If you're a news dork like me, you've probably been following the Catalonian independence movement. Their big vote is coming up next month (or is it? Spain is trying to stop it) and polls show high support, more than Yes got in Scotland.
Catalan flags and independence slogans are a common sight. Campaigns have slogans like #SiOSi (yes or yes? Yes, oh, yes?), ara és l'hora (guess: the hour is now?), simply 9N (the date of the election), and 9/11 > 11/9, which I pieced together as a reference to the Siege of Barcelona, 300 years ago on 11 Sep (remember, euro style dates). Maybe that's how they picked the vote's date in the first place?
On Sunday I saw lots of flags waving in Plaça Catalunya, both Catalonian and Spanish. Also ... (semi-guessing) anti-independence slogans in Catalan? The first I'd seen of these! Later I would see ads for "12 Oct, Spain's National Day" - oh right, Columbus Day. It makes sense that No would rally then. The crowd was mostly older folks and had dispersed entirely by the time I returned that night.
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