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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
New third kit: one shirt, one territory, one feeling.
Girona FC and PUMA present the third kit for the 2025/26 season, a meaningful proposal that seeks to go beyond sport to connect with the sense of belonging to a region with a unique essence and identity. With a completely navy blue design, the new shirt is inspired by the Costa Brava, evoking the strength and beauty of our territory. All elements of the kit are in the same navy blue for a very clean and elegant tonal design, perfect for casual wear beyond match days. To reinforce this connection with the land and local culture, the new kit was presented in collaboration with Girona artist JULS. The video, filmed in Sant Antoni de Calonge, shows this young singer-songwriter performing "Habaneras Frente al Mar," one of the hits from her debut album, "Con Amor." A song that connects directly with the spirit of the Costa Brava and serves as an emotional soundtrack to convey the sentiment that inspires the shirt. One of the most symbolic decisions of this new kit is replacing the official club crest with the Orgullo Gironí emblem on the chest. Girona FC has taken this step to reinforce the idea that the club goes beyond representing a set of colors and a set of fans and aims to reflect an entire territory, a way of being, and a shared feeling. This symbol also aims to be a driving force for promoting local talent, giving visibility and support to creators, artists, and initiatives that reflect the richness and unique personality of our territory. Furthermore, the club will allocate 5% of the profits obtained from the sale of this kit to the development of projects linked to Orgullo Gironí, reinforcing Girona FC's commitment to the community and promoting local identity. The new third kit will be available starting today, July 17th, at 10:00 a.m. in club stores, online, and through authorized PUMA retailers.
Irish Times
08-07-2025
- Irish Times
My French trip had no shortage of Beckett-style waiting, with Marseille Airport at 2.30am about as lively as Knock
En route to visiting a friend in Spain last week, I first flew to Marseille. No reader, you wouldn't start from Marseille to get to Spain if you were me. But I'd never been to Marseille before, and it was a cheap flight, and I had time to spare. There was also the prospect of a side trip into the ochre-red hills of Roussillon, where Samuel Beckett spent time during the war, an experience commemorated in Waiting for Godot. A member of the Resistance, Beckett was waiting for Germans, mostly. And they didn't come either. Even so, his connection with the village has spawned an annual theatre festival, later in July. My plan was to see Marseille and Roussillon, briefly, then take a series of relaxing, picturesque train journeys around the Mediterranean, down to the Costa Brava. READ MORE In the event, I never saw Roussillon. But thanks to that great tradition of holiday season, the French transport strike, my trip had no shortage of Beckett-style waiting anyway. It started at Dublin Airport, where we learned that our 7.45pm take-off would be at 8.45 due to industrial action by French air traffic controllers. Then we boarded the Ryanair plane to be told we didn't have clearance to take off for another 2½ hours. So we sat on the tarmac until 11.15pm, and it was 2.30am local time when we landed in Marseille. On the plus side, this was the airport of France's second-largest city, so sure to be a hive of activity even then? Au contraire. Marseille Airport was about as lively at 2.30am as its equivalent in Knock. The arrival of a flight from Dublin seemed to take passport control by surprise: they had to have a short conference before opening kiosks. Then we trooped out, past flight-delayed families sleeping on floors, to find the bus service had long closed. Taxis were scarce too, although at a nightly average of €90 to the city, they must be a path to riches. A friendly cabman dropping someone off explained his wasn't an official airport taxi but gave me a lift to the rank. When we found that empty, I hired him anyway, and at the same price as the flight, got a taxi to the hotel for half the night I'd booked. That experience sapped some of my enthusiasm for a two-bus trip to Roussillon. But it took another kind of French air strike – the 36 degrees C variety that hit me outside the hotel next morning – to sap the rest of it. Seeing Marseille would be enough of a challenge for this visit. Thirty-six hours later, I caught a train to Perpignan, which was indeed a picturesque journey, if not a relaxing one, because I had to change at Narbonne and feared falling asleep and waking in Bordeaux instead. Also, for reasons explained only in barely audible French, the train became 90 minutes late en route. But I did eventually reach Perpignan: a place notable for being the first city of its size to elect a far-right mayor. That's an interesting subject, to which I'll return later in the week. For the purposes of this narrative, meanwhile, the most striking thing (pun not intended but I'll leave it there) about Perpignan was my attempt to get out of it. A train to Barcelona, although the trip is not much more than two hours, would have cost €139. For €100 less than that, I booked a bus, with a company hitherto unknown to me called Blablacar. That's a fun name for a bus company, although it would not fill you with confidence if you had to call the customer complaints department, as I would. My experience was not helped by the fact that Ireland seemed to be as unknown to Blablacar as Blablacar had been to me. On the screen where you gave your mobile number, the scroll-down menu of prefixes offered the UK's +0044. But +353 was nowhere to be seen and I couldn't enter it automatically. This meant not receiving updates about the lateness of the 12.05pm service, of which there were several. I was dependent instead on a friendly young Frenchman who, even at 1pm, was worried about his 6.30pm flight from Barcelona. I reassured him he had loads of time. I was wrong. Our bus turned up at 1.55pm and left just promptly to avoid the possible refunds a two-hour delay might have triggered. Then, when about 20 miles from Barcelona, the driver announced he had to stop for another 45 minutes. Rules, apparently: he'd been on duty for 8 hours. As we whiled away the time, again, my mind went back to Marseille and the famous anthem it inspired. Maybe that spirit of militancy is still live in the French trade union movement. But the weary patience with which locals greeted the delays everywhere suggested the line 'Attendons, citoyens!' should replace the one that says 'Marchons!'. I would have been up for forming battalions myself, as the song instructs. The natives were content to form queues.
Condé Nast Traveler
20-06-2025
- Condé Nast Traveler
A Guide to Empordà, the Artistic Hot Spot of Spain's Costa Brava
Spain's Costa Brava has long been a magnet for the jet set, its pebbled calas and charming fishing villages luring everyone from Truman Capote and Marcel Duchamp to Ava Gardner. While you could easily follow in their footsteps, spending your vacation hopping from one rocky playa to the next, that would mean missing out on the wider charms of Empordà, the storied region stretching inland from the Mediterranean Sea and north toward the French border. Once home to the first Greek settlement on the Iberian Peninsula, this picturesque corner of Spain, just an hour and a half north of Barcelona, encompasses a patchwork of honey-hued medieval towns, vineyard-blanketed hills, and rocky landscapes shaped by the fierce Tramuntana wind—which is said to have inspired the creative genius of the region's most famous son, Salvador Dalí. But Empordà's pastoral beauty and agricultural soul shouldn't distract from its more contemporary draws: a red-hot arts scene, detour-worthy dining, and an explosion of new design-forward hotels, including Finca Victoria, Villa Salvador, and a new property launched by the brothers behind the region's three-Michelin-starred El Celler de Can Roca. 'Amazingly, Empordà still feels under-the-radar,' says Pau Guardans, founder of Único Hotels, whose jewel-box retreat Mas de Torrent is the preferred bolthole of Barcelona's elite (complete with a helipad and museum-worthy art collection). But with more travelers venturing beyond the well-trodden trail, Empordà is quickly shedding its locals-only reputation and emerging as one of Spain's hotspots. It's a place where an itinerary might include cycling between perfectly preserved 15th-century villages, birdwatching in the Aiguamolls wetlands, wine-tasting at family-run bodegas, and tapping into the region's creative side at ceramic studios and independent art galleries.
Broadcast Pro
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Broadcast Pro
Lebanon's Abbout Productions to receive Locarno's producing award
The production firm will also present two of its movies at Locarno, namely Costa Brava, Lebanon' and 'Memory Box'. Beirut-based production house Abbout Productions, led by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine, will be honoured with the Raimondo Rezzonico Award at the 78th Locarno Film Festival on August 7, 2025. The award, presented by the Municipality of Minusio, recognises outstanding work by independent producers and celebrates Abbout's remarkable contribution to Arab and Lebanese cinema. During the ceremony, Abbout Productions will present two of its most acclaimed titles: Costa Brava, Lebanon by Mounia Akl and Memory Box by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. These films exemplify the company's dedication to powerful storytelling and international visibility for regional voices. Since taking the helm of Abbout Productions in 2004 and 2010, respectively, Schoucair and Sassine have played an instrumental role in shaping Lebanon's independent film landscape. Under their leadership, the Beirut-based company has produced a roster of award-winning films that have screened at major international festivals including Venice, Berlin and Cannes. Their portfolio includes works by prominent regional directors such as Ahmad Ghossein, Mohamed Malas, Ghassan Salhab, Oualid Mouannes, Cyril Aris, Ely Dagher, Rana Eid and Myriam El Hajj, whose Diaries from Lebanon premiered in the Berlinale Panorama section in 2024. Beyond production, both Schoucair and Sassine have championed independent cinema through institutional and grassroots efforts. Schoucair was instrumental in the founding and relaunch of Beirut's Metropolis Cinema, a cornerstone venue for arthouse programming in the Middle East. Sassine co-founded the Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival, the only genre-focused film festival in the Arab world, and has been actively involved in regional co-production and training platforms like Aflamuna Connection, which she has managed since 2021. Their work has extended beyond national boundaries. Schoucair supported Jean-Luc Godard's Le Livre d'image and, through the international company Schortcut Films, he and Sassine have co-produced award-winning films by renowned auteurs such as Alain Gomis, Kaouther Ben Hania, Lucrecia Martel and Elia Suleiman. On August 8, Schoucair and Sassine will participate in a public discussion at Forum @Spazio Cinema, moderated by Swiss journalist Philippe Mottaz. The event, organised in collaboration with the ICT4Peace Foundation, reflects the Festival's broader commitment to global dialogue and socially engaged filmmaking. Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director, said: 'The films Abbout have produced are a sign of a society that is vital, alive, and continues to look to the future with dogged confidence. Through their films, Georges and Myriam have been able to tell the story of a country able to come to terms with its history while simultaneously imagining a layered and multifaceted Lebanese identity. They have also launched a great many new talents in front of and behind the camera, helping to give Lebanon a new face, allowing it to meet its potential, and offering a complex portrait of the country that goes far beyond the trivialisations of the violence of war. They have worked tirelessly in the pursuit of a fertile and generous dialogue.' The Raimondo Rezzonico Award, offered by the Municipality of Minusio, was created in 2002 in memory of the man who was President of the Festival from 1981 to 1999. The 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival will take place from August 6-16, 2025.
TTG
18-06-2025
- TTG
The secret Spanish foodie haven that will leave clients hungry for more
However, fittingly, the final stop on my Gastronomy Route was another celebrated restaurant, just a stone's throw away on Sant Pol bay. Local legend Taverna del Mar was taken under Hostal de la Gavina's umbrella in 2013 and showcases the best of the region's seafood, including oysters, mussels, clams and fresh fish, served in a blue-and-white salon with stunning views out to sea. As I savoured my meal of paella cooked two ways – traditional with rice and fideua with short, thin noodles – I remarked to my host that my daughter would be going on her first school trip abroad in two weeks' time, quite coincidentally to a resort just 10 minutes along the coast. I hoped her voyage of discovery would be as memorable as my rediscovery of a region with so much to offer. How to book it Kirker Holidays offers the three-night Gastronomy Route package at Hostal de la Gavina from £1,886 per person, based on two sharing a classic double room with terrace. Price includes breakfast and the three included special meals (Esperit Roca, La Taverna del Mar and Candlelight – alcoholic drinks not included) plus a wine tasting at Clos d'Agon, flights to Barcelona and car hire.
