Barcelona Tourist Trap Tips by Peret

Well, you want to see a bullfigth in Barcelona? Then, you are doing a thing that the most of barcelonians never do.
An exemple, that can to be a barcelonian standard. I remember when i was child, I saw in TV some bullfigths. It was the time when only was one channel. I never spoke with family or friends about bullfigts, simply was a thig that i knew existed, but i never knew how worked it.
One time, a friend of my who worked as journalist, invited me to a bullfight, cause he had to make a travelogue. I was curiosed and I went. What I saw? First, the Plaza in 2/3 empty. The part that was occuped, in a part was with nostalgics of the Franco's gouvernement (You can recognize them for their old-fashioned glasses, moustaches, and clothes), and another with tourists.
In the arena, I remember the blood, and my sadness for the toro.
Some years laters, a french ask to me, when started the toro's season. I seid him that i never thought that was a season for the toros. He looked me if I was liyng, or i don't know what.
If you go to a bullfight in Barcelona, you lose the ambience, the thing that maybe is worth to live in.
In the photo, the inside of the "Plaza de las Arenas".
Voleu veure una cursa de braus a Barcelona? Bé, però sapigueu que llavors estareu fent una cosa que la majoria de barcelonins no fan mai. Per a que m'entengueu, jo, igual que la majoria de barcelonins, sé el que és una cursa de braus per la televisió. No tinc ni idea què és el que s'ha de fer. Una vegada un francès em va preguntar quan començava la temporada, i quan li vaig dir que no sabia ni que hi hagués una temporada, em va mirar com si no em cregués. Ara, a la monumental, només hi han estrangers, algun aficionat autèntic, i franquistes nostàlgics. En una cursa de braus a Barcelona, us perdeu l'ambient autèntic d'altres llocs.

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What's a guiri? Is a tourist that do several classic behaviors. Scape if you can.
But if you want to become it, is easy. To beging, you must go in the beach and make your skin all the red that you can. Are you red yet? Is the moment to go in a tablao flamenco, and pay a good money for to see four persons dancing flamenco for first time in their life, to get a little bit money this summer. Barcelona is specyally good for this. Inthe flamenco show, clap your hands and sey "ole, ole". Don't you feel ridiculous? Well, you are becoming a guiri, but still you are not. It's indispensable that you go in the Rambles and buy a mexican hat and walk with them. Finally, when you return at home, make a page in VT, and put the tittle: "Ole Barcelona" or "Viva Barcelona".

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