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<DIV><SPAN class=282161804-08022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Road to Santiago Pilgrimage
[mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Xosé Manuel
Alvariño<BR><B>Sent:</B> February 7, 2003 4:10 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> El Corte
Ingles<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial
size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">El Corte is a kind of expensive but good chain store
found all over Spain & now Lisbon. <BR><BR>They have everything there is
to have in the (un)civilized world! <BR><BR>I've bought a lot of clothes
there, not cheap. <BR><BR>They do have an outlet: Oportunidades. <BR><BR>The
saying in Spain is that: "if u cannot find it at el Corte, it doesn't exist!)
<BR><BR>Their big plug is that they give u ur $ back if unsatisfied.
<BR><BR>Not K-Mart, etc., more like...Macey's with a supermarket?...hmm...what
do u all think?<BR><BR>Xosé Manuel<BR><BR>In a message dated 2/7/2003 5:32:37
PM Eastern Standard Time, jallen08aTAMPABAY.RR.COM writes:<BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">Hola All;<BR>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.<BR> <BR>Jim
Allen<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>