Late - I am sorry...
Sunday, October 17, 2010 @ 10:37 AM
I promised to update this blog last Monday, however, it is so "hurry" that there is no time for nothing. Now a few words of the idea of this blog:
1) I hope I could tell something about my own experiences (of Spain) from early 70s to 2010 and beyond
2) the main reason - or target - is to expand british people's knowledge of "themselves in Spain". I assume the most visitors on this EOS-www are from UK, and I really want to tell the comments I/we have heard concernig (all!) English-speaking population - independent are they "tourists" or living here as an expat. But pls note: I realize - of course - that these comments DO NOT refer to all individuals - but if there is one "bad egg in the basket" it is very ease to say that all egs are "spoiled"...
3) last but not least: I will tell something about "the better way" to find a short- or long term home for UK-people - even to rent or buy.
Starting #1 - of course:
I visited first time in Spain at -74. I had a meeting in Barcelona with my colleaques thruout Europe, and we enjoyed the April weather, the feelings at Ramblas, restaurants and bars. We visited in all the "musts" wondering Sagrada Família (it is still the same as 1974 - no new construction!), Columbus's ships Santa Maria etc - all new and exotic for "young" people from Finland (you must realize that Finnish people found the tourism (outside Finland) just a few years earlier in 60s. (By the way, have you visited at Malaga's airport Museum, there is the first civil airplane landed to Malaga 1959 after the militants - it was a Finnish Kar-Air's Convair Metropolitan - "opened" last Autumn after 50 years of "closed" airport. Sorry to say, this Convair is a US-based replica...!)
We visited also in the Monastery of Montserrat with my friends. We even established a "Hermandad de Saint Montserrat" - only four members - who liked (and like) beer, wine and Spain...
After the official days in Cataluña we had a flight to Malaga for the long weekend. Wow, we took a taxi to the hotel Estrella del Mar very close to Marbella. Pls note again: the hotel was not like nowadays: it was a very small and intimate place for youngsters to stay for weekend and check all the Costa del Sol's "miracles" - and visit of course in Gibraltar; the place which was closed on those times. We met also some young Spanish and Germany "señoritas" (no British...) but that is another story...
Barcelona, Marbella and Spain - I left my heart to San Fra... Spain. That's all for today.