Mis Vacaciones

Volví de vacaciones el sábado pasado.  Los vacacions fueron bien.  Hice todas las cosas que quiso hacer, ví los delfines y ballenas cuando estuvimos en la excursión en la catamarán.  Probé las papas arrugadas en salsa rojo, que mis amigos me recomendaron.  No hablé español mucho debido a que me parecí que mucha gente habla inglés en Las Islas Canarias.  Me gustó mucho la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela, nuestra última parada en España, pero cuando llegamos llovió.  Tuve que comprar un suéter de deportes para mantenerme caliente, hizo frío allí, es igual que el UK en el norte de España.  Mientras que estuve de vacaciones, el verano había llegado en el UK, pero inmediatamente que regresé, la temperatura bajó de nuevo, y mi amiga quiso que yo saliera de Inglaterra de nuevo. !Siempre es igual cuando estoy en extranjero!  Ahora hace frió y hay viento y lluvia y mi marido ha cogido un resfriado.  Tengo que pensar en donde quiero ir la próxima vez.

Isla

Last summer my wife, my children and I went to Isla, a small coastal village of the province of Cantabria in the north of Spain, beside to the Cantabrian seaside.

We went by car. Isla is at about 200 km from Logroño. The journey took about two hours. The roads and highways are excellents and once you go into Cantabria the view becomes in an spectacular scenery.

We stayed there for four night and five days. We were in a rural guest house which was away from the village a few hundred meters.

The rural guest house was big, cosy and beautiful. The dormitories were spacious as well as the bathrooms. There was an small swimming pool in a big courtyard. The swimming pool had a roof. The roof was folded in those days. In winter the roof turns the swimming pool into an indoor pool.  In the courtyard also there were a lot of trees and bushes, a large number of plants, ornamental fountains and a large area for children. In this area, there were among other things a board for table tennis, a pair of tables football, a basket net, several balls and a Frog game. With this game, my children and I had a great time. For my children it was something new.

The breakfasts and dinners were in the house's dinner room. This room was more or less a bit small but very pleasant. It was decorated with a rustic style. By general the food was very good and the kids enjoyed it a lot, because every night the cook cooked them what they wanted.

Each day, the main meal was out. We went to eat each time to a different restaurant. We know our children love doing it.

In the morning, after breakfast, we used to go for a walk on the surroundings. Everything was green around the house. We had good luck with the weather and the sun shone all the time, which does not happen very often in Cantabria.

All paths led to somewhere interesting. Many of them ended in a cliff. The view from above was spectacular. The sea breaking on the rocks, the white foam, the seagulls, some ship in the distance. We spent long whiles sat there, contemplating the scene. The kids lost no detail of anything, everything was exciting for them.

One morning we arrived at the end of a path which ended in slope. We could see a red roof domed. It seemed something strange. When we were nearer, we could see that the roof belonged to a lighthouse. But there was a little problem. The lighthouse was surrounded by a stone wall like a fence. This wall was not very tall. I could persuaded my wife and we climbed the wall.  It was worth the effort. The place was wonderful. My wife took a lot of photo, especially with the kids. The lighthouse was beside another cliff thus the set was spectacular.

After the walks we used to go to the beach. Really it was one of the beach more strange than I never saw. At about fifty meters into the sea was another beach a little smaller. My children and I had to make a big effort to reach it. I had to carry my younger son during a while on my back.  Between the two beaches everything was quiet but beyond the second beach the sea was rough and the waves were enormous.

We have been in many beaches but the beach of "Isla" is what bigger mark have left on my children.

Festival of San Mateo

Today have started the festival of San Mateo. These are the most important festivities of my city. They take place in the calendar week which includes the day on September 21, the day dedicated to the apostle in the calendar of saints' days.
Are markedly popular festivities, which dates back to the twelfth century, and that, since 1956, carried the nickname of Vintage Festival, given the proximity to the dates of grape harvest in a land marked by wine.
For us, the end of this week is the true beginning of course, the end of the summer and the beginning.... of the routine of every year.

Practicing with sentences

The year before, They had beaten West Germany 7 to 1 in Wembley.

Your fellow belarusian won a gold medal, they are a team with another guy whom I don't remember the name. They played very well, they are the best of them all.

I can't walk and chewing gum at the same time.
Which would it be your first stop?

I can not never understand their way of being.
Well, some people are kind and sympathetic, but others are really weird though.

So, you have few time for vacations remainig(or left?)

In February, 500 students applied to study at that university but, only 6 months later we were only fifty good students remaining.
The first year is like a "filter?" since it is all for free, only good students can continue.
Even if you are a good student if you get tired, then you don't stand a chance.
Despite they are very young, they are quite mature.

Abandanados

Aunque fui a un país que no se habla español, me encontré con una pareja de Barcelona y háblamos por una hora o más.

I seek them here, I seek them there, I seek los hablantes de españoles en todas partes jejejej

Noruega y Islandia

Regresé de mis vacaciones hace cuatro días.  Fui con mi marido a los Fiordos de Noruega y Islandia.  Qué bonitos son los Fiordos y qué misterioso Islandia.  La población en Islandia es tan bajo, y todo parece nuevo, los edificios y calles están muy limpias.  La guía nos dijo que probablemente Islandia es el país más limpio del mundo, porque tomen todo su energía desde bajo la tierra lo que tambien ofrece las piscinas con agua caliente la que están en todos los pueblos. También apenas hay crimen. No es una sorpresa que en Islandia segun la guía su pasatiempo favorito es nadar y despues pasa tiempo en las bañeras calientes chismorreando con sus venicos.  Islandia da la impresión de espacio, las cuidades son pequeñas y en el campo hay gran espacios entre los vecinos.  No hay muchos árboles y tiene algunos bosques muy pequeños de los que son muy ogullosos.  Pero tambien tienen un bromeo que va así - si estás perdido en el bosque de Islandia justo paso atrás y vas a ver donde está jejejejeje