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A look at some of the headlines around Spain and I’ll answer comments from recent videos.

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  1. Thank goodness for these rules on keeping swimming kit on/clothes on especially when walking around residential zones! It's good to count your blessings but come on, it's not OK to shop inside the local Express shops topless or just wearing your bikini. Ugh. I mean you wouldn't do that in your own town, would you? 😅🤣

  2. Stu, put granulated sugar in a food processor and grind till fine, caster size particles, not icing sugar powder 😉 😉 (unless you use a import market, caster sugar is really hard to find) Jo from sunny Arbroath in Scotland X

  3. Hi Stuart. Love your videos. I notice you pronounce consumers as con-SHUE-mers whereas I think most native English speakers pronounce it as con-SUE-mers (as in the name Sue). Is this because that is the way a Spanish speaker would pronounce that word?

  4. Strewth …stone the crows ….you do not like flan!
    Some of us miss a flan, roscon de pascuas, pudin de pan etc. Agree that Torta de Santiago is generally a go to option. But there area whole range of various cakes/desserts that are very regional or localized. In Aragon for example – Trenza de Almudevar or Refollao de Ayerbe.
    My 'trouble and strife' makes a pasta flora or more correctly called pastafrola, made from in- season home grown plums which is die for and always popular with friends. And perhaps that is the key – fresh home grown produce and home baked cakes which are adjusted for one's own taste/preferences etc.

  5. Hi Stu, excellent video once again. Can you or one of your contacts do a video about the opening of a Spanish bank account for non residents? Which are the best current accounts? Can we open an account if we do not have a residential address in Spain? Thank you for your videos.

  6. cuanta cuesta un vaso de vino (standard) ahora con inflation? I bought a bottle of olive oil here in Australia the other day (Spanish of course) at Aldi and I'm pretty sure it cost more than my total weekly food shop when I lived in Spain

  7. I have been, and am critical of Spain recently, but, I am all for these recent rules of smoking and dumping cigarette ends, topless people, the worst been stting down at cafes complete with beer bellies and tattoed freaks.

  8. I moved to the UK 32 years ago from Norway. My English was fluent & i had lived in the US for a year. I worked with an older man from Yorkshire & struggled to understand him, especially Yorkshire slang. Also struggled with Scottish, especially Glasgow area, New Castle are, some Irish accents, strong West Country accents which was a problem as I lived in Cornwall. More difficult to understand accents on the phone.

  9. A video about trying Spanish boozes would be funny. First a glass of sangría, then a clara in porrón, verdejo in wineskin, kalimotxo, pacharán, rebujito, sol y sombra, carajillo and to finely crap the video up a shot of something like whiskey called Dyc

  10. Re Spanish desserts, I agree that cakes there aren't the best, not as much height or fluffiness as in the US. Maybe it's the altitude in most of Spain, as mentioned by someone else. However, I find the individual pastries very good: cream puffs, eclairs, millefeuille (mil hojas), Napoleons.
    In the pudding-type desserts, cream Catalana and leche frita are also wonderful and popular.

  11. Spanish pastries, cakes and desserts are considered to be among the best in the world. It is rare to find someone who does not like the Spanish desserts shown in the video (and many others). Perhaps they have only tried the industrial, store-bought desserts. I recommend trying homemade desserts or those made in a good bakery. Desserts such as flan, torrijas, natillas, arroz con leche, leche frita, ensaimada de cabello de angel, turrones, yemas de santa Teresa, pestiños, tocino de cielo, crema catalana, sobaos, tortas de aceite, churros, alfanjores, and many others are delicious although as we say in Spanish "para gustos los colores". I don't know what the equivalent expression is in English, but more or less it is "There are as many tastes (points of views) as there are colours". Anyway, I am sure that Australian desserts are not bad either.

  12. Stu, Granulated Sugar is a good substitute for Caster Sugar. Caster is just a little finer. You can take Granulated sugar toss it into the blender or food processor and give it a quick spin if you need need it to be finer sugar. I find no difference in taste or in my baking. I make all my own cakes or sweetened breads as I find Spanish dessert too sweet also, but I love the yogurt pie/cakes in the bakeries.

  13. Not very excited about Spanish deserts/cakes. Surprises me as the Moores were here for so long plus just travel along coast to France, Greece, fantastic varieties.

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