Spain vs America: What You Should Know Before You Visit Spain
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Spain vs America: What You Should Know Before You Go to Spain. From the electricity and money to the language and tipping, what tourists should know about Spain before they go.
Pictures from Granada, Cordoba, Santiago, Barcelona, Toledo, Madrid, Malaga.
Filmed in Madrid, Spain
Copyright Mark Wolters 2014
As a Spaniard I recommend you to eat this food:
-Patatas Bravas
-Tortilla de patatas
-Paella
-Jamón
-Pimientos fritos.
I'm starting to get hungry, so I'm gonna stop here :P.
I just looked up a documentary on Jamon and it looks delicious.
Albondigas, Txipirones en su tinta, Bacalao al pil pil, alubiada con sus sacramentos(me gusta más la vasca que la fabada asturiana), croquetas, sopa de garbanzos(cualquier variante como el cocido madrileño, son todas parecidas), antxoas con pimientos del piquillo, Lechazo, Chuletón (solo hay tres restaurantes en España que venden de buey, no te dejes engañar), rabas, pulpo a la gallega, Pimientos de piquillo rellenos(de bacalao por ejemplo), tortilla de perretxikos, tortilla de bacalao, papas arrugadas con mojo picón, patatas a la riojana. Para terminar un poco de jamón ibérico y un queso bueno que hay cientos en España para todos los gustos.
Jajajajaja
Nevada (snowed), Florida (flowery), Colorado (reddish), Nuevo Mexico (obvious), Texas (which means tejas, tiles), Montana (land of mountains), Arizona (sandy or arid zone), California (hot, warm place).. it seems Spaniards were there before the English settlers.
+newhuskytwenty and all the cities that begin wit 'Los' or 'San' (spanish Saints' names)
+newhuskytwenty Actually one of the most accepted theory claims that Arizona was a name given by the basques (Arizona = Aritz ona = good oak), but they don't know for sure yet.
Eleder Bai, nosky. (Which means in Basque language, yes, of course)
+newhuskytwenty No shit
+The Anti-social-Socialist Here you have the map of the Spanish Empire: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/SpanishEmpire1790.svg/500px-SpanishEmpire1790.svg.png
Spain looks like a pretty place
I love america, greetings from spain americans . viva america, viva españa
1. Try not to use 50 or larger bills, some places will not accept 100€ bills and you may get confused with the change. Counterfeits are used to buy small things and get a lot of real money as change. Use your CC whenever possible, it takes a while to learn all the coins and there are some from Indonesia and places like that that look very similar to euros and might be difficult to spot. Even for me.
2. In Spain if they sell food to be eaten at the place they have to have separate restrooms for both L's & G's (and the disabled if the place is relatively new) I saw places in NYC that had 1 WC for everyone or none at all. Only places with waiters will look at you if you walk straight into the restroom w/o ordering (although I do it all the time and pretend to be looking for someone) So go to McDonald's, BKs, Starbucks, Dunkin' or Dept Stores etc...
3. Tips are never mandatory, People leave them if the service was really good, I have friends who have never left one (they're kinda cheap though)
4. Buy a small wallet-like bag and wear it under your shirt, pants or hang it from your neck under your clothes, pickpockets will never get to it, don't put any valuables in pockets that are out of your sight (like in backpacks, a coat on your arm, etc..)
5. Greetings from Spain.
+John Wilkinson I wouldn't say pickpocketing is especially high in Spain
Barcelona, yes!
+Pdl .43, no, it's not particularly high, but I live in the Basque Country, not in Madrid or Barcelona, which I think are the cities hit hardest by that.
95% of pickpockers in Spain aren`t spanish nationals, mostly irregular inmigrants from eastern europe and north africa.
DINNER in America is the time I have lunch in Spain during the summer😂
+María Pacheco Suárez yep :)
Lmao same (American btw) who wants to each lunch at 11?
+Wolters World thit you engoi spaie?
+neko TV spain
Re: Eating times. Many restaurants are not open from around 4 - 8p. So, it's not even a matter of "My Spanish friends won't want to eat dinner so early," but the restaurants are just flat out not open.
I live in California. I visited Spain plus 20 other European countries last year. I would have to say Spain was my favorite. I got treated like a king in Spain. Avoid the touristy areas because they will jack up the drink and food prices. Go into the local bars and you will pay under €2.5 for a wine or a beer. Spain is super cheap compared to the Los Angeles are here in California. I would love to move to Spain. I just need to find a Spanish wife.
Rob Liez Why.... just move there and then find a wife!
Spainabo
It seems California have strong links with Spain. Maybe its the colonial architecture, or the food, or the wheather, maybe it's in the landscape, or in the people.
Folks from California who knows Spain, can you give some background about this?
Do you live in Spain by now?
A fellow Californian
Well, we do have breakfast around 7 a.m., lunch at 14h-15h and dinner at 21h-22h, but we also have el almuerzo (around 11 a.m.) and la merienda (around 17h-18h)... So.... we don't starve ;) There are lots of spanish meals depending where you are, I wouldn't eat a paella in Madrid, but instead I'll take a Cocido (leave the paella to Valencia). In Andalucia you have lots of dishes as el gazpacho, salmorejo... And in the north we are big meat eaters! And the fish is delicious near the ocean... There's a big variety everywhere you go! Also, the drinks are cheaper, but in difference with de US, you have to pay for the water...
@@damor7337¿El cocido madrileño es de después de la aguerra civil? No hagas el ridículo hombre. Busca en Internet el restaurante La Bola en Madrid y te enterarás un poco de lo que no sabes.
Dude, just my opinion......but people should always attempt to speak Spanish, it shows respect. I wouldn't rock up in Ohio speaking German/Russian/Icelandic. You are in Spain, speak Spanish, even if its shit Spanish, speak it anyway.....make an effort folks c'mon.
"just my opinion"
Yep.
What if you're autistic and can barely speak your native language?
Axis Angles you mean like most americans?
yeah basically
Charlie Carter i
i'm from spain and i have to say you nailed this guide video just the best advises.
lunch at 11:00? that is breakfast! :)
Exactly!
Hi, I'm spanish, pardon my english :P It's normal to take breakfast at 9 more than 11 but it depends of hotel or restaurant/bar. Daily I take my breakfast at 6-6:30 am in weekend it's normal take it at 10 am.
Breakfast: 8-11 even 12 am
"Tapeo": 1pm - 2:30 pm
Lunch: 2:30-4 pm
"Merienda": 5-7pm
Dinner: 9-12pm
You're welcome to Spain,i wish you take your time to discover not turistic places, you can eating better, drinking better and enjoing better... and, of course, language it's not problem (we can comunicate each other by signs haha)
Alvaro Diez Martinez No eres Espanyol,estas delusionado,necesitas ayuda
psiquiátrica.
Pues es posible que lo necesite xD pero vamos, "Espanyol" no soy, soy Español y no necesito "alluda" necesito "ayuda" (si acaso). Entiendo que tú chapurreas el "castellano" y mal: ¿"estas delirante"? ¿qué significa esto? He escuchado: "Estas delirando" o "tú deliras" pero "estas delirante" no tiene sentido. Necesito ayuda de un psiquiatra y tú de un profesor de lengua castellana. Un saludo campeón!
I'm Spanish and I'm used to have dinner at 11PM xd
I also recomend to check about spanish history before visiting a place cuz it's quite easy to get lost if u don't know the history behind it. I mean, u can find 2000 y.o. buildings next to a medieval building and all of that just behind a McDonald's.
Great vid !
We're heading to Madrid for the first time and we're loving your videos. We're from the UK but decided to watch this anyway as we like your videos and it still had some great info such as the tipping, toilets, tapas v raciones. Thanks 👍🏻
I live and travel around Europe and found this video to be accurate, entertaining and super helpful in planning a trip to Madrid!
Great advice as usual; your videos always save us many hours of research, so many thanks for your helpful tips.
Half Spanish . ❤ hopefully I get to visit Spain soon when I get older . tysm for this Video . amazing !
Another great Video thanks! My trip is 3 weeks away and am excited about the tapas in Spain and trying Green wine in Porto.
I'm Spanish and I agree with everything he says, except for the tipping advice. Actually, we do tip here. It's something that's implied when you go to a restaurant, a bar or a cafe. You don't need to make calculations on how much, you just leave a little money (never more than €5). Nobody will say anything if you leave without tipping, but it's kind of rude (especially if you're a tourist).
Regarding the quality of service, don't expect to be treated like in the US because waiters aren't used to pamper customers as much as American waiters. Sometimes Spanish waiters can come across as rude because they can be a little rough - don't take it personally or too seriously. By all means, if you are not treated nicely enough or at least politely, feel free not to tip.
Hope every visitor has a great time here. We're happy to have you in Spain!
Helpful as always! Thank you. Going to Spain in a week! Went on two Europe trips and used your great advice!
@James Nutt Thank you. I’m from Ukraine 🇺🇦
First time i see one of your videos and i must say that I LOVE IT! Also you describe spain perfectly, thanks a lot! ^^
Right on, amigo ! You are absolutely right. Thank you ... From a grateful spaniard.
You are one cheerful and happy person. Thanks for doing this video... me and family are going to be visiting in October - this will be very helpful! We are not from the US (Canadian here) and still found this very useful.
I'm glad you like my country!! Good tips
The most surprising and beautiful places of spain are out of barcelona and madrid. Good video and proper spanish accent 2:49 hahaha
Good quick, basic video for newbies....thanks! Will be checking out your website, and others, for more in-depth info. First trip to Spain ( or Euro in general) coming up in 4 months and lots to study!
2:37 ESTRELLA GALICIA AND PRAZA DO OBRADOIRO IN SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA!! Best beer choice in Spain! And also Galicia is my region so just for this, you've got one new subscriber :)
Thank you for this incredibly helpful guide, Wolter! I literally took notes while you spoke :)
Recommendation, if you want to eat a good paella in Madrid go to a restaurant called "La barraca" they cook the real "paella valenciana"
What the United States Owes to Spain
n arriving every July 4th, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, we should take a look back to review some facts about the origins of this great country.
Spaniards were the ones who arrived the first and explored lands and coasts, crossed rivers, grasslands, forests and deserts and reconnoitered the Atlantic coast from Florida to Newfoundland. There, in 1524, as he was looking at the west, Esteban Gomez, who had persuaded the Emperor Charles to let him go and to make fund an expedition to search for a northwest passage, wrote indicating that there was no sea passage south of the bay of the entrance of St Lawrence river: “Acá nada”, the Spanish words for "Here, nothing", unaware that he had just baptized the vastness of Canada. Spaniards also explored the Gulf of Mexico and the coast from California to Alaska, planted thousands of place names after the saints in the calendar they had in hand, compiled maps and charts, described lands, new animals and tribes. They brought with them the horse, that was introduced in Florida by Pedro Menendez de Aviles and in New Mexico by Juan de Oñate. The explorers who came after the sixteenth century took their first steps following targeted maps and daily courses first made by the Spanish explorers.
Pedro Menendez de Aviles opened in Florida the gateway to North America. Spaniards founded San Agustín, the first European city in what the United States of America is at present. There they celebrated the first Mass of Thanksgiving accompanied by natives. They erected the first council house, school, church, convent and mission, the first books were printed by them. They built the first fort, which they named San Marcos.
Arriving on the southwest, Juan de Oñate introduced the horse, the ditch, the wheel, the Spanish agriculture, which merged with the local creating a valuable exchange that never ceased to enrich the Old and the New World. There the first play was written and represented; there the first American epic was composed by Gaspar de Villabrá, first European lawyer in North America. There the first European was born in 1566, Martín de Argüelles Jr, son of a Spanish sergeant and Leonor Morales. The first English settlers appeared half a century later.
In the late eighteenth century, part of the present territory of the United States was inhabited by descendants of English settlers who came into conflict with the mother and took up arms to achieve independence. The Spaniards in Florida, Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico responded to the call of Charles III to free the Americans fighting for independence led by Washington. Spanish, both New Spaniards and Cubans, had business houses in the thirteen American colonies. They ran business, and their currency, the Spanish silver dollar, that dollar with the two pillars on it, was the first coin to inspire the U.S. dollar. Two Spaniards, Juan de Miralles and Erigio de la Puente recruited a network of secret agents by which troops Washington could know the British movements using Louisiana as a free-of-enemies corridor parallel to the thirteen colonies, made available by the Spaniards and Bernardo de Galvez, who knew the needs and intentions of the Continental Army and transmitted to Spain, from where weapons, equipment and, especially, millions of hard silver pesos (Spanish valuable coins) were sent to Washington.
Charles III went to war against England on June 16, 1779, ready to economically and militarily help Americans of the thirteen colonies. Before, from the declaration of war of Spain, he had been helping Americans through Bernardo de Gálvez. In 1777, Benjamin Franklin, American representative in France, called for secret aid from Spain obtaining by this mean 215 bronze cannons, tents, grenades, 30,000 muskets, bayonets and uniforms, musket balls and 300,000 pounds of powder. Franklin, thankful for it, wrote a letter to the Count of Aranda appreciating all the help, and subsequently received over 12,000 muskets, sent to Boston from Spain. In addition, Spain gave almost 2,000,000 silver pesos.
The ships of the American Commodore Alexander Gillon were repaired and provided with artillery in the Royal Shipyard of Havana; the governor of Louisiana, Bernardo de Galvez and his brother Joseph were aware of all movements. Galvez's plan was clear: to shield the Mississippi Delta so that the British could not move around the river to bring reinforcements to its troops locked in the entrenched camp of Georgetown, to take the control of the Caribbean Sea taking the bases of the British navy, to conquer Pensacola and the rest of the fortified ports the English had in the Mississippi Delta and inland to the north, along the river, and strengthen Washington's Continental Army for easy victory. In a series of remedial actions defeated the British at Manchac, Natchez, ports Thompson and Smith, Baton Rouge, Fort Charlotte and Mobilla, took their military bases and fully evicted them while ensuring alliance pacts with the local Indian tribes hostile to the British.
After the Mississippi Delta and their forts were taken, the English in Georgetown could neither receive reinforcements nor attack Washington from the rear. Then Galvez would take Pensacola, fortified British garrison. He met the forces in Havana. After a first step, he quickly enlisted a second expedition. So he embarked the Spanish regular forces together with the Resident Battalion of Havana, the Battalion of Black and Brown Men, and auxiliaries. Pensacola was taken in two months, from April to May 1781; the British had five hundred casualties, about two hundred Spaniards. British General John Campbell and Admiral Chester, Captain General and Governor of West Florida respectively, surrendered along with their 1,113 men and all their flags, artillery, ammunition, along with over three hundred Americans from Georgia who supported the British forces, five British warships being taken too. Pensacola marked the Spanish control of the Gulf of Mexico and deprived the English of its most powerful base to launch attacks on preventing Washington from the south.
In mid-1781, on the eve of the battle of Yorktown fought from September to October, Washington and his army were in deplorable conditions, with its empty coffers. The farmers refused to provide food for nonpayment, and weapons and gunpowder were needed too. After failing in his efforts to raise money in French Santo Domingo, De Grasse went to Cuba, where authorities and the women sold their jewelry, donating one million two hundred thousand silver pounds.
After Yorktown, which was not actually the last battle, the only base remaining real British was Nassau in the Bahamas, so a Spanish force from Havana commanded by Cajigal entered the archipelago and they took Nassau on May 11, 1782, finally falling this last English stronghold. However, the English launched Rodney’s squad against Havana, but Cajigal’s defense thwarted all the attempts of landing.
On September 3, 1783, the War of Independence ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
Every July 4 names that carried out the heroic freedom struggle are remembered: Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Jay, Madison, Paine, Hamilton -- also reminding those of La Fayette, Rochambeau, Truffaut, De Grasse, the Polish Kościuszko and the Prussian General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
However, no mention or squints to Bernardo de Galvez, his brother Minister José de Gálvez, Juan María Manuel de Cajigal and Francisco Saavedra, financial support of American independence; Juan Miralles, a personal friend of Washington; all those who, along with Juan Eligio de la Puente, developed or gave secret information and decisive actions to victory. To these must be added those who fell in the Mississippi Delta in Pensacola or in the Bahamas; and from there going back to the intrepid explorers, missionaries who brought the Word of God, who planted the first crosses and founded cities and towns, who brought books, laws, concepts and thoughts, humanism and philosophy. All these people were also Founding Fathers, and they deserve to be remembered in the day of the Declaration of Independence too. And along with them, all those ones who with their bodies and their souls participated in forging the greatness of the United States of America, the land of free men, so they were not notably absent in the glorious date of July 4.
ManiaC Lite Thanks so much for this comment, filled with erudition and historical sense of gratitude to my mother country, Spain.
Banana Joe :D
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probably, and before them all the people that crossed from asia and settled in the continent. The thing is that the nordic sailors did not have the cultural mentallity of making their "discovery" part of the world or even establish their own culture in the new lands (besides Greenland and Iceland). The new lands even fell into oblivion for their own people in time. That´s why Los Angeles is a city named in spanish and not in swedish.
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great!
ManiaC Lite WOw!! makes me feel patriotic now!!!!! let's go to war nooow! hahahahahah(just joking ) you know much more of my country than me, congratulations!!!
Great video, leaving next week to Madrid..Thanks
I go to Spain in 10 days. I have been once and it was so beautiful I cant wait.
My friend is studying abroad in Spain in the spring. I'll definitely have to share this with her! Thanks :)
OnTheGoWithCarson thanks Carson!
I've been to Barcelona, Spain. I went by myself, I was only 19. I toured the whole city by foot, metro, bus, and rollerblades (I had brought them from the US) The only time I experienced something unnatural was when I decided to go visit a club by myself downtown closer to the beach area. It wasn't so great tbh and on the way back home towards Catalan, I'd taken a metro. the blue line, Line 5. Mind you this was like 3 AM. There were still a good amount of people on the metro as if night-life were always that lit. So I got comfortable and I stood on the metro as if I were taking the red line from DC to MD. I was wearing a shirt, shorts and some sandals because I did not have night-out outfits. (Oh well! I still don't! Lol) Out of nowhere some man, who seemed to be "drunk" came up to me and tried to stumble on me and felt up on me when he did. I gave him a stank face and I moved. I looked around to see what others reactions were or why they didn't help and everyone in that cart just looked at me. It was a look you get when you know something's up. So I got a flight feeling inside then. I went to go sit down by a few people. I Facetimed my friend who was still awake here in Penn. US and told him about what had just happened. He asked me "Is he still there?" I looked up thinking the man had left and on the row next to mine the man was there, looking at me with his arm resting on his leg and his head resting in his hand just looking directly at me. If this were daytime I don't think I'd think much of it but the man didn't get off and there were two more stops left on the metro until it ended its trip. My stop was second to last, and I thought there is no way this man has the same stop as me. My stop had come, which was El Carmel and people had begun to get off. I got out and started to walk fast paced toward the exit. For those who haven't taken this stop, it's quite a walk to get to the surface- if anyone has taken the metro from DC to MD to Wheaton Station and seen the flight of stairs you have to climb to get to the surface-- well imagine that x4. So while I was exiting the first room where the metro had dropped us, as I looked behind me while going up the stairs and thought 'yes! he's gone!' but I thought too soon because when the metro was about to leave, out pops the man looking around, saw me, and headed towards my direction. By that time I was on top of the exit stairs and my flight senses kicked in. I sprinted all the way home. Not to the surface, HOME. I ran like I never ran in sandals before in my life!! I don't know how I did it but I did and I'm lucky. I'd still go by myself again-- or maybe not be selfish and share the greatness with somebody-- either way those two weeks were the best weeks of my life! I'm 22 now, and I miss it very much! It's not really different to change to their custom, you really don't have to. Just be optimistic, about yourself. Don't close yourself to one part of the world just because you're familiar with it. Everything was foreign to you at some point so just relax, accept the earth as your whole home and everywhere will feel like home, as long as God is your best friend honestly that's how I did it. I felt as if he were always there, watching me even if I was 3000 miles alone and away from home. I felt peace, happiness, and joy. There's always good in bad and bad in good but that's the good thing about energy- that there's good and bad and everything can only be transferred so stay positive and positivity will radiate from you and everything you come across or get into.
Karen Vanessa 😘🙏🏻👌🏼💫
im mexican-american and i appreciate anyone who makes an effort to speak spanish. i love it. all i spoke in spain was spanish i never ran into anyone who spoke english so yea try your best to speak spanish!
Im a Spaniard and have lived many years in California, now living back in Spain, this video is SPOT ON, Wolters World, Superb video in everyway
Plan on visiting Sevilla. Thanks for the video!
I love Spain! Madrid, in particular. Its our, home away from home. We've visited 8 times and plan to return again and again. That said, I don't need "friendly" waiters, just helpful ones. Love your vids, Mark and Joss!!
Forgot to say we have 4 different languages... Castellano(Spanish), Catalan, Galician, Basque
+Nacho Juan Plus Aranese. :)
+Andrea Hernandez Baeza por lo tanto también existe el andaluz no? Justamente en la pronunciación y en utilizar sinónimos diferentes para algunas palabras es por lo que se distingue un dialecto de otro
+Andrea Hernandez Baeza El Valenciano no se considera lengua independiente, amor xD Técnicamente es un dialecto del catalán. Igual que el balear. Siguen siendo cuatro idiomas.
+RadioactiveSand asi es
+Andrea Hernandez Baeza ,El catalan no es un dialecto, es una lengua tan antigua como el castellano,del valenciano prefiero no opinar,encontraras las respuestas en wikipedia.
Thanks for this reminder of how lovely Spain is! I went there in 2004 (was in Sevilla when the Madrid bombing occurred) and it was very beautiful. The food was simple but delicious and the people we met were very gracious. The Alhambra was amazing!
As a Spaniard I must say you are quite right in everything you say in this video! Thanks for that! :D
Thank you for the video sir.
Great video! (from a Spanish viewer :)
Nice to see you in Santiago de Compostela drinking Estrella Galicia. I really enjoy your channel WoltersWorld.
Excellent information on going to spain for new comers.
Tapas are just absolutely the greatest way to do restaurant food!
In Spain they have the same electric sockets as most of the EU countries. You can use the same adapter in most of the EU countries. The one that is different is the UK (where I live).
That US socket is also to be found in South America so, I think that you can probably use the same adaptor for all of the continent of America.
great info!
fair enough information, great job! Maybe I missed some about security, but is fine. Congrats!
IM SO EXCITED TO VISIT
Great stuff bro!
Thank you for showing Santiago de Compostela, my place. Not many Americans know about us.
Beautiful place tbh and Northern Spain has beautiful coastlines.
great info
Tapas ALWAYS are free, you ask for "una caña (canya)" a glasss of beer or "un chato" a glass of red wine, and the waiter will ask you what you want for tapa from about 3 to 25 diferent ones, some times they don´t ask you and simply bring you a small dish with olives... Tapas only are served if you ask for barrel beer or for "vino de la casa" wine of the house or the common wine they offer.
Raciones are 3 or 4 times bigger than tapas but you ask for them, so you pay them.
Paid tapas are a invention for guiris XD
Thank you buddy!!
I really love your videos!!
Dekker O'Farrell thanks dekker
A) MOST tips go to waiters.
B) tips are not mandatory, but almost everybody in Spain gives them, except in fast food restaurants or bars (if the order is small, and even then we can leave about 20-50cts.).
C) Try to avoid "tourist" places, ask young people living in the place for advices, they will help you.
Hi. I'll visit Madrid for the first time soon this year and I am wondering if you could share info about the wifi connection in Madrid? Should tourists buy a SIM card with an internet package included or is wifi available for free in restaurants, cafes, etc. ? Thank you so much.
About tipping. You don't have to. The waiters don't expect them and they treat you friendly cos they want to or they have to, so don't worry. BUT, if you where treated well, the waiter will apreciate it. They don't normally keep the tip unless the tip is high (my brother get 10 euros and keep them for example) And people gives tips from 1 cent to 2 euros top normally. Some people gives more and if it an expensive restaurant, they give more.
Nice surprise to see Málaga and Ronda on the video :D
Viva España y Viva los Españoles
+EL CAPITAN SURBOXER FOREVER viva!!!! :)
vivaa
muy españoles y mucho españoles.
Y es el alcalde el que quiere que sean los vecinos el alcalde.
+EL CAPITAN SURBOXER FOREVER Ole ahi
did not know you were in malaga, cool! I'm russian and actually live here since 2011, now little far away from malaga, about 7 km by the coast, in Torremolinos, glad to know you and your family was here while i was living in Malaga!
Great video and very good tips! (and by the way..bidets are awsome! LOL Wish we had them here in the US)
I suggest you to tip everytime you go to a restaurant, due to the fact that nowadays the salaries of the waiters unfortunately appear to be quite lower than they used to.
I’m visiting Spain for the very first time next month (February) I’m planning on visiting only one city because I’m not going for many days. Which city would you recommend me to visit as a first time traveler?
In Andalucía, las tapas are for free in 90% of the bars.
In every bar its for free except tourist bars
Será en Granada, en Sevilla las tapas no te las ponen por la cara, las pides y luego te las cobran.
JG KL y en Almería jajajaja
quizá en el 10% del total de los bares andaluces
Hi Mark, informative and helpful as always. Reluctant to appear pushy - but we film virtual walks through Spanish cities, so perhaps this may be helpful to your viewers before their visit?
Going to Spain in August!!!!
Thank you for this video. You’re right. The coins are tricky. I had a bag of coins. The value of these coins back home (in the US) would have been about 1.50. It was over 11 dollars. I just kept a bag for my coins. I also had to get used to the strange shape of the bills. I must have played too much Monopoly as a child because it totally felt like play money... at first. I also agree that prices were so much better in Spain. We stayed at very nice hotels but the quality and amenities more that made up for the dollar exchange rate. I was surprised that one of our hotels in Barcelona actually supplied bath salts, shaving kit, two tooth brush/tooth paste and of course the normal shampoo, conditioner, lotion, sewing kit, shower cap, cosmetic kit. These items were already on our bathroom counter in every Spanish hotel upon check in.
going to Barcelona for new years any recommendations on where to be on new years eve
Much safer in Spain than U.S.
I love your picture with an Estrella Galicia! :P
+Enrique Gómez always goes good with chilling out :)
Yeap, the tip is here considered more like an extra for really good service, and is usually a couple of euros or the change you are returned when paying
Hope to visit Spain one day
About tips I will say 95% of the time, the tips always goes for the waiters, barman or so, it is very rare that the boss (owner) will get the tips or any part of them. Normally people will leave whatever is brought back, you pay 12.50€, that 0,50€ will be left as a tip nearly in any bar or similar, if you go to a restaurant and you think that the service was good, you leave a few Euros, 2 or 3, if you go to a better restaurant with table cloths, waiters saying "sir / madam", you will even leave a better tip, but always will depend on the service to you. If you enter a bar and you ask for a "cafe con leche" (coffe & milk) and you get 2 cm of foam on top of the milk, you tell the waiter you don´t want like that and the respond is : "Well, that´s the way we do it here", your respond apart from not leaving a tip will be: "Well, them the you can drink it", then you can leave with or without paying the coffe and milk.
I am from the north of spain and it is true that we are colder but we are nice too. If you go to the south in summer it is very hot and if you are going to come to cities like Zaragoza you should know that in winter, autumn and spring the weather is quite windy
+Ana Rubio Es curioso ese estereotipo de frialdad en el norte. Todas las veces que he ido, me he sentido perfectamente acogido. Quizá sea cosa mía.
¿Tú eres de Aragón?
+RadioactiveSand siiii
Ana Rubio Las montañas de Huesca, el único lugar en mi vida donde he sentido deseos de levantarme a las seis de la mañana. La belleza de sus amaneceres es simplemente inefable.
+RadioactiveSand subes a las montañas de Huesca a esquiar?
Ana Rubio A hacer escalada. En varios puntos, pero mis favoritos son cerca de Ordesa. De esquiar no he tenido el placer xD
Nice job ¡
Hola,
Mí idea de la vacación perfecta es ser afuera con la naturaleza en el clima bonito, ir a la playa o el parque. Cuándo no estoy afuera, me gusta escuchar la música, bailar, ir al cine y por supuesto tengo que probar las comidas diferentes, los vinos y en realidad, puedo disfrutarme hacer cualquier cosa. Sola cosa más que todo es quiero tener cuidado. 💜💜💜
Hey Mark, can you pls do a video on how to use a bidet? 🤔🧐
Qu buena esta la estrella Galicia
Nice Video!
Nice
Great video :)
I've seen already in a couple of your videos, Xampanyet, on Carrer Montcada (across the street from Museu Picasso) when you mention restaurants in touristy places in Spain? Ufff, I hope that Champagneria wasn't an example of a touristy place- I went there as a recommendation from a friend who lived there, and it was one of the best restaurant experiences of my life!
Hi. I've seen some photos of you in a "tasca" in Portugal, on one of your videos! Is there any "10 things that will shock you in Portugal, +woltersworld? I'm curious to see that! ;)
It is very rewarding seeing how you enjoy and take so much from your visit. You missed these important details: "Boooote" is shouted when you leave a tip at a bar, especially at the barra, as an expression of shared joy; very important that you do not need to pay when ordering any food or booze which is a very unconfortable situation for any Spaniard abroad...people trust on people here. The only snag I can find in your brilliant reports is that you focuse only in very massively touristical places. Try Almeria, Murcia, Salamanca or Vitoria...and you will really gost astonished by everything.
+woltersworld are you coming to latinamerica any time soon? Id love to see your videos talking about our countries
Good video
alejandro de la torre abadía and thanks again :)
did you record this video on july 2014? i think i saw you there!
Im wondering why you didn't mention this because as a non Spanish speaking (or reading) tourist: most European countries write numbers different than the US. So if you go to buy something you may have to rely upon just handing money over. Also, don't some restaurants have you pay at the door after you've already eaten? How do you communicate what you just ate if neither speak the same language?
Me encantas, eres genial!
After watching «100 dias para enamoras» and some songs I really want to learn more and more spanish😊
I swear I am not stalking your posts :)
Spain is my favorite place on earth (with the UK a close second) . I do speak fluent Spanish so it is not a problem , but I've notice they treat Non-spanish speaking people better than people who speak Spanish with a Latin American accent , so get some choice words in your lingo, QUICK! like "Joder" "HODER" it means one "nasty" thing but even kids say it to their parents. Although Madrileños are a bit tougher than the rest of the country , it is a front. Spaniards in general are AMAZINGLY friendly people (very much like the Irish) . As a kid (when I first went to school there) a lady started screaming at me cause i was sitting in a METRO seat for the handicapped. I explained I was foreign and I really did not understand the sign . Well, she wound up taking 3 of us to her house for dinner with her family. The husband was a rough construction guy who then drove us back to El Escorial where we were staying (2 hours round trip) Right now Spain is a bargain for ALL the wrong reasons . The unemployment is the hgihest in Europe, the salaries have been cut in half , you see a LOT of people (kids) asking for money and it breaks your heart . Still Madrid KEEPS washing the streets EVERY NIGHT with soapy water and sidewalks are scrubbed by hand. Clothing , Jewelry etc is as much a bargain as it would be in Hong Kong The bif dept stores with their almost custom made clothing are running huge sales constantly and a 1st class men's suit may run you $200 USD and you swear it was handstitch . El Corte Inglés and Galerías Preciados are the Harrods and Selfridges of Spain , so you can REALLY make out in clothing . Gold is also quite cheap. All around a FUN week in Madrid for two will cost you 1/2 of the same time in London , and there's not much to see in london . Hell it will cost you half of a week in Dallas and Dallas only has Daily Plaza to look at . Once you see it and ask now what . you get "wanna see it again?"
If you CAN afford it DO tip directly to who is serving you a lot of white collar workers have had to go work as plumbers. (just slightly worse than the USA) and as a country packed with socialist programs funded by employers if you keep you job , you will never see your house. So DO NOT take advantage of these great people if you can afford it do it if you can not NO ONE will give you the finger.
mickavellian Galerías Preciados doesn't exist for years. It was bought by El Corte Inglés.
Oh no sabia , hace años que no voy a España . Siempre me gusto mas El Corte Ingles
mickavellian XD
+mickavellian Those kids asking for money are usually from Romania, don't misinform and I have never seen they scrubbed sidewalks by hand, maybe there was a very dirty spot and you saw it because only machines are used.
Why are you contradicting a know fact and more saw when my sister has lived next to Puerta de Hierro for 30 years? The children and camps were NOT Spaniards they were Gypsies and if you want to see the sidewalks scrubbed by hand , stand in Puerta del sol and morning at about 4AM.
In the US you eat DINNER at 4:30?!? Dafuq?!? Mindblown
Hell no lol
+Sparky Dorugamon Modern Familiy chapter, convo between Cam and Mitch:- Oh hey, we got reservations for dinner at 7.30 +No way, what are we? old folks? -The other choice was 11.30 +Wait, are we teenagers?? Sooo americans at what time do you have the fucking dinner? hahaha
People in the United States tend to wake up with the sun and then stay up a few hours after the sun sets, so we eat breakfast and have coffee about an hour or two after the sun comes up, and have dinner as the sun sets. The good news is that people in Spain always say they're tired of Americans trying to force their culture on the people of Spain during American tourist visits, so of course no one in Spain would ever do that about American culture back to them.
Dorfus In the US Midwest dinner is really lunch and supper is really dinner! Confusing....
Sofía Montalban If you live in Spain you quickly get used to eating later....I love living there 😎😎
One thing you didn't comment is that the murder rate is 750% lower here, here you can walk to most of the places day or night even alone.
In my option peak service times in a restaurant are not generally the best times to eat due to the sheer volume of orders the chefs have to manage. jus saying ;)
I want to know few things about spain:
1. Is there any animals or bugs that you need to wach out in city?
2. If you go to the beach is there something you need to know?
3. Can I drink tap water or do i have to buy bottle water?
Miss Sandels Miss, this is Spain, Europe, not a Latin American country. The cities are free of any dangerous animal, the only thing you might find dangerous in a beach is a jellyfish and the water is obviously good from the source, you don't need to buy bottles of water.
Good to know. Thanks
Miss Sandels thanku for these questions!!! Im heading to Spain in 12 days for a month! No clue what to expect other than heat!! I hope all goes well. First overseas trip for me!!🙏🏻🤞🏼💃🏼. Thanku for the answers responder!!
1 tip if you're coming to Spain: Never ever talk about politics
Correcto
I just got back from studying in spain, and for tipping in restaurants, we would typically just round our bill up, so if it was 18.50 euros, we'd just put a 20 down at the table and leave
Welcome to spain Bienvenidos a españa.
Flying there tonight.
There are a lot of people that can perfectly talk English depending on the shcool you went where you were young there are some of them that have higher level of English but there are other schools that teach it as people from US learn Spanish