Another Spain PTR

Tömmioh · August 3, 2007

Hello everyone!

I am sorry that this TR is "a bit late", due to lack of time, being away etc.

Anyway, better late than never, I guess.

Here are some photos. Enjoy!

Crayons and bunnies, nice combo, eh?

With that I end this update, more should come tomorrow, thanks for reading!

This was a weird wagon driving in. Once the 'goatey' dude let someone from the park/(audience you could say) to sit in his lap, when he told a story, and then afterwards he played lousily with his guitar with playback.

Aw. Nature. Tree-huggers and Rhinos living in perfect symphony.

GRRR!!! Me can't eat much bananas like me brother King Kong, I wanna split it! Banana Split! Banana Split!

The African boatride was nicely themed.

*insert a mix of the Psycho music and bongo bongo drums here*

At the Scandinavia section: Aahh how I miss home and licking fish's 'dirty' holes.

Smiling... Donkey!!

At the it's a small world ripoff ride.

What's that? A climbing structure for kids? And a heaven for tubular support enthusiasts, I know you're out there!

It was great, one of the best coasters of the trip, as you see everyone enjoys it!

Here's Abismo THROUGH THE TREES!!

After having ridden G-Force at Drayton, I wasn't looking that much forward to this...But

Wow! Here you go first real "trip" photo.

Yay! Finally found the hotel.

Estadio Vicente Calderon, Atletico Madrid's soccer stadium, I prefer them to Real Madrid, but unfortunately they didn't have a stadium tour.

Tadaa! Next morning with churros, and real chocolatey hot chocolate *drools*

Mmm...Häaegen Dazs ice-cream... but no it was just a theatre, named after the yummyness.

Another fancy looking building.

Quack!

Help! Spiderman attacks me!! He had a really padded outfit, I wonder how he survived in the +90F weather. There was also a Minnie Mouse selling balloons, in the huge park, Parque El Retiro.

A cool building. This was in an area called Colón, if I remember right.

btw. the Metro system was really good, working in Madrid, I used it a lot.

Another photo of inside the stadium.

I have like 20 photos of trophy's, museum ones, other stadium photos etc., if anyone is interested.

Being a big soccer fan, I had to do the stadium tour. The capacity is 80'000.

Real Madrid C.F. Soccer stadium, Estadio Santiago Bernabeu.

Another cool older building, I think this was from the 1930's and called Banco de Espana.

A nice high-rise building from the 1920's, back then it was one of the highest in the world.

My first encounter with the devil.

What's that over there??

Oh it's just Fernando, hanging out his laundry.

Here's the Royal Palae, or Palacio Real, I went in (as it was just 3€) , it was absolutely beautiful and huge, but you couldn't take any pics inside, of course...

View out of the window. Plaza Mayor is just around 70 yds to the left.

Here's my room, it was nice for the price of 60€ in the very center of the city and there was free candies!

My 'dinner at' 00:45 am, it was worth 7.5€ but the remote controller was a bit too crunchy.

bad joke, I know.

The Madrid Airport had a funky and cool interior.

Mmm...Nice cuddly clouds.

This was the ermm...lovely weather back home.

Groteslurf · August 3, 2007

Some nice pics. Thanks.

RaptorBoyASU · August 3, 2007

Great photos, I love all the Madrid ones, and the peoples faces on Abismo are great!

willski · August 3, 2007

Haha, the devil thing with the guitar on the go cart reminded me of an SNL skit with Will Ferrell.

Fred's Slacks is a winner!

Steffen_Dk · August 3, 2007

It looks really good - thank you for sharing your pics. Btw. I think Spider Man looks pretty fat at your pic

bovinejumpsuit · August 3, 2007

Some brilliant pictures there, I have heard rumours that the 'goat guy' is from a Lordi tribute band, although you could probably shed more light on that then me.

Nice to see that you went to the Bernabau, a must do. Seeing as your from Finland I will assume you're a Tottenham Hotspur fan because of the superstar that is Teemu Tainio.

Can't wait to see the rest of this report, some excellent captions.

Well, You're Wrong · August 4, 2007

Those are some great pictures, Madrid looks like such a beautiful city. And for some reason that smiling Donkey made laugh or LOL if ya will.

coasterdude5 · August 4, 2007

Great trip report, nice picture of Abismo.

Larger X-Car models are awesome.

Tömmioh · August 4, 2007

Thanks for the replies guys

^^^

Tottenham is a good team, I like their way of playing, but still it's not my favourite team.

Here's some more:

Bouncy Bouncy in the night. Classic with a big C... and big A and two big S'.

Thanks for reading! More photos will come soon.

The tasty dessert to end the fabulous dinner.

Ed, Kyle and Miles just about to get off.

Dave, Lou, Ron and Ed enjoying it.

Stolen signature moves and an orange t-shirt, this one's for you Rich.

Nice park, good memories.

It was random, quite unique, it would've been cooler if they had run the both sides though.

Dave and Nathan seemed to have enjoyed it.

It was fun!

A bit of Ramses, TPR folks and the portable flume.

This ride was smoother than I expected, it did even have a small pop of airtime.

Some Christmas lights inside the splash boats.

Really, that tunnel was so low that you could just about sit in the kiddie flume, without scratching your head, still it was a weird ride, worth experiencing.

Here we are Parque Attracciones de Zaragoza! Kiddie credit similar to the one earlier that day.

Windpower! (refering to an older TR by me) Anyway, just 15 minutes before Zaragoza they had this area full of windmills, there was a lot more than these.

Mmm... mountains mmm... guard rails...mmm... fudge brownies..

Bull. There was like 4 of these along the way to Zaragoza, I've even seen people back here have decals of that same bull silhouette on their cars. Does anybody know what it represents, is it wine?

Intamin Tornado, wasn't bad, luckily the one closer to me is better, otherwise I would've been a bit (more) sad.

A bad ass monster behind bars with nice lights.

Dude is that Guy!? Hello there!

The slightly random monster/troll raft-ride.

More planes, without snakes. Huge lollipops everywhere, seriously, I doubt anyone has ever tried to lick them, so you know what to do next you get there.

Turbulencia! cool kiddie credit, it would've been better if there were snakes though and if this photo wasn't tilted.

Yay! Credit whoring.

Tarantula. A spider and my favourite spinning coaster, better than Dragon's Fury, but I've only ridden it once or twice, can't remember.

Just kidding, Right on to the action! YEEAHH!!!

Good night.

Landscape! And what's that OMG! water!

That was like the only lake/pond in the nature that I saw on the trip.

Back on the train, a castle on a hill->Castlehill=Linnanmäki

I dunno why (the place in Finland) is called that, because as far as I know, there haven't ever been a castle there.

The drop, observation, do what it wants, multiple side personalities tower.

More TPR and Zamperla (hi, Bruno) fun!

Hello Big Mike!

Disk'O! My first one, it was good, as you can see.

Luckily there was ways to cool you down, like on this flume, which was quite long and had 3 bigger drops.

The park was nice, although it was frickin' hot that day, around if not over +100 F, I heard!

This was my secret sneaky shot, incl. a enlighten nude, (ok not really) person.

...I'd rather see the 4-D haunted cat-adventure again in here.

Hated this, not as much as Walibi World's El Concussion, though, and well this had an EXTRA HELIX! But still...

A pirate ship, nice themeing.

A cute looking house.

A nice historical wall.

Here we are at: Sevilla Santa Justa Sevilla Santa Justa and ok, once more Sevilla Santa Justa.

My try at a side-roof reflection photo, Hello James, John, Lou and Mary.

That was a good activity to do on the train, sleeping, it was easy thanks to the trains' baby bottom smooth ride.

Landscape.

Nice landscape.

You can quite see the beautiful "palmpark" in the station building in this shot, I apologize of it's blurriness, focus, but that makes it look more like my own 'vision' was, after less than 5 hours of sleep I think.

RonFrost · August 4, 2007

I miss Tommy!

These photos are great, and it was very enjoyable hanging out with you on the Spain trip. I sometimes wondered if you were laughing at the jokes we were telling, or just laughing at the Panthers being silly queens. Doesn't matter really, as it was good to see you were having fun.

Tömmioh · August 6, 2007

^Miss you too Ron,

I was mostly laughing at your jokes, but ok then, I have to admit a little little bit because of sillyness, but that was good sillyness, if you know what I'm talking about, hehe. Anyway, hope to see you again within a few years.

I took surprisingly few photos at PortAventura, which I'm a bit disappointed of, but Here's some photos:

The glorious name of the café/restaurant in the station that we ate in before taking the train back to Port Aventura.

Thanks for reading, more photos will come soon.

Another view of the master-piece.

the Sagrada Familia cathedral!, which was amazing!, I wonder when they'll finish it though. I would've liked to see some other of Gaudi's buildings and the Parc Güell, and Nou Camp, F.C. Barcelona's stadium, but didn't have time.

Met or more like ran into DeKalb and Geert and walked around a tiny bit with them until we went to see...

After riding the Skycoaster type of ride, I rushed down and went on to the funicular down towards Barcelona.

There we go into the bushes.

The wagon on the cool Hillraiser...-thing

Big Mike, Carl and Larry and C:O on the plane ride.

Oh right a boy was just doing his hair... wait... TPR yay!!

Hurakan Co... oh it's just Hurakan.

Let's zoom in a bit.

Top Spin, swings and the Mystery Castle thing.

Nice view again.

Some more houses far away.

Darn! bad timing.

Ed's right eye and Dave taking a photo from the Bucket ride of Death.

The nice-looking church right by the park.

That's a bit better.

Next morning on the bus to Tibidabodoo, a nice view, which got even better and better the higher we (bus) climbed.

and It was night again.

Spooky...

Airtime! on the Double Drop, on Tutuki Splash, that was a good ride, except the 'themeing' inside tunnels was a bit too realistic and modern imo.

Next morning Tomahawk time!

(I don't understand why I didn't take any photos of Stampida.)

Fireworks!

Night has come and it's time for the show.

There she sweeps over the lake.

Dave looks excited and yeah it was good to see the ride open.

SPOILER SHOT!

This instruments were used in the new Saw film dating back to Jigsaw's day's as a sheriff in a ghost town.

Your regular wine-making machine, for ordering go to furiusbacondrunkmonkieswine.com

Good looking Western themeing.

Hello there!

Aaah...Hurakan Condom..oops Condor.

Nice looking China and Khan's entrance roof building.

No, it's Dragon Khan and it's Cobra roll, just shame they hadn't any cinnamon rolls they would've been quite enjoyable too.

What's that behind the trees? Insect swarm?

A small waterfall in Polynesia.

Then it was time for Tami-Tami.

But, why did you have to be closed?

Any park's that have dummies hugging supports and hammers sticking out of their a$$ as themeing are fine by me!

Gotta' love the furious bacon themeing.

Stampida, some water-slides and ...some lamps in the forest

Nice view from the room balcony, shame I never 'had time' to try the pool or look around there some more.

Nice landscape.

The Bat · August 6, 2007

Tommi --

Great pics!!

That Tibidabo bucket of death ride was sick and wrong. I think it was you and Ed who were shifting around and causing the bucket to rock back and forth (at which point I thought I was going to DIE).

Can't wait to see the rest of your updates!

Hope you are well.

-- Dave

P.S. You've got a Big Mike pic in there! YAY!

Tömmioh · August 7, 2007

^yeah, the sudden rocking of the car at the top was quite shocking!

I'm all good, thanks. I hope you're also doing well.

Here's some more photos:

Back in Madrid, there was a wedding (pre?) party just below mine and Dave W's room.

Last update will come soon, Thanks for reading!

Hi there!

A food shot for you. The free lunch's dessert.

Wohoo! TPR ride takeover!

Retarded yellow hat club warning!

I actually quite enjoyed this, it's my favourite SLC so far (well out of 3), though I only rode it once, on the 2nd or 3rd row.

Cool gate.

After Hurakan Condor this felt lame, but nice themeing though.

Inferno, not yet opened credit

, luckily I recently finally got the sister credit. (more of that in another PTR)

Looking down on Magnus Collosus, my least favourite of the three woodies on the trip.

Looking down at Benidorm's high-rise buildings.

This park was also nicely themed.

Synkope, I was slightly disappointed in this, still it was quite good.

Whoa, and we're in Egypt.

sorry for the bad focus, who cares, it was a bad hotel anyway.

A nice-looking hotel rising out of the shopping street.

Benidorm.

Eww.. this was in a mini market. yes that's a lizard, at least I wouldn't like to drink anything from a bottle that's got a dead lizard floating in it *shudders*.

Benidorm beach-side walk.

Robb got the train all for himself. James probably looking at all the photos he took of Draky.

Draky!!

The real as in "REAL" E.T. the ride.

There was a bunch of kiddie rides, though I didn't expect that much either.

New park! and credit!

The cool-roundabout globe structure.

There you can see Terra Mítica in the distance.

Then we were on the bus to Benidorm.

Bye Bye buffet breakfast/dinner place and bar and it's outdoor chairs and tables.

You too, great drop tower.

Bye, Bye Dragon Khan.

The waiting for us to get on the ride, was long, but eventually we got 2 rides per person, which was all right, I guess.

Barrels, strange dummies and wine-'bushes', can't mean anything else than Baco.

slither37 · August 7, 2007

Nice photos of Spain. I think I see Robb holding the camera in a few of those?

Tömmioh · August 8, 2007

^yeah and thanks for the comment.

So here's my last update, Parque Warner Bros. Madrid and a few Madrid photos:

Last view of the airport before heading home.

Thanks for reading and comments and thousands of thanks for everyone on the trip, you're all totally awesome!

My breakfast, why can't we have proper chocolate milk in Finland, we have like choco milk of soybeans and of oat and cocoa milk, but no real chocolate milk, boo! anyways, it was good.

Next day in the airport.

The Plaza Mayor square, right near my "home".

Madrid street.

A statue of Jesus on the way back towards the city, we saw this on the day before when going to the last park and back.

By this time I had went to a shopping outlet, which was closed, although it said everywhere it was open, so I had to spend 55 mins. there (wait for bus) and went to eat as there were open restaurants, this was my authentic spanish meal, btw. there were free refills.

A building close to the museum.

by this time I had dropped my luggage at the hotel and got here to Museo Nacional de Prado art museum, it was Sunday=free entry, so I spent about two hours there, it was nice.