBF hashelped out area sign of thedifference theBBF can makein people´slives. In manycases that onetime grant is aturning pointand provides anew start intheir life. Inother cases itjust makes lifeeasier andmore comfort-able.
The BBF is inevolution asseeks to helpmore Britishcitizens inSpain. As itgrows it re-quires moreresources andpeople withskills willing todedicate someof their owntime to helpothers. Thismay be inhelping to or-ganize eventsor to helpbuild a greaterawareness ofthe work of theBBF througheffective mar-keting. It maybe that youwish to helpthe Case Sup-port Commit-tee and help assess cases as theyare received.
Any voluntary organization de-pends on the strength of its volun-teers and in the case of the BBFseeking out people willing to helpother British people less fortunate
than themselves becomes very im-portant.
We invite you to find out moreabout our work by visitingwww.britishbenevolentfund.organd if you would like to attend ourflagship fundraising event at the
British Ambassador´s Residencetickets can be purchased here:
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Late Summer Andaluz Almonds
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Whilst quietly eeking out thelast days of our holidays in Anda-lucia, I have been asked to writethe recipe for the September edi-tion . I have been pondering whatwould be the best most seasonalrecipe for the momento. Whilst Isit in ‘pleno campo’ in the provin-cia of Granada listening to thelast screetch of the cicadas andthe general hum of the birds andbees in this plentiful countrysidethe idea comes to me. I can see ouralmonds are ready to pick on thetrees - the shells russet brown,their husks now bursting openmore than ever since they startedmaturing … they start out abright green colour in spring andand by late summer turn brownand velvety. We have been pick-ing our almonds ever since wetook on the land, trying them outin various ways often the simplerthe better.
I make many things with ouralmonds; almond milk is a delightespecially for those who don’t en-joy or cannot take milk with lac-tose. Even after the making of this‘milk’ I have been known to makea gluten free chocolate browniewith the left over almond massthat is collected after straining offthe liquid. In early summer makethe delicious creamy ‘Ajo Blanco’(see 2017 Summer edition) onlybest when the almonds are greenand milky (some call these wet al-monds) – the best thing to do withthem in early summer is this cold
almond and garlic soup. Apartfrom that there is little else to dowith them than leave them till latesummer for them to mature andharden.
Once they are ready on the tree,the best thing and most importantthing to do is pick them – a hardchore as most of the trees aregrown on precipitous mountainsides…. I often wonder why theyare grown this way and sometimesI can only think that is it becausethe roots knit the sides of the ter-races together to avoid them fall-ing apart. I still to this day havenever managed to fully pick all thealmonds off one of my almondtrees.
Once harvested while hopefullynot falling down a precipitous hillor needless to say scratchy moun-tainside, (I am often only in shortsand flipflops, not the recommned-ed attire for picking!) dependingon what you are to do with them,you must decide the next step…
You will always have to crackthem which also can be hard onthe hands and time challenging,especially depending on which im-plement you decide to choose forthe task at hand. In these terriblybasic surroundings, the best athand is really just a largish stone,giving it a short sharp smack is thebest way to deal with it and hope-fully you will be left with a wholenut – this can be improved withpractice…try not to smash it tosmithereens.
If your aim is to munch on themas a healthy snack you can justcarry on in a zen like fashioncracking on til your heartsdelight…the job takes longer thanguzzling them, as does most tastythings we prepare to eat.
If you want to take it next stepfurther you can peel them, then fryor roast them in olive oil for a fur-ther luxurious snack. Also wel-come at this point are spices –cumin is great as is paprika, maybeeven cinnamon too.
Of course if you are a keen cookyou will already know the benefitsof using almonds in a sauce as athickening ingredient; there is anandaluz chicken casserole with asauce made up of tomatoes, garlic,fried and crushed almonds – it isutterly delicious. In baking, usingalmond ‘flour’ or ground almondsinstead of traditional flour youwill know it gives the whole cakemore depth of flavour and consist-ency instead of just using wheatflour. I find it also makes the cakelast longer. I often use ground al-monds in cake recipes even ifwheat flour is required - depend-ing on the cake I put half of the‘flour’ quantity needed as groundalmonds.
The most amazing cake I mayhave ever made was a very humblecake made from the first almondpicking I did in our first year at ourhouse in the hills in Granada – Ihad a friend staying and it sudden-ly occured to us to make theground almonds for a cake our-selves – it was a definitely a chal-lenge.
We made an incredible almondcake and served it with Guava Gooand Greek Yogurt…. Sublime!
Here I will tell you how you howto make said almond cake ‘fromscratch’ or should I say ‘fromcrack’.
If, however, you do not own anyalmond trees then skip to the partwhere the almonds are finallyground and buy some at your localsupermaket – they are now readyavailable but at a price … and nowyou know why. I had not realiseduntil I took the task on for the firsttime - it is a lot of hard work frompicking the almond to making theground almonds.
So the next stage is the peeling -this is the easier part as you justneed water to soften the skins andthen after a bit of a squeeze theygenerally pop out of their skins.
Then these skinned almondsneed to be dried – air dried is bestbut if in a hurry a carefullywatched over oven is fine – youjust don’t want them toasted onlydried…. The sun obviously is bestfor this job – even though it maytake a few hours depending on theheat of the sun.
Now once you have the almondstotally dried you need to grindthem – hopefully with some sort ofelectrical device if not this is a longand quite slow process. The firsttime I did this when we first hadour cortijo and land we had noelectricity so yes, I am speakingfrom experience, we did do thegrinding or should I say smashingourselves, probably lending amore crunchy consistency to ourfinal product.
INGREDIENTS● 450 gs of your prepared almonds● 6 large eggs● 250 sugar● Grated zest of 1 orange● Grated zest of 1 lemon
PREPARATION● Finely grind the almonds in a food processor or the next best thing…● Beat, either with an electric mixer, or your own energy and a whisk,
the eggs with the sugar to a smooth pale cream. Add the zests.● Add the ground almonds and mix very well.● Line an 11-inch spring form cake tin with paper - it can stick. Pour in
the cake batter, and bake into a preheated 350°F for 40 minutes, oruntil it feels firm to the touch. Let cool before turning out.
When we made it the first time, it was also the season for the guavas tobe picked and so I cooked up some guavas with enough sugar to makeguava goo...this being on it’s way to be guava jam. It went terribly wellwith the cake and some greek yogurt.
So good I think I will go and have some now!
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