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I bought some off eBay pretty cheap. Just fitted them for a trip.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184879062506?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ivhsJMteRHm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=eB2M7jbzTUu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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the ferry is apparently good for whale watching.

I quite liked it. Cool-looking business district, the redeveloped riverbed park, nice old-town, beach, good food and you can do the whole lot on their city bike scheme.

Worth getting the "suma" card for a stay that's longer than a week. Bus and train/metro journeys are quite cheap that way

Oh thought Spanish don't want tourists at the mo.

thought Spanish don't want tourists

You're probably thinking of Catalans, not Spanish.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/08/24/some-spanish-destinations-want-tourists-to-leave-these-depopulated-towns-are-inviting-them#:~:text=Spain%27s%20beach%20towns%20are%20at,to%20pick%20up%20the%20slack.

So coastal Spanish. But don't know it it is an holiday home let air BnB thing.

Catalan, from the ones I have met are nice and understand the situation.

It's an AirBNB / Gentrification thing though, isn't it. And the pictures of hospitality workers having to live in cars because they can't afford accommodation must anger most people.

Believe it is, and they are right. Same as we have in Devon and Cornwall.

Yeah those fiercely Catalonian balearics and Málaga.

Is Jamie Oliver ok? Watching this What to Eat This Week malarkey on 4+1 and he looks like shit, sounds like shit (in a bad way) and he’s huffing and puffing. Health gone bad?

https://247valencia.com

Yeah those fiercely Catalonian balearics and Málaga

Catalan is an official language of the Balearics, described in the Statute of autonomy (Title 1, Article 4*) as their "own language", in contradistinction to the other official language which is that imposed by the conquistadores 🙂

*Artículo 4. La lengua propia.

1. La lengua catalana, propia de las Illes Balears, tendrá, junto con la castellana, el carácter de idioma oficial.
   

Good stuff. But fuck all to do with the anti tourism protests. Unless the Catalan contingent were protesting against the Spaniards or something.

Anyway all I'm trying to say is the anti tourist protests are spread pretty widely throughout Spain and not just confined to the region mostly associated with the 'Catalans' or that being part of the major complaint. (In this instance 😂)

all I'm trying to say is the anti tourist protests are spread pretty widely throughout Spain and not just confined to the region mostly associated with the 'Catalans'

Agreed, it's spread wider than Catalonia (and wider than Spain), that's just where I came across it first.

Thanks - always appreciate a cordial online agreement.

And you're right. I live in a major tourist city (York) in the UK and although it's not at protest point i can empathise with a lot of the issues being protested against whist also seeing the counter side. I guess there's a lot of places facing the same.

I'd say the anti-tourist sentiment in Valencia is less strong than elsewhere. Mainly people here get fucked off with massive groups from cruise ships and cycle tours that consist of 20 people unable to handle bikes properly clogging up the (excellent) cycling infrastructure.

There are elements in the old town that are angry at the lack of affordable housing as a result of tourist flats, but generally that is recognised an over-reaction to the general upward trend of house pricing here that has come with over 20 years of investment.

And my mind is boggled that one would think it is a boring city.

Anyone had a dental implant that costs lest than £3k? Lost a tooth in baguette-based incident this summer and the only place my NHS dentist recommended to me want to charge that, which anecdotally is pretty high according to the few people I've spoken to, although none of them have implants themselves so taking that with a pinch of salt. I don't want to go abroad to do it unless I have to. If anywhere does it in the UK for less than £3k, ideally with a payment plan to break it into 4 or more payments that would be a bonus too!

baguette-based incident...

Sounds like a pain complet, I mean a complete pain.

Tres bon. Cracking it was more or less painless. Extracting it, it getting infected and the subsequent scraping out of the wound on the other hand...

I had a tooth removed this year and the dentist said an implant would be 4k+.

Do you want the number for my £3k guys?

hello, I have a dentist client who can do it from £1800/tooth, though only on specific days. It's a new initiative that involves turning the whole surgery into a superslick tooth replacement machine for two days a month, basically. He wrote up an explanation here

I don't get commission, but he is a lovely guy and a big cyclist (I know him through my club)

and the reason I came to the thread...

does anyone know of any businesses, preferably on the smaller side, who have a sort of multi-pronged offering? Best example I have off the top of my head is this https://smallpondrec.com/

I'm trying to find examples of sites that guide you towards picking a lane from the homepage

I am not doing it since the dentist who took it out said I should get the wisdom tooth next to it out first, I will see how it goes.