It pays to eavesdrop! My ears pricked up when I heard ‘Chocolate cake’ being discussed by walkers passing us by, trampling on the wooden promenade in the quaint seaside town of L’ampolla stretching alongside the Mediterranean Coastline. Fortunately, they stooped to tie a trainer’s shoelace and they continued drooling on about what an amazing luncheon…
Category: Writings
OPPO…opportunities or something else
Testing out this name publicly on professionals, technical, computer geeks orientated and otherwise, in Europe I asked the question: “What does the company or product name OPPO mean to you?” This was presented in their home language. I was either met with shrugged shoulders of zero recognition or as one suggested it would be a…
Evacuees Spanish Civil War -Tortosa.
One of the highlights of this year’s programme is the forced exile by this unpleasant, unwelcomed Civil War, the evacuated route, those Tortoisins followed away from the bloodiest, most horrific bombing cascaded on them by the Italian fascist aircraft they did endure on April 15, 1938. Twenty tons of bombs fell from the skies, more…
ASTRA ZENECA – a brighter name for a brighter solution
Covid-19 Vaccine Forthcoming vaccine out of Europe as a cure for Covid-19. A giant step forward in the right direction. Do you ever pause and wonder how linguistic, international naming consultants come up with such awe-inspiring and memorable names? Product Naming Naming a great product brand and company names are not achieved by merely throwing…
Ebro Valley crop circles cultivation- Camarles style.
Crop circles mysteries have baffled us over the history of time. We have marvelled in their beauty, their mysteries, legends of ominous satanic work at large, questionable hoaxers, climatic changes, studied by the intellectual professors, Crop circle (s) are preserved in stunning photographs until the end of time or even aliens landing (fringe theorists) and…
EbroVoice -the Zen of Life
“Lockdown in Catalonia” since March 16th and counting. It is a necessary and essential means to justify and contain this pandemic. Yet, out of this disaster the true values of living are being pushed to the surface, like young plants in spring. They have been buried for too long. It is a time of not…