26 posts tagged “spain”
There is a very nice Finnish design shop, Marimekko (www.marimekko.fi), in Girona. You can find it in the old town (C. Ciutatans). This is what I bought this time:
OK, so, we lost the game against Canada that I was "boasting" about in my previous post. However, it was strange, because everybody seemed to be really happy anyway (all the Finns, I mean). I was wondering why, and they said: "Hey, we did better than the Swedes and the Russians, so we didn't lose. Actually, we won." (For those who are not interested in ice hockey, Sweden and Russia are the "arch enemies" of Finland).
As I am not very much into sports myself, I wasn't really worried about winning or losing, but thinking about... cultural differences.
People usually say that the Spaniards are really "hot-blooded", passionate and all that, whereas the Finns are known as "cold" people who don't really express their feelings.
Yeah, right...
Let me show you a quick audiovisual comparison:
These are the passionate Spanish/Catalan people, seeing an FC Barcelona football game (Barça was winning):
...and these
are the cold Finns, watching an ice hockey game (Finland was losing!):
They say
that the only "real" spring fair is held in Seville, but we do have our own feria de
abril here in Barcelona as well. It's probably not as big as the
Seville Spring Fair, but well worth seeing. (I went to see it last night.)
Links:
- The Barcelona Spring Fair at www.bcn.es (English)
- The Seville Spring Fair in Wikipedia (English)
-
Feria de Abril en Wikipedia (castellano)
One of my favorite shopping centers in Barcelona:
If you ever go to Zaragoza, remember to have lunch at the "La Republicana" restaurant. The place is beautiful and the food is just great.
More information:
La Republicana (Closed on Sundays)
C/ Méndez Núñez 38, Zaragoza
