48 - Sunday, August 9, 1992 ~ North Shore News

IF YOU caught TV’s view
of the bizarre and highly
theatrical opening ceremo-
nies at the Olympic Games
in Barcelona, you know the
Spanish pulled off a totally
different jaw-dropper from
Calgary’s Olympic effort.

By Kerry McPhedran
Special to the News

EXPO °92 in Seville is just as
different from Vancouver’s EXPO
86.

An Argentine friend grumbies
that the Spanish think they’re liv-
ing in the 16th century.

“They still think they’re ruling
the world.””

Maybe, but they sure know how
to put on a show, and they’ve got
their party clothes on until Oct.
12.

Unfortunately, a lot of people
are going to miss the one in
Seville. according to Greg Bar-
salou of West Vancouver’s Trust
Travel, who made the arrange-
ments for BCTV’s coverage of
Seville.

Barsalou has booked only one
family to Spain. That’s too bad.

Like most world expositions, .

EXPO '92, which celebrates the
500th anniversary of Columbus’
arrival in the Americas, got nega-
tive advance press.

I went recently for five days,
.with the critical eye of a writer
and exhibit consultant. While
EXPO '92 lacks some of the
friendliness of Montreal and Van-
couver,
language, partly culture.

A friend who lived there for
. three years swears the Spanish are
the most fun-loving people he
knows. Even so, I was bowled
over by the combination of EXPO
*92 and Seville.

This is the largest exposition
ever held, set in one of the oldest
and loveliest: cities in Spain. You
are living history — walking
where Columbus walked, seeing
what he saw.

if you haven’t thought seriously
about going to EXPO ’92, think

i suspect that’s partly

TRAVEL

Sensational Sevilla

EXPO ’92 in Seville: The Spanish sure know how to throw a party! (Pt. 1)

Photo Uave Jensen

VANCOUVER MUSICIAN Sarah McLachlan performs in the shaded courtyard of the Canadian pavil-

fon at Sevilie’s EXPO "92.

about it. Few countries will have
the money to pull off an exposi-

_ tion of this size and quality in the

future.

September and October are
ideal months to go — it’s cooler
and kids are back in school. EX-
PO ends on Oct. 12 — exactly
five centuries to the day since
Columbus and his lads stepped
ashore at San Salvadore to claim
the Americas for Queen Isabella.

The following should ease your
way and give you more pleasure
for your peseta. .

EXPO '92 versus EXPO 86?

More than four times the size of
EXPO 86, EXPO °92 is architec-
turally and visually more dramatic
and sophisticated. This is partly
because, like Montreal’s Expo 67,
EXPO ’92 is a Class-A universal
category exposition (it aiso sits on
an island in a river).

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its own pavilion (Class-B EXPO
86 provided modules).

EXPO °92 also commissioned
top international designers and
architects (including New York’s
SITE which dreamt up Highway
86 for Vancouver) to design
everything from whole plazas and
avenues to benches, drinking
fountains and theatres.

EXPO ’92 is no theme park (in
fact, there is no amusement zone).

This is a classic, elegant world ex-
position punctuated with all the
exuberance, fireworks, opera and
flamenco and horse shows which
only Andalusians (from Spain's
most southerly province) can
unleash.

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@ Expo Night: Pavilions close at
10 p.m., but since that’s when
most Sevillanos come to life, Expo
Night (most of the site) stays open
unti} 4 a.m., with families pro-
menading through the leafy
gardens and along the canals.
Entertainment is non-stop.

© Real stuff: Unlike EXPO 86,
besides the expected glut of video
and film from high-resolution
IMAX to 3-D, there is an amaz-
ing amount of original material on
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EXPO ’92. Ruled by the Moors
for 500 years, its fascinating |
Roman-Arabic-Judaic-Christian
past is mixed with the scent of
jasmine and orange trees.

One of the mst exotic cities in
Europe, Spain’s fourth largest city
is the home of Mozart’s famous‘
barber, the legendary lover Don
Giovanni and Carmen.

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and bullfighting, the university
ty of 700,000 is surprisingly
walkable. ns

Getting there

Spain’s new silent high-speed
AVE train between Madrid and :
Seville is well worth the 3'4-hour-
tide for the scenery and the fatu-
lous Madrid station.

J arrived from the airport in’:‘
Madrid, planning on buying a
tourist-class ticket ($70) on the:
next train only to find all seats
sold for the day on all trains ex-
cept one club (first) class at $200
— more than the one-way $130
Iberia flight! (Cash or credit; not
traveller’s cheques.)

Instead, fly British Airways
from Vancouver to London..or.
Lufthansa to Frankfurt. “Both
connect to Iberia’s direct flights to.
Seville.

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for the return ride to- ‘Madrid.
(Tourist seating is as comfortab!
as Club, just doesn’t include meal
and drinks.) Request no smok-
ing. :
if you return to Canada: from
Seville, you’ll have to overnight i in
London or Frankfurt. © * :

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