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

THE HILTON HOTELS

Hilton Hotels were founded in 1919 by C.H. in Texas. Between the years 1938-1945 "The Hilton" became the first coast-to-coast hotel chain in the US and the major national force in the hospitality industry.

In 1945 Hilton had the largest hotel in the world. A few years, the first Hilton Hotels was opened in Europe "The Castellana Hilton" in Madrid.

When Conrad H. died, his son was named charman of the board. In 1982, "Las Vegas Hilton" became the them-largest hotel in the world, with 3,174 guestrooms.
In 1995 Hilton introduced the hotel chain into cyberspace by landing its Internet site at http://www.hilton.com/

Now we are going to see the main brands of this famous hotel chain. "The Hilton family" hotel chain has 12 different branch worldwide.

Hilton is one of the leading global hospitality companies, with nearly 2,800 hotels and 485,000 rooms. It employs 150,000 people in more than 80 countries.
The status of the company is reflected on the revenue of 2005: that's abaut 4bn USD!!!!

Crème caramel

Ingredients for 4 people:
. 4 eggs
. half a litre of milk
. 200 g. of sugar
. half a cinnamon stick.
. lemon rind.

This is a very easy and traditional recipe. You can change any ingredient if you want to give it a different flavour.

First of all, you have to do the caramel, so put some spoons of sugar in a frying pan or in a saucepan and heat it until it turns brown and liquid, but don't forget to stir it all the time. Be careful when you heat it, because it can be burnt if you heat it too much. When it is brown and liquid, but not burnt, put it into different ramekins, moving each of them while you are dropping the caramel so that each ramekin can have the bottom covered with the caramel. Let them cool off until the caramel turns solid again.

After that, you can prepare the custard. First, preheat the oven to 180°C and then pour the milk in a saucepan and add the cinnamon stick and the lemon rind and bring it to the boil.

While the milk with the cinnamon and the lemon rind is heating you can put the eggs in a bowl and whisk them until they are well-blended. Just after that you can add the sugar the the eggs and go on whisking until they are very uniform.

When the milk boils, turn off the cooker and remove the cinnamon and the lemon rind and add the milk to the eggs and the sugar. Mix it well with a whisk or a mixer and when everything is well mixed, pour the custard into the caramel-lined ramekins.

Take a deep baking dish and fill it with water to come halfway up the sides of the ramekins and cover the dish with foil. Bake them until just set, 25 to 50 min. Remember to start checking early; baking time will depend on the thickness and depth of your ramekins and baking dish. Carefully remove the baking dish from the oven and let the ramekins cool in the water bath. Remove from the water and cover them with plastic wrap and refrigerate them at least 2 hours or up to 2 days.

Run a thin knife around the edge of the custard and invert onto a dessert plate, scraping any caramel from the ramekin onto the custard.

That's all. As you can see it's very easy and delicious.

Please, try to explain other recipes, something easy, not very complicated.

See you!!