h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

going to write a really long journal then discovered I´d only got 4 mins left on the pc (internet cafe)


So instead I´m going to get a sugarery thing for breaskfast (don´t have any idea what it is just know the spanish like then for breafast)

talk to the wisened old spanish woman (this is the convo I was going to tell you about) who keeps insisting on calling me ángel.

anyhoo must fly (pardon the pun)

i didn't know you were in spain!

Have a nice time Amigo bring us back some Sangria

Somehow, I'm sure he will. He strikes me as the kind that enjoys himself anywhere he happens to be.

Very true

Odd... when my sister got home from work today she had a Spanish/English dictionary just because it was cheap. Maybe I should give it to Cal... although then I'd have to explain why my sister's Spanish/English dictionary is gone. Hmmm...

Los fijoles de los reyes!

(Which means: The beans of kings!
It's the only thing I know how to say... *blush*)

I was going to ask if the breakfast thing was churros.

Then again, I'm guessing the name doesn't matter if it has enough sugar.

enough sugar and enough chocolate and no teh name doesn't matter

As long as there is enough caffeine to wash it down.

I thought churros were more Mexican than Spanish...

Querido Cal perhaps she knows what an you are...

*daydreams of the last time she was in Barcelona*

Are they? I was going by this:
http://www.xmission.com/~dderhak/recipe/churros.htm

Suddenly, I'm craving beignets and .

Maybe they are... hmmm.. I didn't recall seeing them all the time in Spain like I always did in Mexico.. but then again I was quite a bit..

I see.

I take it you had a good time in Spain.

I did. Though mostly it was disembarking from a ship when I was there... the only time I've spent any good amount of time in that area is in Mallorca - the ship stayed extra time due to high seas. I've always wanted to go back to Spain and spend real time there. I may have to for the churros with chocolate sauce you linked to.

Thanks for the info - you learn something new every day...

I was reading that recipe and thinking "I could make that.".

I started saving for a big trip a couple of years ago. Still haven't taken the trip, things keep getting in the way.

I know how that happens.. In my previous industry I traveled so much because that was what it was all about. Now I travel so little it's depressing.

Admittedly if I go back to Spain I'd like to go with a local or semi-local because then you really get to see things, not just the tourist stuff. When I was in Barcelona one of the neat things was our driver took us to Sagrada Familia but because it was actually his parish church he showed us a small chapel there where he had been married and his children baptized. It was wonderful!

When I went to Italy it was also such a case but even better. I had a friend that lives in Cosenza. He was going to meet us in Florence (a few friends and I were going to go for about a week) and my friends had things come up one by one. My friend suggested I blow off Florence but use the money to fly to Lamezzia, the nearest airport to him. He put me up in a spare bedroom in his and his brother's apartment and took me all over. It was WONDERFUL!!!! He took me up to a small village that is not even on maps, where his family had their villa. We drove into the mountains to a wonderful lake. We stayed in a friend's villa on the beach in Diamante. Oh how fun!!!

My last night there I thanked the man who had leant me his villa by making a huge paella and lots of sangria using the wine he had brought down from his mountain house. There were 20-25 people at some point, and I knew only two. My friend and the man who had loaned the villa. And spoke not a word of Italian.

Oh what fun it is when you get to REALLY experience a place instead of just take pictures of touristy stuff.

You do have a point about finding a local to see the real places.

That sounds like a wonderful trip to Italy.

Oh it was. Even when I would travel on a cruise or something I seldom took part in the organized shore excursions unless I was escorting on them.

I would usually wander around on my own. All of the most fun times I've had traveling I either had someone who was local or semi-local with me or someone like me who has more guts than brains and is content to talk to anyone and everyone in a small cafe and find some new and exciting things.

I do know that I'd also like to go back to Mallorca. There were several flats to rent in the main square. It would be fun to rent a flat for a few weeks and just sort of putter around aimlessly learning all of the nifty details.

I'm from the very deep south, talking to strangers is not a problem.

The trip I keep planning is to the U.K. You think I'll be able to find someone to show me around a bit?