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Jump to postI'd put Paco de Lucía well up in the list .
You cannot forget flamenco to compìle a list of top guitarists of all time.
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Jump to post Interesting. Can you point me in the direction of some of those countries?
Switzerland is the most obvious example of a successful multilingual country.
Others multilingual countries that work reasonably well :
India
Andorra
Spain
Finland
Italy
Singapore
Canada
Here in Valencia - Spain, traditionally the biggest minority were the gypsies. In the last years though Spain has received a big influx of inmigrants, and I could not tell now who are the bigger minority, I guess it is between the Romanians and the Equatorians. Significant numbers of Moroccans, Colu...
Jump to postGreat!! I believe this is the first link I remember from VLC to Scandinavia . The fjords are closer !!
Jump to postA related thread about Q400 groundings :
Flybe Ground 6 Planes On Landing Gear Checks
https://www.airliners.net/discussions...eneral_aviation/read.main/3605299/
A comisaria in Valencia - Spanish Passports are issued by Policía Nacional.
Jump to postMy USA visited states map :
create your own personalized map of the USA
Some picks for worst ever songs : <b> You can win if you want, if you want you will win </b> or something like that. Modern Talking was the worst thing coming out of Germany after Adolf Hitler. <b> Neverending story </b> by Limahl. Worst movies theme song in history. <b> The Power of Love </b> by Je...
Jump to postThe Volkswagen Passat Wagon has the best looks of the three (specially the 2000 model, I like it much more than the present one), I would pick that one. A friend of mine had the V70 wagon, it was quite comfortable but ugly and underpowered. I know of no one that has an Altima, but it looks undisting...
Jump to post<img src="http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedCountries/worldmap?visited=USMXADATBEBAHRDKFRDEGRHUIEITLILUNLPTSIESSECHUKTRJPSG" width="600" height="300" border=0><br/> <a href="http://www.world66.com/myworld66">create your own visited country map</a> Spain Portugal Andorra France Switzerland Germ...
Jump to postThe CRJ and DH8 must be Air Nostrum's , which has a franchise agreement with IB. Do they have a "Comunitat Valenciana" logo ?
Jump to postThis type of invasions during military exercises are frequent in the Pyrenees border between France and Spain. Spanish troops act at the voice of "Vamos a cagarnos en Francia" .
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Jump to postWhat about direct flights from Europe to Western Australia :
Frankfurt-Perth 7481 nm
London-Perth 7819 nm
Yes I do. And you can very easily too (Spanish national Anthem has no lyrics...) .
Jump to post<i>The best way to learn a language is to spend as much time as possible in a country where the language is spoken. In your case Germany, definitely not Austria or even Switzerland because those guys are speaking everything else than proper German.</i> From my experience, I do not advise to travel t...
Jump to postWhat is a skeleton in a closet ?
A guy from Gijón who won playing at hide and seek...
(replace Gijón by your favorite rival town/country and the joke will work in your place...)
As my father often time emphasized....
"You never get your honey at the same place you make your money!"
Or as we say in Spain : "Donde tengas las olla no metas la p..."
I would like to know how is the aviation activity in Sarasota, Fl. I know Honeywell has a presence there, any other big aeronautic firms there? Is the Sarasota a¡rport a good place for spotting?
Jump to postB4e, I am stunned by your posts, you write a lot about Polish history but you prove little knowledge. Your gripes about Germany and Russia are perfectly understandable, but about France? Historically France has been one of the few friends the Polish have traditionally had - listen less to FauxNews a...
Jump to post I find funny that no word is said about Iraq. This smells to canned material. Is this guy really alive ?
Christa, two mistakes in your post:
1.- France is nº 1 in visitors to Spain .
2.- What does EU membership have to do with tourism? Would the vacationing Brits find cheaper booze in the USA?
The US Marines Corps was modelled after the Spanish Infantería de Marina. Traditionally, in the Spanish Navy there was a separation between the sailors and the infantry, so the sailors were not expected to fight or the marines to help in the sailing. This was in contrast to the British Navy who exp...
Jump to postThe leader of the islamic group dismantled had said something really interesting, in the line of "it is worse for Spain to lose three or four judges, than the head of the Government" . So these guys have more fear of the mechanisms of a democratic state, much more than high profile guys. They have ...
Jump to post<i>I think I've seen most of what can be seen in Madrid (at least from a tourist's point of view </i> No problem! There are several amazing places nearby with cheap transportation. Less than 100 km you can visit : - Segovia - the most picturesque town in Spain (huge Roman aqueduct, beautiful Cathedr...
Jump to postMuch as I dislike this individual let me say something good about Sharon, this guy has balls. It is funny that he looks like the only guy in Israel capable of dismantling settlements, he organised that in the Sinai in 1979 and he is pushing it in Gaza today (though I am a skeptical this is going to...
Jump to postIt is not a coincidence that at the same time JM Aznar (ex Spanish PM) was in Moscow and interviewed Putin himself; has he got a new job making campaign for Bush reelection?
Jump to post IB was privatised several years ago, you can buy shares right now. Why shouldn´t it NOW complain about govt subsidies to other airlines?
I would say Covadonga. There in 718 the Asturians defeated the Arabs and established a Christian kingdom with capital in nearby Cangas de Onís, which was the only part of the ancient Roman Hispania out of muslim control. This kingdom was the first of the various Christian ones that fought back the ...
Jump to postChiguire, the "what if passenger comes from another Spanish city" argument is not valid. First it is like saying that <acronym title="Iberia (Spain)">IB</acronym> cannot compete with Avianca because it does not fly to Medellin; or Varig to Manaos... And second in other Spanish cities <acronym title=...
Jump to post<i><acronym title="Sabena (Belgium)">SN</acronym> never flew <acronym title="Valencia (- Manises) (VLC / LEVC), Spain">VLC</acronym>-<acronym title="Brussels - National (Zaventem) / Melsbroek (BRU / EBBR / EBMB), Belgium">BRU</acronym>,</i> Sure they did! I did <acronym title="Valencia (- Manises) (...
Jump to postSn26567, the ultimate experience of narrowness is trying to read the Daily Telegraph in the middle seat of full <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> Avro jet, as I did in this trip!. However I was not specially annoyed, it was a Friday, I was going back home, the flight had been delayed and...
Jump to postWell, I also happened to fly from <acronym title="Manchester - International (Ringway) (MAN / EGCC), United Kingdom">MAN</acronym> on an <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> CityExpress Avro <acronym title="Royal Jordanian">RJ</acronym> a few days ago, see my trip report : <a href="http://...
Jump to postAfter 4 years in airliners.net, this is my first trip report. My company sent two colleagues and me to a place in Staffordshire and we figured the best combination would be flying to Manchester and renting a car to reach the place we needed to visit. The weather forecasts pointed to a quite cold we...
Jump to postOnce I was able to say that I had been to all EU countries except one (Finland). But this is no longer true after this year's expansion; of the new countries I have only been to Hungary and Slovenia. Though to be honest, when I was there Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia , and I did not step down fro...
Jump to postTravelling in Spain you may be confused with the road signs written in the local language as opposed to Spanish(castellano) : La Coruña -> A Coruña ; Gerona -> Girona ; Alicante -> Alacant ; Bilbao -> Bilbo ... This happens becasue we have passed from a centralized (and minority- language-unfriendl...
Jump to post<i>Eso es lo que les pasa por votar por el maricon de zapatero, con el <acronym title="Jet Aviation Business Jets (Switzerland)">PP</acronym> no tendrian este problema</i>. Luisca, do you think there are no gays in <acronym title="Jet Aviation Business Jets (Switzerland)">PP</acronym>? Did you know ...
Jump to post<i>The fence is a impenetrable.</i> There no such thing as an impenetrable thing (or person). Wanna make bets? The Berlin Wall was quite sophisticated, but some people managed to escape to the West. Anyway, some food of thought : Only about 20% of the fence is built, however the number of suicide bo...
Jump to post I am trying to help a poor friend whose doctor has forbidden alcohol to her, sure I can find advise here .
In Spain we have tried Buckler (nasty) and San Miguel 0,0 (not too bad). There is also Clausthaller from Germany which does not taste bad.