Teaching English in Spain- Night club in Spain

			Nightclub in Spain Music and dance, food and drink, if anyone knows how to have fun, it’s the Spanish. That and the need to avoid the daytime heat, means the locals literally grow up in the streets at night. And any excuse to get them back out on them – from demonstration to shopping to festival – will do it. So foreigners living in Spain find they spend a lot of their time drinking, dancing and talking the night away with the locals in ‘el marche”, going from bar to bar. From posh, world-renown nightclub to jazz club, from gypsy watering hole to festival tent, from street party to football fan filled cafeteria, you may find yourself wondering why you’re going down when the sun’s coming up. And that’s on a weekday! Not only is the vibrant nightlife some of the world’s best merrymaking (like Ibiza), but Spain is known for it’s great festivals too. You may have seen images of an entire city deliberately burning down (Las Fallas in March), hundreds of people massacred with ketchup bottles (the Tomato festival in August), thousand pound snorting bulls rampaging the streets (Pampalona in July) or beautiful senoritas fluttering fans in flowing dresses as they get twirled by Latin lovers (April Fair in Seville). Globally known thanks to the media, most visitors fail to realize that every city and even neighborhood has it’s own traditional festivities and no matter what day or month, there always seems to be something going on. Food and drink is abundant during festivals but also wonderful as a daily cuisine. The Spanish make some of the world’s best wines and wine is a daily staple, along with bread. It’s the birthplace of sherry and famous brandies and cider is popular in the north, with sangria taken seriously in the south. Spirits can be dangerous as they are free-poured rather than measured and don’t forget to hang out with the young Spanish and try some “colomocho” – red wine and coca cola. Get a “mini” version, it’s only a LITER so don’t amble too far from the bar … if you can amble at all. Spanish food like paella (seafood, rice and saffron), gazpacho (cold, tomato soup) and Iberico or Serrano ham (cured) are the most recognizable. But with all the coastlines bordering the Atlantic and Mediterranean, you can only imagine the abundance of well-priced seafood. Put that together with the Spanish love for pork products like ham (stay away from the pig ears though), tomatoes, olive oil and bread (eaten at every meal), means you can easily fall in love with the free little “tapas” served with drinks. Be thankful for the tapas to snack on. Lunch isn’t served in Spain until after 2pm, whereas dinner won’t make an appearance until after 10pm.

Nightclub in Spain