WHERE DO YOU GO?

It is time to the best days in the year...the HOLIDAYS!!!
I can`t go now,but i will do a cruise in october during 10 days and going to diferent cities as some as Mikonos,Estambul,Venecia....
The cruises are bigs boat with a cappacity for 2000person or more....
The cruise have 400 workers and have all you need,casino,discoteque,spa,restaurant...it is a city in the water.
The prices are around 1000€ and it is incluyed the food,drinks but without incluying the excursion in different cities.
The best company of cruises are MSC,but nowadays diferent companys as some as Pullmantur or Costa Cruceros ofering several prices with diferent options to do great offers.

HOLIDAYS

In summer, people enjoy holidays with friends, family, couple... They can choose beach, mountain or city.

In the other hand, some people will work to save money and then they travel anywhere without stress.

From my point of view, I prefer beach since I want to sunbathe in some wonderful place. So, I´m going to work in the morning and then I will go to the beach since it is near. I like going to Tenerife in September again. So, I´ll stay several days to relax there.

Finally, I hope you a nice holidays.

See you soon!!

SPORT AND FACILITIES

SPORT AND FACILITIES:

Sport and exercise are important part of my life.

First because I like sport.I like much to go by bike, play tennis,go to walk,run and go to train the futbol.In the weekend game in a female football club. I don´t like cricket, motor racing and boxing.

Second: I believe that sport is very healthy for health.De stays in shape and in my case I can relax and sleep better at night.

My advice is that everyone practises some or she likes several sports during the week since it is good for health and fun.

You don´t need a lot of money for sports just takes time and dedication.

In the city there are several gyms, swimming pools, tennis courts,football fields, etc.

And you likes sport?

MUSIC

I like latin music,classical m,traditional,pop,chamber and opera because I enjoy listening.i didn´t like heavy metal music and reggae music because to harvest a very loud music and I don´t like.

The last concert of music I went last year was in santiago where I went to listen to and Sabina and Serrat.Only can hear a half-hour concert as it had bad weather, and it rained so they stopped.
I also like playing guitata and flauta.I like to know playing the piano.

I don´t like playing the drums.

What music likes you?

GUIDE TO HEALTHY MEALS

I went to the doctor last monday and he gave me a guide to healthy meals. This is the guide:

- FOR BREAKFAST:

Muesli is a very good choice. Or eat a wholewheat cereal with semi-skimmed milk and no sugar. If you have toast, use wholewheat bread, and have no sugar in your tea.

- TAKE AWAYS:

A baked potato is a good choice, but use a cottage cheese filling. If you hace a burger, use a wholemeal bun, and have a salad but not chips. (Don´t have fish and chips), there is a lot of fat in this.


- MAIN MEALS

Spaghetti bolognese is OK if you use wholewheat spaghetti and eat more spaghetti than sauce. Roast chicken is good choice, but eat it with boiled potatoes, and have yoghurt with apple tart.
A very good choice is vegetable curry, but use brown rice.


I am trying eat more healthy, and you?

Answering to Mr Borja

Dear Mr Borja:

I´m Eva Esperón and I´m the manager in the "Hotel Sena". We stay very cheerful that you are interesting to do a booking in our hotel.
Our hotel is a 3 stars and it is situated in the centre of the city but we have a free parking near here, approximate to 200 metres, and it is incluyed in the price.
All the rooms have bathroom and there are rooms with double or single bed. In this period is low season and it would be posible offer you a double exterior room as soon as a no smoke room within problems.
The hotel is open 24 hours and there is a recepcionist all the day in the hotel. So you needn´t call before.
our price in a double room is 5o € by person a night and it is incluyed breakfast and I.V.E., futhermore , if you want,we have restaurant in the hotel and you can meal or dinner here.


Yours sincerely





Eva Esperón

The course finished it

The next Thursday will be our last day of this course.I hope for all us that we pass the examination.I want to tell you: I think that this course has been very nice and I wish for seeing us the next course and to have a good time like this year ( and to laugh very much with Borja at class)

Message for my teachers:It is incredible , two years ago , I Knew nothing of English language and today I can speak, write( with mistakes),read in English ( I didn´t think that this would posible, but was worthwhile.If several of my teachers of ESCOL see me, they wouldn´t belive it)

Good chance for all.

Booking in a Hotel

Dear Director

My name is Borja and I try to do a booking a room in your Hotel.

I have different dougth about the hotel instalations and facilities .
Where the hotel is? Is It in the old town?
I wish to find a room with shower,marriaged bed and don´t smoke room.
If is it possible exterior room but If it is not very important for me.
I needed a parking for my car,do you have parking?
The hotel has Spa or gym?
I will go at 12Hours, the Hotel is open or I must do a call for open me the Hotel?
The breackfast is incluyed?
What is the price,incluying the Tax and Tips?


Thanks for your help!!!!

Gumball 3000

Gumball 3000
Gumball 3000 it is a race for rich people who they wanted another experience and spend her money crossing different cities in its luxury cars
The gumball borned in 1999,in Chicago and the race consist in be the first in the final line.
The race of 2008 began in London and it was finished in Berlin after a 6 days of crazy race.
The winner was Bo Brigthes with her Merceles SLK.
All the cars has a big sticker in the car with the name of Gumball 3000 and the autorities was knowed the cars and the racebut them can not did anything for closing the race.
The best of the race are the parties,becouse the most popular people go to this partys.
Next year i will ride wiht mi Seat 600 Tunning.
Do you want to be my Co-Pilot?

A weekend break

From my point of view, People who is finding a nice place where they can stay, they must choose a spa.

A spa is a centre of health where there are some therapies and treatments using as a resort the water.

On the other hand, it is a centre of leisure where there are some therapies with jacuzzis, swimming-pool, sauna and solarium.

The best way of relaxing is a spa without dubt. For example, a weekend break near Pontevedra can be going to Sanxenxo.

In this place there are several spas. You could stay at the weekend and you will go back home as a renovated person.

In addition, you can visit Sanxenxo since it is a beautiful village. Then, you can eat anywhere so you would taste their traditional dishes.

On Monday, you can go to work wihtout inconveniences since the therapies help you a lot.

MONEY

Then I played a lot of money if I would make many things.
First I would ensure my future by buying a flat where they live. I have to buy a car for myself because I have not. And if I have any debt to the bank or someone canceled.
Secondly, I would buy some fancy clothes for example, Cologne, etc.. I also buy a ticket to travel and learn about the world.
Thirdly help to needy relatives or friends and if I play too many millions he gave a few. It would also give money to the needy and probes.
And lastly what I would enter a bank to be able to live with them. But also continue to work.
What would you if you play a lot of money?
Greetings Ramona

PARIS

DEAR PARTNERS:



Here I am in Paris and it is raining, but I love Paris, it´s a wonderful city and there´s so much to do. Friday I went shopping in St Germain and then went to a concert in the evening and yesterday I went to Disney Park with my husband and my children, they enjoy a lot with Mickey and your friends. There are a lot of tourist in Paris in May, but I don´t mind. We saw an old friend of mine today and we walked along the seine and went dinner ina a terrace near the tower Eiffel, it was marvellous. I hope return the next year.



kisses







eva

Letter of desagree

Dear Major:
I write you,because I'm very desagree with the pointer in your town.
The last Easter, my family and I travelled from Madrid to Galicia to pass nice relax days.When we arrived in your town , we turn around during two hours for arriving in at our hotel,we haven't find some tourism office opened.
I hope that the next summer, we can find more indications for arriving to our destination, if not, the next year we will go another place to pass the holidays.
Thanks for all and salutations.

Switzerland

I want to tell us of Switzerland which was the country where I lived many years ago.
I traveled in Switzerland in Juni 1985 just for passing 3 monts in holydays (because my parents lived there) and I returned in Spain in december 1999...
Firstly, I should say that I think that this experience was whortwhile to live it. I learned a lots of things and I Knew many people of others countries.
Its habits, architecture,dishes,etc, are very diferent of Spain.The Swiss people is sincere, educate and they care a lot of their cities,gardens, animals...The landscapes are beautiful, in their high mountains mixed it a several of colours like:white (snow), green (trees),blue (lakes).
In other hand, to live there isn´t bargain,because there are several taxes.

APPLE PIE

An apple pie is a fruit pie in which ther principal ingredient is the apples. It is sometimes served with cream on top of it.

INGREDIENTS:

Cooking apples such as the Granny Smith, they are crisp and acidic. The fruit for the pie can be fresh and canned.

the recipe for apple pie require good apples, good spices, figs, raisins and pears. Saffron is used to colouring the pie fillin, and a ounce or two of sugar.

In English speaking countries, apple pie is a dessert of enduring popularity: eaten hot or cold, with cream or double cream. It is always a delicious desert.

Extreme challenge

Last sunday i saw a extreme challenge,is a program tv about the life and travels around the world of Jesus Calleja.
Jesus is not a tipical travellers,he does extreme challenges as well as climbing the everest,race the Paris-dakar or crossing the Polo North.He is a adventurer.
Last week he climbed the Peaks of Europe with Zapatero,the president of Spain.
For me the best trip was the crosing Fire land,with a no knowed route,the team was formed for 6 persons and walking 6 days for did the expedition.
The team went to the expedition with one bag,the bag weigth around 60kg,and inside have the food,the tent and wear.
The best moment of the expedition was the crossing the frozen lake,becaouse was very dangerous.
I invited you to see the next program.

THE SIMPSON

Most of people have seen sometimes these cartoons. The history tell us the life an american family that they live in the fictional town of Springfield. The simpson were created by Matt Groening. The members of this familiy are: Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie.

First, Homer is the head of the household. He works in a nuclear power station. Physically, he is fat and short. He has a little hair. He wear a blue trousers, white shirt and black shoes. His personality is very childish. His hobbies are wathing tv, eating donuts, driking beer in the Moe´s bar and playing skittles.

His wife is Marge. She is a housewife very responsible in her housework. She is tall and thin. She has a large and blue hair. She wear a green dress and she has a pearl necklace.

Then, Lisa with her eight years old is a very intelligent girl. She wear a red dress, red shoes and she has a pearl necklace. She is an excellent studient and she pass every exams. Her hobbies are reading, riding horse and playing saxophone.

On the other hand, Bart is ten yerars old. He wear a blue shorts ,red t-shirt and white training. He isn´t good studient since He prefer play with his best friend Milhouse. Bart is a Joker. His favourite character is Krusty the clown. He likes making trouble with his catapult and his skateboard.

Finally, Maggie is only one years old. She doesn´t speak altought she express her words trought her dummy. She doesn´t walk neither. She wear a blue pyjamas. In her hair has a blue ribbon.

In conclusion, The Simpson are a very funny family. Every day they are broadcasted in Antena3 or Neox. We can see two chapters full of laughter, entertainment and fun.

My favourite stars

The Beatles are the most famous pop group of all times. They started in a club in Liverpool, "the cavern " . after some time and some changes in the group, John lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr became famous because of their music and hair styles.
Songs like "please, please me" and "She loves you", written by Lennon and McCartney, were famous all over the world. From that moment all their records were number one in the Hit Parade. People said they were rebels but all they wanted was a world with a little more love and peace.
The Beatles also made some funny films: "Help" and "Yellow submarine". There was nobody in the world who didj not know the beatles. They do not play as a group any more, and Jonh Lennon was killed by a madman in New York some years ago.

Do you know any Beatles'songs? I'm sure you do

EASTER

Easter is the annual commemoration of the Christian churches that make the mystery of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ. To celebrate the anniversary of these events each year at the appropriate time the Christians celebrated the Resurrection of Christ (Easter).
This commemoration is prepared with the forty days of Lent. We began on Palm Sunday to the memory of Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem. On Holy Thursday we remember the Last Supper of Jesus with the apostles which instituted the sacrament of the Eucharist. On Friday we celebrated the Lord's passion and death on the Cross.
Holy Saturday, we had a waiting near the tomb of Christ, his resurrection we celebrate jubilantly that night at the Easter Vigil, which opens the great celebrations of the holy days of Passover. The Easter Vigil (Saturday night through Sunday) is the most solemn and important celebration throughout the Christian liturgical year.
That night, after sailing, singing Announcement of Easter, the readings are read from the Old Testament, especially the first Passover, the Jewish Passover is.
How other countries celebrate Easter?
Greetings

HELLO PEOPLE OF THE WORLD

There are five billion people in the world and they live in all different corners of it. they live on the snow and ice of the poles and in the tropical jungles on the equator.

The human species ins the most numerous and the most powerful of all the animals on the earth and we are different because no other animal builds cathedrals, plays football, gets married, writes books. elects presidents or goes to the moon.

there is one thing above all that makes people and animals, people love to talk-talk-talk..., we are the great comunicators, and we can comunicate so many things: with our faces, our hands, our bodies and our voices.

we are the only species that can change the world, and we are the only species than can choose either to look after our world or to destroy it.

New technologies

Nowadays, more people has a computer in their hands for every reasons. From children until grown-ups have used every time a informatic system since it is very important to do all kind of works to computer. There are some examples about it.

One of them can be for business since companies need be up to date in their accounts. On the other hand, young people use new tecnologies to talk with another people throught messenger, badoo, facebook... It can be the beginning of new friends in the web.

In addition, it can also be used to send some notes between students for example in the website.

Finally, now there are computing courses for old people. It is a good way to learn since they couldn´t do it before so it is an opportunity.

Actually, they get be trendy in the new tecnologies.

Geisha, Geiko and Maiko

Geisha, Geiko and Maiko

A "Geisha" is a profesional entertainer whose knowledge in traditional arts, verbal sharp and skills to keep a secret makes her to win respect. This profession, borns in XVII century, has been discredit for the activities of the geishas onsen who make more sexual arts.

The real Kioto´s Geishas prefer to call them "Geiko" (art´s daughter).

Maiko is a learner-geisha.You can only find them in Kioto where they offer public dances in spring and autumn. The rest of the year, you can only see them in a ryotei, ochaya and ryokan ( restaurants, houses of tea and luxury hotels).

Low budgets

Low Bugets

Everybody want to travel to another place,city or town....the usuasy problems are the time and the money.
Nowadays,begin a new form of tourism,the low cost,with a low budget you can travel to another city or town,visiting the most important places
The best way to travel is the airplane,with raynair,airberlin or others companys,have a great prices for travel to the best important cities in europe.
For slepping the best form is made a booking with time,you can find specials offers,also you can sleep in a hostel or camping with pricy prices.
The best for to move in a big city is the public tranport,is cheap ,safety and faster...
London is a great example,Raynair fligt every day to Gatwick,( 30km to London City) from the best airports and cities with incredible prices from 1€.

Crossing the Usa across the Route 66

Well...something persons dreaming with crossing the mityc route 66 (the Main Street of America) The original route begin in Chicago and crossing Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New México, Arizona, California and finished in Los Angeles.
This route is the motorbikers dreaming. Them dream with crossing the route with a harley davison,sleeping in the desert and living a real Rider life.
Nowadays the route change the original way,and have diferents options to cross USA.
I wish do the orinal route in a van,the tryp during maybe 3 moths and stopped in all the cityes to made tourism.
For sleep the best option is the Motel,is cheap,clean and stay behing the road.
The food is very bad and expensive in usa,but you don`t die,and the cofee is horrible than Spain.

TYPICAL FOOD FROM YOUR AREA:

TYPICAL FOOD FROM YOUR AREA:

Galician Broth.

This is the most popular dish in the rural Galician kitchen.

The meal takes simple items that could be found in one's own garden. For its development, you have to use the typical turnip tops (leaves in a kind of turnip that is found in Galicia), but if you don’t have any, you may replace them by cabbage.

Ingredients for 6 people:

• 300 grams of white beans.
• 3 / 4 kilo of potatoes.
• 1 bunch of turni tops.
• 400 grams of a pork bone150 grams of fat salty.
• 250 grams of beef.
• 1 sausage Galician.
• 50 grams of lard (unto)
• Salt to taste.

Preparation:

Leave the beans soaking from the night before.

Put a high pot or kettle in the cooker with about 2.5 liters of water, beans, meat, sausage and pork bone.

When it starts to boil, take the lard and let it cook over a low heat for 1 hour or less.

Add the turni tops, well washed with sliced potatoes and cut in large pieces.

Add and let it cook until everything is well cooked.

To make it thick, you can draw a few potatoes and beans and crush them with a bit of broth and add this paste to the pot, mixing everything. Everyhhing has to be served with the soup, beans, potatoes and turni tops; otherwise you can take the meat to make some croquettes.

Beach ,Mountain or City?

If oyu now can have a holidays where you go?Beach,mountain or city?
If you want to see,i thing you go to the city.You can caugth a bus and make a tour around the city visiting the best interested places,landmarks,museum and the best restaurants.The comunications are well and easiest.You can see the nigth sigthseeing.
If you choose mountain,maybe the unless choised,you can walk around the mountain,see rivers,and made adventure sports.Is very dificult to do becouse is very risky,but is the cheaper than the rest.
If you choose beach,you can catch a big paradisiac hotel in the caribe,drinking mojitos,having a sun in golden sand and see wonderfulls beaches in a all incluyed hotel...
I don`t know but i choose all incluyed!!!

ECOTOURISM

Nowadays, tourism is a very important source of currency for any country. Also, with the low-fares airlines every day more popular, travelling has become easier for most of the people...so we find hundreds of people queuing to visit Eiffel Tower or swimming in Caribean Sea...but, is it sustainable? Ecologist and “green” ideas are increasing importance in nearly everybody's mind...so, if you put together this two factors, you'll understand what “ecotourism” is ; the idea is to continue getting financial benefits from tourism, not only for big travel agencies but also for local people, but trying to minimize impact of visitors, building respect for the visited places and making it sustainable without destroying the environment. These are, basically, ecotourism principles ; do you agree with them? What do you think about building up big hotels 600m far from seaside. Or about the so called “sun and beach” tourism, so popular in sunny places?

PROPHECIES : Do you think is possible to predict the end of the world?

In Galicia we believe in "meigas", but should we believe in prophecies? Some of these prophecies say that the end of world is coming soon...and when we realise wars increasing, AIDS spreading, and now economic recesion , what we want to know is, are we going to last until next week? The most famous prophecies were written 400 years ago by the french mystic Michel de Notredame, better known as Nostradamus ; he wrote 942 verses and, although these prophecies are not very explicit, Nostradamus' supporters say that he predicted the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Second World War, the war in the Persian Gulf and even the 11-S...should we take them seriously? what do you think about it?

Exams!!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooo

Last night, I was dreaming about me in a little classroom and a very big teacher who said me "you 'll never this exam!!!!", I'm terrified!! I woke up very scared, with a great headache... 

This exams, mixed with the work and other personal subjects are killing me. My stress grow every day a little, and this is unbearable, I wish this month pass quickly and I don't became into a neurotic.  

Good Hollydays

Hello; my name is César, I live in Galicia and I have to say that last month I went on hollydays to Tenerife island. It was a fantastic experience which I will never forget.

I spent a week in that island. I arrived at the hotel at night and it was much hot, besides people weared shorts; I couldn't believe it!!!

I spent three days visiting all the island and three days going to the beach.

I could sea some mountains (Teide), museums and the tipycal towns of the island.

I think that it is a beautiful place to relax yourself and not to think in your own life. I recomend you going because it is an experience that nobody should loose.

Fitur.

This month begin maybe the best tourism fair in Europe.
Fitur begin the 28-29-30 of January for professional and 1 and 2 of February for the public. In Fitur, if you go to work you can find the best travel companies in the world, and represented the best tourist destinations you wanted as well as have information about your future travel. Fitur have 12 pavilions with 3 different zones. First zone: This is for the biggest travel companies, in this zone exposed the new ideas and product for the next season. Here you can talk with all companies (or the better your thing) for sold your product or have a idea about the products you can need in your work. Also have a Speeches about the international tourism or the new ideas about the tourist. Second Zone: This zone is the internacional zone,Here you can have information about all best tourist destinations .You can find maps, travels agencies, hotels….Furthermore this is the exotics view about the fair because you see diferrents customers in a small zone.In fact you can stay between China Stand and Australia Stand with the typical wear. Third zone: This is the Spanish zone,All regions are represented with bigs stands and you can take information about the zones. Maybe this pavilion is the best visiting because in Spain we prefer to travel around Spain. Here is normal to see famous people represented a regions.
I wish see you in Fitur 2009, I will go!!!

holidays

HOLIDAYS


I`m Maria Cambeiro. I like traveling and know new places.

When we are on holidays during a short period of time, we usually lost our time looking for places that someone has been before. It is very interesting to visit the Big Ban if you are in London and the Eiffel Tower if you are in Paris, all the places which are recomended by travel agencies, trotamundos, etc. are interesting, but, have you ever been in a place wihtout map or guide?, it could be an interesting adventure too.

Spa, an important tourism resource

Hello everybody. My name is Anxo and i work for a Spa company.
Traditionally, a spa is a place with hot mineral water to have medical baths, so spa were related to health tourisim and main customers were old people. Now a days, some spa have kept the old idea of being a place where ill people go to improve their health state by having hot mineral water baths, but many others have developed this concept to create the new spa resorts, which are more related to wellness, beauty and relax than health. Inside this places, it´s very common to find big swimming pools with a lot of muscle relaxing elements such as water jets, bubble jets, waterfalls, jacuzzi, bubble beds and others. Usually there are finish sauna and hamann or wet sauna inside them too . Several types of massage and many other body and facial treatments are available to the customers . Due to this big offer, spa customers form at present an assorted group of people, they aren´t just the sick elderly as they used to be, they are middle aged women, couples, families, old people or young sportsmen. Almost any kind of person can enjoy and feel better inside a spa.
Mental stress caused by work and life is the most common modern disease, and everybody wants eliminate it, that´s why they go to the spa, to relax. Many tourism business men have realised about this and have built one in their hotels, and many tourists go a certain hotel because it has a spa and other hotels in the same region don´t.
Due to all this reasons, i think that spa have become an important tourism resource.

Paradores

Hi everybody, mi name is Rebeca and I am from Galicia. In my first post I would like to write about Paradores, maybe the most important Spanish hotel Chain.

Paradores are hotels which are located in unique places, as historic buildings, old palaces or convents. All of them are buildings totally renovated to accommodate tourists with all the facilities, but also there are buildings recently built.

Because of its public ownership one of the main interests of Paradores is to refurbish historic buildings, as well as to improve tourism in areas which need it.

Furthermore, over the years, Paradores have incorporated to other business. At present, a lot of them have their own stores where you can buy products of the own brand. In addition, there are different Paradores that have their own restaurants where you can find typical food from the region.

Nowadays, there are 91 paradores distributed in three categories, three, four and five stars. Most of them are four stars establishments. On the other hand only two of them are five stars, Santiago de Compostela and Leon.

In my opinion Paradores is one of the best options to travel around Spain without renounce to high quality tourism