10 Now that we're back from the sweet and festive Christmas celebrations, we're entering the big week of Sant Antoni. I took the opportunity to ask my students at IES Portocristo what songs they knew... And they knew quite a few. "Yes, teacher"Sant Antoni, for rain, inside you're making plants and clappers, to earn a few coins to make new shoes." "Very good, Yerai," I agreed. The Sant Antoni festival has taken off so much that even in a place of such impressive cultural diversity as Portocristo, the children of the newcomers... do they know what a "lova" is? Nobody in the classroom has the slightest idea, despite having heard and sung the song dozens of times. "And a claper?" Nobody knows that either.

]]> The locomotive was a Nasmyth & Wilson Class 25. Its wheel arrangement was 2-2-0; that is, it had two leading front axles, two driving axles, and no rear axles. It was actually a tender locomotive, meaning it carried both coal and water on the same chassis, and therefore didn't have a separate tender car towed by larger locomotives. It began to slip on the wet tracks with a squeal of iron on iron; a thick cloud of black smoke filled the platforms of Palma Central Station. The walls and floor were covered in fine soot that got into the nose.

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