Tim Blair

I tried to double-check it for you, Tim, but according to the online tool I used your version approaches enough the translation.

Tim: "con unas cervezas bien frías, en cualquier lugar en que no haya hora de cierre" means "with some very cold beer in a place in which there is no closing time." Dunno where you get this "affluent beer" thing from. Frio/fria = cold.

Lemme modify my translation: "with some very cold beer in some place in which there is no closing time."

Can I make the translation?

"I realized that sitting around a table with Tim Blair, James Lileks, Mark Steyn and Jonah Goldberg must be quite close to hapiness. With several cold beers [note 'several' -ed], in a place in which there is no closing time". Or words to that effect.

Tim, and distinguished commenters, we're waiting for you!

I had Google translate the whole page. The comments are interesting, too. Samples:

"By the way, they did not let to Bill Whittle enter the bar?"

"To me the zaragozana beer is worth to me. It hauls maños!"

"Ah, of Americans single I have proven Budweiser once. I will not return to do it."

The only Spanish word you really need to know is almuerzo.

The whole post goes like this:

Tim Blair is so lethal - and I mean that as praise - in his columns and in his blog.

Last night, while I was tossing and turning in bed trying to get to sleep, the thought hit me [darse cuenta, not caerse cuenta is closer to 'realised'] that sitting round a table with Tim Blair, James Lileks, Mark Steyn and Jonah Goldberg must be getting pretty close to happiness. With a few cold beers in some joint with no closing time.

As for the comments - the zaragozana one translates as:

Saragossa beer does it for me. Go maños! [Aragonese people]

> "By the way, they did not let to Bill Whittle enter the bar?"

Spanish (like Russian) makes a difference between animate and inanimate nouns when they're the object of a verb. In Spanish, you say "I see a house" but "I see to a man". (In Russian, you'd say say "I see a house" but "I see of a man").