Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Good to see Scritti Politti getting into AI hedge funds. 010
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Hardly surprising from a click-chasing rag that ran this drivel about Spain being “full” of these weird, licensed Franco shrines. There’s about six…and they’re treated with ridicule. 020
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The marvellous wooden ceiling in the bar of Salamanca’s cultural casino. 000
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The dismal frontage of Madrid’s jazz joint Café Central after it was forced to move from Plaza del Angrl after 44 years by a rental hike 010
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The Guardian has recently gushed that the Madrid barrio of Carabanchel is a hipster "people's republic". Yet they overlooked this gem - Bar Bodega Frutas 130
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Madrid’s “Sistine Chapel of Ceramic Tiles”Los Gabrieles (est 1907) is back up and running after being shut for 22 years. A fantastic renovation. It’s superb. 240
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 29/01/2026One of the joys of living in Madrid is chancing on places like this wonderful little bar in Tetuan: Taberna la Parra 010
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Hearing disturbing intelligence that Antwerp’s beer temple Kulminator has shut until further notice… 000
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Slow to this, but great news that A l’Imaige Nostre-Dame in Brussels has reopened. Less positive news from Au Bon Vieux Temps which appears permanently closed. 000
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Los Gabrieles, Madrid’s “Sistine Chapel” of ceramic tiling, dates back to 1907 and is reopening after being shuttered for 23 years. 110
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Madrid’s Stylo, the wonderfully eccentric disco and dance bar that catered for the over-50s, has sadly shut for good. 010
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Sad to read that Berlin’s premier Kölsch redoubt Stadtklause has been forced move from its charming spot near Anhalter Bahnhof. 000
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Good news from Madrid. Taberna Oliveros (est 1857) is open again after being shuttered for a couple of years. 111
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 22/03/2025“Don’t just point! Somebody put the fire out in my company car…” 020
Tim Evans @timmo5.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Europe’s still got it. A building that the Yanks will never come close to. And I’m not remotely religious. 110
