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#65025 - 07/16/05 11:56 AM Things you have yet to do in Spain...
filbert Offline
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As yet I have not been to a Flamenco show or seen a Corrida de Toros live. Amazing really, as I have been to Spain so many times...
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#65026 - 07/16/05 01:02 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
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Things I've yet to do:

Walk El Camino de Santiago, see a rock concert (i.e. Ismael Serrano, Alejandro Sanz, Rosario), experience San Fermines in Pamplona, visit any of the Spanish islands, go to the cinema, visit Granada, bring myself to eat "calamares en su tinta" :p , and finally (actually, there's more but...) ......

.....TO LIVE THERE!
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#65027 - 07/16/05 02:56 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
Chica Offline
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Registered: 12/19/01
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Loc: Madrid
LA TOMATINA!!!!

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#65028 - 07/16/05 04:24 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
Booklady Offline
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Registered: 08/19/01
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MadridMan, if anyone deserves to live in spain, you do, and may it be so soon.

I want to visit Numancia. Walk around the Roman and Celtic camps/ruins.

I would like to walk part of the way of the Camino de Santiago in the Fall.

See the Picos de España during the Summer.

Visit Bilbao and take a cooking course there!

Just to name a few... smile

No tomatina nor corrida en Pamplona for me! eek Way too risky!
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#65029 - 07/16/05 06:00 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
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Registered: 08/24/04
Posts: 62
Loc: Destin FL
I have yet to visit those places where my sefardita ancestors may have lived, i.e., Toledo, Girona, Córdoba, and Hervás.

I would also like to:
See Salamanca at sunset
Visit Extremadura

Cogito cogito ergo sum cogito

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#65030 - 07/16/05 09:04 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
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Registered: 04/28/05
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...heheheee,,, once you eat some calamares en su tinta,,, with a cold cruzcampo to wash it all down...you will actually feel the metamorphoses taking place in your body thus turning you much more into a Spaniard...
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#65031 - 07/18/05 02:30 AM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
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just one thing left to do in Spain....RETIRE!

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#65032 - 07/18/05 08:40 AM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
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Registered: 04/04/05
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But Booklady..i was going to invite you to SAn Fermin next year when I go. Sure you won't change your mind? Come on..we could run the encierro together!!!! If you fall down, I promise I'll stop and get in front of the bull in case it is about to run you over - - really!!!
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#65033 - 07/18/05 06:06 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
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Ok TJGuy, I'll go with you to San Fermin, I will just stay on the non-bull side of the fence and pray for you as you run by! laugh Of course, I will apply first aid in the unfortunate happenstance that you, heaven forfend, fall! eek
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#65034 - 07/19/05 10:00 AM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
Fernando Offline
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Registered: 07/05/01
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Loc: Madrid, Spain
Lots of places to visit for me yet smile

Not even being born and living here your whole life can you visit all worthy places.

I've never been to Extremadura, León, Barcelona, San Sebastián or Balearic Islands, to name some.
I've never attended a flamenco show, and I've been just once in a Corrida de Toros.

MM: Calamares en su tinta look horrible, but it is just for the ink. The sauce is made with tomato sauce (and thus, tastes good). Taste them at least once in your life! laugh

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#65035 - 07/19/05 11:43 AM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
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Loc: Charlotte, NC. U.S.A.
Nevado has it right wink

No matter how many times I've been to Spain - there is always more to do - if not for the first time, then the second or third!
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#65036 - 07/20/05 06:09 AM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
laduque Offline
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Registered: 10/02/00
Posts: 596
Loc: San Diego, CA, USA
So many things to do, and I try to do at least one new thing while i´m here visiting family.

The biggies: WAlking the Camino de Santiago and arriving at the cathedral on 25th july (dia de Santiago), it´s also my birthday!!

Going to the Baleares and Galicia too

Going to San Fermines! I can finally check this one off this year!!!! It was incredible!

Eating angulas, can´t bring myself to try them. >I always try to justify the fact that they are just too expensive!

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#65037 - 11/09/05 11:18 AM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
mse924 Offline
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Registered: 01/15/05
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I like this thread smile

-I have yet to visit Asturias. I wanted so badly to go there when I was living in Spain, and never got to. If nothing else, to see what Melendi sings about and what my Asturiano ex-boyfriend always showed me pictures of.

-I have yet to stay out the ENTIRE night at the discos. The latest I ever made it before going home to bed was 4 am.
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#65038 - 11/22/05 02:22 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
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Live there? Well maybe spend a few months at least.

Bill
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#65039 - 11/22/05 03:04 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
Puna Offline
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Loc: Charlotte, NC. U.S.A.
Walk the Camino; explore northern Spain more than I have in recent years; - figure out how to spend six months or more a year in either Madrid, Sevilla, Vallencia or Cadiz and make a living and then, as Nevado says - retirein Spain!
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#65040 - 12/04/05 10:00 AM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
Gretchen6 Offline
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Registered: 11/24/05
Posts: 64
Loc: Wisconsin, USA
To see Picasso's Guernica. Really! I cannot tell you how many times I have travelled in Spain (even lived in Madrid several times). Yet I still have not seen the original masterpiece. This past March I decided to change this fact. I took my Niece to Spain for her first visit. On our last day in Madrid, I decided to dedicate our time at the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia. We walked there from our hotel on Gran Via only to find out it was CLOSED ON TUESDAYS! Que tonta soy. :o Oh well, I guess I will have to return yet again.....hopefully in 2007. Que lastima, eh?

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#65041 - 12/05/05 07:08 AM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
Silvita Offline
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Registered: 01/28/04
Posts: 148
Loc: Chicago
I've never been on a tapas crawl or kissed a Spanish boy.

Madridman, you ain't missing nothing by not going to the cinema. Dubbing, assigned seating, small screens...nobody does movies like the u.s. (and portugal, actually).

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#65042 - 12/06/05 10:17 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
mse924 Offline
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Registered: 01/15/05
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Loc: Wisconsin, USA / Madrid, Españ...
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I've never been on a tapas crawl or kissed a Spanish boy.
eek you don't know what you're missing!! (for both of them laugh )
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#65043 - 12/18/05 11:24 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
mencey Offline
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Registered: 08/13/00
Posts: 330
Loc: Omaha, Nebraska
I have yet to buy property in spain, and have not yet been to Barcelona, I still have not run with the bulls. I better get moving....
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#65044 - 12/27/05 01:43 PM Re: Things you have yet to do in Spain...
willowbarcelona Offline
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Registered: 11/19/05
Posts: 9
Loc: EE.UU.
I would love to visit all the beaches in the 1998 film El Abuelo (The Grandfather, has English subtitles.(http://imdb.com/title/tt0176415/).

It was shot on the Asturian Atlantic coast. Run, don't walk, to see rent this enchanting DVD and just live with the irritation that the opening scenes' audio do not match the actors' speaking mouths--it eventually clears up around the 4th scene. Some of the actors in the film are related in real life, and most of them have acted in Shakespearean and classical Spanish theatre. You are given a treat to see two of the best: Fernando Fernan Gomez and the late Rafael Alonso together.

Also, if you haven't seen it, rent The Butterfly (La Lengua de las Mariposas http://imdb.com/title/tt0188030/) which also stars the incredible Fernando Fernan Gomez and is the best film about the Franco era I've yet to see.

As for another of my "yets", I would like to drive through all of Galicia.

Bon any (Catalan) to all,
willowbarcelona

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