Costa Brava

Wine Tourism in Costa Brava | Wild Junket

http://www.wildjunket.com/2011/05/26/wine-tourism-in-costa-brava/

Costa Brava Wine Tour D. O. Empordà | Porta Catalunya Property

http://www.portacatalunya.com/blog/costa-brava-wine-tour-d-o-emporda/

Emporda-Costa Brava [Ampurdan] Wine , Emporda-Costa Brava ...

http://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-emporda-costa+brava+%5Bampurdan%5D

luxury wine accessories, pneumatic corkscrews, leather wine ...

http://www.costabrava-us.com/

Emporda -Costa brava wine tour ( Masia Serra) from Barcelona

http://www.thewinecolours.com/one-day-wine-tours-in-spain/emporda-costa-brava-wine-tour-masia-serra-from-barcelona

Vinologue » Wine in the Costa Brava & Empordà

It became official with National Geographic listing the Costa Brava as one of their Best Trips of 2012. But wait, Spain (and more to the point, Catalonia)

PAITYNread: Vacuum Wine Preserver - Costa Brava Full Detail

วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 3 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2555. Vacuum Wine Preserver - Costa Brava Full Detail. Vacuum Wine Preserver - Costa Brava. Ships next business day. Vacuum Wine Preserver - Costa Brava. you can click for see full detail. I think you may be ...

PATRICIAread: Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum Wine Preserver ...

Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum Wine Preserver, Leather Line Reviews. Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum Wine Preserver, Leather Line. Handcrafted in Argentina; Made from natural wood; Helps preserve your favorite wine; Simple to use ...

Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum Wine Preserver, Tubular Line ...

Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum Wine Preserver, Tubular Line. you can click for see full detail. I think you may be like this. A product very good price and good service. Show review. Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum Wine ...

$ Big Save Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum Wine Preserver ...

Review Best : Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum Wine Preserver, Tubular Line You wish Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum Wine Preserver, Tubular Line with save price? We currently have exclusive deals for Costa Brava St. Germain Vacuum ...

Malgrat De Mar on the costa brava?

Hello thinking of going to Malgrat in early july for a bit of wine and sunshine what do you think of Malgrat i have bean looking at the Marapins Hotel Thanks H.
Read more..

where can i buy castel de palafolls wine in the uk?

this red wine is available around the costa brava
Read more..

Catalan wine and bodega recommendations?

Catalan wine and bodega recommendations? I'll be in the Costa Brava next week with access to a hire car and will be on the lookout for local wines. I typically enjoy robust but fruity un-oaked wines such as shiraz-merlot blends, Charbono which is also known as Bonarda in Latin America, Carmenere or Cotes Du Rhone. Could anybody recommend either of the following? 1 - Good local wines to buy in supermarkets or wineries 2 - Local vineyards where I can take a tour and buy direct 3 - Decent bistros or restaurants with good wine lists Many thanks
Read more..

Article - Legalized Sex Slavery - Why are some Governments ignoring God's Commandments?

Women and Children are supposed to be protected by the Governments of the world. The Governments should not be legalizing Prostitution. The World Governments should be working to eliminate prostitution. *Perilous Times and Decaying Morality Europe's brothel - in a corner of Spain* Madam's is just one of a series of macro-brothels making prostitution a growth industry Giles Tremlett in Capmany Saturday June 24, 2006 The Guardian The small stone chapel that local people once used for baptisms, first communions and weddings is now a storeroom and the sign that read Hotel Mercéi has been replaced by a glowing piece of neon announcing that this is now a busy brothel called Madam's. Selling sex is, as this thriving, 50-room "macro-brothel" shows, a far more lucrative business than catering for the family celebrations of a scattered population of farmers and wine-growers in this north-eastern corner of Spain. Located on a main road just inside the Spanish border with France, Madam's has a large sign reading Entrée.The yellow number-plates on the Peugeots and Renaults in the car park are also mainly French. "Most of the clients are from over the border," says Patricio, the muscle-bound, tattooed manager of what is now one of the biggest businesses in the small municipality of Capmany. "Things are a lot stricter over there." Inside, several dozen scantily clad women in thongs and micro-skirts sit at the neon-lit chrome bar. Others totter around on glittery platform shoes or in thigh-length boots. Despite the ample display of flesh, they are having trouble competing for the attention of a handful of early evening punters with the World Cup football showing on a giant screen. Occasionally, one walks off, a client in tow, to the lifts that take them up to the four floors of bedrooms above. Exploitation Madam's is just one of more than a dozen macro-brothels to be found on the outskirts of the small inland villages of a region known as the Alt Empordà. "They are turning us into Europe's brothel," complains Ferran Jarabo, the priest for four small village parishes. "We shouldn't tolerate this sort of exploitation. Women are being reduced to mere objects." Dallas, Desiree and Baby Doll are a few of the names that shout out from huge neon signs. On back roads, bikini-wearing prostitutes from Romania, Nigeria or Colombia watch the cars going past, pimps discreetly in the distance. The brothels here, just a few miles from the tourist beaches of the Costa Brava, are part of a nationwide growth industry that Spanish politicians - immersed in a debate over whether to fully legalise and regulate prostitution - are finally waking up to. Although no proposals have yet emerged, Roman Catholic Spain already rivals liberal Holland and Germany in its laissez-faire attitude. Brothel-owners themselves claim that prostitution, and its spin-offs, are now an €18bn (£12.4bn) business sector - equivalent to half of Spain's education budget. The country's confusing prostitution laws mean that running a brothel is neither fully legal, nor fully illegal. At the moment, it is illegal only to live directly off prostituting other people. That allows many brothel owners, like those who run Madam's, to argue that they are hoteliers who only rent out rooms towomen who work for themselves. "I only make money on the rooms. The girls are free. We don't force them to work a timetable, or fine them if they don't turn up - which is what happens in other places," says Patricio. A doctor and a psychologist are, he says, also on the payroll. Regulation Madam's has a licence from the regional government of Catalonia "to gather people to practise prostitution". The government has decided the only way to control prostitution is by regulating it. Police say the number of prostitutes in Spain has doubled since 1999, with one civil guard report from 2004 counting 20,000 in a region containing a third of the country's population. In reality, say campaigners, only a minority of brothels obey both the spirit and letter of the law. Many are run by mafia outfits using women trafficked from around the world or who are forced to pay off massive, interest-bearing "debts" to those who brought them here. Apart from a group of six priests who have lobbied for the brothels to close down, local people have been quiet. One of the visitors to Madam's on the day the Guardian called was Jesús Figa, the mayor of Capmany. "The town hall is not allowed to ban a business for ethical or social reasons," said Mr Figa, who was there to see Patricio. "That is up to the government of Catalonia" Claudia, 25, arrived from her home in the Transylvania region of Romania two years ago. She escaped from the pimp who brought her to Spain but continues to sell her body at Madam's. "He has threatened to kill me and has even come here to the club," she says. Three black-uniformed security guards, kitted with combat boots, batons and walkie-talkies, man the doors. She sends money home to her mother and the five-year-old son she has not seen for two years. "It means they have three or four times as much money as they would normally earn," she says. Madam's even operates as a Western Union branch - and has posters in Russian advertising its services - so the prostitutes can wire money home. Just over a mile up the road, police this week raided a notorious club called Lady's Dallas. A total of 143 prostitutes were working there, including 38 illegal immigrants and one under-age Romanian girl. The prostitutes came from 15 developing world and eastern European countries. None was Spanish. Spain's National Statistics Institute reported in 2003 that more than 27% of Spanish men under 49 had had sex with a prostitute during their lives, and one in 15 over the previous year - "noticeably higher than those in other surveys in Europe". Arguments presented to a parliamentary committee investigating prostitution vary from calls for abolition and the prosecution of male customers to German or Dutch-style legalisation. All sides agree on one thing. Whatever happens, Spanish men are going to keep paying for sex. "What needs to be done is to educate men so they relate to women as equals and respect them in all walks of life," argues Irene Boada, a columnist in El País newspaper.
Read more..

Catalan wine and bodega recommendations?

I'll be in the Costa Brava next week with access to a hire car and will be on the lookout for local wines. I typically enjoy robust but fruity un-oaked wines such as shiraz-merlot blends, Charbono which is also known as Bonarda in Latin America, Carmenere or Cotes Du Rhone. Could anybody recommend either of the following? 1 - Good local wines to buy in supermarkets or wineries 2 - Local vineyards where I can take a tour and buy direct 3 - Decent bistros or restaurants with good wine lists Many thanks
Read more..

• Spain: an insider's holiday guide

  Alternatively, on the Costa Brava, hire a car and head into the volcanic landscape ... out the best restaurants specialising in local cuisine and the surprisingly good wines made on the islands. Away from the main cities, hotels are offering good deals ...

  Daily Telegraph

  City to get new fire pumper

  and Casey’s General Store No. 3089, 1118 Eighth St. 1st-N-10 Steakhouse & Family Dining, owned by Patricia and Rodney Muller, can sell beer, wine and distilled spirits for on-site consumption at the restaurant, which was formerly Costa Brava. Casey’s ...

  Columbus Telegram

  Victoria's Secrets: riviera revisionism in South America

  the must-go-to restaurant on Playa Brava Beach, may be Porsches and Ferraris, but the road is a cart track. The mojitos are divine, the chipirones (tiny, tender squid) the food of the gods and Tannatr is good-for-you red wine; it has the most antioxidants ...

  Daily Telegraph

Images for Costa Brava Wine