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My #SomewhereSunday destination today is Spain. Barcelona is on my oldest daughter's bucket list as #1 and I hope someday I can make that happen for her...and tag along. *wink* I tend to lean more toward the European countries for places I want to go but Spain does land on my list and once I did a little more exploring it's easy to see why.
Spain is a big enough country that my tour guide of choice, Rick Steves, couldn't do it all in one tour so he broke up Spain into different regions. If you have the time explore Spain along with Rick Steves - I'll include a few of the videos in today's experience. To start, here's Rick Steves touring my daughter's numero uno destination choice and another place, Catalunya, where some of my favorite artists hail from!
Basque Government Health Department Head Offices, Bilbao
Check out this building! It's art.
Girona
The White Village of Casares Sierra, Bermeja, Andalusia
Now Rick Steves takes us to explore Northern Spain and the Camino de Santiago - including a run with the bulls in Pamplona!
Gujus Waterfall, Urkabustaiz
Let's talk about food. Some of the best flavors and foods in this world come from Spain. Here is one top 10, I recognized a couple of the dishes but a couple I was thinking of didn't show up here.
The tapas craze in the U.S. of A originates in Spain. I personally love it - you get a taste of many things in perfect portions. Pair tapas with some good beverages and it's the perfect dinner date with the girls. (Dudes tend to need more food, tapas are their warm-up!)
Barcelona
Castle of Sant Joan in Lloret del Mar, Costa Brava
Catalonia
Check these out! I'm obsessed.
According to my Google search they are Flores de Tajinaste Rojo
There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.
The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.
This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.
My #SomewhereSunday destination today is Spain. Barcelona is on my oldest daughter's bucket list as #1 and I hope someday I can make that happen for her...and tag along. *wink* I tend to lean more toward the European countries for places I want to go but Spain does land on my list and once I did a little more exploring it's easy to see why. 
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