You're Seeing The WRONG Thing In FIGERES | Motorhome Life Spain
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- In this week´s motorhome life video we arrive in Figueres, a town in Spain famous for the artist Salvador Dali. We explore a castle, takes a tour with a guide named Enric, and visits various sculptures and monuments in the town. We end feeling excitement for our next destination in France.
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The egg is a recurring theme in a lot of Dali's work - it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection. For him, he also had an “intrauterine egg theory” where he was convinced to remember perfectly his life in the maternal uterus. Something too weird by half for me!!. That Castle Sant Ferran was amazing.
He was a man with some very interesting perspectives, that's for sure. Wow Paulette, we had no idea about the intrauterine egg theory. We'll have to Google what he said about his experience. 🤔
Agreed, Sant Ferran was one of the most impressive places we've been.
Happy new year lovely.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
So proud of Alison for being able to do the tunnels, and cistern tour! I too suffer from claustrophobia and would not be able to do that! Bravo!
Thank-you Don. The cisterns were hard work for me, but it had to be done.
Happy new year to you and the family.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
The logs with a face are Catalonia's Santa Claus alike tradition called "caga tio" "crap dude" kids first give that log food (the night before, and adults eat those food), and after that night, they hit the log with a stick saying "caga tio" (crap dude) to "crap" gifts (adults make them appear).
Congratulations on another great video.
Thank-you for telling us Miguel. We will have to Google it. 😬
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
What an amazing guided tour. So many different elements to it, and well done Alison for taking on the underground boat trip. Very brave. We visited a Dali exhibition in Barcelona a few years back. Boy, did he have 'issues' ! 😱
It was a great tour and Enric was hilarious. Not very PC, but hilarious. It would have been fine if the water cisterns had been empty. 😂🤣
Dali was definitely unique, that's for sure.
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Great job Alison in dealing your fears of tunnels and confined spaces. The size and design of castle was incredible, the engineering and man power if took to build such a massive complex is staggering. The size of horse stable was remarkable. Darren and Alison we have been subscribed since your first few videos and look forward to your next destination. Thumbs up as always
Hi Geodude,
Thanks for the compliment, we both try to push/support ourselves and each other through our fears, we don't do too bad most of the time. 😉
Would it surprise you to learn that the stable block we showed, which held 475 horses, was originally only 1 of 2 symmetrical blocks..?!? The other block, was blown to kingdom come, when the Republicans surrendered to General Franco. The officers in charge of the fortress refused to allow Franco and his allies to benefit from their armaments, so they stashed them all in one block of the stables and a flour store under the entrance bridge. Set a fuses and blew it all up. It obliterated the stable and did considerable damage to the surrounding walls. The bridge was badly damaged. Franco had his military repair the bridge and do other repairs, but decided not to rebuild the stables.
Thank-you so much for your continued support of us and the channel. It means the world to us. We would be keen to hear your honest opinion on the progression of the channel since the beginning.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
@@findingxanadulife We like that your travels focus on smaller towns and less popular touristy locations. The camera work and audio quality of your channel continue to increase with each new video, and your choice of music also adds to the experience. We enjoy the small verbal glitches that you leave in as it adds to the authenticity of your day trip, and enjoy your relaxed approach as you walk through the various sites. We are from Canada and use your travel videos for references in planning a month long stay in Spain later this year. As far as suggestions … I suggest you continue to be yourselves !
@geodude8451 Thank-you so much for such a lovely comment. The editing is entirely down to Darren. He mostly chooses the music too, but runs it past me, in case there is anything I don't like. He wasn't happy with the audio quality, so we invested in wireless microphones and they've made a world of difference. We always get our "mords wuddled" 🤣😂
Maybe in future years (fingers crossed) you can give us some suggestions of places to visit in Canada. We hope to eventually ship our motorhome over and tour Canada and the USA. We have friends in Espanola, Ontario, plus friends and family in USA.
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That was so brave!! 😅🙈 x
I (Alison) didn't feel brave, that's for sure. 🤣😂💜🤟
I’ve never seen this place you went to. So interesting! When he said snakes.,.. 🐍 🫣😳 I was like no way! 😮
Thanks for taking us along!
It was definitely a new one on us too. We love visiting these things and imagining the people that lived and worked there. Preferring to spend 8 hours a day in a tiny space underground with little light and even less ventilation, the alternatives during wartime must have been too horrendous to contemplate. ☹️
Thankfully neither of us have a problem with snakes, so we were fine, but enclosed spaces, not so much. 🤣
Thanks for your comment Aztec Girl and Happy New Year.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
@@findingxanadulife Yes whenever you visit castles or the old part of town, I love to envision what it was like. What the walls have seen, if only we could know.
This video showed the realities of war and what people had to endure in order to survive. I don’t think I would be tough enough.
Me and my husband watch all your videos! Again, thank you for taking us along on your travels! 🙏
My husband is claustrophobic, even watching you in the boat in the small space made him feel out of breath lol
So glad I have found your channel! We are ex motor homers (in a caravan now) and have spent quite a lot of time in Spain. It’s so nice to follow you on your travels. This was particularly interesting! Happy New Year to you both.
Hi Carole and welcome to the family..! You'll have to give us a list of recommendations for places that we may not have on our list. 😬
Happy New Year and happy camping.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
Fantastic video as usual guys. Happy New Year. Looking forward to France. 🤟 💙💙💙
Thanks Tortie.
Happy New year to you and your family. Thank-you for your support of our channel during the year.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
I love Figueres ... just 50 mins away from me .. I live in the mountains ... but never visited that fort
Hi Cindy,
You must go, it's an amazing insight into history and incredible to see.
Thanks for watching.
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
Hope you enjoyed your stop at the Black Horse Kirkby fleetham last night. One of my favourite pub stops. I was parked next to you.
Hi David,
We had a great night's sleep thanks. The food was a little bit more expensive than we're used to, but the quality was excellent. We couldn't fault it.
Shame about all the hunters that appeared in their Chelsea tractors this morning. 🤷🏼♀️
Thanks for leaving a message to say hi..!
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
Awesome video guys! 5 days to go until we begin our Road trip to a new life in Spain! Have a great time with Family! Happy New Year and i look forward to next Sunday morning! 😁❤️
Ken, you guys must be so excited..! Hope you have a safe relocation journey..!
Happy new year and Buen viaje..!
Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟
@skillz4106 Hope your road trip is going well. We're thinking of you. 😬💜🤟
23:32 Omelette du fromage 🤣
I don't think a cheese omelette would have helped me. 🤣
Alison 💜🤟
"we're' no art critics"
No one really is, some just pretend to be by having funny ways of staring at art and then trying to use big words to describe some deeper meaning that often doesn't exist (a jab at modern art).
We're so glad it isn't just us that feel that way. 🙋🏼♂️🙋🏼😬
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. 💜🤟
@@findingxanadulife you're welcome, I remember a really funny ad about some "art critic" going on about some thing then it turns out it was just an elaborate garbage can 🤣(don't remember what they where advertising)
@wariods3588 🤣😂🤣😂 That is about right. Similar to the "very expensive/valuable" piece of "artwork" (a banana stuck to a wall with duct tape) that was completely devalued, when someone removed the banana and ate it. Surely the banana would have needed to be changed regularly for it to stay fresh anyway..? We liken it to the "Emperor's New Clothes" tale. 🤣😂🤣💜🤟
feliz año..os escribo en español para que no lo olvideis...es normal que toda españa esté llena de castillos ( mas de 10000) mas o menos en pie.y otro tanto en ruinas...castillos y fortificaciones por que en la paninsula iberica siempre se ha combatido contra todos y sobre todo con nosotros mismos....aqui os dejo un resumen de guerras solo desde el siglo xvi... es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Guerras_de_Espa%C3%B1a
Fabuloso Justiniano. Leeremos el enlace que envió. Siempre nos das gran información. Tenemos muchos castillos en nuestra lista para ver y disfrutar de esos en ruinas también, así que cuando en España, Estaremos muy ocupados. 😬
Feliz año nuevo de los dos y gracias por su continuo apoyo a nuestro canal.
Mucho amor Alison y Darren💜🤟