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Hi Iam living in Almunecar at the mo, things seem quite, anyone familiar with the region regarding Flamenco
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Dave
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Date Nov. 14 2005 19:00:04
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Hi Dave.
I have very little knowledge on flamenco on the cost but there should be some things going on in Nerja, but it might only be in summer. I general the Granada province is a bit dead when it comes to flamenco. In my Village, which is 13 km from Granada capital, there's nothing going on besides me.
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Date Nov. 15 2005 7:14:54
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Kate
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From: Living in Granada, Andalucía
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Hi Iam living in Almunecar at the mo, things seem quite, anyone familiar with the region regarding Flamenco
Hi Dave,
I've been down to Almuñecar a few times with flamenco groups. Emilio played at the cultural centre/town hall there. His cousin Juan runs a flamenco bar, the whole family are flamencos, one of the first albums Harold made here was with them, unfortunately never released due to change in administration. Also check out Hotelito, a late night cocktail bar, lots of musicians hang out there and the owner is a bass player, speaks English spent a lot of time in Canada. Of course there is the Jazz festival every year, Emilio played with Jorge Prado there this year, so they do put on flamenco. I know flamencos in Nerja but the scene is so quiet now ( there was more going on in the 80s there) that they moved up to Granada to get work. In La Herradura there is a bar called the La Cochera on the sea front which often has live music, and flamenco. The family I mentioned before often performs there.
Also keep an eye out for festivals which happen in many of the small outer villages. One of the finest I went to was up in the Allpujarras, at Capeillera, when I saw Estrella Morente and El Capullo for the first time. Of course more happens in summer than right now. Too cold to be hanging about outside.
Hope this helps. Keep tuned to local radio and TV and ask around.
kate
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Date Nov. 15 2005 10:26:18
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Kate
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From: Living in Granada, Andalucía
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Hi Iam living in Almunecar at the mo, things seem quite, anyone familiar with the region regarding Flamenco
Hi Dave,
I've been down to Almuñecar a few times with flamenco groups. Emilio played at the cultural centre/town hall there. His cousin Juan runs a flamenco bar, the whole family are flamencos, one of the first albums Harold made here was with them, unfortunately never released due to change in administration. Also check out Hotelito, a late night cocktail bar, lots of musicians hang out there and the owner is a bass player, speaks English spent a lot of time in Canada. Of course there is the Jazz festival every year, Emilio played with Jorge Prado there this year, so they do put on flamenco. I know flamencos in Nerja but the scene is so quiet now ( there was more going on in the 80s there) that they moved up to Granada to get work. In La Herradura there is a bar called the La Cochera on the sea front which often has live music, and flamenco. The family I mentioned before often performs there.
Also keep an eye out for festivals which happen in many of the small outer villages. One of the finest I went to was up in the Allpujarras, at Capeillera, when I saw Estrella Morente and El Capullo for the first time. Of course more happens in summer than right now. Too cold to be hanging about outside.
Hope this helps. Keep tuned to local radio and TV and ask around.
kate
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Date Nov. 15 2005 10:26:59
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Thanks Kate. I have generally 3 months to bumb around Adalucia, after quiting my Job. Iam posting from Granada at the mo, which to my surprise is a massive city, thought it was a small town. Checked out a few guitar makers notably Lopez Bellido, but the guitars didn¨t really have any life in them. Might stop over tonight in Granada, big cities especially if ya don´t speak the lingo freak me out a bit, especially without amigos, so dont think I´ll rent out a place here. Going to have a look at Moron de Frontera next few days with an eye to renting there for a few months. Basically I´m not looking for lessons just to maybe watch a bit of action without paying the expensive Tablao prices with food and drin included. Ive got a feeling its who ya know rather than what u know so might just soak up the sun for 4 months in Almunecar. Its weird I have often come to Andalucia, full of exitement only to hit some kind of depressive streak, which is a bummer, anyway thanks for the info.
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Dave
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Date Nov. 17 2005 12:53:09
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Thanks Phil. Granada seems to be full of homless types with dreadlocks and dogs, and dodgy looking Arabs pedling drugs, maybe its just me, but like someone once said a long time ago, without contacts or amigos, Andalucia is just like anywhere else in the sun, so Iam going to have an early night, and forget about flamenco for the next few months and going to get a tan in Almeurca, pardon the spelling
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Dave
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Date Nov. 17 2005 19:10:37
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RE: Almunecar (in reply to Kate)
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Thanks Kate suger pie dumpling. That Dave Hill guy I once met, I nearley droped dead whe I found out he had the same name as me. I really hate big cities. Granada I thought was the smelliest city I have been to. I find southern Europe cities horrible. Anyways, anyway u could send me a pair of ya wifes knickers Ron ?
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Date Nov. 18 2005 12:10:38
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From: Living in Granada, Andalucía
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Granada I thought was the smelliest city I have been to.
Agh try Hong Kong or London where the rubbish is piled outside people's houses and only taken away once a week. At least the rubbish here is taken away every night and the streets swept and hosed down each morning.
For me the smells of Granada are jasmine in the Albaicin, fried fish tapas at 8 pm, marijuana, incense and fresh mint tea from the Moroccan teashops, crushed rosemary, ripe pomegranites falling from the trees, vanilla from the cake making nuns, orange blossom, smokey olive wood burning, mountain air with a hint of snow and flamencos wearing far too much cologne 
Kate
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Date Nov. 18 2005 14:18:31
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quote]I find southern Europe cities horrible.[/quote]
So why bother????????????????????????????????????
Cádiz I love to bits, Jerez la má flamenco del mundo, Sevilla un tesoro, Córdoba fantastic but that climate, Málaga and Almería wonderful. Granada beautiful but makes me feel uncomfortable (must be Garcia Lorca  ). And las sierras y los pueblos más bonitos todavía.
Horrible? You need to rethink your philosophy.
Sean
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Date Nov. 18 2005 16:23:27
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anyway u could send me a pair of ya wifes knickers Ron ?
Knickers?
You gotta be joking man!
Up here at this time of year it's LongJohns 
Jeezus it was freezing today and we're told this is gonna be a bad winter.
Anyway, on the knicker hunt, Simon said that there was a transvestite who frequents the main square in Granada. I guess for a few Euros and a beer he might oblige. LOL!
cheers
Ron
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Date Nov. 18 2005 20:14:07
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Agh try Hong Kong or London where the rubbish is piled outside people's houses and only taken away once a week.
Ah! for life in the country, Kate!
All the villages in my area have recently been issued with "wheelie bins".
One small bin to each household, (regardless of family size) and they will be picked up once every two weeks.
No glass, no tins, no paper.
That stuff has to be recycled at your nearest recycling centre.
If you have excess garbage, then you will have to bag it up and take it in your car to the nearest community dump, which in my case is 15 miles away.
Also the council are requesting that the bins are made available for collection at a convienent place, which in some areas means the bins have to be trundled 1.5 miles to the nearest main road.
Ahh...progress.
Life just gets better and better...
cheers
Ron
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Date Nov. 18 2005 20:25:20
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I was in a bad mood when I posted that. There is a Flamenco comp here in Almuancar at the weekend so might enter it.
Thanks
Dave
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Date Nov. 21 2005 13:13:19
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Phil yeh I have been to those cities, and in summer they are the most unbearable places to be on earth. It was 43 % when I was in Codovo once for the festival. My memory of Cadiz was driving through the city on a coach on the way to Malaga I think. And a Tractor had just knocked down a scooter rider, blood streaming from his head int the gutter. The farmer sat on the tractor, waiting for the emergency sevices to come. At the bus station it was full of Arabs that stunk of BO. Also have been told not to get ill in Andalucia or buy property as courption is high. If you dont speak the lingo and getb ill, they could charge you for an English speaking doc, which is a load of bull, and quite often they will send you to a private clinic if injured. Spain has its good points but its still a border line backward country suck in the past
Dave
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Date Dec. 8 2005 17:03:53
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Kate
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From: Living in Granada, Andalucía
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What nonsense.
For a start there are ways of living in the heat. You start the day early to make the most of the cool mornings, and always walk in the shade. At the height of the sun you have a siesta. Never ever sit in the sun. At night you open the shutters and in the day you close them. Marble floors keep the house cool. You eat late at night, after 10 pm and spend most evenings outside while it is cool. Midnight is a good time to eat ice cream. After many years here I do not notice the hot summers. If it does get too much then head for the hills, the moutains are always cooler. Most of this is common sense if you live here.
On the subject of body odour we all smell differently according to diet and circumstances. For in instance in bus stations you are more likely to come across hot and smelly travellers of whatever race. Years ago I met an old friend who confessed that he always thought my family smelt funny. Before I took offense he was quick to add that he now knows it was garlic. I have to say no-one in Spain ever complains you smell of garlic.
As for the medical services, I have found it far superior to any experience in the UK. For a start it is cleaner and friendlier. You get seen and treated very seriously in emergency out patients and I have never ever been charged. I have also found many doctors have a reasonable command of English unlike my least visit to a London hospital where I waited 6 hours to be seen and finally had a Doctor whose command of English was so bad we spoke Sanish ( She was Italian and had been in the country 6 weeks).
There are several forum members who have bought property here without any trouble that I know of. I had regular meetings with the bank manager ( yes we still have them here) who helped beyond the call of duty even coming with us to sign the final papers. I'm sure Simon also had a pleasant experience buying his property.
This post just shows an ignorance of Spain, its people and its way of life. Spain is still recovering from the Franco regime but it is a modern European country where people discuss poetry and politics in the same breath. I find the way of life and the people here very civilised.
Kate
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Phil yeh I have been to those cities, and in summer they are the most unbearable places to be on earth. It was 43 % when I was in Codovo once for the festival. My memory of Cadiz was driving through the city on a coach on the way to Malaga I think. And a Tractor had just knocked down a scooter rider, blood streaming from his head int the gutter. The farmer sat on the tractor, waiting for the emergency sevices to come. At the bus station it was full of Arabs that stunk of BO. Also have been told not to get ill in Andalucia or buy property as courption is high. If you dont speak the lingo and getb ill, they could charge you for an English speaking doc, which is a load of bull, and quite often they will send you to a private clinic if injured. Spain has its good points but its still a border line backward country suck in the past
Dave
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