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Latrines, Tractors & Hooligans

by Jes Rasmussen • September 26, 2022

Me, I’ve never been to Albacete. Well, there’s a lot of places in this old withering world I’ve never been, but anyway; Albacete is one of them. And maybe I’ll never go there.

by Jes Rasmussen • July 27, 2022

I love football, and I love bicycle racing. But I’m not too crazy about what they do to us. World Football Championship in Qatar That’s stupid.

by Jes Rasmussen • May 31, 2022

In Denmark frogs have not always been really so very popular. Well, except Kermit the Muppet, of course. But it was never so hot to eat Kermit’s hind legs, as they do in France.

by Jes Rasmussen • April 26, 2022

Our Danish contributor, Jes Rasmussen, wrote for the April edition of the Seaside Gazette, printed copy, about the arrival of refugees… with their pets.

by Jes Rasmussen • April 2, 2022

Standing at the zinc bar at my humble, favourite, morning-coffee, brewer’s place in Costa Granada, I do my best to have a conversation with my fellow coffee drinkers.

by Jes Rasmussen • August 3, 2018

Animal Farm is here. Not George Orwell’s political pigs, horses and hounds, but all kinds of little krible-krable creatures and maybe the occasional bird.

by Jes Rasmussen • June 2, 2018

Sure, I like animals, don’t get me wrong. I’m more or less one myself.

by Jes Rasmussen • March 17, 2018

I love beginnings. Endings and what comes in between, I’m not too keen on. Beginnings are the best. We’re talking books here, not lives or love affairs. Well, maybe the very short love affairs but certainly not life.

by Jes Rasmussen • February 15, 2018

(COE22) Late in the evening on Tuesday 13th of February the Danish prince consort, Prins Henrik, died in Fredensborg Castle after a period of severe illness.