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Que ce soit la révolution ou la paëlla, rien de ce qui est espagnol n'est simple. (Audiard)

EST

SPAIN / ESPAGNE

Book / Guides :

Tourism info center :

Major Cities :

  • Madrid, Barcelona , Valancia,
  • Andaluzia : Sevilla, Cordou, Grenada, Malaga, Almeria
  • Portugal : Lisboa, Porto

To See :

  • Galicia , Cantabrian Coast , Basque region , Southern Mediterranean coast , The Way of Santiago , Route of Castles , Route of Paradores
  • Balears & Canairies Islands
  • Marbella was easily to reach by bus from Ronda.
  • “El Chorro” and the “camino del rey”, between the railway-line Malaga-Bobadilla
  • Canfranc in the Aragon pyenees
  • The railway line from Zaragossa up to the Pyrenees is spectacular.
  • Cute monasteries: Montserrat
  • Désert des Bardeñas Reales
  • canonying dans la SIERRA DE GUARRA
  • ampuria brava
  • Student-packed Salamanca is a crazed, international game of “find-your-fling,” and Lagos
  • Tossa de Mar “Blue Paradise.” San Sebastián's calm, voluptuous Playa de la Concha , Santander , Galicia , Costa Blanca , Pt: Algarv , In Morocco Essaouira.
  • Parks etc Outdoors
  • Iberia, Andorra, Parque Nacional de Ordesa , Parc Nacional d'Agüestortes, Picos de Europa , Northern Portugal's , Parque Natural de Montesinho , Sierra de Guadarrama, , Andalucía's Parque Nacional Coto de Doñana , Las Alpujarras, , Sierra Nevada

Avoid :

  • BENIDORM
  • Costa del Sol , Nerja+

Festivals : http://Festivales.com. Only in spanish. Listed by categories.

  • Carnaval in Cádiz
  • 'Las Fallas', Valencia, March
  • 'Semana Santa', Seville, Easter
  • 'Semana Santa', Granada, Easter
  • 'Holy Week in Valladolid', Easter
  • 'Abril Faire' / “Feria de Abril”, Seville, April
  • 'San Fermin' / “San Fermines” - Running of The Bulls, Pamplona, July
  • 'Feast Day of St James', Santiago De Compostela / http://www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~25731.jml
  • 'La Tomatina' - Tomato Fight=== at Bunyol in Valencia Province, last Wednesday in August / http://www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~13473.jml===
  • 'Fiesta of La Mercè', Barcelona, September

travellers :

Misc;

  • Phone :

http://www.agence.francetelecom.com/vf/accueil/aide/carteft/index.php#E Espagne (Telefonica) 900 99 00 33 / Espagne (UNI2) (2) 900 90 24 42 / Baléares, Canaries et Espagne continentale : Si vous n'arrivez pas à obtenir le service France Direct sur certains types de cabines téléphoniques, appuyez sur la touche ” MF ” (avant de composer le numéro d'accès au service) ou sur la touche L (avant de composer le numéro de votre correspondant). L'accès au service peut être bloqué sur des publiphones installés dans des bars ou des cafés.

ACCOMODATION / SPAIN

Camping :

Youth Hostel = “La Red de albergues juveniles” : (US$12-18) / http://www.reaj.com/index_en.html / http://www.iyhf.org/ / http://www.eufed.org/

Hotel and hostal singles in Spain cost US$20-30 per night, doubles US$35-40.

Les moins chers sont les fondas (avec restaurant). Puis viennent les | de huéspedes, les hospedajes, les pensiones. Également bon marché, les hostales et les residencias.

SPAIN / TRANSPORT

  • FGC (Catalonian Government Railways - Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya)
  • FGV (Valencian Government Railways - Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana)
  • FS (S�ller Railway - Ferrocarril de S�ller)
  • SFM (Majorcan Railway Services - Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca)

If you hold a rail pass such as Eurail or InterRail you will have to pay a €9.50 supplement if you want to travel on tourist class on the AVE (Hi Speed) and Talgo 200 trains (Madrid-Huelva & Madrid-Cádiz)

http://www.bugeurope.com/transport/railes.html

http://www.eurodomino.it/eng/prices.php

263 EUR / 8 days

http://www.interrailnet.com

299 EUR / 16 day

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1740593375/themaninseats-21

Spanish 'Trenhotels': The Spanish railways run special 'hotel trains' on important national and international routes including Paris to Madrid, Paris to Barcelona, Madrid to Lisbon, Madrid to Barcelona, Barcelona to Milan, Barcelona to Switzerland, and Barcelona to Seville & Malaga.

http://forums.lonelyplanet.fr/messagepost.cfm?postaction=reply&catid=18&threadid=12752&messid=63931&STARTPAGE=1&parentid=0&from=1

http://www.letsgo.com/SPAM/01-Essentials-334

Guide : http://www.steane.com/egtre/es_info.htm

Busses :

Sea:

Going between the mainland and the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, or Morocco…

North West

Camping :

  • monte igeldo a la sortie de san sebastian (donostia)
  • zarautz (20km West St sebastian)
  • lekeito (to see ondarroe)
  • sopelana
  • bilbao
  • Santander cabo mayor
  • san vicente de la barquera camping el rosal
  • picos de europa

To See :

  • aiorak%yahoo.es: ok, in galicia santiago is nice but also all the coast
  • Santander (Cantabrie) qui est une station balnéaire sympa.
  • tu peux ensuite aller visiter les grottes d'Altamira..
  • prendre un bus pour Fuentarrabia, très belle petite ville
  • ou aller au sanctuaire de Loyol
  • ribadao , vigo , la coruña

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