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Yah That region is expensive 100 euro per day is typical Better to stay in Valencia

Joan Vila , names from the past  Pachi . Pepe   Ronaldo , Juan Carlos Toubes…… any Spanish guys here remember the Spanish America’s cupper keel failure ?  The Spanish navy minesweeper keel  recovery  Is Juan Carlos involved with the new AC in Barcelona ?

Spain , and in particular Mediterranean Spain , has a strong environmental awareness  I notice it right away when moving from a Spanish shipyard into an American one  The  handling of waste is superior in Spain  even the smallest ports are MARPOL compliant 

What is important is a match of champions  Nadal …Djokovic i assume Nadal is competing 

Again  local youth sailors should be added to all teams to avoid staff transport and spread new skills 

Yah  politics gets sucked into everything  On the boat  no politics , no religion  I remrmber one transatlantic , had an obnoxious politicized Australian As crew who just wouldn’t let up  by the half way mark one watch was not talking to the other watch  I remember bad trips for a long time 

How big is an AC team ? total staff 

Yah , that is my understanding  many commenters on this thread don’t realize that Spain , and  Europe are complex societies built up over thousands of years  Spain is complex .  The Basques , Catalans , Galicia , Madrid .. they are all distinct cultures , languages , with strong identities ...

Spain has a world class youth sailing program  It would be good to involve young Spanish sailors in the AC show so that they learn about high end regatta promotion and management 

How does the  Real Federación Española de Vela interact with the America’s cup ?    https://rfev.es

People like you ruin forums  its a shame that moderators don’t eliminate people like you 

This is the internet  don’t respond to bottom feeders  Keep to the the thread topic 

It’s a problem everywhere  Smaller ports are particularly hard hit  Venice , Dubrovnik Ibiza ….    One  hour after the cruise ship herd moves Ashore , 4000  passengers simultaneously use a toilet and  the resulting outbound mass of sewage trying to escape the city causes  the  pipeline...

I can never figure out all the different rules so  when I travel I always wear the mask and observe how local people behave The digital vaccine , negative test , passport drives me crazy  the passport is via mobile phone , with check in status txt messages every day , sometimes I’m receiving...

I was in Spain three weeks ago and  masks were widespread  I wore  a mask everywhere  I was just in the Caribbean , masks  about the only place masks are absent is the US 

Consider this .. the Barcelona port authority and cruise ships  locals hate the herds of cruise ship passengers that invade their world and leave a mess  The port authority loves cruise ships .. huge dockage  fees  politicians love cruise ships because they own all the ship service providers ...

The city and its politicians survive on tax revenue … they want astronomical prices 

Yup  It’s  easy to see problems  solutions are not easy to find I travel a lot and have worked all over the world . I see plenty  all countries face the same modern issues 

Yup same with Uber and other modern gigs in Spain they have probably the best quality of life in the world  when this modern internet stuff moved in , the quality of life for residents went down  in Spain they are sensitive to this invasion and it’s effects on locals 

It’s more complicated that the article states That creepy airb&b stuff brings tourists into residential areas the city  rent spirals out of control, normal folks can’t survive , shops close when the normal folks leave and are replaced by tourist pizza and postcard joints  The...