I confess that I once had a profound revelation on reading a book by Paolo Coelho. Unfortunately, I don’t think the author intended it. A Brazilian friend lent me The Alchemist in Portuguese when I was learning that language, saying that it would probably be OK […]
Category: Humour
If you ask most foreign translators what they least like about working in another country, they will often name the bureaucracy involved. When I first came to Spain I quickly learned to take a newspaper with me when visiting any government building to while away the hours. Nowadays I take my laptop and set up […]