El Corte Ingles

[Remi & Jen]

I love El Cortes Ingles.  We lived in Barcelona for 5 months and I
practically lived there.  They have the best groceries.  Super fresh
produce, the hugest selection of incredible cheeses, along with a large wine
section.  For those of you who are Canadian it is much like the Bay or
Eatons, multi-levels with everything you could possibly want.  Definitely
not cheap, but it is true that you can find all those last minute items that
perhaps you had forgotten at home.  I don't really remember any along the
camino route but I'm sure there must be one in Leon and the larger centres.
In any case I would go there when I was feeling homesick and buy a big chunk
of good old cheddar cheese, funny how now when I feel pangs of longing for
Spain I go to one of the specialty markets here and buy excessively over
priced manchego... it's worth it though.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]On Behalf
Of Xosé Manuel Alvariño
  Sent: February 7, 2003 4:10 PM
  To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
  Subject: El Corte Ingles


  El Corte is a kind of expensive but good chain store found all over Spain
& now Lisbon.

  They have everything there is to have in the (un)civilized world!

  I've bought a lot of clothes there, not cheap.

  They do have an outlet: Oportunidades.

  The saying in Spain is that: "if u cannot find it at el Corte, it doesn't
exist!)

  Their big plug is that they give u ur $ back if unsatisfied.

  Not K-Mart, etc., more like...Macey's with a supermarket?...hmm...what do
u all think?

  Xosé Manuel

  In a message dated 2/7/2003 5:32:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jallen08aTAMPABAY.RR.COM writes:


    Hola All;
    The department store called K-Mart/WalMart may be El Corte Ingles(sp?).
They are a cut above K/WalMart.  Good for the adapter you forgot to bring.
Also has a supermarket for food.

    Jim Allen



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