Originally posted by Dowding
It will give me a chance to use the Spanish I've been learning at night-classes.
I think you'll find that the spoken language in that part of Spain is Catalan, not Spanish - although they can speak Spanish of course. I found that I could ask for things in French and was understood perfectly. Catalunya has a bloody history with Franco - ask Cyrano to explain it. (Catalunya's national day is September 11th!) No need to wait till April for those easyjet flights - you can go now. I know that coast right from Cambrils up past Tarragona, Barcelona, Lloret, Tossa, Begur, Cadaques. My advice - go NE from Barcelona, not SW. Tossa was a nice place, Lloret is like Blackpool.
Sorry, off topic.
I think the US should do its stuff with or without UN approval. The UN has let us down. The UN let down the Iraqi people in 1991 - the anti-Saddam activists, if I may call them that. The UN stopped Pop Bush from finishing Saddam. This time, Saddam MUST be removed. No more UN-mandated half-jobs. If he has no WMD as he claims, it's only because he's sold them on to other terror groups. I don't trust the guy an inch, and that's why negotiation with a guy like that is worthless. Remember that many Iraqis are our friends, and many who opposed Saddam were left to face his wrath - all because they were let down by the UN's mandate to halt the Gulf War.
Hortlund's cartoon sums it up nicely! - my feelings entirely.