Posted on 04/17/2017 7:12:37 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
I thought he had made a mistake too because the only Sierra Nevada I knew of is the one on the California-Nevada border.
A good deterrent is an AK47 with a bayonet. :)
Wow. That looks hairy. You gotta send us a picture next time you take that walk.
Always wanted to hit Ibiza for the party life, and visit the site where ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ was filmed. Especially the final act of that movie. You can still see it from space (googled it).
Thanks for telling me about this post. Wonderful. Please send out updates when you can.
We were planning on going to Ibiza, Mallorca, etc. but when we visited our first island, Tenerife, the view from the hotel wasn't much different from what we see every day. Same thing with the whitewashed villages. Now it doesn't feel like much fun to go to places like that. Almeria, OTOH, is totally different, the only desert in Europe. There are still 3 towns/movie sets there for you to visit. Oasys is where they filmed "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, The Band and The Ugly" Fort Bravo was also a set for TGTB&TU and Western Leone is where they filmed "Once Upon A Time In The West". It's only about 90 minutes from where we live.
If you look at the picture in post 117 those 3 rocks used to be the entrance to the harbor. At the base of the rocks is a statue marking where on 15 August 755 Omeya Abd ar-Rahman I came ashore to establish a Moorish kingdom. On top of the rocks is a cross commemorating the surrender of the Arabs in Almunecar and the beginning of Christian rule in 1489. We can see the cross and the castle which guarded the harbor from our house. The cross is lit up at night, very pretty.
Love it. I love lit-up crosses at night. I hope your stay there continues to be rewarding.
Thanks for telling us about the series “Spectacular Spain”.
Thanks to the Madrid episode we will definitely go the “Chocolateria San Gines” for some Churros and Chocolate.
It's tough to summarize such a big and diverse country in 6 episodes but I think Alex Polizzi did a decent job. Granada is a short drive from our house and she gave us several visits worth of suggestions.
dwfgator reminded me of the 6-part tv series Spectacular Spain with Alex Polizzi because I posted a link to it in response to a comment about Barcelona. That link has expired but the series is still on Youtube. Here is a link to one of the episodes that not only covers the Sierra Nevada, it shows the desert, Spaghetti Westerns, Moorish architecture at its finest and the city that is our provincial capital, the place where all your bureaucratic nightmares come true :-)
So, what kind of license would you need if your bike was bigger than 125cc? Like 1175cc bigger.
Thanks for your info about Spain.
My 16 year-old daughter will be spending a month this summer studying spanish at the University of Grenada. She will be living with a local family.
Is Grenada a safe area? Any migrant problems?
If you were a visitor you would just need your American motorcycle license and an International driver’s license. If you wanted to live here you would need a class A motorcycle license and, since you are an American, you would have to start from scratch. Sign up for a driving school, take your written exam, driving lessons and a practical exam. Doesn’t matter if you’ve been riding for 5 years or 50.
Okay. Thanks.
Spain is very safe and most crime that does occur is petty larceny like pickpockets. Because there are no safety nets there is very little migration unless they are migrants like my wife and myself who can afford it. I personally wouldn’t hesitate to send my daughter over from a crime point of view. It should be a great experience.
That reminds me of another thing I like about living here. Can you imagine what would happen if your town wanted to put a large cross on government property?
Thanks for sharing.
Have you read Michener’s “Iberia”, which I’m under an impression is a landmark work about Spain? I’ve never read it but my dad, as was his fashion, bought the book and read it prior to his visit to Spain. I think I may have to do the same before coming over.
Well, of course that gets into the whole constitutional issue in America. If the Constitution were the supreme law of the land as it is supposed to be -
and I have reason to believe may very well be again - the feds would own virtually no land outside of D.C. and state sovereignty and individual freedom would reign over the land. A big part of my life is dedicated to influencing that to happen - the restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic.
My website still under construction: https://sonsofconstitutionalliberty.com/
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