Hope

After reading several newspapers these days, and listening to the tv newss, I am very concerned about the problem of I,migration.
Before, people who dreamed of arriving to Spain, with the aim of beginning a new life, where they could work and help to their families. The reality was very different. They had big problems to arrive in Spain, most of them were illegal immigrants. Here in Spain, Police was behind them. They couldn't find new opportunities. The best jobs were, low paid jobs. But they wanted to be legals and they dreamed of finding the awaited opportunity. Immigration, always has been a phenomenon where people tried to find new opportunities. The illegal immigration was focused, mainly in the south of Spain. Later, it was Italy. Now is all Europe, from Spain to Greece. People want to go to Germany, to other countries where they think the survival is assured. It's very sad reading this kind of news. Families go out of their countries. The face of the women and childs are striking. Behind they, countries full of problems, ilegal actions .... however, in front of them the uncertainly plays with the birth of new ( they are old) movements for Nazis.... where the victims will be all these families, men and women.
We are living in a society where the development is a chance to work together. Everybody has to work to avoid the illegal immigration, and the most important thing, to give them the chance of living and built with us a new world.

Our Trip Through The South of UK

I want to count on how was my trip along the south of UK, firstly our plans were to stay in British families' homes in order to experiment a proper inmersion cultural. I have to say that to hire spare rooms in England is a great business for British families.
The trip started in Brighton, a city at the coast with a nice pier, the piers are typical buildings in British beaches. We visited Eastbourne too.

A week later, we arrived by train to Bournemouth, a city at coast with a nice beaches, from there you can run tours by the forest in national parks by walking or cycling.
One of things that you can do in UK is visiting medieval places, we went to Salisbury, casually this year is the anniversary of the Carta Magna in 1215, where the British sat the powers division and sat the first human rights written. I have to recognize that they were very advanced for that period, Spain was invaded for the muslims in that period, so regrettably there were other priorities.
Finally, we went to London to remind an old travel in that city.

Living with families is a nice idea but it can have inconvenients, for example the first family in Brighton, the woman owner looked hippie, walked without shoes and really untidy, we prefer not to argue. the second family, they were vegans, a diet too much strict.

We found a lot of Spanish speakers in UK, they are studying, working or visiting UK. I feel confortable with the weather because it is very hot in Spain now but they prefer Spanish hot beaches and seawater on holiday, I understand it because it rains a lot of times there.


The best part of our trip for me are its countryside, always green, and their medieval places. The worst things are the food in supermarkets, due to the lack of products in comparison with Spain, the amount of fast-food restaurants and the prices, UK is a very expensive country, so you need a good salary to be able to live there reasonably well.

Mackinac Island

Déjame contarte de nuestro viaje de vacaciones. El jueves el 6 de agosto conducimos a la casa de mi hermana en el estado de Ohio, a ocho horas al norte de aquí. Pasamos tres días allí con los primos aprovechando la oportunidad de jugar juntos. El domingo subimos al coche de nuevo y conducimos al estado de Michigan, que está rodeado por los Great Lakes. Nuestra destinación fue la isla de Mackinac Island, una isla que tiene una larga historia con americanos nativos, cazadores de pieles, misioneros franceses, soldados de tres países y finalmente, turistas. Lo que atrae a los turistas hoy en día, además del tiempo y paisaje, es el hecho de que se prohiben los automoviles en la isla. Por eso abundan las bicicletas y caballos que tiran carros. Es una escena hermosa. ¡Qué agradable sea caminar por las calles sin el ruído de coches y camiones! Otro objetivo del viaje fue visitar a mi hijo que trabaja como pianista en la Grand Hotel en la isla. Después de tres días en la isla partimos hasta Canadá, donde disfrutamos de una excursión de un día en tren. Después de todo, llegamos a casa a medianoche del sábado, finalizando un viaje de más de dos mil millas.

I Learnt With You

(old popular song)
I learnt with you
that new and better emotions exist
I learnt with you
a full world of happiness*
I learnt
a week has more than seven days,
to make bigger my numbered joys,
and I learnt with you to be happy.
I learnt with you
to look the light to the other side of the moon,
I learnt with you
that I don't change your presence by anyone.
I discovered that a kiss can be sweeter and deeper,
that I can just leave of this world tomorrow,
I just lived with you the nice things.
And I learnt with you
that I was born the day that I met you
.....
Lyrics

(*) I think that "happiness" is closer translation than "hope"

Hello Matt, I will talk soon about my trip along south of UK.

Holidays

August is the month where everybody tends to enjoy their holidays. The worst of this month is the Price increase that everybody has to afford.
In the end, I think it's worth paying that increase with the aim of enjoy of your free days, breaking your daily routines.
I have spent some days abroad, and I can assure you that those days were wonderful. I could explore a country full of tales, mystery and brutal nature. Now I am thinking in my next destination ..... where .... I don't know yet, but I want to find a place where I can disconnect and enjoy of nature, landscape ...... culture ....