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My last day, I have to say goodbye.

My last day, I have to say goodbye.

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Tengo que decir adiós, me voy a España en la mañana durante cuatro semanas.

I have to say goodbye, I'm going to Spain in the morning for four weeks.

I fly from Melbourne to Singapore , then Barcelona where I hope to travel by train

down the Mediterranean coast to 'Denia 'where my daughter has a Villa , I stay there

1 week , and hopefully then go to Granada to do an immersion course , living

with a host family. Still travelling by train I shall go down to southern Spain and

meet up with one of our loveable members who has very kindly asked me to drop -in.

With any luck Sir Ian will meet up with me later on in Barcelona , he is acquainted with

the City and can show me around . I have always thought that it would be a great

idea for some of us to meet up someplace and have a ball. It has been done before

with a group that met up for a Christmas lunch in north America.

Melbourne is terrific at Christmas???

Please forgive me if I have been a bit cranky lately , I have only just returned

from two weeks in hottest wildest Borneo which may have been too much for me.

Así que adiós a mis queridos amigos, y cuidan.

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updated Mar 1, 2015
posted by ray76
Goodluck Ray,we wait for you y que la pases bien :) - 003e54f5, Oct 7, 2014
pasatela chida - Rey_Mysterio, Oct 10, 2014

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Hi mate.

I will do my very best to join up - I am also aquainted with Andalucia.

Travel well amigo.

I have my fingers crossed - and my toes. smile

updated Mar 1, 2015
edited by ian-hill
posted by ian-hill
I am feeling jealous .. hehe,, wish I could also join in .. but all wishes don't come true .. Enjoy my friends - Joydeep_Singh, Oct 7, 2014
I hope that you do mate , us two old soldiers in Barcelona will cause a storm . - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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updated Oct 8, 2014
posted by 003e54f5
:) - FELIZ77, Oct 7, 2014
Gracias mi amigo . - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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Buen viaje ! Esperamos la vuelta !

updated Dec 27, 2014
posted by porcupine7
Thanks mate , I may meet a very desperate Spanish lady . - ray76, Oct 7, 2014
She would have to be mate - right? :)) - ian-hill, Oct 7, 2014
That statement turned out to be not only very prophetic but very annoying. - ray76, Dec 27, 2014
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I am both very relieved and very sad. I am relieved that you are not leaving forever, as I briefly assumed when I read your title, but I am very sad that you will be absent that long. SpanishDict won't be the same without you!

I look forward to your return! We can have a grand party with stories of your adventure around a blazing fire, complete with roasted marshmallows.

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Have a safe trip Ray! Don't stay away too long!

updated Dec 23, 2014
edited by 00ffada9
posted by 00ffada9
Ray travels a lot. He will be back and hopefully with pictures. He usually takes photos. I'm looking forward to them. :) - rac1, Oct 7, 2014
Hca, very thougtful and sensitive repsonse :) typo: reliEved :) - FELIZ77, Oct 7, 2014
Thanks Feliz! - 00ffada9, Oct 7, 2014
@H C A that sounds very inviting I may take you up on that , and thank you for working so hard for SD mate , this site would be a sadder place without the likes of you. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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Bye?

updated Oct 8, 2014
posted by jocsan1227
It's just a vacation. He will be back. :) - rac1, Oct 7, 2014
How do youknow, mayvbe he will fall in love with Spain and stay forever.. - annierats, Oct 7, 2014
Well, if that happens and he stays he could hold open house in Spain for us all lol hahaha - FELIZ77, Oct 7, 2014
Good idea, Feliz. - rac1, Oct 7, 2014
What a great idea , a halfway house for "Spanishdictaholicks" Good one Feliz . - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
Gracias jocsan, ¡que esté bien ! - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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Changing 2 hemispheres in one trip! Go in serenity, return in serenity. We miss you on SD so I hope this is only a hasta luego and not adiós.

updated Oct 8, 2014
posted by Jubilado
I agree wholeheartedly... - Esteban_317, Oct 7, 2014
:) - annierats, Oct 7, 2014
Jubilado , that is my hope also , thanks for the kind words and you take care old timer , love to your family. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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Te espero con ilusión.

updated Oct 8, 2014
posted by annierats
Thanks mate. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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I know Spain is not Australia but they do have internet. Don't scare us with such a bold declaration: My Last Day,....

I nearly panicked. Have a good vacation. Check in when you can and return to us in a month. I miss your quote threads.

updated Oct 8, 2014
edited by gringojrf
posted by gringojrf
Agreed!! - rac1, Oct 7, 2014
Gringo, the connextions are terrible down here, onbly y wifie, if you're lucky, you may have noted I have given up on pictures.. - annierats, Oct 7, 2014
I meant by wifi, not by wife.. - annierats, Oct 7, 2014
I gave up corresponding with wives years ago mate , the wifi is safer and cheaper . Good on you mate. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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we will miss you around here! Have a great trip. What a world traveler you are!

updated Oct 8, 2014
edited by Noetol
posted by Noetol
I am slowing down now mate , just a quiet trot now. Thank you . - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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What a great trip! I don't know howlong you will spend in Barcelona - a beautiful city - but if you have a spare day go to Girona a lovely small town with Arab baths,intact town walls and an old Jewish quarter. I like Spanish trains and have travelled from Tarragona to Valencia -part of the journey you will do.

Granada is definitely on my list! Moorish Spain is fascinating - I have been to Sevilla and Cordoba. Both are wonderful but ifyou can only add one more trip do go to Cordoba and see the Mezquita - who could believe a Catholic king would order a cathedral to be built inside a mosque? I had the fortune to visit on a quiet day and stood quietly within the mosque taking in the atmosphere. I did not like the overdecorated church but it is somewhere you M U S T see. Of course there is more to see in Cordoba but the mezquita is exceptional.

I will not add other sites because there is joy in discovering things for yourself What a perfect time to visit warm and sunny but not too hot

Have a happy and memorable journey

updated Jan 6, 2015
posted by Mardle
I intend going to Córdoba , the home of one of our fabulous translators , thanks mate. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
I did go and it was mind blowing , I shall return there soon. - ray76, Dec 27, 2014
I'd like to go during the patio festival in May - Mardle, Jan 6, 2015
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ThankGod all is welll with you.

You scared us all with the words 'my last day. Have a safe trip..Sugar Ray.

updated Oct 8, 2014
posted by osas-baby
Yes, he did. :( - rac1, Oct 7, 2014
:) - ian-hill, Oct 7, 2014
Thanks , and I hope that all is well with you O B and that you and your family are well and safe down there , I shall at least be a little closer to you now. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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Wishing you a great time Ray. . .

Hoping you have the kind of trip you can savor while it's happening, and that brings you safely home again with wonderful stories and keepsakes. : - )

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updated Oct 8, 2014
posted by Esteban_317
And I wish you all the best to mate , and thanks for your continued support. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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Que tengas un buen viaje y disfrutes mucho de cada momento.

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updated Oct 8, 2014
posted by bosquederoble
I shall indeed try to mate, thanks for all your help, see you around. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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Have fun! Sounds like a fun trip! (I must be bored!)


Traveling by train in Spain, what a pain, or just insane in the membrane? Imagine if it were to rain. What would there be to gain on a journey meant to be as sweet as sugar cane? Jane said it would be good even though she's from the hood. She made this up while she was drunk thinking and trying to preordain life's plan- what does she know? She would have served us all better if she had melted down the drain. Wow, It is just me bitterly talking in vain. Mas, tudo bem! Beleza cara! A good man as he embarks on a journey not to refrain.


I just think in my brain after my trip flying on the plane from Bahrain with a glass of champagne reading a book from Mark Twain, "What is going on in Ukraine? Or, should I worry about the next campaign?" It is all just a stain on the earth, nothing but a constrain. Can someone explain even if it were just to entertain? Ah, but it is about the new terrain, the reason why I travel, flying high just like a crane to obtain my moment of clarity, not to deceive my perception of reality. Once again, I cross a new plain, feeling the goodness enter my veins, like a lion in his domain. I stand proud appreciating the earth down to the last grain. Who is going to complain? Not me! Even if one leg or arm does sprain.


Let the migraine come again in the middle of the hurricane. Let the warplane do its supposed good deed. What would Kurt Cobain say? "I am so happy because today I found my friend." Hmm... a forever blain on society. I should have been a coxswain on a boat or flew a monoplane. It reverts back to Elaine, an all time high like Mary Jane, at the same time like a bloodstain from the heart dripping down the windowpane. She was a good one wasn't she? I am here to regain my life just like the the laid back city of Biscayne to ascertain the reason. This may not pertain, but I should abstain from Adeline a being as vindictive and potent as the drug cocaine.


Yes, at times it can be inhumane- ask me later. For now, I will set my wings free and be my normal legerdemain self- I always have a trick up my sleeve. Now it is off to visit a new land but not that of Hussein.

updated Oct 8, 2014
posted by jphip
Lol, well said. - annierats, Oct 7, 2014
I see we have another member with writing talent and humor here. Yeah! - rac1, Oct 7, 2014
Wow ! Thank you , I wish I had known that you were so talented , I have not the time to respond in kind ( nor the talent) Thank you it means a lot to me. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
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I fly from Melbourne to Singapore , then Barcelona where I hope to travel by train down the Mediterranean coast to 'Denia 'where my daughter has a Villa , I stay there 1 week , and hopefully then go to Granada to do an immersion course , living with a host family

¡Qué noticias buenas y qué fantástica oportunidad, Ray! wink

What great news and what a fantastic opportunity, Ray

With any luck Sir Ian will meet up with me later on in Barcelona , he is acquainted with the City and can show me around

¡Es estupendo que tengas la oportunidad de practicar tu español con nativos en España, en particular, que ya te hayas arreglado encontrarte con nuestro caballero, Ian en Barcelona!

It's wonderful that you will have the opportunity to practise your Spanish with the natives in Spain, and in particular, that you have already arranged to meet up with our Sir Ian, in Barcelona!.

and hopefully then go to Granada to do an immersion course, living with a host family.

¡Tu deseo hacer un curso de español intensivo (o de método de inmersión) y vivir con una familia nativa me causó muy bien impresión!

Your desire to do an Spanish immersion course and live with a native family impressed me!

¡Estoy seguro que vas a aprender muchas nuevas cosas acerca del idioma español y volver a Australia con muy buenas memorias de su experiencia, y sobre todo (estoy seguro) que podrás hablar español más mejor que antes! wink

I am sure that you are going to learn many new things about the Spanish language and return to Australia with many good memories of your experience and above all, that you will be able to speak Spanish much better than before!

¡Qué te diviertas (o qué te lo pases bien) y buen viaje! ¡Por supuesto que te echemos mucho de menos . sin apura! jajaja wink

Enjoy yourself and have a good journey! We will miss you, a lot, of course... no pressure! lol hahahawink

Corrijan mi español, por favor smile

updated Oct 8, 2014
edited by FELIZ77
posted by FELIZ77
That was great Paul , I could read the Spanish quite well which in itself is an improvement but I want more and better. I know that you went recently to Barcelona and had a great time , pity that we could not have been there together, but it is better tha - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
that I am forced to struggle on my own and learn through necessity. Thank you Paul. - ray76, Oct 8, 2014
You are very welcome, dear Ray :) - FELIZ77, Oct 8, 2014