101 things You Need to Know About Spain
1. Eat first, then ask what it is.
2. If you can't dance, you can't live here. 3. Take any type of soda, mix it with a similar colored wine and give it a cool name. Then you have a popular Spanish drink. 5. Carry a pocket dictionary and a map with you wherever you go. You will get lost in translation. And lost, literally.
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4. No handshakes allowed. Kisses only. Two of them.
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6. Verbs need to be conjugated before you speak. 7. Spanish grandpas and grandmas = old couple love. Holding hands on every street corner. 8. After about 5 car rides here, you will dream in the jingle of Cuarenta Principales. 9. Musto isn't just for kids, don't listen to them. |
11. Soda tastes different here, and comes in glass bottles.
12. There are no dryers in Spain. Complain the first time you do laundry and then get over it. 13. Madrid or Barcelona? Not cities, but teams. 14. It's not soccer, it's fútbol. 15. Puentes and vacaciones are common and they are wonderful. Does anyone work in this country? |
10. Taking 'jumping photos' labels you as a foreigner loudly and clearly.
21. Calimocho is coke and red wine...sounds terrible, tastes great.
22. Don't buy produce at Carrefour.
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16. Nutella = peanut butter of Spain.
17. No outfit is complete without a pair of Ray Bans.
18. On a Ryanair flight, don't go over the baggage restrictions. Don't even chance it. 19. Rafa is a name. And some boys are named Maria. 20. Jesus and Mary statues hangout in public school classrooms. |