Saturday 25 January 2014

Birthday party in Andalucia? why not!

Yestarday I calebrated with my friends my birthday. They made me a surprise at home and we spent very good time together. It recalled me memories from my last birthday when I was on Erasmus and I spent a beautiful day with my friends from all over the world with great wheather ( It was sunny, about 25 grades, in January(!)) We managed to buy roundtrip cheap tickets for plane ( from Santiago de Compostela to Sevilla) It costed us less than 20 euros. In Spain, if you have a little of time, you can find really cheap tickets  between cities in The Iberian Peninsula, especially with Ryanair. This is a true that in Spain buses and trains are really comfortable and efficient but unfortunately they are quite expensive. Travelling by plane is cheaper and seems to be more interesting and faster. We spent some days in Andalucia, which is my favourite ragion of Spain. There are so many beautiful places and you can notice inheritance of arabic culture. So if you haven't decided which holiday destination choose, don't hesitate! Andalucia is a place worth visiting. When I have more freetime ( actually I study and work hard because of my period of exams) I'll write something more about details and how I enjoyed my time there. :)




Sunday 5 January 2014

how can we recognize spanish people on holidays?

I've just read an article in one of spanish pages http://www.revistagq.com  ( I can strongly recommend you this page, there are a lot of interesting articles in spanish) about how do spanish people behave on holidays. It's written in quite humorous way. It's said that to recognize polish people is not so difficult, but what do we know about spanish? So it's quite surprising because we don't differ from spanish so much. According to this article, They always complain about many things, especially the weather - it's easy to meet one spanish during holidys saying " Oh my God! What a shitty weather! In Spain there are 30 grades now. "  To find out more, read all article - http://www.revistagq.com/articulos/como-reconocer-a-un-espanol-en-el-extranjero/18241 you can improve your language skills and have fun. Enjoy and have a great lazy Sunday! :))


Thursday 2 January 2014

Christmas time

Hello! It won't be a surprise when I said that december is one of my favourite month. I think that not only because of many days off from work and university but also because of a special atmosphere. It's unique time when a lot of people do things which they normally don't do, for example, spend more time with family, give money to charity and move by seeing poor and sick children when usually it leaves them cold. Christmas time is also related with many traditional customs of each country. I would like to describe you some spanish christamas customs. The more common traditions include incredibly elaborate "Nacimiento" (nativity scenes), Christmas trees, and remarkable Christmas markets scattered among villages and cities with piles of fruits, flowers, marzipan and other sweets, candles, decorations and hand-made Christmas gifts.  The spanish Christmas Eve is interrupted by going to the church to Misa del Gallo ( Miss the rooster) at midnight. Tipical spanish Christmas dinner is never eaten until after midnight. After the dinner, family gather around the Christmas tree and sing all carols.  The most popular is Noche Vieja- an equivalent of english Silent Night or polish Cicha Noc. Although, there are not many people in Spain( especially youngers) which are practising Catolics, churches in that time are full.