Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲
@madridcorro.bsky.social
Best Foreign Correspondent in Spain Prize-winner, roamed the world for @Reuters. @nytimes.com acclaimed translator. Anglo-Spaniard in Madrid. Cyclist. Replies≠endorsements.
Premio al Mejor Corresponsal Extranjero en España, traductor literario, ciclista.
Premio al Mejor Corresponsal Extranjero en España, traductor literario, ciclista.
I would recommend the following book:
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I would recommend the following book:
Pic I took just four years earlier when it seemed the Wall would last a lifetime, at least.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Pic I took just four years earlier when it seemed the Wall would last a lifetime, at least.
Travelling across 29 countries without border controls instead of seven sounds like progress to me, especially when you consider what some of those borders used to be like.
November 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Travelling across 29 countries without border controls instead of seven sounds like progress to me, especially when you consider what some of those borders used to be like.
Attached is a list of all the visa-exempt countries whose citizens should apply for ETIAS. I counted 52 countries IN ADDITION TO the UK i.e. this is by no means aimed solely at the UK and has nothing to do with Brexit.
October 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Attached is a list of all the visa-exempt countries whose citizens should apply for ETIAS. I counted 52 countries IN ADDITION TO the UK i.e. this is by no means aimed solely at the UK and has nothing to do with Brexit.
Whatever the future of its borders, I fear the UK's very social fabric and infrastructure are broken (Dorling gives details) while its political class is complacent and feckless:
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Whatever the future of its borders, I fear the UK's very social fabric and infrastructure are broken (Dorling gives details) while its political class is complacent and feckless:
Having lived and worked in the USA, I know Britons would get very short shrift indeed if they tried overstaying their visa waiver or using UK driving licences over there after 90 days. In fact, they might well get a visit from these people:
October 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Having lived and worked in the USA, I know Britons would get very short shrift indeed if they tried overstaying their visa waiver or using UK driving licences over there after 90 days. In fact, they might well get a visit from these people:
FYI, 10 most-seen stories in Spain's newspaper of record as of now. Four concern the Middle East, UK not mentioned, again.
October 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
FYI, 10 most-seen stories in Spain's newspaper of record as of now. Four concern the Middle East, UK not mentioned, again.
Kind of you to say so! Just remembered the Uni of Panamá were kind enough to publish this episode as part of a travelogue in 1994. Not exactly a book deal with film and serialisation rights, but kudos nonetheless.
September 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Kind of you to say so! Just remembered the Uni of Panamá were kind enough to publish this episode as part of a travelogue in 1994. Not exactly a book deal with film and serialisation rights, but kudos nonetheless.
You can eat (allegedly) German sausages served on a hot spade in a theme bar in Madrid's cinema district.
August 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
You can eat (allegedly) German sausages served on a hot spade in a theme bar in Madrid's cinema district.
Britain's looting of the Empire over the centuries has been well covered by many historians, a recent and justifiably popular example of which is this book I'd recommend:
August 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Britain's looting of the Empire over the centuries has been well covered by many historians, a recent and justifiably popular example of which is this book I'd recommend:
¡Salud! Prost! From my archive, an Asturian waitress decanting cider the traditional way i.e. from a height so that it is frothy, and you drink just a little bit at a time from the bottom of the glass, known as a "culín" (= little a**e).
August 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
¡Salud! Prost! From my archive, an Asturian waitress decanting cider the traditional way i.e. from a height so that it is frothy, and you drink just a little bit at a time from the bottom of the glass, known as a "culín" (= little a**e).
I agree, but I hope I'm proven wrong in the fullness of time just as I was just four years after I visited Berlin in 1985 (my photo) and feared the Wall would never come down.
August 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I agree, but I hope I'm proven wrong in the fullness of time just as I was just four years after I visited Berlin in 1985 (my photo) and feared the Wall would never come down.
Hace un par de meses leí este libro sobre el tema, basado en testimonios de la familia del autor. Muy recomendado.
July 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Hace un par de meses leí este libro sobre el tema, basado en testimonios de la familia del autor. Muy recomendado.
I remember that well. From my personal archive, East Berlin, 1983. "Forever linked!" it says, and so it seemed at the time, yet both of those states were gone within eight years.
June 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I remember that well. From my personal archive, East Berlin, 1983. "Forever linked!" it says, and so it seemed at the time, yet both of those states were gone within eight years.
Ya está. Gazpacho andalú preparao con las hortalizas más selectas de Lavapiés y aceite de la mejor almazara del barrio.
June 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ya está. Gazpacho andalú preparao con las hortalizas más selectas de Lavapiés y aceite de la mejor almazara del barrio.
I agree with this man (posting just before the last U.S. elections).
June 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I agree with this man (posting just before the last U.S. elections).
Visto #LaFurgo, comedia-drama muy recomenda sobre un amor filial a prueba de todo en tiempos difíciles marcados por la desigualdad. Preestreno gracias a @diasdecine.bsky.social @gerardoquietman.bsky.social Cines Verdi
June 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Visto #LaFurgo, comedia-drama muy recomenda sobre un amor filial a prueba de todo en tiempos difíciles marcados por la desigualdad. Preestreno gracias a @diasdecine.bsky.social @gerardoquietman.bsky.social Cines Verdi
FYI here it is on show at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, where the gun looks more like six feet long. It fired shot, not bullets, and I understand it was meant to kill quite a few ducks at once, after stealing up on them in the punt.
June 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
FYI here it is on show at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, where the gun looks more like six feet long. It fired shot, not bullets, and I understand it was meant to kill quite a few ducks at once, after stealing up on them in the punt.
FYI from my personal archive, taken while passing through Vlissingen some years ago.
June 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
FYI from my personal archive, taken while passing through Vlissingen some years ago.
I was humbly impressed with the following book by a renowned Anglo-French international law specialist:
June 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I was humbly impressed with the following book by a renowned Anglo-French international law specialist:
Here's a photo I took the other day of the EU Pavilion at the Madrid Book Fair, showing the motto "United in Diversity" in all the bloc's official languages.
June 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Here's a photo I took the other day of the EU Pavilion at the Madrid Book Fair, showing the motto "United in Diversity" in all the bloc's official languages.
Two would keep me awake, I fear, but I always look forward to this when out for a spin on the bike:
June 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Two would keep me awake, I fear, but I always look forward to this when out for a spin on the bike:
Spain was a very different place in the 70s and early 80s, poor, repressed and backward, but it has come on in leaps and bounds since 1986. Consider the same street in Madrid in 1988 (left) and 2010 (right).
June 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Spain was a very different place in the 70s and early 80s, poor, repressed and backward, but it has come on in leaps and bounds since 1986. Consider the same street in Madrid in 1988 (left) and 2010 (right).
