Lola

Runge ha escrit:
    > use the Rambla's video game's hall for free WC
    > walk along the coast northwards

Some other ideas for prostate-challenged in downtown Barcelona:

All "El Corte Ingles" malls have fully conditioned WC. You only
have to go up one or two storeys by the mechanical scalators, as
they never have WC in ground floor.

MacDos used to be an alternative, but those started to put security
watches at the doors.

PS. For the Brits, I really liked to have propper public facilities
anywhere in Britain. It's a pity many dark corners in Barcelona
become distastefully pissed.

Certsnsearches

"Icono Clast" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:1123673169.e69da03389dcc16aa23b611c517629d3@t eranews...
    > certsnsearches wrote:
    >> We're not young so won't be nightclubbing.
    > Why is that a reason? We're old and spend an average of eight nights a
    > month in night clubs.

Well........eh.....hmmmm.......y'know, you're right !

No , seriously......it's just not our kind of groove any more.

    :0)

Brian

Certsnsearches

Many thanks to everyone for their replies.

I appreciate them all.

Brian


"certsnsearches" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Have you any tips/recommendations/must sees?
    > I'll be there in two weeks time and would appreciate
    > any ideas from the usual to the offbeat.
    > We're not young so won't be nightclubbing.
    > Anything at all.
    > Brian
    >

Martin

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:07:49 -0700, Icono Clast <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >certsnsearches wrote:
    >> We're not young so won't be nightclubbing.
    >Why is that a reason? We're old and spend an average of eight nights
    >a month in night clubs.

Doing erotic dances AFAIR :-)
--
Martin

Chancellor Of The Duchy Of Besses O' Th' Barn And

Icono Clast <[email protected]> wrote:

    > certsnsearches wrote:
    > > We're not young so won't be nightclubbing.
    >
    > Why is that a reason? We're old and spend an average of eight nights
    > a month in night clubs.

In the UK, at least, nightclubbing, and just clubbing, tends to refer to
nightclubs playing (usually) modern dance music. I've got a feeling
that's not what you meant by 'night clubs,' or am I incorrect?

--
David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
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pictures at http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer

Runge

Thats because all the ladies go there

"Lola" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected] om...
    > Runge ha escrit:
    >> use the Rambla's video game's hall for free WC
    >> walk along the coast northwards
    > Some other ideas for prostate-challenged in downtown Barcelona:
    > All "El Corte Ingles" malls have fully conditioned WC. You only
    > have to go up one or two storeys by the mechanical scalators, as
    > they never have WC in ground floor.
    > MacDos used to be an alternative, but those started to put security
    > watches at the doors.
    > PS. For the Brits, I really liked to have propper public facilities
    > anywhere in Britain. It's a pity many dark corners in Barcelona
    > become distastefully pissed.
    >

Runge

Old memories

"Bill McKee" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected] t...
    > <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >> In article <[email protected]>,
    >> [email protected]
    >> (Runge) wrote:
    >>> *From:* "Runge" <[email protected]>
    >>> *Date:* Tue, 9 Aug 2005 22:59:52 +0200
    >>> Gaudi hunting, he's everywhere in Barcelona !
    >>> Visit the Indigo shop
    >>> use the trams
    >>> See the old town
    >>> Eat at Barceloneta (NOT on the Ramblas !)
    >> Good point - eating on the Ramblas itself tends to be disappointing,
    >> though there are some good places on the little streets off it. Save the
    >> Ramblas for rambling. ;)
    >> ----------------------------------------------
    >> The poster formerly known as [email protected].
    >> My new email address is that one, with the first digit of years in the
    >> current century placed after the first word.
    > Eat on the Ramblas in the center divider and people watch. Food was not
    > bad, and not much more cost than off the Ramblas when we were there in
    > 2001.
    >

Runge

Yeah but you're a rich man

"Bill McKee" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected] et...
    > "chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco"
    > <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:1h11w5n.1x2042vaz34g7N%this_address_is_for_sp [email protected]...
    >> Bill McKee <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> []
    >>> Eat on the Ramblas in the center divider and people watch. Food was not
    >>> bad, and not much more cost than off the Ramblas when we were there in
    >>> 2001.
    >> If you want to sit there, eat, and people watch, then that's fine, but
    >> it really is quite expensive there, and generally not very good food.
    >> Though the drinks are not cheap there either, I think you could probably
    >> kill two birds with one stone by eating elsewhere then having a
    >> drink/coffee whatever on the Ramblas. Or, you could just sit on one of
    >> the benches! :)
    >> --
    >> David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
    >> usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
    >> pictures at homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer
    > Being from the San Francisco area, the food did not strike me as
    > outrageous priced, and do not remember what we ate, but did not bum us
    > out.
    >

Runge

witty again huh ?

"Martin" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected]...
    > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 23:37:23 +0100, [email protected]
    > (chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
    > wrote:
    >>Bill McKee <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>[]
    >>> Eat on the Ramblas in the center divider and people watch. Food was not
    >>> bad, and not much more cost than off the Ramblas when we were there in
    >>> 2001.
    >>If you want to sit there, eat, and people watch, then that's fine, but
    >>it really is quite expensive there, and generally not very good food.
    >>Though the drinks are not cheap there either, I think you could probably
    >>kill two birds with one stone by eating elsewhere then having a
    >>drink/coffee whatever on the Ramblas. Or, you could just sit on one of
    >>the benches! :)
    > and eat a McD :-)
    > --
    > Martin

Runge

haha tell us when we laugh

"Martin" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected]...
    > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:07:49 -0700, Icono Clast <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    >>certsnsearches wrote:
    >>> We're not young so won't be nightclubbing.
    >>Why is that a reason? We're old and spend an average of eight nights
    >>a month in night clubs.
    > Doing erotic dances AFAIR :-)
    > --
    > Martin

Bill McKee

Yeah but you're an idiot.

"Runge" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Yeah but you're a rich man
    > "Bill McKee" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
    > [email protected] et...
    >> "chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco"
    >> <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >> news:1h11w5n.1x2042vaz34g7N%this_address_is_for_sp [email protected]...
    >>> Bill McKee <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>> []
    >>>> Eat on the Ramblas in the center divider and people watch. Food was
    >>>> not
    >>>> bad, and not much more cost than off the Ramblas when we were there in
    >>>> 2001.
    >>> If you want to sit there, eat, and people watch, then that's fine, but
    >>> it really is quite expensive there, and generally not very good food.
    >>> Though the drinks are not cheap there either, I think you could probably
    >>> kill two birds with one stone by eating elsewhere then having a
    >>> drink/coffee whatever on the Ramblas. Or, you could just sit on one of
    >>> the benches! :)
    >>> --
    >>> David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
    >>> usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
    >>> pictures at homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer
    >> Being from the San Francisco area, the food did not strike me as
    >> outrageous priced, and do not remember what we ate, but did not bum us
    >> out.
    >

The Reids

Following up to Icono Clast

    >> We're not young so won't be nightclubbing.
    >Why is that a reason? We're old and spend an average of eight nights
    >a month in night clubs.

I'm in late fifties, leaping around and taking drugs to deafening
music does not appeal in the slightest and never really did. I
only ever went to night clubs to meet women in the first place
(and found it a crap way of doing that anyway). If you are over
40 how do you hear what someone in a nightclub is saying to you?
Also, isn't everybody else 40 years younger than you?
--
Mike Reid
Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

The Reids

Following up to Jordi

    >a very interesting daytrip from Barcelona is Girona.

If flying Ryan its compulsory :-)
--
Mike Reid
Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

Icono Clast

    > "Icono Clast" wrote:
    >> certsnsearches wrote:
    >>> We're not young so won't be nightclubbing.
    >>
    >> Why is that a reason? We're old and spend an average of eight
    >> nights a month in night clubs.

Martin wrote:
    > Doing erotic dances AFAIR :-)

That I cannot deny.


chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco said:
    > In the UK, at least, nightclubbing, and just clubbing, tends to
    > refer to nightclubs playing (usually) modern dance music. I've got
    > a feeling that's not what you meant by 'night clubs,' or am I
    > incorrect?

Yes, uh, No, uh . . . but:

certsnsearches wrote:
    > Well........eh.....hmmmm.......y'know, you're right !
    >
    > No , seriously......it's just not our kind of groove any more.

That, too, is not a valid reason. It's in night clubs that you can
hear the very best of pop culture music (jazz, rock, folk, and to
whatever the local culture listens) and song and see some of the best
dancing done anywhere as well as see some comics who are much better
than any you're likely to see on television or in major performance
spaces. You're depriving yourself of unknown pleasures.
__________________________________________________ _________________
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Jordi

The Reids ha escrito:

    > Following up to Jordi
    > >a very interesting daytrip from Barcelona is Girona.
    > If flying Ryan its compulsory :-)
    > --

Well, now you can choose to go to Reus, instead :)

Land in GRO, spend 4-5 hours there, sleep in BCN, holiday, then go
early to Tarragona and Reus before taking the flight back.

Sounds like a good plan :)


J.