Posted on 04/17/2017 7:12:37 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Thank you for posting this.
Schools and colleges? My 17 year old is interested.
Found this very fascinating. Please keep writing! How safe is it for a woman to travel alone in Spain?
Our media attempt to portray “Hispanics” as all having the same interests and as being a unified voting bloc for political purposes, but it’s far from a unified group. In New Mexico, the outright disdain of old settler Spanish-descended families for Mexican indios and mestizos is something that I experienced first hand decades ago. I’d never heard the word “wetback” before, and that’s where I heard it. Cubans don’t like Mexicans at all, either. Then, you’ve got Puerto Ricans. They’re all different and really have little affection for the other groups. The only thing they really share is a language, in addition to being countries largely comprised of mixed-race people being ruled by white Spaniards.
Having lived in northern New Mexico near Abiquiu, I agree with you 100%.
Great post! We're here in GreenAcres, Beautiful Bartow County. I do like it here EXCEPT for the winter months when we have ice storms with single digit temps and the encroaching Democrats who flee ATL, wanting to make the surrounding counties just like what they are fleeing...!
Enjoy and give us updates!
Going there in June, we’re visiting Madrid, Sevilla, Costa del Sol, and Barcelona.
I loved Spain,and didn’t really want to go but a friend needed a traveling companion.
We spent a couple of nights in one of the paradores-—what a treat,it had been a monastery.
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>>>>The big workaround for that, ourselves included, is the motor scooter.>>>>
Congrats on the move. I wish nothing but the best for you and your wife and family.
Speaking of scooters, I’m a lifelong motorcycle rider but with our recent purchase of a vacation condo in Southern California and it’s one car garage, I’m thinking of a Vespa 300. They really go and look like fun. They can hit close to 90.
What kind of scooter did you get? I’d be curious to know.
Thanks! Great post.
God luck and enjoy...I live part time in Colombia so I can appreciate your endeavors
While in Barcelona, I found out that Spaniards are very proud of their involvement in the discovery of America. And they really like Americans.
I have a home in Colombia...cost of living is nada there!
My daughter spent last summer in southern Spain through the Texas Tech engineering dept. An overseas trip is required for engineers, since it is such a global commodity.
If she can make it to Spain with a local college then she can see if she could survive overseas. Sometimes finances will kill a dream, sometimes the culture just isn't a good fit, and sometimes the folly of youth will conspire to bring her back to the US.
I guarantee that she will appreciate the US much more after she returns.
See a doctor
Out of curiosity, how expensive is that? Is it a regular insurance company or do you pay the government somehow (is it socialized medicine)?
Mexicans are looked down upon in most of S America
It's hard to put into words the wisdom of a provincial choice because there ARE places a white guy can and has ... lost his head.
But then, we have Chicago and Detroit so ... use your brain and ask questions.
Would I get in trouble if I wore a “Viva Franco!” T-Shirt?
Loved the experience and where we lived in a small town called Alcalá de Guadalquivir, in Andalusia, about 10 miles outside of Seville in southern Spain. Guadalquivir was the river running next to the town. It had a pleasant Mediterranean climate.
We lived in a spectacular duplex built on the side of a hill by an American doctor in 1929. Lots of colorful tile on the floors and up the sides of the walls with 4 patios or courtyards and a garden in the rear. We lived across the street from an olive processing plant.
Our next door neighbors in this lavish duplex was the family of the manager of the largest bakery in Spain at the time. They produced most of the bread for Seville and the surrounding communities. As a result, the town was sometimes referred to as Alaclá de los Panaderos, meaning Alcalá of the bakers.
We loved our time there and I learned Spanish in school. We traveled throughout Spain, Europe, Britain and north Africa during the three years we were stationed there.
A life experience I will never forget.
There is a movement, mainly by Spanish historians, trying to correct the bull crap that Muslim-ruled medieval Spainal-Andaluswas a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony.
I am currently reading “The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise” to help get some of the historical facts ans rid myself of the propaganda I have been fed for 80 years, but mainly in the last eight.
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