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Only Fools And Horses
Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 7:42 PM

 

Only Fools & Horses
 
We love the Spanish television. You can watch a film for over an hour with no interruptions then ping you get 10 or 15 minutes of back to back adverts. And when one programme ends you only get to read one name in the credits before the next programme has started. Very strange. Unfortunately, we don’t have a satellite dish and are currently going cold turkey with no Eastenders or Coronation Street to watch. We did find a button on our remote that we never knew we had that changes the language on the television so we can actually hear the programme in English. Some channels it works on but not all. So we can watch episodes of The Mentalist, CSI kinda stuff and the odd good movie, usually an old one though. Watched the original of The Italian Job – “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”. Classic! The Spanish seem to really love westerns and there’s one on nearly every day. So what do we do in the evenings when good old lieutenant Columbo has solved yet another murder?  Well we are gradually working our way through our entire DVD collection, which sadly isn’t vast. The Shawshank Redemption (brilliant), Armageddon (far fetched but fun), Aliens (one of my all time favs!), War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise style), Shrek one AND two (“better out than in”), Schindlers List (heavy!), 50 First Dates (chick flick but very funny!) and the entire collection of Only Fools & Horses. I bought the boxed collection for Charlie a couple of Christmas’s ago & now we’re working our way through from the very beginning.    We’ve had the dropping chandelier, the exploding coach, meeting Raquel, Uncle Albert “during the war”, the reunion with Slater, the birth of Damien, Rodney’s marriage and Triggers broom. We’ve actually nicknamed our mutt Trig coz he sometimes looks at us in that “what do you mean” kind of bemused way, we thought it fitted him perfectly. Really don’t know what we’ll do once we’ve watched all the episodes and the Christmas specials??   Start all over again maybe?! Luvvley Jubbley!


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foxbat said:
Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 11:07 PM

Most of the films on TDT are available in their original language. Heres a link to a programme guide to nationally transmitted over TDT.

http://www.sincroguia.tv/?do=Programacion

One important thing to bear in mind is to re-programme the box about once a month to keep up with new channels,

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Sue said:
Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 3:29 PM

If you spend a minimum of 25 pounds, Amazon will deliver to Spain for free, so it might be worth looking at their video collections. Also they use MRW for delivery, so you can track your order online. We have a book order on its way as we speak!


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