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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Varche on 13 July 2013, 22:26:24
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Don't want a debate on whether the programme is any good. We have done that to death.
Sundays's is from Spain. Helping out our economy ;D
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Ascari resort?
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Top Gear is like the Curates Egg......good in parts! :-X
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Ascari resort?
Maybe but they talk of a pop up street circuit in Madrid. Ascari isn't too far away from me near Ronda
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First episode for a couple of years which had me genuinely laughing out loud.
Proper school-boy humour.... right up my street! :y
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Enjoyed that :y :y
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Childish, self-indulgent shite. :)
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Childish, self-indulgent shite. :)
And your point is...... ::) ;D
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Hmmm, miles of empty motorway, free accommodation and an unused runway.
Hmmm. :)
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Don't want a debate on whether the programme is any good. We have done that to death.
Sundays's is from Spain. Helping out our economy ;D
Some people can't read, Varche. ::) ::) ::) ::)
Thoroughly enjoyed the Spanish edition, especially that great road to nowhere! :y :y :y
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Hmmm, miles of empty motorway, free accommodation and an unused runway.
Hmmm. :)
I'm going in September. Straight after Newent.
In the MX5, though. ::)
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I have driven up to the "Great Road to nowhere" quite a few times. Popular with our visitors. The roads are great drivers roads. That road used to be open BUT idiots went up without proper gear(car and clothes) and had to be rescued. You can still walk over the top but it is a full day.
Spain is full of those empty developments.
I might have to organise an OOF abroad event!!
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Lovin that supercharged jag soft top :o sooner have that than any of the others ..
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Looked like they enjoyed making that almost as much as we enjoyed watching it ;D
I just can't believe that those buildings are left unlocked though :-\ surely the pikeys would have long had all the copper stripped if they were...
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Looked like they enjoyed making that almost as much as we enjoyed watching it ;D
I just can't believe that those buildings are left unlocked though :-\ surely the pikeys would have long had all the copper stripped if they were...
I'm quite sure they are all locked ;D
Judging by the well tended garden, that house was probably 'for-sale' and the vendor allowed them to use it. What a selling point! "JC cooked a really bad Paella here" ;D ;D
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I bet the right-move Spain web site is busier after that. :(
I really fancy a Spanish road trip now. :)
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Being as I'm blocked from getting any good stuff out here, anyone care to tell me where this was exactly please?
Jon
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yes they really did have as fun time - although contrived to look as though not pre-arranged
Could not believe there are so many deserted area's - an airport - wow
Varche / Bootie, Is it really like that at the moment
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I was only saying this a.m. to Mrs V, what a superb job the researchers have for Top Gear.
The road to nowhere is from the ski station Type in something like Ski Sol y nieve Sierra Nevadas Spain ii nto Google Earth. It used to go over the top to the Alpujarras. A lot of car companies and folk with powerful cars use the road to "test". You only need a car posted at the bottom and you can be fairly sure of empty road.. Plenty more great roads like that for anyone interested. For example Suspiro del Moro (outside Granada on the way to Motril) to Almunecar.
A lot of Spains prosperity was fuelled by an unprecedented building boom with cheap money. Every local council had great plans. Two of ours nearby had plans for airports even though at that time both Malaga and Granada had airports. Some councils executed their plans. The councillors knew(or were the bankers) and the builders were family. I think the airport is Castellon airport. I believe it has never had a passenger plane. But it could quite easily be one of a handful of similar others.
I read somewhere that Spain has more empty new properties than the rest of Europe put together. I somehow doubt that but there are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions empty. Every town has empty blocks of flats. On the holiday Costas there are hundreds of huge developments that just stopped at whatever point they were at. Some people buying off plan have been forced by the courts to pay for something that will never be built or completed in their lifetime. It is a real mess and is why I say it will take ten years or more to get Spain back on its feet. Ten years ago the Spanish government said there was work for anyone who could speak Spanish. A million folk took up the offer which came with a grant of 1000 euros to get them here. Most came from South America. They worked in Agriculture or in construction. Some brought their families over and bought a flat. When the collapse came most left and because of negative equity just handed the keys back to the bank. The government gave a grant of I think, 400 euros to clear off. Very little in the way of social security or benefits here though the church does a lot to help with food banks.
Still a nice country. The climate and the scenery and history haven't changed. 8)
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thanks for that Brian.
We haven't been that 'side' of the Sierras yet, but have been up to Puerta de la Ragua (on the Motril side) nice roads there as well.
Will have to start making more of these roads (after the hot days have gone!) in the camper and the Carlton (which is nearly finished).