I am planning to spend my holiday in Spain for Christmas and New Year 2009?

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Xabier

You have alot of money for that amount of time, there are more celebrations in the New Year. There are many fiestas... and all the major cities have fireworks

We have Â´santaÂ´come on the 6th January it is the day the 3 Wise Men gave JesÃºs his gift's it is the day we recive gift's

Sant Esteve is the 26th Decmber in all CatalÃ speaking parts of Spain - how ever I think excluding Valencia... he is one of the Saint's of Catalunya.

So I would recomdend staying there for that.

Madrid is good for night life - anytime so it will be leading up to Christmas

1000 Pounds is about... :/ 1500â‚¬ or somthing it depend's on the accomdation you want renting a villa in season can cost 1000â‚¬ + a week... so if you wanted to spend more money on actavies we have Hostals... they are a 1 Start hotel... for about 30â‚¬ a night... they are clean with a private room and usually an own bathroom (the cheaper ones might share) you could also look out for Hotels AC they are like a motel - prices varity by location.
When possible get busses and Metro and Trams and Trains in the Holiday season not Taxis

As you are over 4 week's here I'd sugest traveling

Madrid Night life
BarÃ§a to spend christmas day and saint steven's day
then I'd choose any majour city you've always wanted to visit for New year's day

or in revers and spend New Year in Madrid... would problery be better... it is 50â‚¬ to get the train from Most places to Madrid (to get to North from South you need to go via Madrid)

Also if you get the train... it would cost 50â‚¬ but you could sleep on the train... so you'd get to a place & most train stations have showers

Maria S

Hello!

Not sure if my other message got posted, but it looks like it didnÂ´t!

anyway, I was rambling on about how i ended up here in Barcelona...all thanks to my experiences over Christmas-time last year! I followed a Christmas course in Barcelona, where i met a whole bunch of amazing people! We learnt Spanish, and really felt the Spanish culture :) After class we did all sorts of activities and itÂ´s all really affordable! I booked my Christmas course through Estudio Hispanico - www.estudiohispanico.com - and they made sure everything worked out - accomodation, course, activities etc.

New YearsÂ´ is really different here to the UK because they generally donÂ´t do fireworks during new years (they do every other day of the year it seems haha) but what they do do, is alternate a grape and a gulp of wine for the last 12 seconds...the result --> every1 is PLASTERED hahaha itÂ´s fun!!

good luck finding something!

Kristy

I've only been to Madrid, so I wouldn't presume to tell you where to go, but here are some ways you can stretch your budget:
Look into flying RyanAir or EasyJet (you might be able to get round trip tickets for under 75 pounds).
If you go to a city, you can probably find a cheap hostel (I stayed in Madrid for 14 to 20 Euros per night--the 20 Euro a night place was better, but both were good)
Make sure to bring a student ID, you can get great discounts on museum entries.
Enjoy your holiday.

Jane S

You have three weeks to "experience and learn the culture of Spain"? Good luck. I am sure you will have a great time, you don't say WHERE in Spain you want to go. There is so much! But three weeks to learn Spain? You can't do it. I lived there for 10 months, and don't feel like I got enough! And that, after ten years of study.

Have a great trip. Have fun. Be a bit more specific. Christmas and el DÃa de los Magos (Jan 6) are pretty much family celebrations, but if you get to the closest cathedral, you can experience the religious part. I'm pretty sure you can find a midnight mass on Dec. 24.

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