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    Barcelona

    in General Chat

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    servicaixa.com for Spanish football tickets, can just pick them up at the stadium with your bank card like you do with train tickets. I did it for when I went to Atletico Madrid in April.

     

    Couldn't recommend http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-..._Catalonia.html high enough if you're going with your missus. Lovely hotel in the Eixample area and right on the metro. I'd just hostel it if you're going with the lads there are plenty of decent ones.

     

    Go to Cervercia Catalana on Mallorca for fancy tapas and beer, go to La Rueda (Uruguayan steakhouse) or Restaurante Parrilla Alfonsina (Argentinian steakhouse) for beef.

     

    Gan to the beach and deeks the tits too, always plenty out if its sunny.

    Australia

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    So the basic set up of the holiday is as follows:

     

    Fly into Sydney, stay 6 nights (is that too long? We'd get out of the city to do vineyards, Blue Mountains etc., but does that still leave us too much time there? Or too little?)

     

    Fly from Sydney to Adelaide, stay 1 night. The Adelaide thing is solely to drive from there to Melbourne, cos the wifey tells us it's an amazing drive, breathtaking scenery blah blah. (Is this true? Is it worth doing? Is there owt to see in/around Adelaide, or is one night enough?)

     

    Stop one night on the drive to Melbourne, not sure where yet. Recommendations?

     

    Get to Melbourne, stay there three nights (too long? too short? Owt to do while we're there?)

     

    Fly to Brisbane. This bit is kind of just to get us on the next leg which is the Whitsundays, but we're planning on two nights in Brisbane (too long? too short? Owt to do, etc?)

     

    Fly to Hamilton Island, stay there 5 nights. Has anyone been here? In Trailfinders it seemed like a toss-up between this place and Port Douglas (anyone been? Is Port Douglas better?) Can you get to the Great Barrier Reef from Hamilton Island or are we too far away?

     

    Fly to Sydney, stay 1 night. This is basically just to get us back into Sydney so we can fly home.

     

    Brisbane was shit I thought, just an identikit city plus most of it will be underwater now. If you like beaches and loud tacky shit go to Surfer's Paradise, its a more upmarket/better version of Whitley Bay. Byron Bay is nice n all if you can fit that in somehow.

     

    Do a wine tour from Adelaide not Sydney. Barossa Valley & McLaren Vale are more or less on the doorstep. Loads of different tours to go on. Not much going on in Adelaide but seemed a nice enough place to spend a night or two. Have yourself some Coopers.

     

    Blue mountains are worth a day or two. Its about 2hrs on the train from Sydney to the town where they are.

     

    Sydney is a nice place, Kings X is where the decent nightlife is (Soho style) and obviously Bondi and Manley are the best beaches. Aquarium is pretty good too.

     

    Melbourne is more relaxed than Sydney but there isn't loads of traditional tourist stuff to do but its a nice city. Brunswick St, Fitzroy is the best place for drink/food I thought. Try and get to the MCG for an AFL game.

     

    We stopped in Mt. Gambier and Port Campbell (if you stop here go to the pizza place - absolutely lush) en route from Adelaide to Melbourne. Just outside Adelaide is a town called Hahndorf, nice little German-esque town - decent bait and beer available. The bit before the Great Ocean Road is nothing to write home about but the road itself and the scenery off it are worth it.

     

    Didn't go to your other places so can't help there.

    The shuffle your ipod thread

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    Maximo Park - Tanned

    Less Than Jake - Motown Never Sounded So Good

    Rise Against - The Approaching Curve

    Zebrahead - The Juggernaughts

    Farewell - Drop Dead

    Amadou et Miriam - Fast Food Dakar

    Eels - Souljacker Pt. 1

    Valencia - Holiday

    Cancer Bats - French Immersion

    Foo Fighters - DOA

    Futureheads - Sale of the Century

    Buena Vista Social Club - Almendra

    Dr Dre - Fuck You

    AFI - I am Trying Very Hard to be Here

    New Found Glory - The Story So Far

    The Sounds - 24 Hours

    A Wilhelm Scream - I Wipe My Ass with Showbiz

    Manu Chao - Rumba de Barcelona

    Set Your Goals - Echoes

    Hot Chip - At The Pictures

    Football stadiums

    in Newcastle Forum

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    It's actually an racial slur toward Boca fans by calling it the chocolate box.

     

    I'd imagine you can rock up and buy tickets from touts outside the stadium for the game v River although they'll be a lot more than face value (obviously) aside from that the Tangol agency will offer tickets for a massively overexpensive rate for the games.

     

    Only seats are on the side. When I went last year I was stood in the middle tier behind the goal (£5) at the far end of the picture above. All sorts of stuff being thrown lobbed from above away fans.

     

    The stand with its back to the camera is where the hardcore (La 12) go.

     

    Class ground atmosphere though. Went to watch River n all which was also brilliant.

     

    If you do go and you were lucky with the fixture list you'd probably be able to take in 3 or 4 games with the staggered kick off times of the Argentine League (all games are on TV) and that loads of clubs are within a short taxi ride away from each other in BsAs.

    Brussels - Any recommendations?

    in General Chat

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    I stopped around Louise metro stop last May and it seemed canny enough round there from what i can remember.

     

    Brussels itself came across as a bit of a souless place tbh, much preferred Bruges and Antwerp in Belgium.

     

    All round the Gare du Midi is where the Arabic folk knock about - loads of coffee bars round there.

     

    Theres a bar (i forget its name) that serves 500+ beers, it'll be on tripadvisor or something as its quite well known. We couldn't find it like and most bars have a fair menu of beers to plunder through.

     

    Flemish Belgians are canny enough, French Belgians not so much.

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