Post #96887 by Trader Woody on Thu, Jun 17, 2004 1:26 PM

Phew, lots of good advice already!

My angle would be that you should arrive in Barcelona, spend at least 2 nights there checking out the best Tiki bars in Spain. If you have more time there, you'd be doing youself a favour as there's so much to see.

Travel by public transport is excellent, and if you have a couple of spare hours, the coach to Benidorm may be preferable to the train. In Benidorm, there are a couple of Tiki Bars, or at least there were 3 years ago. Not the best, but fun visits nontheless.

Then, you have a good few days to head to Madrid or elsewhere in Spain. You can certainly 'do' the Tiki bars there in two weeks, but I'm sure that you'll get so intoxicated by the country that you'll go off on some weird Spanish trip. It's happened to Tiki Chris and I.

Madrid is my favourite Spanish city so far as I love the people there. No, their English isn't as hot as Barcelona, but they are genuinely interested in you and don't try too hard. Over there, you pay for your whole evenings drinks at the end of the night, and we were flabbergasted by the times that the people we met paid for our whole evenings tab after talking to us for just an hour or so. As a result, I prefer the friendly Madrid-ites to the trendier Barcas.

I'll post later about the Wild Weekend - I may well be there myself....

Trader Woody