New Year Celebrations

We are coming over for New Year for the first time what happens in the Marbella, Puerto Banus, Estepona area at this time?  Special restaurants etc. Do the Spanish celebrate New Year?

OMG - make sure you bring plenty of wakey up pills! One of the best new year celebrations I had went as follows

Dinner at home around 10pm, start to get redy using clothes and red wine! Go out around 11pm and wander down to the square where there will be free music, entertainment and happy people (not falling over drunk (unless its you!)) or rowdy! Then go to kiosk and get your 12 grapes (or buy your own and i recommend the seedless small ones) and paper cup of cava. Then as the bell sounds down 12 strokes to midnight, count, eat a grape per stroke and wash it down with cava (needs SOME practise) then after swallowing, jump around kissing everyone and hugging total strangers shouting Happy New Year, or Feliz Ano Nuevo or Kronia Polla (thats greek) until you finish. Then watch the rest of the entertainement or go to the many bars which will be open unitl whenever.

A few years ago we went to a dutch bar that decided to celebrate I think it was either 5 or 6 time zones around the world with a free shot of that countries drink! Cant wuite remember getting home but I did wake up in my own bed - alive!!!

Happy New Year!!!!!

Cant wuite remember getting home but I did wake up in my own bed - alive!!!

Rixxy,

In the interests of medical science, can you please explain how you would wake up dead???

Noreen

Cant wuite remember getting home but I did wake up in my own bed - alive!!!

Rixxy,

In the interests of medical science, can you please explain how you would wake up dead???

Noreen

Hit the reply button twice in my enthusiasm!!! 

Auntie EM, Kenco, my better half  OH  & I are going out together on New Year's Eve to a Chinese in Guardamar who do a marvellous spread all night with singers, dancing & fireworks. Ken would love to wear his kilt & bring his bagpipes but Em has told him no ! Em's driving as she claims she's teetotal !!! I'll put a stop to THAT.

Have a great New Year all.

Noreen - I can assure youI have woken up dead more times than I care to remember - or actually CANT remember!!!  Medical science has been mystified, I am an enigma.........and then I wake up.

Proof !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Inez WAS held in custard overnight. Taken Jan 1st, 2007 & she's still laffing.

i always go to the square in Algorfa to bring in the new year.

The square is packed and they give away party hats,whistles and the obligatory 12 grapes.

If anyone hasn't tried swallowing a grape for every chime it's a must,i have never mastered it yet!!! by twelve o'clock i have generally lost all control of bodily functions and it's a result if you can get one grape anywhere near your mouth let alone swallowing anything solid!!

By the time you have finished choking and spitting pips to resemble the firework dispay going on behind you it's time to celebrate the Uk new year an hour later!!!

I have never quite worked out why the Spanish are allowed to store 3 tons of Semtex,TNT and firecrackers 3 feet from your table,disguise as pot plant and then synchronize it to detonate just as you are taking a sip of cerveza.

The first time i went and the brits starting singing auld langsyne(just realised i don't know how to spell that!) the spanish looked a bit bemused for about 2 seconds then joined in with their own version(lets face it theres not that many words to learn anyway).

The bar closes when the last person is capable of reaching it on their knees and then everyone tells each other in good tradition that they "really, really,really  love each other",and go home!

A cracking night out and not to be missed,i shall be there again this year trying to break my two grape personal best!!

Georgia 

" If anyone hasn't tried swallowing 12 grapes for every chime "

Georgia, you're doing it wrong, mate. You eat one grape per chime otherwise you'd require 12x the amount.

(Do I know you ?)

             Do the Spanish celebrate New Year?

                                  Does the Pope have a balcony?

                   Do the Spanish NEED an excuse like New Year to celebrate?

Well - just got my get out of jail card for this new year!!!!! so can join in the festivities

Tinto - where are you going to be as I know the Fuengirola one and the Marbella one but not Estepons, but anyone in town will know there the main square is for the fun and games!!

Edinburgh has NOTHING on what goes down here - with the ehat swimming in the sea, first footing at all the open doors snow sometimes bought in by lorry for snowballs and all the rest just doesnt compare somehow......................

What is the taxi service like at New Year?  Do you have to book or are they at the stances as normal?

You will have to wait - for some reason they dont do prebook at all so best bet is to get to a bar, oder one then hang in till it arrives! Or join the queues.

Someone will have a taxi number so they will come to your complex as well if its for going out. Coming back will be trickier!