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JOHN CHAPMAN
Mar 23, 2008, 10:18:22 PM3/23/08
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Hola Amigos,
Well we have just finalized our flights back to Spain for our vacation next September. Thank goodness for airmiles points considering the increase in flight costs.
I am looking for a lot of help this year as we are venturning to north. Previously we have devoured Andalucia but think it is a time for wider horizons. We have several days planned in Barcelona followed by Tarragona and the finishing up in Girona (my wife spent time there with her family many years ago and wants to return). So my questions to all of you are basically these:
- recommendations for hotels. We like to stay in higher quality but period/character places with history attached. We would like to know of places to stay
- secondly or course would be restaurant suggestions
- sightseeing is really high on hte list for us. We also like hiking so getting to the outdoors
Following, we're heading to Sevilla for the Bienal.
After Sevilla, we head back to Madrid for the day before heading to Barajas.
Gracias y saludos
Well we have just finalized our flights back to Spain for our vacation next September. Thank goodness for airmiles points considering the increase in flight costs.
I am looking for a lot of help this year as we are venturning to north. Previously we have devoured Andalucia but think it is a time for wider horizons. We have several days planned in Barcelona followed by Tarragona and the finishing up in Girona (my wife spent time there with her family many years ago and wants to return). So my questions to all of you are basically these:
- recommendations for hotels. We like to stay in higher quality but period/character places with history attached. We would like to know of places to stay
- secondly or course would be restaurant suggestions
- sightseeing is really high on hte list for us. We also like hiking so getting to the outdoors
Following, we're heading to Sevilla for the Bienal.
After Sevilla, we head back to Madrid for the day before heading to Barajas.
Gracias y saludos
John
----- Original Message ----
From: Roger Warwick <ro...@gomadrid.com>
To: trave...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4:19:55 AM
Subject: [travelspain] Re: Getting out of Jumilla
Mac - did you try the local Jumilla wine?
It is becoming more and more popular in Spain, and according to the
experts there are one or two from that region that really make the
grade.
Roger.
On 3/3/08, Mac <M...@macwolfelee.plus.com> wrote:
>
> I don't want to denigrate Jumilla, which is a perfectly ordinary
> Spanish town. There is a Tourist Trail, but it takes too long to see
> the few gems that can be discovered (for example the simpering lions
> on the floor of the tiny upstairs room of the Puerta de Granada). No,
> the best bits are outside the town: the peaceful Monasterio de Santa
> Ana, where a resident Franciscan friar was leading the Stations of the
> Cross; the extensive view from the castillo (under restoration) high
> above the town; and we at last managed to find some more rock
> paintings in the country to the northwest.
>
> But to be honest, I have my doubts about these: under a small
> overhanging rock next to an ancient cart track (the wheel ruts well
> worn into solid rock), these were supposedly only discovered in 1998,
> although easily reached with only a little scrambling. They are not
> great art, but crude representations of animals and human figures such
> as a five year old might draw. The protecting cage wasn't locked; I
> was able to get in and examine them very closely, and although they
> appeared to be weathered into the rock, there was no indication of how
> they had been dated to "entre V y II milenio A.C." as claimed.
> Hmmmm........
>
> Not being a tourist town, there is little accommodation in Jumilla.
> We were surprised to find our hotel fairly well occupied over the
> weekend. Again, the attraction was outside the town - a party of
> international hang gliding champions were down from Madrid to fly from
> the nearby Sierra de Buey.
>
> We did make a serious attempt to sample the culture of Jumilla: the
> Spanish Youth Ballet were performing a Sacred Flamenco (?) as part of
> the run-up to Semana Santa. However, this turned out to be an
> invitation-only event (although widely advertised). We asked, as
> "visitantes de Escocia", for any spare tickets, but were politely but
> firmly turned away. My wife, who has a dramatic background (so to
> speak) asked to view inside the theatre, and discovered it to be
> packed to the rafters with the great and good of Jumilla. In other
> words, not just a performance, but one of the social occasions of the
> year.
>
> And now we are back down to the coast at last, picnicking in the
> scrubby pinewoods backing the coast north of Santa Pola, with only
> faint sounds from the waterfront strip below, thronged with people and
> cars on this sunny Sunday afternoon, while more hang gliders circle
> from the cliffs above, at peace in the sky.
>
> Y la proxima, Alicante, y el último mensaje de este viaje.
>
> Mac
>
> >
>
From: Roger Warwick <ro...@gomadrid.com>
To: trave...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4:19:55 AM
Subject: [travelspain] Re: Getting out of Jumilla
Mac - did you try the local Jumilla wine?
It is becoming more and more popular in Spain, and according to the
experts there are one or two from that region that really make the
grade.
Roger.
On 3/3/08, Mac <M...@macwolfelee.plus.com> wrote:
>
> I don't want to denigrate Jumilla, which is a perfectly ordinary
> Spanish town. There is a Tourist Trail, but it takes too long to see
> the few gems that can be discovered (for example the simpering lions
> on the floor of the tiny upstairs room of the Puerta de Granada). No,
> the best bits are outside the town: the peaceful Monasterio de Santa
> Ana, where a resident Franciscan friar was leading the Stations of the
> Cross; the extensive view from the castillo (under restoration) high
> above the town; and we at last managed to find some more rock
> paintings in the country to the northwest.
>
> But to be honest, I have my doubts about these: under a small
> overhanging rock next to an ancient cart track (the wheel ruts well
> worn into solid rock), these were supposedly only discovered in 1998,
> although easily reached with only a little scrambling. They are not
> great art, but crude representations of animals and human figures such
> as a five year old might draw. The protecting cage wasn't locked; I
> was able to get in and examine them very closely, and although they
> appeared to be weathered into the rock, there was no indication of how
> they had been dated to "entre V y II milenio A.C." as claimed.
> Hmmmm........
>
> Not being a tourist town, there is little accommodation in Jumilla.
> We were surprised to find our hotel fairly well occupied over the
> weekend. Again, the attraction was outside the town - a party of
> international hang gliding champions were down from Madrid to fly from
> the nearby Sierra de Buey.
>
> We did make a serious attempt to sample the culture of Jumilla: the
> Spanish Youth Ballet were performing a Sacred Flamenco (?) as part of
> the run-up to Semana Santa. However, this turned out to be an
> invitation-only event (although widely advertised). We asked, as
> "visitantes de Escocia", for any spare tickets, but were politely but
> firmly turned away. My wife, who has a dramatic background (so to
> speak) asked to view inside the theatre, and discovered it to be
> packed to the rafters with the great and good of Jumilla. In other
> words, not just a performance, but one of the social occasions of the
> year.
>
> And now we are back down to the coast at last, picnicking in the
> scrubby pinewoods backing the coast north of Santa Pola, with only
> faint sounds from the waterfront strip below, thronged with people and
> cars on this sunny Sunday afternoon, while more hang gliders circle
> from the cliffs above, at peace in the sky.
>
> Y la proxima, Alicante, y el último mensaje de este viaje.
>
> Mac
>
> >
>
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