I just had to write this little story .... Johan my friend from Norway arrived today on the same flight as my son and his friend . Johan is here because he´s going to take Miriam , Adriana´s friend from Peru for a small trip . So he´s trying to make "sweet talk" I assume . But the opening line today was , " I brought crabs from Norway " ?????!!!! Luckily I think I was the only one who got the "double" meaning.......
The Crab by the way was very good.
More to follow I`m sure
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
3 things and then more later
Hi
It has been a long time and at least one of my friends miss my blogging so here I am again ...I`m going to write about 3 things this time they are : 1. Spainish sign posting , 2. A latino concert 3. The cultural centre that Marbella is .Then in next blog I`ll go back and catch up since may , lets start with the signposting.
1.Spanish signposting
Without knowing your experience with Spanish road signs I will share mine . In Spain they really don`t have any real sense of helping people with the signs, example . Saturday we where going to a concert , tickets where bought on the internet via "ticketmaster" . On the ticket it says : Auditorium Municipal Malaga , fine should be fairly simple and I did not even think about finding out before a few hours before we needed to go ?(I should have ) Then I start searching Google Maps , nothing . Then I search for the Auditorium Municipal Malaga hei hei there it is a site and on the site there is a google MAP with an "arrow" of where it is . I print it out and have fairly good idea where it is . So we set off . After looking around where it should be we ask somebody, they almost laugh and tell`s us it`s a completely different place . We set of in that direction and then is when we get into the normal Spanish sign posting . Signs to "Feria" is relatively easy to find until they suddenly stops . After a few misses we are back on track . Scourer around the area nothing really looks like a concert arena . Again we need to ask people (which says that about 100 people already have stopped to ask directions so thank god it`s not only us ). We finally find it , then the good thing about Spain kicks in , we can park almost anywhere so we park on a lawn almost next to the entrance , yippie ....(or not ...)
2.A latino concert.
Adriana was desperate to go to this "Alejandro Fernandes" concert , so after the trials of finding it we arrive just in time, we only miss the first minute (I wished it was more ). There must have been 10 000 people (strange that they all found it ) and out of them 8 000 are women . I soon find out why because this Latino "Fløtepus" (Creamkitten ) is a big hit with the ladies . He is actually Mexican so he has a 12 piece Mariatchi orchestra with him , and that`s the only good thing for me . He`s wizzing around the stage first in his Mexican outfit , then in a black jeans , shirt and jacket , then in black T shirt and jacket , when he takes of the jacket on stage we get the loudest roar of the night from the ladies . He (like most Latino men) knows how to "work" the ladies with sweet talk and moves so I would imagine most seats where quite sticky after a while . He did a bit for the few guys as well, as he dressed in Spanish fotball shirt in the end singing fotball songs Ole , ole , ole .... He carried on for more than 2 hours and I was really on the brink of dying it was NOT for me at all.
Leaving in the car which was conveniently parked just outside we found our self in a maze of finding back to the highway .... again no signs and after going around for a while we almost had to go into Malaga centre to find signs back to Marbella....
3. The cultural centre that Marbella is..
It`s not the first year I really think there is something wrong with the marketing/editorial of Marbella , I keep reading of how cultural it is , how jet setting and great everything is , and for most of you it does not come as a surprise that I`m very very sceptical about it , not to talk about the food (maybe another time we`ll do that ). Ok I must admit that my standpoint is that at least some rock , pop music should be included in a cultural centre ? Not ? So what has Marbella to offer this summer ? The big ones are Kool and the Gang , Seal , Rose Roys (remember Car Wash ?) An ABBA tribute and the only thing I`m going to Faithless . What a show ? When rest of Europe have great festivals with most of the hottest bands around we get these old timers and one hit wonders, not only that rest of Europe have shitty weather so it´s a risk putting on these festivals , here the weather is great from May till October 98 % guaranty of no rain. Just as a sideline Andalucia is running some adverts in the local magazines where the slogan is " Andalusia everything under par " Great .... everybody that knows a little English knows that the phrase "under Par" means not good , in fact "Over Par" means good (except in golf ) . So please somebody put on some better acts ....(and AD`S , or maybe they really mean not good as they should be )
Until next time ......
It has been a long time and at least one of my friends miss my blogging so here I am again ...I`m going to write about 3 things this time they are : 1. Spainish sign posting , 2. A latino concert 3. The cultural centre that Marbella is .Then in next blog I`ll go back and catch up since may , lets start with the signposting.
1.Spanish signposting
Without knowing your experience with Spanish road signs I will share mine . In Spain they really don`t have any real sense of helping people with the signs, example . Saturday we where going to a concert , tickets where bought on the internet via "ticketmaster" . On the ticket it says : Auditorium Municipal Malaga , fine should be fairly simple and I did not even think about finding out before a few hours before we needed to go ?(I should have ) Then I start searching Google Maps , nothing . Then I search for the Auditorium Municipal Malaga hei hei there it is a site and on the site there is a google MAP with an "arrow" of where it is . I print it out and have fairly good idea where it is . So we set off . After looking around where it should be we ask somebody, they almost laugh and tell`s us it`s a completely different place . We set of in that direction and then is when we get into the normal Spanish sign posting . Signs to "Feria" is relatively easy to find until they suddenly stops . After a few misses we are back on track . Scourer around the area nothing really looks like a concert arena . Again we need to ask people (which says that about 100 people already have stopped to ask directions so thank god it`s not only us ). We finally find it , then the good thing about Spain kicks in , we can park almost anywhere so we park on a lawn almost next to the entrance , yippie ....(or not ...)
2.A latino concert.
Adriana was desperate to go to this "Alejandro Fernandes" concert , so after the trials of finding it we arrive just in time, we only miss the first minute (I wished it was more ). There must have been 10 000 people (strange that they all found it ) and out of them 8 000 are women . I soon find out why because this Latino "Fløtepus" (Creamkitten ) is a big hit with the ladies . He is actually Mexican so he has a 12 piece Mariatchi orchestra with him , and that`s the only good thing for me . He`s wizzing around the stage first in his Mexican outfit , then in a black jeans , shirt and jacket , then in black T shirt and jacket , when he takes of the jacket on stage we get the loudest roar of the night from the ladies . He (like most Latino men) knows how to "work" the ladies with sweet talk and moves so I would imagine most seats where quite sticky after a while . He did a bit for the few guys as well, as he dressed in Spanish fotball shirt in the end singing fotball songs Ole , ole , ole .... He carried on for more than 2 hours and I was really on the brink of dying it was NOT for me at all.
Leaving in the car which was conveniently parked just outside we found our self in a maze of finding back to the highway .... again no signs and after going around for a while we almost had to go into Malaga centre to find signs back to Marbella....
3. The cultural centre that Marbella is..
It`s not the first year I really think there is something wrong with the marketing/editorial of Marbella , I keep reading of how cultural it is , how jet setting and great everything is , and for most of you it does not come as a surprise that I`m very very sceptical about it , not to talk about the food (maybe another time we`ll do that ). Ok I must admit that my standpoint is that at least some rock , pop music should be included in a cultural centre ? Not ? So what has Marbella to offer this summer ? The big ones are Kool and the Gang , Seal , Rose Roys (remember Car Wash ?) An ABBA tribute and the only thing I`m going to Faithless . What a show ? When rest of Europe have great festivals with most of the hottest bands around we get these old timers and one hit wonders, not only that rest of Europe have shitty weather so it´s a risk putting on these festivals , here the weather is great from May till October 98 % guaranty of no rain. Just as a sideline Andalucia is running some adverts in the local magazines where the slogan is " Andalusia everything under par " Great .... everybody that knows a little English knows that the phrase "under Par" means not good , in fact "Over Par" means good (except in golf ) . So please somebody put on some better acts ....(and AD`S , or maybe they really mean not good as they should be )
Until next time ......
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