jamie goode's wine blog: Pousadas, football and the power of the blog

Friday, January 16, 2009

Pousadas, football and the power of the blog

A few short items for Friday morning.

1. Pousadas rock. They're the wonderful hotels based on historical buildings, palaces and castles dotted around Portugal. Just seen on their website that they have some tempting specials. I'd love a week touring Portugal like this, or even a long weekend. [No connection or commercial plug here, just wanted to big them up a bit.]

2. It's a great time to be a City fan. Looking likely that we'll be in a relegation scrap (along with half the premiership?), and we're talking about signing Kaka for enough money to buy an average-sized premier league team like West Ham or Middlesborough.

3. Very amusing article in The Guardian about Masal Bugduv, a 16 year old footballing prodigy who made No. 30 in a list of the world's hottest footballing talents compiled by The Times. The only thing is, he doesn't exist. Bugduv was created by football bloggers, and then picked up by a number of media sources in the course of their research.

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9 Comments:

At 1:26 PM, Anonymous Paul Metman said...

Hi Jamie,

Thank you very much for your item on Pousadas' specials. Especially the "Golden Age Passport" is extremely good value for an elderly Dutchman....!

 
At 1:31 PM, Anonymous Andrew Chapman said...

I'm sure a lot of footie Journo's read blogs and football forums and their 'stories' come off there a lot of the time - I know it is often speculated on on the Spurs forums I read (which are pretty depressing places to be right - you get Kaka in your relegation fight, get Bellamy - great :( )

 
At 6:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does Kaka really exist?

 
At 6:56 AM, Blogger el pescado sucio said...

There are pousadas to try in Portugal with similar deals. As for the pousadas we have stayed in around 20 across Spain, we have always been very satisfied. They also have nice wine ranges with a good cross section of Spanish (claro) DO's.

 
At 6:57 AM, Blogger el pescado sucio said...

There are pousadas to try in Portugal with similar deals. As for the pousadas we have stayed in around 20 across Spain, we have always been very satisfied. They also have nice wine ranges with a good cross section of Spanish (claro) DO's.

 
At 3:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a bizarre juxtaposition!

It's a great time to be a City fan. Looking likely that we'll be in a relegation scrap...

!!!

 
At 2:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do pousadas vary as wildly as Spanish paradores? They range between fantastic and fairly dire.

 
At 5:45 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Incredible valued-added comment on "juxtaposition" there from the pedantic lightwieght - obviously has a lot of time on his hands......

 
At 7:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Value-added comment?"

What a twat - someone who spouts management speak.

Get a life.

 

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