Barcelona 29/12 - 5/1

I want to go to Barcelona in the period 29-12 until 5-1-2006. I have 2
questions:
1. are the restaurants, shops and museums open or is the city 'asleep'
in that period?;
2. can someone recommend an appartment rental service (i'm looking for
a nice appartment in La Barceloneta)or El Born?
Hope to hear from you! Peter

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:45:12 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@>
wrote:

>
>
>beeldbouwer wrote:
>
>> I want to go to Barcelona in the period 29-12 until 5-1-2006. I have 2
>> questions:
>> 1. are the restaurants, shops and museums open or is the city 'asleep'
>> in that period?;
>> 2. can someone recommend an appartment rental service (i'm looking for
>> a nice appartment in La Barceloneta)or El Born?
>> Hope to hear from you! Peter
>
>I assume that's December 29 to January 5, but since we have
>both Americans and Europeans posting here, it might be
>clearer if you gave the month by name instead of number.

You have 29 months in your year? Do you post from
Betelgeuse?


Cheers, Alan, Australia

Yes, that's how some 450 million (european) people write down the
date...;-) dd-mm-yyyy

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
> beeldbouwer wrote:
>
> > I want to go to Barcelona in the period 29-12 until 5-1-2006. I have 2
> > questions:
> > 1. are the restaurants, shops and museums open or is the city 'asleep'
> > in that period?;
> > 2. can someone recommend an appartment rental service (i'm looking for
> > a nice appartment in La Barceloneta)or El Born?
> > Hope to hear from you! Peter
>
> I assume that's December 29 to January 5, but since we have
> both Americans and Europeans posting here, it might be
> clearer if you gave the month by name instead of number.

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@> wrote in message
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>
>
> beeldbouwer wrote:
>
>> I want to go to Barcelona in the period 29-12 until 5-1-2006. I have 2
>> questions:
>> 1. are the restaurants, shops and museums open or is the city 'asleep'
>> in that period?;
>> 2. can someone recommend an appartment rental service (i'm looking for
>> a nice appartment in La Barceloneta)or El Born?
>> Hope to hear from you! Peter
>
> I assume that's December 29 to January 5, but since we have both Americans
> and Europeans posting here, it might be clearer if you gave the month by
> name instead of number.
>
What is the name of month 29 in America?

JohnT

OK, writing 12/29/2005 (instead of 29/12/2005)is the exception.
But......... i think i asked for some information on Barcelona.....:-).
Anyone?

beeldbouwer schreef:

> I want to go to Barcelona in the period 29-12 until 5-1-2006. I have 2
> questions:
> 1. are the restaurants, shops and museums open or is the city 'asleep'
> in that period?;
> 2. can someone recommend an appartment rental service (i'm looking for
> a nice appartment in La Barceloneta)or El Born?
> Hope to hear from you! Peter

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:52:02 +0200, "Tim C."
<tim.challenger@aon.at> wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:30:20 +0200, Magda wrote:
>
>> On 16 Oct 2005 21:31:33 -0700, in .europe, "beeldbouwer" <beeldbouwer@>
>> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
>>
>> ... Yes, that's how some 450 million (european) people write down the
>> ... date...;-) dd-mm-yyyy
>>
>> Add Africans and South Americans to the number. Asians too?
>
>Indians, Australians, ... I /think/ the Chinese too.

Actually, the list of those who do month/day/year is the
shortest one. It's a bit like medical numbers - all but the
USA and a handful of others use mmol/L, but the USA uses
mg/dl. Maybe they just hate marching in step?

Cheers, Alan, Australia

"Alan S" <nothere@there.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:52:02 +0200, "Tim C."
> <tim.challenger@aon.at> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:30:20 +0200, Magda wrote:
>>
>>> On 16 Oct 2005 21:31:33 -0700, in .europe, "beeldbouwer"
>>> <beeldbouwer@>
>>> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
>>>
>>> ... Yes, that's how some 450 million (european) people write down the
>>> ... date...;-) dd-mm-yyyy
>>>
>>> Add Africans and South Americans to the number. Asians too?
>>
>>Indians, Australians, ... I /think/ the Chinese too.
>
> Actually, the list of those who do month/day/year is the
> shortest one. It's a bit like medical numbers - all but the
> USA and a handful of others use mmol/L, but the USA uses
> mg/dl. Maybe they just hate marching in step?

Doesn't the rest of the World (ie excluding US and Canada) also use the 24
hour clock?

JohnT

"beeldbouwer" <beeldbouwer@> wrote in message
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> Yes, that's how some 450 million (european) people write down the
> date...;-) dd-mm-yyyy

Yep, It's bloody annoying having to learn the Scandanavian
(perhaps only prt of) method.

tim

"Magda" <magda@chriscross.hello> wrote in message
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> Right after he defines "plenty". I count only one country.

I try to avoid the 24-hour clock if possible - too military for my liking.

Ian
(London)

Go Fig wrote:

> I wonder how many with digital wrist watches use the 24hr format....

If I have a digital watch, I prefer to have it set to 24-hour mode as it
seems more natural to me, though I translate to 12-hour for other
people, as telling someone the time is 17:45 always leads to a blank
look in my experience.

In this digital age, I am amazed at the very high percentage of people
who continue to tell the time by looking at the angles of two sticks,
and then translating that into numbers, rather than having the display
in numbers. It's a pity that all the watch design talents go into
analogue watches, while we are still lumbered with the basic 7-segment
digits for digital watches rather than high-res good-looking fonts.

<gets off hobby-horse>

--
Richard J.