Spain

[anileve]

The country of Sangrias, flamenco, Dali, Gaudi and bullfights. The country that Hemingway fell in love with. It's siestas, Moorish castles, rich landscapes and great paellas.

Did anyone ever visit it? And if you did, please share your impressions or some useful information. If you haven't, perhaps you can post some highlights of its legendary history.

[Anonymouse]

My mom visited Spain last year. Good place, although I don't know much about topography or tourist destination or highlights, I will tell you that the Visigoths were there for roughly 300 years until conquered by the Moors, and then it took another 800 years for the Reconquista. Of course we can't forget Cervantes, Goya, Dali, Sorolla, Colombus, etc. Of course, when you visit Spain, you can see the influence of ethnogenesis. The southern part is more olive skinned reflecting the Arabic and mixed race influence, while when you travel further up north, people are more blonde or red haired, reflecting their Nordic-Germanic roots. You can see a similar pattern in Italy, where the more north you go you get blonder and more Germanic looking people since the Lombards occupied the north, while the south is more olive skinned.

[xBaron Dants]

And there's that day where they throw tomatoes on each other...

Loseyourname, by the way, could tell you about less flattering parts of Spanish history.

[anileve]

My mom visited Spain last year. Good place, although I don't know much about topography or tourist destination or highlights, I will tell you that the Visigoths were there for roughly 300 years until conquered by the Moors, and then it took another 800 years for the Reconquista. Of course we can't forget Cervantes, Goya, Dali, Sorolla, Colombus, etc. Of course, when you visit Spain, you can see the influence of ethnogenesis. The southern part is more olive skinned reflecting the Arabic and mixed race influence, while when you travel further up north, people are more blonde or red haired, reflecting their Nordic-Germanic roots. You can see a similar pattern in Italy, where the more north you go you get blonder and more Germanic looking people since the Lombards occupied the north, while the south is more olive skinned.

Great info, thanks! Perhaps you can post some of your mom's impressions when you get a chance? It will be most hepful.

Baron, thank you as well for your brief input. Tomatoes are my favorite fruit, I look forward to catching them with my mouth, for I find it a waste for tomatoes kissing the ground instead of my esophagus.

[dstyle]

Spains amazing. Barcelona can possibly be if not the greatest one of the greatest cities in the world. Madrid I didn't like as much, but San Sebastion and Barcelona are amazing. The people are so full of color, the city is just chaotic in the summer, everyones at the beaches, night and day, partying. Beautiful i mean beautiful architecture. Five HM stores. Oh and the women are basically the spanish version of LA women, enough said.

[ardenik]

spain is gorgeous.... absolutely.. & in every way.

i spent a week in some part of spain somewhere near the cities of Alicante & Cartageņa.. quite a bit south of Valecia. i dont know exactly what the name of the place i was staying is... it wasnt a city at all. im not sure if it had a name!! lol

i was there with my folks & one of the moments i remember most during that trip is i was laying on the sand at the beach with my mom. it was sunny & hot as f*ck that day. (like everyday.. it just rains for about 10-15 minutes every once in a while) i had a drink in my hand & there was bob marley music coming out of one of those huts made of palm leaves. i turned to my mom & said "this is the life.. this is beautiful..." i had to keep myself from following that up with "all we need now is a nice little doobe!"

spain is great. the ppl are real nice. its just a nice place in general. the only thing that drove me nuts was the fact that it had been what felt like an eternity since i touched an instrument!! (i was in paris before) i ended up buying a spanish guitar from a music store in Cartageņa & named her Margarita that made the rest of our trip even more pleasant than it already was, we spent the next week jumping around between St-Raphael, Côte d'Azur (where we were staying) to places like Nice, Cannes, Marseille, also Milan, Monte-Carlo.. it was a great trip.

Spain is fabulous. i would recommend it to anybody. i never really went to any cities, other than being in Barcelona for a coupla hours before heading off to where we were going. tho i didnt get a chance to really see anything there that didnt look like any other big city.

Espaņa gets the thumbs up

[anileve]

Sagrada Familia by Gaudi, which I am dying to see.

[anileve]

Royal Palace in Madrid.



Plaza Mayor reminds me a little of our Hraparak



Don't mind me, this thread is solely for my pleasure of posting beautiful pictures of Spain.

[Anonymouse]

My nipples are getting hard.

[anileve]

So are hers, and she is at the Prado Museum. Nude Maja by the fabulous Goya.