Thanks, Nathan. I feel the need for some Spanish warmth (and tapas), but my
next visit abroad will be to Salzburg for a few days – for a workshop on
spatial disorientation (afflicting pilots). It will be very interesting, but
not warm and sunny :-(
Chris
> On 23 Nov 2014, at 17:52, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> The inauguration was done on Monday partly because many of the people whom we
> would have invited anyway (heads of the national IP offices such as the
> UKIPO) were in Alicante to attend the meetings of our governing body (on
> which they sit) which were starting the following day. This way their travel
> costs were just the extra night in Alicante; the other invitees paid their
> own way.
>
> The other language in Onil is Valenciano, the other official language here in
> the Valencia region (which includes Alicante). It is a close cousin of
> Catalan, but is not nearly as widely spoken, certainly not in the big cities
> of the region (Valencia, Alicante, Castellón, Elche). But you do hear it used
> in the small towns and villages, especially inland.
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