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So in a week me an the missus are going to be landing in Madrid. We have no particular plans - just gonna wanter around and see where we end up. Well definitely I want to see the Prado. And I understand Toledo is a must see. Any suggestions what else is a must see? :: looks at Nacmat :: |
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ve WILL wanter arount as MUCH as we vant to. ve have vays to make you walk. |
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well, welcome to my country. be ready its like 40ºC here all the time, so take care bow about tourism: how many days? |
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near madrid MUST go places: Toledo (an hour to the south) Segovia (an hour and a half to the north west) apart from this I would go to: Barcelona (north east) Granada (south in andaluzia) San sebastian (donosti) (north of spain) there are thousands of other beautiful places, but those would be my recomendations as first choice |
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40 degrees! Sounds great - hasn't been hot enough in Montreal this year. We'll be sweating it out for two weeks in Spain. Doesn't make sense to go for less time - the plane tickets cost me both nuts (walnuts if you must know) qrter: your willainy is vretched! |
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torquay is nice this time of year. they call it the english riviera, you know. very classy place. it's not full of sunburnt middle aged grossly overweight plebs buying hilarious sexist knobhead postcards eating ice-creams and hitting their children for not keeping up with them, honest. |
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Yeah I'm planning on hitting those places... everyone I've spoken to says not to miss Toledo. Segovia I don't know much about - will check it out - Granada for sure, I guess it's a touristy thing but I want to see the Alhambra. |
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many of these towns are ugly in the outside parts of the towns but have beautiful downtowns |
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if oyu have itme go to visit: Cuenca incredible little town 200 km east of madrid |
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like soweto? |
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Places I recommend if you will be travelling around Spain: San Sebastian Asturias (Gijon) Granada Valencia If you only have time for day trips you can check out the castle and Toledo and the Aqueduct at Segovia, thats pretty much all thats there, but they are pretty fucking awesome. |
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"many of these towns are ugly in the outside parts of the towns but have beautiful downtowns" Haha, just like Montreal. God-awful ugly suburbs and industrial areas on the outskirts but the downtown and older residential areas are pretty. I guess a lot of places are like that now - |
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industry standard mix |
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going to spain. |
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when? |
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dunno...i just quoted the title. perhaps next year if sonar lineup will be any good...although, the things i've been listening lately...hmm, perhaps if robbie williams does a gig there i might come! yeah, that'd be great! |
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do you still like the lory d album (sounds never seen)? |
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yeah, couple of tunes from that albums are well excellent - deep from colosseum and street vision. but above his releases i love the stuff he does live...definitely one of better live asts i've seen. saw him twice so far...wanna see him 10 more times. |
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I'd like to go to Spain... |
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i went to barcelona a few months ago. eat Tapas! admire the beautiful women! see Gaudi's architecture! we stayed very close to the Sagrata Familia which is pretty awesome. if you find yourself in Barcelona you can't miss it. |
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i have a cousin who lives in spain, his wife's father is suppose to be some big shot over there thats why they're sorta rich. i never visited the place though. maybe i'll go someday just to see the toma tina (sp?) |
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TOMATINA a party where everybody throws tomatoes crazy... fucking crazy |
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Alguien sabe de algun festival o concierto en españa q pueda ser interesante? En Valencia hay buenas raves!! Tenedlo en cuenta. ----------------------------------- Anyone knows abaout any cool live act here in spain?(electronica) Valencia is a good place for party. |
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fuck madrid! barcelona is, by far, the most beautiful city of spain... -------------------------------------------------------- hola bax! que tipo de musica te gusta (a principios de julio toco squarpusher por ahi en andalucia, en un mas que recomendable festival...) |
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you dont have beautiful women in seatle, evolume??? |
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q estubo squarepusher!!!! joder....bueno y sabes de algo mas este agosto? no se tio monton de cosas en lo del idm soy relativamente nuevo, afx, square, yee-king, four tet, ultimamente me bajo mas parches para el reason q musica... |
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/me takes notes furiously Thanks for all the advice - and regional competitiveness! :-) |
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note that in any case I recomended madrid and even so its a nice place to visit |
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Some quick notes on Spain: - the women are XXXXHOTTT and walking in the street is like foreplay. There is this particular smell to Spain in general and Madrid in particular, like perfumed soap and a hint of sex funk and old city smell. It's fucking awesome. - Bad place for vegetarians as the Spanish consider ham to be a form of vegetable or condiment and put it in everything. Also you get iceberg lettuce, even in a vegetarian restaurant. The best meals are tapas here and there, also bocadillos (sandwich on a roll). - the Moors produced some of the finest architecture and decoration in history then the Christians came along and gunked it up with Las Vegas style ugliness - visiting the mezquita in Cordoba changed the way I see a lot of things. - seeing Goya, El Greco and Hieronymus Bosch all under the same roof fucked with my mind. I stood like 12 inches away from the Garden of Earthly Delights. Highly recommended. - even the dogs and babies smoke |
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thank the dark underlords, i thought you had fallen into the tarpits. |
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Eee by gum. You lucky bugger, i'd love to see some goya and bosch in real life. |
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The real surprise was the El Greco. In real life it has this luminous quality that you don't see in prints. eep ohs: the whole country is a tar pit - I can feel it drawing me back. |
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glad you liked it!!! |
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Aye, that can happen. I was never a barnett newman fan until i saw one in the flesh. I gawped at it for the best part of 20 minutes... i was shaking all over. |
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Eyyyyyyy Nacmat, what's the good beer in Spain? There was Cruzcampo all over, which is a raunchy beer kinda like Canada's own Molson Export, then there was San Miguel which I gather is based out of the Philippines, and there was lots of imported stuff like Heineken. Mostly I just ordered cerveza and let the barkeep or waiter worry about it. |
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What really slew me was a simple piece by Lucio Fontana at the Reina Sofia museum - his famous razor slashed canvas. That's something you have to see in person to get the full effect - the darkness behind the slashes representing death, mystery, transcendence - everything we're looking for in art, usually in a two dimensional illusion on canvas, here slashed to reveal it as a consensual construction. It was part of an exhibition of "monochrome" art. They must have had a blast assembling that collection. Beautiful understated works that made the viewer work for it. There was also a simple piece called "madonna" - can't remember the artist - it was a large deep blue fiberglass hemisphere that echoed your voice back at you. It said things about mater/matter, breath as spirit, emergence from the void... again, not something you can fully appreciate except in person. |
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hehe, i thought tolstoyed had started this track for a second |
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mahou alhambra those are my favourite spanish beers |
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