Comments on: Spain ‘no longer foreign enough’

By: Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:26:19 +0000

Ah yes, as opposed to Spain, the US is foreign and exotic.

And living in southern California, of COURSE I meet celebs every day. Yeah, right.

By: Ben Curtis

Ben Curtis — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:19:59 +0000

It’s forced into us from birth!

By: Rai

Rai — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:35:09 +0000

OH! Isabel Pantoja, of course!

;-D

By: usopened

usopened — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:09:32 +0000

I mean Apocalypse.

By: usopened

usopened — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:06:31 +0000

I agree that that last part about travelers going to the USA in the hope seeing a celebrity is a sign of the apocolypse. Sad.

By: Hollis

Hollis — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:52:22 +0000

Ben I thought you would appreciate this. I was getting my haircut yesterday and seated next to me was a British guy who had this starter conversation with his hairdresser:

Hairdresser: How can I help you?

Brit: You can help me by removing most of my hair.

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I almost fell out of my chair; I wonder why Brits are so dry when it comes to humor: is it learned, are they raised that way or is it just contagious?

By: Anton

Anton — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:21:03 +0000

I am delighted to say that the main reason I came to Tarragona is because there are very few ‘tourist’ foreigners. And long may it stay that way. Thankfully they all go to Salou down the coast and avoid this beautiful Catalan historical gem of a City. There are of course many ‘immigrants’ as the Catalans call them which means other non-Catalan Spaniards who have moved here (as well as proper immigrants such as South Americans etc). I was quite shocked to hear locals call other Spaniards immigrants with a hint of ‘them and us syndrome’ but it is how they feel.

By: luke

luke — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:37:04 +0000

It’s good to know that Brits are looking for somewhere foreign, I thought they wanted Spain to be Britain in the sun. For the foreign experience, it would be cheaper to visit London. I hardly every meet anyone who was born in the UK here in London. On my bus from my studio in Shoreditch to Harringay you go from Vietnam(Shoreditch) to Turkey/Africa (Dalston) to Israel(Stamford Hill) to Kurdistan (Harringay). Haringey has the most languages in any one urban zone in Europe.

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:29:08 +0000

I have to say I have met a few as well- used to work near the Chelsea ground in a pub at one point.

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:27:47 +0000

I think there is not much to say but am shocked how they consider Spain not to be “foreign”- how about go to Castilla, la Mancha or even Northern Andalucia not to mention parts of the Atlantic costas and you ARE in a foreign place. But then people do have different tastes and to me seeing cultural things and indulging in local custom is much more important than getting an autograph from a celeb.