you should not ever never it's almost
insulting and they'll laugh at you
secretly we all travel so we can
experience different cultures
different places it is very important to
know what you cannot do in spain
i've lived in spain two and a half years
the absolute daunts in spain i'm in
valencia as you know i live here and
i've spent most of my time in this city
don't order coffee like an american or
anybody that is used to like a fancy
order of coffee scratch my order but i
would actually love godiva chocolate
like drizzle on top and pretty floral
designs forget about that things are
simple in spain you order coffee like a
spaniard if you want to blend in after
all you're here to get a little bit of
the culture
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hola oh i'm going to try that the
alcatropha
mushrooms
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eggs
they have mini bocadillos look
buenos
just experience it a little more like a
spaniard so order in cafe solo un cafe
cortado un cafe con leche don't be crazy
with your order and this is how you
order coffee in spain un cafe largo
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it looks like a short coffee like a
single espresso but it's not actually
it's not and speaking of traditions you
should know that in spain lunchtime and
dinner time are at very specific hours
usually lunch
at one o'clock 1 30 or 2 o'clock not
earlier than that and dinner dinner in
spain it's usually very late
if you expect to have dinner at six
o'clock
forget about it
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usually most places they only serve
drinks or like a little tapa
or
you know some olives
but not dinner not at six o'clock
nothing earlier than 8 00 pm 8 30 9
o'clock even better
so dinner starts at nine these are very
specific hours still everywhere here
everywhere in spain with the exception
of maybe barcelona and madrid just
assume that these are the hours it's
better to know that than expect that you
can have lunch or dinner at just any
time such thing as
brunch all day or breakfast all day or
lunch all day it doesn't exist here they
have very strict
very traditional way of thinking because
lunch takes quite some time people enjoy
it they don't rush through it it just
doesn't happen earlier than 2 p.m i like
walking in the middle of the street
breaking some rules speaking of rules
one interesting thing i learned here in
spain usually when you're invited to
someone's house do not arrive on time if
they asked you invited you to come at
eight o'clock just be half an hour late
it is totally common they'll probably be
surprised if you arrive on time at
exactly eight o'clock don't arrive early
don't arrive super late but fashionably
late like a half an hour late it's
actually within the norms so it's a big
don't don't arrive exactly at the time
you have been invited to they're late
many times for many things and it's
totally normal and i know some people
will disagree with me and that's totally
fine i would love to hear you in the
comments i would love to read your
thoughts it's okay i'm just speaking
from my personal experience i have seen
some things i've heard some things i
really experienced some things here so i
want to share them with you so don't be
surprised
when you arrive to spain you'll see in a
lot of places they serve beer and wine
in the morning especially in the more
residential areas where you have
traditional
cafes traditional bars but they're kind
of like a breakfast bar they serve
bocadillo so they serve tostada they
give you their little peanut bowl and
and they serve you beer and wine and
it's totally acceptable they're not
alcoholics it's just normal they drink
their beer they drink their wine and
then they have coffee
so spain
has
280 000 bars throughout all spain
which is 161
per 165th person
the highest in the european union
believe it or not it's not czech it's
not polish it's not
it is pain
but i think people here are very
balanced about their drinking i've never
really seen like anything crazy
excessive with the drinking
even though they start in the morning
with breaks and
it's very it's always very reasonable
don't
generalize about spain spain is a very
big country
and it's a country of regions there are
17 regions in spain
and each one of them is very different
there are five official languages here
in spain spanish which is castellano
catalan
basque galician and aranes the languages
are different the regions are different
the culture is different the cuisine is
different there's so many nuances about
this country that when you speak to a
spaniard depending in which region
you're located and what conversation
you're having you can sound a little
ignorant like if you're up north and you
say
flamenco is this and this and it's
associated with spain
yes but flamenco is very typical for
andalucia it's not typical for northern
spain yes we associate different things
with spain but that's just because they
got very famous
it is
not acceptable to talk to a catalan
person
about
about the language and call catalana
dialect or say
or just add some things that you
associate
with spain because the region is very
different and especially with their
independence movement things are quite
touchy so just make sure that you when
you're referring to languages and
regions you know where you're at because
it's very nuanced at first i thought
that different
different languages are very close and
they're probably like dialects because
different countries they just have
some differences in pronunciation maybe
slight differences in writing
no
in spain these languages
and some of them are completely
completely different from one another
basque language for example they can't
even find the roots they don't even know
where it comes from it is very
mysterious it is completely completely
different
don't assume
that even well-known
english words are spoken and pronounced
the same way here in spain
so i can get used to the spelling the
pronunciation the spaniardizing
every word every name of a celebrity of
even things that are very common
words
like wi-fi
or an application an app in spain it's
not that it's wiffy it's a pepe even
celebrity names
elon musk it's not elon musk it's elon
musk even michael jackson
it's not michael jackson it's miguel
jackson
i don't know it's crazy
and don't ever say
hola amigos
it's not acceptable here they'll laugh
at you and i know it kind of sounds
friendly but don't say it in spain they
don't they don't they don't do that just
hola que tal
forget about all amigos nobody's your
amigo not yet same in english you're not
gonna say hello friends
right you don't say that so same same in
spanish it's not good there is one thing
that it's more typical for valencia than
for any other
region in spain
yes it is related to paella this is the
very typical dish of valencia this is
the place where they prepare paella the
best way because there is a special rice
that grows here they use special spices
saffron it's one of them they cook it in
a special way they don't they don't
steer it
it's cooked over fire
you should not
ever
order paella for dinner never especially
in valencia it's almost insulting for
valencians and they'll laugh at you
secretly paella is eaten only for lunch
it is quite a heavy dish spanish believe
that this is something that you know you
need to digest
it has
rice that's been cooked in
in
sauce it has meat in it and it takes
time to digest so it's not something
that you
eat for dinner only tourists order
paella for dinner only tourists and if
you see it served at other restaurants
you know that these are only tourists
that order paella it's very traditional
it is very important to know when to eat
your paella and of course there are some
great restaurants in valencia that offer
paella that's their specialty so make
sure
you go in advance to reserve your table
because paella takes minimum two hours
to prepare so they have to know you're
coming it is really a traditional dish
so give it the time to be prepared
perfectly
and so you can enjoy it at lunch yes we
can just agree with everything accept
all customs and just be completely open
to the world or to the country we live
in there's some things i hate about
spain and i'm still not able to get used
to them
watch my video here
to see
and hear the things that i still cannot
accept about spain
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