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El Craic

Posts: 164
Joined: Jul. 28 2003
From: Atlantic battered NW Ireland

navidad question

Hello!!! Sorry for absent face am busy getting on with life in general and loving it. Now...

I am going to be in the Conil de la Frontera area with a pile of mates for Christmas and New Year. Some of them have expressed an interest in a cultural excursion inland so I'm hoping to get to Jerez or Cadiz. If Melchor's feet ever touch the ground maybe he'll be about too.

NEway, who knows the craic in Jerez and Cadiz at Christmas and can anyone such as Sean OB recommend? (Hello Sean, I had some good sea bass recently, didn't know there were any left, you mustn't have gone fishing recently)

This is all a group decision anyway so I'll have to be spontaneous when the time comes rather than commit to anything, but as we are there over Christmas it would be a damn shame not to take advantage of being so close to my favourite places outside of Ireland.

Abrazos all round.

Emma

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 18 2005 10:21:18

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RE: navidad question (in reply to El Craic)

Hola Emma

Sorry to have missed you in September, perhaps in December.

Christmas and New Year (Nochebuena y Nochevieja) are very family orientated here: everybody gets together for a family meal. Public transport stops in Cadiz at 9pm on these nights. The younger people, having fulfilled their family obligations, often go to a disco or a friend´s house afterwards. There are also organised parties (cotillon) where you can arrive at 1am until breakfast. These can cost 50 euros the entrada. If you and your friends have accommodation, you might be able to organise your own.

Most of the fun is in the runup to navidad: flamenco gives way to villancicos. Toma Castaña presents its Christmas record in Teatro Falla on 2 December and average about 5 performances a day until Christmas:there will be 4 or 5 good villancicos groups in Cadiz.

Not really the best time to come, but you can make the most of it, especially if the weather is good.

un abrazo

Sean

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 18 2005 15:29:57

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RE: navidad question (in reply to El Craic)

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(Hello Sean, I had some good sea bass recently, didn't know there were any left, you mustn't have gone fishing recently)

Sea Bass fishing is a jolly fine sport indeed

, much finer than squirrel hunting, even though they are anoying the little buggers.

Merry Christmass

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 18 2005 15:40:18

El Craic

Posts: 164
Joined: Jul. 28 2003
From: Atlantic battered NW Ireland

RE: navidad question (in reply to El Craic)

Sean, 10 of us will be getting in late on the Saturday 17th Dec. Maybe we'll get to see something Christmassy in the run up to 25th. If we make it up to Cadiz I'll phone or txt you. (Mind u I'll never forget the look of incredulity on the Estonian boat builder's face when I handed him a wee glass of fino in Jerez one year).

Let me know if you see something you'd do, Sean and I'll try and sell it to the group.

Anders, I don't fish but luckily I know a couple who do so I just steal theirs. Squirrels are cute but they are basically rats with tails aren't they?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 18 2005 19:36:09