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      CommentAuthormoviescore
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    Anthony wrote
    I forgot, Mikael too!


    And thanks for this brilliantly orange instrument! When I came home I gave it to my three year old son, Elmer, who hasn't been doing anything else except going around playing and laughing with it ever since. So he says thank you and I say... what did I think of? wink

    mc
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    biggrin

    You won't have peace and quiet for a while now. wink
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    Anthony wrote
    The plane was meant to take off at 5.25pmyesterday but in the end we didn't leave until 4.45am. The service was disgusting, I'm never flying with EasyJet again.


    Incidentally, you realize you can file for monetary compensation with delays like that, don't you?
    It's actually European law.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    Martijn wrote
    Anthony wrote
    The plane was meant to take off at 5.25pmyesterday but in the end we didn't leave until 4.45am. The service was disgusting, I'm never flying with EasyJet again.


    Incidentally, you realize you can file for monetary compensation with delays like that, don't you?
    It's actually European law.


    I don't know about EasyJet, but Ryan Air always tries to circumvent those rules.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    So does EasyJet.
    Doesn't make them right though (and there are specialised claim companies for things like that: they'll want a percentage of your claim, but they're very good and very tenacious).
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010 edited
    Ouch, I just found out Bregt's flight is canceled (from this morning) until Friday! shocked

    This seems like it's been a great festival for everyone apart from the trip back home.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    Cancelled? Why?
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    Strikes apparantly
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    He's flying from France?
    Or Greece?

    (National stereotyping? Moi? wink )
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    biggrin
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    I assume he's flying to France.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    Must be a stinky plane then.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    No. Mario and I were supposed to fly to Brussels. Cancelled due to the strike in France they couldnt land in Brussels. 50% of the flights are cancelled for some reason.

    Back in our hotel from last week. Any tips on what to do? We visited most tourist attractions. Perhaps an afternoon the Triana Quarter.
    Kazoo
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    How much cash you got? Go to Gibralter, get the boat to Morocco, go south to the Sahara....keep going wink
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    BobdH wrote
    So, this is it. My vacation ends here. Just packed my bags for the last time. Tomorrow early in the morning I will leave for Seville, and then get on the plane to Amsterdam. Hopefully all goes well this time. Loved my visit to Spain, thanks to all who visited as well for the great company (especially Marcel, who I felt was something of our host and helped us out on several occasions), it was an awesome experience with many highlights.

    beer

    Hope it's not the last time you come to the festival!
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    Anthony wrote
    Ouch, I just found out Bregt's flight is canceled (from this morning) until Friday! shocked

    This seems like it's been a great festival for everyone apart from the trip back home.


    Weird. And there's not even a volcano to make things difficult for you.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    Well, i was sure it was either a French or a Greek problem in there.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
    At Madrid airport right now. After a 4,5+ hour wait already, the plane is starting to get delays...
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010 edited
    After several delays, I'm home! Now I'm going through all my pictures. Put several from Úbeda online at Facebook. Not too many from the concerts, since I made them with my phone, which isn't night- or distance-friendly:

    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4 … a56b5c18fb
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010
    Great pics Bob and oh so familiar, even though I've not been to Ubeda, it's just so provincially Spanish. cool
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010
    Anthony wrote
    MP3's!

    Conan

    Final Conflict

    (they're uploading so wait five minutes)

    Videos tomorrow!


    Nothing happens? confused cry
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010
    The quality they've come out at is really shitty so I'm going to do some better ones:

    Conan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGmi6qXX3o

    Conflict: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgY5nzC4RQ
  23. Timmer wrote
    Nothing happens? confused cry

    I managed to listen to them okay.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010
    He meant the videos. smile
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      CommentAuthorFalkirkBairn
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010 edited
    Anthony wrote
    The quality they've come out at is really shitty so I'm going to do some better ones:

    Conan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGmi6qXX3o

    Conflict: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgY5nzC4RQ

    The Final Conflict still gave me goosebumps! Cheers Anthony. punk

    Was the musician playing the tubular bells right behind you? wink
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010
    No they were actually on the far side of the stage. The guy on the timpani was going nuts. biggrin
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010 edited
    Anthony wrote
    The quality they've come out at is really shitty so I'm going to do some better ones:

    Conan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGmi6qXX3o

    Conflict: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgY5nzC4RQ


    To be honest, the sound quality of the mp3's I thought was a lot better than I expected it to be smile
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010 edited
    Just arrived in Brussels.

    Fantastic trip with many highlights. Obviously the Úbeda part was one of them and certainly worth the hassle (which wasn't that bad, perhaps due to being part of a whole trip). Sevilla and Córdoba are both very interesting and offer enough variety. I've had it with churches now though.

    The Mezquita (mosque with later built-in cathedral in Córdoba) was awesome. What an unbelievable combination of architecture, religion and cultures. We also attended an Arabic guitar concert (Trio Joubran, from Palestine) as part of the 30th edition of the Córdoba international guitar festival. Really quite good but the melodies were subtle and hidden in their music and percussion.

    The gardens of the Réal Alcazar, the evening of the World Cup win, the Naboo palace (plaza de España) and a festivity in the Triana district Wednesday evening and a Flamenco evening in Seville have made that city very worthwile.

    As for Úbeda: wow! Three excellent concerts (I actually also really liked True Blood and its bloody fine location), some interesting sessions with the composers (pity we missed Zacarias M de la Riva one), good lunches, cosy evenings and crazy nights with kazoos and Munich chanting in the streets of Úbeda. The organisation was a bit lazy though (some sessions and the guide book were not translated, the signing session was horrible) but that's probably something Spanish, so no real complaints. The English: they really have to do something about that, a lot goes lost (kudos to the excellent translators though!) but that's perhaps a national problem.

    Hotpants, free tapas with beer in úbeda, flamenquín and Tinto de Verano ftw! Andalucia is awesome, except for its hell-like +40 degree temperatures.

    Great to meet Mario, Bob, Marcel, Ant, Jordi, Alex, Mikael, Dan and some of the composers! Greetings to Ant's parents as well. Thanks!

    Pictures later!
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010 edited
    Bregt wrote
    crazy nights with kazoos and Munich chanting in the streets of Úbeda

    biggrin

    Too bad there are no recordings of that. Some of the Munich chantings (with the kazoss in the background) were pretty good.

    Glad most of the foreign visitors had a good time and enjoyed the experience. Now you already know what all the spirit of Úbeda stuff is about.
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010 edited
    Marselus wrote
    Too bad there are no recordings of that. Some of the Munich chantings (with the kazoss in the background) were pretty good.


    Well, there are recordings of some lady attempting it.
    Although she isn't coming anywhere near the kazoo versions, of course.

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