In today's video, we're going to talk about 10 things you should never do in Spain.
What is going on YouTube? Greetings from Valencia Spain. I've got about 10 more
days left here and I've had a great time Spain is an awesome country but like
every other country there's a few things that you don't want to do when you're in
that country and that's what today's video is gonna be about so let's jump
right into this number one never eat paia for dinner like I mentioned I'm in
Valencia Spain and if you didn't know this Valencia is the birthplace of Paia
there are a bunch of different rules when it comes to eating paella but the
most important rule is you do not eat paella for dinner
the Spanish eat dinner pretty late usually after 8:30 p.m. and paya is
considered too heavy to eat that late evening if you find a place that serves
paya for dinner it's probably geared towards tourists and a Spain it'll tell
you it's not gonna be good pyar so find your paella at lunchtime and skip the
dinner paya ok another food-related item never try to go to lunch before 1 p.m.
or dinner before 8 p.m. like I mentioned before the Spanish eat
late lunch starts around 1 p.m. and goes to about 4 p.m. and you will never find
a dinner place open before a p.m. and even at that time it's gonna be
completely empty so just be aware of that when you're planning your meals in
Spain ok along those same lines number 3 never eat a light lunch like I've
mentioned before the Spanish eat late they don't want to go to bed with a full
stomach so for dinner they usually have lighter tapas and solids so consequently
lunch is going to be the heaviest meal of the day in Spain and that's where
you're gonna find things like Paia pasta and other heavier foods that as
Americans we normally associate with dinner so when you go to lunch in Spain
eat them alright another food item if you haven't noticed a lot of life in
Spain revolves around food number four never expect an
american-style breakfast in Spain Spaniards don't really eat what we would
consider breakfast food if they have anything in the morning it's gonna be
toast with some olive oil on it and maybe some Spanish ham but you're never
gonna be able to find like bacon and eggs biscuits and gravy
pancakes things like that so just make sure you're prepared for that and save
room in your belly for the big heavy meal you're gonna have at lunch all
right another food item never expect fast service in Spain or a meal under
two hours eating in Spain is an event first you have a drink and you check
then you have some bread and huh Mon the Spanish ham and you check then you get
your main course and you check after the main course you drink some coffee a beer
or an after meal wine and you continue to chat nobody's gonna bring you the
check at a Spanish restaurant unless you ask for it you could sit around for 10
hours and you're still not gonna get that check we may think of it as kind of
a slower way of life but it's really embracing the moment so don't fight it
embrace it okay our first non-food related thing to never do in Spain never
forget to watch where you step the Spanish love their pets they love their
dogs but often times they forget to clean up after them when they take them
for a walk so please please please make sure you watch where you step when
you're walking down a sidewalk or in a park all right another food-related item
never think you have to tip in Spain this one is usually pretty hard for
someone from the US because we're so used to tipping between 15 and 25
percent in Spain that's not really expected of course it's appreciated but
the percentages are much lower if you get really great service here in Spain
five to ten percent is perfectly fine but tipping just isn't a real common
thing here in Spain all right this next tip I always have to learn the hard way
never try to buy anything on Sunday you won't be able to do it everything is
closed nothing is ever open maybe a couple
restaurants are open for a short period of time and
the day and then of course dinner restaurants will be open but anything
else nothing's gonna be open another little side note related to that even
when something says it's open like on Google Maps that doesn't mean it's
necessarily gonna be open about 50% of the time I go to a place that Google
Maps says is open it's not open even when it's the customary times for things
to be open in Spain people just open and close their businesses whenever they
want that's just the culture here you can try to fight it but it's better just
to embrace it and I usually just have a back-up plan ready rule number nine
never jump on a bus here in Spain and try to pay for anything over a ten year
old note if you try to pay with a twenty euro note or above you're gonna get
thrown off the bus so go get some smaller bills and coins this applies to
a lot of different places here in Spain Spain is pretty wired when it comes to
credit card you can do tap almost anywhere and so cash doesn't use that
often vendors don't really like to receive those 50 euro notes so that's
just something to be aware of okay next up never eat the oranges on the trees in
Spain when you walk around towns and cities in Spain you're gonna see these
orange trees that have all these beautiful little oranges on them and
you're gonna think to yourself why are there so many oranges around I'm just
gonna pick one of these and take them home with me nobody's gonna care when
you do it because no one in Spain would ever eat those oranges those oranges
were brought to Europe by the Moors and they were basically used to mask the
smell of sewage before we had underground sewage while these oranges
are very fragrant and they're actually used to make like cleaning supplies they
don't taste very good they're very very sour and bitter and
you definitely don't want to eat them okay so here's a little bonus item
that's specific to Valencia never eat paella with a fork Valencia invented
Paia so they get to make the rules and rule number one is never eat paella with
a fork you always eat paya with a spoon okay so those are the things that you
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