tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57469694029859029842024-03-06T04:26:43.756+01:00WanderingWonderingSome travel inspiration by a travel lover...Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-42061903360758333182012-08-22T18:52:00.003+02:002012-08-22T18:52:46.657+02:00Southeast US: Day 4, 2nd part, Blue Ridge Parkway<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"> I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">know I had left this travel for too long, but here I come back with it.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"><span title="Como comentaba en el post anterior, una posibilidad es quedarse en Asheville para ver la mansión Biltmore, pero si no os apetece especialmente este sería un buen plan."><a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/southeast-us-day-3-2nd-part-great-smoky.html">As I said in the previous post</a>, one possibility is to stay in <u></u><u></u>Asheville<u></u><u></u> to see the Biltmore Estate, but if you don’t feel like it this itinerary I am going to talk about would be a good plan. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="Tras tomar fuerzas con un buen desayuno en Asheville podéis ver un poquito el pueblo antes de meteros en la carretera.">After a good breakfast in <u></u><u></u>Asheville<u></u><u></u> you can a bit of the town before getting yourselves on the road. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="Hay casas muy bonitas de las familias adineradas que venían a la zona para mejorar su salud y el pueblo también es interesante.">There are beautiful houses of the wealthy families who came to the area to improve their health and the town itself is also interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="Retomamos después el camino por la Blue Ridge Parkway."><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Then, we go back to the <u></u><u></u>Blue Ridge Parkway<u></u><u></u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="Solo conduciendo y parando en los incontables miradores ya tienes estampas como esta:">Just driving and stopping from time to time at the countless viewpoints you will have pictures like this:</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span title="La primera parada puede ser en Craggy Gardens pero si no tenéis mucho tiempo y queréis disfrutar de cada cosa sin estar mirando el reloj os recomiendo conducir directamente hasta el Mount Mitchell State Park."><div style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">You may do your first stop at</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"> </span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">Craggy</span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"> </span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">Gardens</span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">but if you do not have much time and want to enjoy each thing without looking at your watch I recommend driving directly to</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"> </span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">Mount Mitchell</span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"> </span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">State Park</span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><u style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"></u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="El Monte Mitchell, de cerca de 2000 metros de altura, es el pico más alto de los Apalaches, el más alto también del este de los Estados Unidos y el tercero más alto de todo el país."><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="El Monte Mitchell, de cerca de 2000 metros de altura, es el pico más alto de los Apalaches, el más alto también del este de los Estados Unidos y el tercero más alto de todo el país."><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mitchell">Mount Mitchell</a>, about <u></u>2000 m<u></u> high,.is the highest peak in the Appalachians, the highest also in the eastern <u></u><u></u>United States<u></u><u></u> and the third highest in the country. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;">It is named after Elisha Mitchell, who first calculated its height in 1835. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;"><span title="Este hombre murió en 1857 al resbalar y caer por las cataratas que también llevan su nombre, lasMitchell Falls">This man died in 1857 after slipping and falling over the falls that also bear his name, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Falls">Mitchell Falls</a>, when he came back to verify his calculations. </span><span title="Habiendo estado allí y visto lo inhóspito de la cumbre, con un viento tremendo y bastante frío siendo solo octubre, me parece increíble que alguien con las condiciones de la época pudiera adentrarse allí y conseguir medir la altura correctamente.">Having been there and seen it how uncomfortable the weather is at the summit, with a tremendous and very cold wind in only early October, I find it incredible that someone with the conditions of that time could get there and do such calculations.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="Si se os hace la hora de comer no os quedará más remedio que comer en el restaurante que está al lado de todo esto, no tenéis nada más en muchos kilómetros a la redonda.">If time for lunch is getting close you will have to eat at the restaurant next to the summit, since you have nothing more for many miles around. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="De todas formas, y quitando la espera, no estaba mal, era muy parecido en calidad y precio a todo lo que íbamos viendo así que no se puede decir que fuera el típico sitio con comida horrible y un precio altísimo que se aprovecha de ser el">In any case, and forgetting about the waiting time for a table, it was not bad, it was very similar in quality and price of all that we saw in the area so I can not say it was the sort of place with terrible food and the highest price that takes advantage of being the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="único abierto en la zona.">only one in the area. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.05pt;" title="Y las vistas, geniales por supuesto (me vais a decir que estoy obsesionada con las vistas... :) )">And the views, great of course (you are going to say I'm obsessed with views ... :))</span>
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Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com3Mt Mitchell, Pisgah National Forest, South Toe, Carolina del Norte 28714, EEUU35.764979 -82.265062735.7520945 -82.2848037 35.777863499999995 -82.2453217tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-56384179631887651382012-08-06T09:00:00.000+02:002012-08-22T18:53:09.444+02:00Southeast US: Día 4, 1ª parte, Blue Ridge Parkway<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sé que había dejado este viaje un poco abandonado, aquí vuelvo con él. Como comentaba <a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/southeast-us-dia-3-2-parte-great-smoky.html">en el post anterior</a>, una posibilidad es quedarse en Asheville para ver la mansión Biltmore, pero si no os apetece especialmente este sería un buen plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tras tomar fuerzas con un buen desayuno en Asheville podéis ver un poquito el pueblo antes de meteros en la carretera. Hay casas muy bonitas de las familias adineradas que venían a la zona para mejorar su salud y el pueblo también es interesante.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Retomamos después el camino por la Blue Ridge Parkway. Solo conduciendo y parando en los incontables miradores ya tienes estampas como esta:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">La primera parada puede ser en Craggy Gardens pero si no tenéis mucho tiempo y queréis disfrutar de cada cosa sin estar mirando el reloj os recomiendo conducir directamente hasta el Mount Mitchell State Park. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">El <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mitchell">Monte Mitchell</a>, de cerca de 2000 metros de altura, es el pico más alto de los Apalaches, el más alto también del este de los Estados Unidos y el tercero más alto de todo el país. Se llama así en honor a Elisha Mitchell, que fue quien calculó su altura en 1835. Este hombre murió en 1857 al resbalar y caer por las cataratas que también llevan su nombre, las <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Falls">Mitchell Falls</a>, cunado iba a tomar nuevas medidas para verificar las que había tomado. Habiendo estado allí y visto lo inhóspito de la cumbre, con un viento tremendo y bastante frío siendo solo octubre, me parece increíble que alguien con las condiciones de la época pudiera adentrarse allí y conseguir medir la altura correctamente. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hay una torre de observación a la que accedes subiendo algunos metros tras dejar el coche, que ofrece estas preciosas vistas (aunque en un día sin niebla seguro que hubieran sido mucho más espectaculares):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Si se os hace la hora de comer no os quedará más remedio que comer en el restaurante que está al lado de todo esto, no tenéis nada más en muchos kilómetros a la redonda. De todas formas, y quitando la espera, no estaba mal, era muy parecido en calidad y precio a todo lo que íbamos viendo así que no se puede decir que fuera el típico sitio con comida horrible y un precio altísimo que se aprovecha de ser el único abierto en la zona. Y las vistas, geniales por supuesto (me vais a decir que estoy obsesionada con las vistas... :) )</span></div>
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Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com2Mt Mitchell, Pisgah National Forest, South Toe, Carolina del Norte 28714, EEUU35.764979 -82.265062735.7520945 -82.2848037 35.777863499999995 -82.2453217tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-20558559667754881152012-07-30T09:00:00.000+02:002012-07-30T09:00:08.141+02:00A bit of madrid: second partAnd this is the rest/<span style="color: #660000;">Aquí va el resto</span>:<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Os podéis creer que nunca me había fijado en lo que sostiene la estatua? No sé si me acaba de gustar pero es original que sean reproducciones de sus cuadros.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Y finalmente la ampliación última que se hizo</span> /And finally the last enlargement that was done</div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com2Jardines del Museo del Prado, Paseo del Prado, 28014 Madrid, España40.4143191 -3.692911640.4128081 -3.6953791 40.4158301 -3.6904441tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-64356280263413596282012-07-24T09:00:00.000+02:002012-07-24T09:00:11.291+02:00A bit of Madrid<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Hoy os dejo con algunas fotitos de mi ciudad, tomadas hace pocas semanas en mitad del calor abrasador que soportamos en verano.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> Por cierto, sobretodo para los que sois de fuera, no se os ocurra venir en verano, esto es un horno, calor seco a lo bestia. En enero tampoco es el mejor momento... Para mi los mejores meses en cuanto al clima serían marzo, abril, mayo, octubre y noviembre. Por supuesto puede llover, pero es poco probable que el termómetro baje de 5 grados (al menos de día) o suba de 25º (aunque en mayo alguna sorpresa os podéis llevar).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Las fotos son de los alrededores del Museo del Prado, visita imprescindible. Os podéis creer que nunca había estado por la parte de atrás del Museo? A veces me pregunto si a los demás les pasará lo mismo que a mi, como reservo el tiempo libre para las vacaciones (léase viajes) visito muy pocos sitios en mi ciudad, siempre tengo la excusa de que puedo volver en cualquier otro momento. Quizá debíamos tomarnos más respiros en nuestras ajetreadas vidas... Estuve aquí ese día por pura casualidad, y por pura casualidad también llevaba la cámara. Debo confesar algo: me encantó hacer de turista en mi propia ciudad!!</span></div>
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By the way, especially for those who are from other countries, do not ever think of visiting in summer, this is an oven, literally. January would not be the best time either for the opposite reasons... To me the best months regarding the weather would be March, April, May, October and November. Of course it can rain, but at least it is unlikely that the thermometer will drop below 5º C (at least during the day) or over 25ºC (although in May it can bring some surprises).</div>
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The photos are taken around the Prado Museum, a must as a visit. Can you believe I have never been in the other side to the building? Sometimes I wonder if it happens to everyone as it does to me, that as I reserve most of my free time for the holidays (ie trips) I visit very few places in my city, I have always the excuse that I can return at any other time. Perhaps we should take more breaks in our busy lives ... I was here that day by chance and by chance also had the camera. But I must confess something: I loved being a tourist in my own city!</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Y por fin estoy de vuelta!!! Ha costado, pero parece que el ordenador vuelve a su ser... Entretanto este blog ha cumplido un añito, muchas gracias a todos los que lo seguís!!!</span></div>
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And at last I am back! Not easily, but finally it seems my computer is back to work again. In the meantime, this blog has just turned a year old, thank you so much to all those who read it!!!</div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-39100479765418682752012-07-03T16:30:00.000+02:002012-07-03T16:30:03.273+02:00Coming back soon, I hope<div style="text-align: center;">
Hi! Just to let you know that because of a very intelligent virus that has infected my computer I don't know for how long I won't be able to post, just hope I can find a solution for it soon.</div>
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Hola! Entro solo para informar de que voy a estar varios días sin actualiza a causa de un virus super majo que se ha instalado en mi ordenador, espero poder arreglarlo pronto...</div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-30857731945717837922012-06-28T09:00:00.000+02:002012-06-28T09:00:03.353+02:00Miami: Tenerife Reflecting Point<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000;">A very curious thing I found while in <a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/art-deco-in-miami.html">Miami</a> was this plaque celebrating the sisterhip between Tenerife and Miami-Dade County, of which I was completely unaware of. It hink there is another plaque in Tenerife. This one is located at a very nice area, just next to the water where people were kite-surfing. When I was there there was a couple of newly weds being photographed.</span></div>
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Os dejo con las poquitas fotos que me han quedado medianamente decentes de la noche de San Juan, hogueras y fuegos artificiales. No es que estas sean estupendas pero es que la mayor<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">í</span>a de las fotos de los fuegos artificiales han sido un gran conjunto de desencuadres, desenfoques, fotos en negro con un punto de luz asomando por la esquina, etc. :) Necesito m<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">á</span>s practica.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Here I leave to you the very few pictures that look more or less good, or at least the ones I am not terribly embarrassed to upload, from the ones I took last night int he celebrations of St John's Eve. Not that they are very good as you will see, but most of the ones I took have resulted into a combination of motin blur, poor composition, pictures totally black but for a blurry point of light saying hello at a corner, etc. :) Definitely I need more practicising.</span></div>
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LAS HOGUERAS/THE BONFIRES</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Estas fueron sin duda las mas dif<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); line-height: 18px;">í</span>ciles, era como ir "cazando" luces con la c<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); line-height: 18px;">á</span>mara. Os dejo algunas con composiciones como ver<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); line-height: 18px;">é</span>is "interesantes".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">These were the most diffcult without a doubt, I felt like I was "hunting" lights with my camera. Here I leave you with some "interesting" compositions</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Este fin de semana será la noche de San Juan, el 23 o el 24 segun el lugar de España en que estés. Se trata de una fiesta con mucha tradición y costumbres y ritos que varían en cada localidad, pero que suelen tener el denominador común de las hogueras. En muchos otros lugares de Europa se celebra unos días antes, la noche del solsticio de verano (20 o 21 de junio). Claramente el origen de todas estas fiestas parece ser este, la entrada del verano. </span></div>
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<i>¿Qué es lo típico en vuestro país o ciudad en San Juan o Midsummer?</i> <span style="font-family: inherit;">A mi me encantaría estar en algún lugar cerca del mar. Me llaman mucho más la atención las hogueras sobre la arena que sobre el asfalto, definitivamente. En cualquier caso trataré de acercarme a alguna de las que se organizan donde vivo, aunque me parece que saltar por encima… quiz</span>á <span style="font-family: inherit;">en otra vida :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB">This weekend we will be having <u></u>St John's Eve festivities or Midsummer, celebrated on the night of the 23<sup>rd</sup> or 24<sup>th</sup>June depending on where in <u></u><u></u>Spain<u></u><u></u> you are. It is a very traditional festivity in <u></u><u></u>Spain<u></u><u></u>, with customs and rites that vary a lot in the different regions, but with the bonfires as the common factor. In many other places in <u></u>Europe<u></u> this is celebrated a few days before, at the summer solstice (20<sup>th</sup> or 21<sup>st</sup> June). Clearly the start of the summer seems to be the origin of all these festivities. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>What is typical in your country/city at St John’s night or Midsummer?</i> I would love to be somewhere by the sea to celebrate. Definitely I feel more attracted by bonfires in the sand than over asphalt. Anyway I will try to go see some of those that will be made where I live, but about jumping over them…. maybe in some other life :)</span></span></div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-45407921394051097922012-06-18T09:00:00.000+02:002012-06-18T16:45:36.197+02:00Art Déco in Miami<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Quiz<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">á</span> una de las cosas que m</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">á</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">s me gust</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">ó</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> de Miami (Miami Beach en este caso) fueron sus preciosos edificios de estilo Art D</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">éc</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">o</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Para mi el calor era infernal, y eso que no era la peor </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">é</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">poca (mayo) y no recuerdo el paseo a plena luz del d</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">í</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">a como algo precisamente maravilloso, pero debo decir que mereci</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">ó</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> la pena solo por esto. Eso si, de noche, con las luces, aunque distinto, tambi</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">é</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">n es interesante y mucho m</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">á</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">s agradable en cuanto a temperaturas se refiere...(ay, esa brisa...) Os dejo con algunas de las fotos que hice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">Perhaps one of the things I liked the most about Miami -Miami Beach in this case-was this: its gorgeous Art D</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #660000;">é</span></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">co<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> Buildings. To me, the heat there was like hell, even if it was not the worst time of the year (May) and I don't really have a nice memory of this walk, but I must say it was worth it just because of this. Anyway, at night, with lights and the cool breeze it was very nice and also interesting, if different. Here I leave you with some of the pictures I took.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Hola, escribo este post para dar señales de vida, estoy un poco liadilla y no he podido actualizar pero espero hacerlo dentro de poco.<span style="font-size: small;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi! Just to say I am still here, just terribly busy these days, I will try to publish a post soon.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">See you soon!</span></div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-77367583007853392352012-06-04T09:00:00.000+02:002012-06-04T09:00:04.749+02:00Gorgeous beaches: Comillas, Cantabria<div style="text-align: center;">
Y esta es la famosa playa que atrajo a nobles y burgueses, del mismo nombre que el pueblo, <a href="http://www.turismocomillas.com/playa-comillas.html">Playa de Comillas</a>, de arena fina y con bandera azul. Está en el mismo pueblo y muy cerquita también se encuentra la <a href="http://www.turismocomillas.com/playa-oyambre.html">Playa de Oyambre</a>, perteneciente al <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Natural_de_Oyambre">Parque Natural de Oyambre</a>.</div>
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No tuve oportunidad de bañarme pero imagino que en verano será muy apetecible...</div>
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And this is the famous beach sharing the name with the place, the large <a href="http://www.turismocomillas.com/playa-comillas.html">Playa de Comillas</a>, a blue flag beach with fine and golden sand. This one is in town, and very close you will also find the <a href="http://www.turismocomillas.com/playa-oyambre.html">Playa de Oyambre</a>, belonging to the <a href="http://www.turismocomillas.com/parquenatural.html">Natural Park of Oyambre</a>.</div>
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A place to dream and being a child at least for a while... Some pictures from the Lego shop in Copenhagen, I would have stayed to play for hours :)
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Some days ago <a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/house-in-comillas-cantabria.html">I was writing on this gorgeous English-style house in Comillas</a>, and I mentioned it contrasted with the rest of the villas, mainly Modernist, that were built when spending the summer in Comillas became fashionable, after<span style="font-size: small;"> <u></u>King Alfonso<u></u> XII spend his summer holidays there, invited by the Marquis of Comillas. This first <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_L%C3%B3pez_y_L%C3%B3pez">Marquis of Comillas, <u></u>Antonio López<u></u> y López</a> was a key person for the history of the town. Born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comillas">Comillas</a> to a very humble family in 1817, he migrated like so many others with the dream of prospering to the <u></u>Americas<u></u>, and fortuned smiled at him in <u></u><u></u>Cuba<u></u><u></u>. He returned wealthy to <u></u><u></u>Barcelon<u></u>, <u></u>Spain<u></u><u></u>, where he continued his different enterprises, among them the foundation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa_Transatl%C3%A1ntica_Espa%C3%B1ola">Compañía Trasatlántica Española</a>. Married to Luisa Bru Lassús, who belonged to a well-off Catalan family that he met in <u></u><u></u>Cuba<u></u><u></u> and whose father was one of his business partners, his support to <u></u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XII_of_Spain">King Alfonso<u></u> XII</a> in the Cuban revolts earned him the title of the Marquis of Comillas, created for him and his descendants. He invested large sums in his home town, thanks to his influence and to that decisive invitation to the King to spend the summer holidays in Comillas, it was actually the first Spanish town which had street lightning, in 1881.<u></u><u></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">The king’s visit attracted many nobility members and the gentry, who started spending their summers in Comillas, looking for its temperate and mild climate and the benefits of the famous sea bathing properties. This way, impressive houses and public buildings started to be built in this typical and small Cantabrian town –in 2011 it has nearly 2500 inhabitants-, many of them the design of young Catalan architects following the beginnings of the Modernist style, among them, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD">Antoni Gaudí</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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El otro día os hablaba <a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/house-in-comillas-cantabria.html">de esta preciosa casa de estilo inglés en Comillas</a>, y os decía que contrastaba con el resto de casas, principalmente de estilo modernista, que se fueron construyendo cuando se puso de moda pasar allí el verano, después de que el rey Alfonso XII veraneara allí a invitación del Marqués de Comillas. </div>
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Este primer <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_L%C3%B3pez_y_L%C3%B3pez">Marqués de Comillas, Antonio López y López</a> fue un personaje clave para la historia del pueblo. Nacido en 1817 de familia muy humilde, emigró como tantos otros a las Américas y en Cuba la encontró. A su vuelta a España, ya con un gran patrimonio, se instala en Barcelona y continúa con sus negocios, fundando entre otras la <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa_Transatl%C3%A1ntica_Espa%C3%B1ola">Compañía Trasatlántica Española</a>. Casado con Luisa Bru Lassús, perteneciente a una familia catalana acomodada a que conoció en Cuba e hija de unos de sus socios, su ayuda al <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XII_de_Espa%C3%B1a">Rey Alfonso XII</a> en las revueltas de Cuba propició que este le recompensara con la creación de Marquesado de Comillas. Invirtió parte de su fortuna en su pueblo natal y gracias a su influencia y a esa decisiva invitación al rey para pasar el verano en Comillas, esta fue la primera ciudad española en contar con alumbrado público en sus calles, allá en 1881.</div>
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La visita del rey atrajo a numerosos miembros de la nobleza y de la alta burguesía, que comenzaron a acudir a Comillas en verano, a la búsqueda de su clima benévolo y poco caluroso y los beneficios de los famosos "<a href="http://portal.ayto-santander.es/portal/page/portal/inet_santander/turismo/banos_ola">baños de ola</a>". Así, comenzaron a construirse impresionantes casas y edificios públicos muchos de ellos obra de jóvenes arquitectos catalanes seguidores de un incipiente estilo modernista, entre ellos, por supuesto, <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD">Antoni Gaudí</a>.</div>
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Al mismo tiempo, el segundo Marqués de Comillas, hijo del primero, continuó con la creación de la <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad_Pontificia_Comillas">Universidad Pontificia de Comillas</a>, cuyo edificio sin duda es de los más espectaculares.</div>
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Os dejo algunas fotos, siento que la luz no las deje apreciar en todo su esplendor:</div>
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El <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio_de_Sobrellano">Palacio de Sobrellano</a>, con mucho elemento neogótico, que el Primer Marqués de Comillas mandó construir y que nunca llegó a ver, pues falleció antes de terminarse las obras, en 1888. Es obra del arquitecto <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Martorell">Joan Martorell</a>.</div>
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El <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricho_de_Gaud%C3%AD">Capricho de Gaudí</a>, hoy en día un prestigioso restaurante, diseñado por Antoni o Antonio Gaudí en para Máximo Díaz de Quijano, pariente del Marqués de Comillas.</div>
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La Puerta de los Pájaros, de Gaudí, de 1900.
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La Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, diseñada por Joan Martorell y <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llu%C3%ADs_Dom%C3%A8nech_i_Montaner">Lluís Domènech i Montaner</a></div>
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<br />Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com2Comillas, España43.3856358 -4.291507143.3394768 -4.3704711 43.431794800000006 -4.2125430999999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-44904422566332850712012-05-07T09:00:00.000+02:002012-05-07T09:00:13.190+02:00Fotografías antiguas: Nueva York y sus habitantes, 1896<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cuando vi en las noticias que los Archivos Municipales de Nueva York habían puesto en línea más de 870.000 imágenes de Nueva York (por cierto, la noticia se ha anunciado en tantos sitios que ahora mismo no se puede acceder, aparece el siguiente mensaje:<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>"<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Due to overwhelming demand, the New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery is unavailable at present. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Maintenance activities are underway to address this issue."</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span>Si queréis verlo <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/gallery/home.shtml">podéis intentarlo más tarde aquí</a> ) me acordé del montón de tiempo que me he pasado curioseando las colecciones en línea de <u></u>la <a href="http://www.nypl.org/">Biblioteca Pública<u></u> de Nueva York</a>. <u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Como seguramente ya sabréis ;) si leéis habitualmente el blog, me encanta la historia, el pasado, imaginarme cómo era la vida de la gente normal y cómo les afectaron los acontecimientos históricos que todos hemos estudiado.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Aquí os enseño algunas de mis imágenes favoritas, con sus enlaces a las páginas de la NYPL en las que se pueden ver. Hoy tocan las más antiguas (1896). No puedo evitar pensar que la gente que sale en estas fotos vivieron al mismo tiempo que algunos de mis antepasados, y que en realidad no han pasado tantas generaciones entre nosotros. Si lo piensas un momento, dependiendo de cuál sea tu edad, estas personas vivieron al mismo tiempo que tus abuelos, bisabuelos o quizá tatarabuelos.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">¿Qué os parece <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79759">este autobús de dos plantas de 1896</a>? Me pregunto cómo conseguían las mujeres subir sin matarse, porque no creo que pudieran ver mucho con semejantes sombreros. Por cierto, ¿cuándo dejamos de llevar sombreros como una prenda más de las de todos los días?<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Y la gente de uniforme o vestida según cuál fuera su trabajo: tenemos <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79799">al policía</a> (por cierto, ese tripón parece más típico de nuestra época, ¿no?), <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79801">el cartero</a>, <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79794">un vendedor ambulante</a>… ¡de esponjas! <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79778">un hombre quitando la nieve</a> y aquí ¡<a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79777">los carros de los que se ayudaban</a>! <u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">¿Y esos otros trabajos más “populares”? Los <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79812">limpiabotas</a> (pobres chavales, me pregunto si alguna vez les habían hecho una foto antes, parecen muy orgullosos de posar), <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79788">el chico de los periódicos</a>, bien estirado, aunque creo que prefiero la foto de <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79768">la chica de los periódicos</a>, ¡de nuevo, con impresionante sombrero! Me pregunto si eso podía ser cómodo. El <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79798">organillero</a> y la <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79779">vendedora de pretzels</a>…<u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Pronto comento otras, algunas más modernas y otras de la ciudad en sí</span></div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com1Nueva York, EEUU40.7143528 -74.005973140.5217853 -74.3218301 40.9069203 -73.690116100000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-86703968120275736582012-05-01T12:21:00.000+02:002012-05-01T12:21:34.139+02:00Old photographs: New York and its people, 1896<div style="text-align: center;">
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When I heard in the news that <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">New York City Municipal Archives </span></span> had uploaded over 870,000 New York images -by the way, the news has spread so m<span style="font-family: inherit;">uch that right now it is not possible to access, and you get this message: "<span style="background-color: white;"><i>Due to overwhelming demand, the New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery is unavailable at present. Maintenance activities are underway to address this issue."</i></span><span style="background-color: white;"> I</span><span style="background-color: white;">f you want to try later,<a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/gallery/home.shtml">click here.</a>- I couldn't help to remember the time I have spent browsing some online collections from the <a href="http://www.nypl.org/">New York Public Library</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">As you may have noticed by now :) if you follow the blog, I have a passion for the past and I love wondering what life was like for the average person and how the historical events that we all have studied affected or influenced their lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Today I will go for the oldest ones (1896) I can't help but think that the people that appear here lived at the same time as some of my ancestors did, and that they are not actually so many generations away from me. If you think about it, depending on your age, these people lived as the same time as your grandparents, great-grandparents or perhaps great-great grandparents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">What about <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79759">this double-decker bus from 1896</a>? I wonder how the women could get up there without falling because of not been able to see anything with those huge hats. By the way, when was it that people stopped wearing hats as an everyday garment?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">And the people dressed in the uniforms that corresponded to their jobs: we have <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79799">the policeman</a> -that big belly seems to be more typical nowdays, doesn't it?, <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79801">the postman</a>, <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79794">a peddler (of sponges)</a> -really!-, <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79778">a man removing snow </a>, see the<a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79777"> snow carts of that time here!</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What about those other "more popular jobs"? <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79812">Bootblacks</a> -poor kids! I wonder if they had ever before had a picture of them taken, they seem to be proud to be in a picture- <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79788">the news boy</a>, standing with his newspapers, but I think I prefer this picture of <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79768">the news girl</a>, again, what a hat!! I wonder if that could be comfortable in any way, <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79798">the organ grinder</a> and <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?79779">the pretzel vendor</a> in the streets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will comment some more soon, some more modern and some on the city itself :)</span></div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com1Nueva York, EEUU40.7143528 -74.005973140.5217853 -74.3218301 40.9069203 -73.690116100000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-78278839055499522472012-04-26T09:00:00.000+02:002012-04-26T09:00:05.469+02:00Place of the month: Venice? Nope, Las Vegas<div style="text-align: center;">
A hotel in one of the places that has impressed me the most, for bad and for good -still not sure if I love it, hate it or both at the same time- Las Vegas.</div>
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The amazing hotel/casino The Venetian.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Un hotel en uno de los lugares que más me ha impresionado, en todos los sentidos (todavía no estoy seguro de si me encanta, me horroriza o ambas al mismo tiempo), Las Vegas. El increíble hotel/casino The Venetian.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Esta foto en realidad está hecha dentro del hotel, el cielo es falso, pintados, como en estas otras...</span></div>
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Would you guess this is not the real <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge%27s_Palace,_Venice">Palazzo Ducale</a>? By the way, in the following pictures the sky is really sky :)</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">¿Adivinaríais que este no es el <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio_Ducal_de_Venecia">Palazzo Ducale</a> de verdad? Por cierto, en estas el cielo ya es real :)</span></div>
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<br />Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com43555 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109, EEUU36.114646 -115.17281635.909413 -115.48867299999999 36.319879 -114.856959tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-12124401661311066502012-04-23T17:54:00.000+02:002012-04-23T17:54:09.893+02:00¡¡Feliz Día del Libro!!/Happy World Book Day!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_Internacional_del_Libro">Un buen día</a> para regalar literatura de viajes, y es que, hay algo mejor que sentarse un rato con una taza de té/café/chocolate a disfrutar del paisaje a través de las líneas que alguien le ha dedicado? Bueno, vale, sí, verlo en directo o escribir esas líneas tú mismo :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Os quiero recomendar un libro muy especial, <b><i>Viaje a contrapelo por Inglaterra y Escocia</i></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> (<i style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Voyage à reculons en Angleterre et en Écosse)</i> </b></span>de Jules Verne, más conocido entre nosotros (qué manía la de traducir los nombre de pila) como <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Verne">Julio Verne</a>. Lo escribió hacia 1862 a raíz de un viaje que hizo en su juventud con un amigo, y su editor lo rechazó porque no tenía que ver con la ciencia ficción. No se publicó hasta 1989, después deque e en 1982 el Ayuntamiento de Nantes adquirió la mayoría de sus manuscritos. En España hay una traducción al español de Mª José García Ripoll en la editorial Nordica. A mi me encantó, curiosísimo saber cómo se vivía un viaje en esa época y sobretodo la visión de la Inglaterras y Escocia del momento a ojos de un extranjero</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_and_Copyright_Day">A great day</a> to give travel literature to your beloved ones, cause, is there something better than sitting for a while with a cup of tea/coffee/chocolate to enjoy the landscape through the lines someone else has dedicated to ir? Well, OK, to see it "live" or to write those lines yourself :)</span></div>
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I would like to <span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">recommend</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> to you </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">very special</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> book, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> <i><b>Backwards to Britain </b></i></span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span class="hps atn" style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Voyage </span><span style="background-color: white; 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text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i><b>)</b></i> by<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_5234228"> Jules</a></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Verne</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">He wrote</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">it around</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; 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text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">fiction.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">It was not published</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">until in 1982,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">the City of Nantes </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></span></span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">acquired most of</span><span style="background-color: white; 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There is a least an English translation from 1992.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">I loved it</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> it was so </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">interesting</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">to know</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">what </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">a trip was like</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">back then and</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">especially</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">the vision of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="hps" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">E</span><span class="hps" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">ngland</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span class="hps" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">and Scotland </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"></span></span><span class="hps" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">at that time by a foreigner</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-52289201637904808872012-04-19T09:00:00.000+02:002012-04-19T09:00:00.622+02:00Sally Lunn's Buns In Bath<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="text-align: center;">This post is dedicated to a very special person. With her I shared the discovery of this place and many laughters together around Bath... and around life in general, up till now and since the moment I was born :)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-family: inherit;">Sally Lunn’s is the perfect place in <a href="http://visitbath.co.uk/">Bath</a> to forget our diet and get some warm on one of its rainy days, the best place to end up in if you have been reading a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen">Jane Austen</a> novel –even better if that novel is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northanger_Abbey">Northanger Abbey</a>- if you has just been to the <a href="http://www.janeausten.co.uk/">Museum dedicated to her</a> or you have been walking around this gorgeous town and enjoying its abbey, I don’t think I will resist myself much longer to put some pictures of its curious front here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB">It is situated in the oldest house in <u></u><u></u>Bath<u></u><u></u>, from 1482 and here, among other thing, you can enjoy its wonderful tea together with the amazing buns. The legend says that Sally Lunn was a French refugee, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenot">hugueno</a>t, who arrived in town in 1680 and established a bakery, where she sold her famous buns.I had lunch here just out of tea and buns more than one day when I was in Bath :)</span><span lang="EN-GB"> You can even check <a href="http://www.sallylunns.co.uk/menu,intro.htm">their menu</a> in advance in their website.</span></span></div>
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</div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com024-29 Calton Gardens, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset BA2, Reino Unido51.375801 -2.359903951.058636 -2.9916179 51.692966000000006 -1.7281898999999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-47754078506083323552012-04-16T09:00:00.001+02:002012-04-16T09:00:08.734+02:00Sally Lunn's Buns in BathSoon in English!<br />
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Este post se lo dedico a una persona muy especial con quien compartí el descubrimiento de este sitio y muchas risas juntas por Bath y... por toda la vida en general, desde el momento en que nací :)</div>
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<a href="http://www.sallylunns.co.uk/">Sally Lunn's</a> es el lugar perfecto de Bath para olvidarnos de la dieta y entrar en calor en uno de sus días lluviosos, el mejor sitio para acabar si has estado leyendo una novela de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen">Jane Austen</a> (sobretodo si esa novela es <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_abad%C3%ADa_de_Northanger">La abadía de Northanger</a>), has ido a visitar <a href="http://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/">su museo</a> allí mismo o has estado paseando <a href="http://es.visitbath.co.uk/">por esta preciosa ciudad</a> y disfrutando de una abadía con curiosa fachada que no me resistiré a sacar aquí dentro de poco.</div>
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Está situado en la casa más antigua de Bath, de 1482 y aquí en otras cosas puedes disfrutar de su maravilloso té acompañado por uno de los increíbles bollos (por Dios se me hace la boca agua de recordarlo...) La leyenda reza que Sally Lunn era una refugiada francesa, <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugonotes">hugonote</a>, que llegó a la ciudad en 1680 y estableció su panadería, donde vendía sus famosisímos bollos (buns en inglés). Más de un día comimos aquí a base té y bollos :) Tenéis incluso<a href="http://www.sallylunns.co.uk/menu,intro.htm"> los menús </a>en su web.<br />
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Yo siempre pedía uno de los "cream teas" que llevara el famoso Sally Lunn's bun, con clotted cream y mermelada. La clotted cream es más o menos lo que conocemos como la nata de la leche, la explicación es esta<span style="font-family: inherit;">: A<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">ntiguamente la leche había que</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">hervirla</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">para esterilizarla y se hacía más de una vez, antes de tomarla. Cada vez que</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">hervía</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">quedaba una capa grande de nata que se retiraba con un </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">cucharón</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">y se ponía en un recipiente aparte</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">dejándola</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">reposar y enfriar unas horas. Luego se podía comer como si fuera mantequilla.</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Con esa</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">nata hacen esta crema y el sabor es parecido a la nata en sí misma.</span></span> Siento no tener fotos del bollo en sí, pero es que por aquel entonces todavía no me había aficionado a sacar fotos de la comida que probaba en los sitios (es curioso, de hecho hasta hace muy poco me hacía mucha gracia ver a alguien sacando una foto de un plato).</div>
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La casa además es muy bonita y se conserva la cocina original, que se puede visitar. Si vais a Bath, desde luego es una de mis recomendaciones.</div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com5Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, Reino Unido51.375801 -2.359903951.3361545 -2.4388679 51.415447500000006 -2.2809399tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-51189351994957976582012-04-14T09:00:00.000+02:002012-04-14T09:00:05.734+02:00A Special Guest Post on New York at La 5th con Bleecker St<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Hola! Hoy os dejo con <a href="http://www.la5thconbleeckerst.com/2012/04/valentina-en-in-your-eyes.html">un post muy especial sobre Nueva York</a> que ha salido publicado en el blog <a href="http://www.la5thconbleeckerst.com/">La 5th Con Bleecker St, </a>que <a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/2011/11/what-to-see-in-new-york-in-just-3-days.html">ya os he recomendado en algunas ocasiones</a>, y que está dedicado a la Gran Manzana.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Se trata de mi participación en la sección de <i>In Your Eyes</i>, en la que cada persona que participa cuenta su experiencia en Nueva York a través de fotografías. Podéis verlo <a href="http://www.la5thconbleeckerst.com/2012/04/valentina-en-in-your-eyes.html">AQUÍ</a>. Me hizo mucha ilusión escribirlo y rememorar mi viaje, ya que como os habréis imaginado<a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/search/label/nueva%20york"> por los posts que le he dedicado</a> me encanta Nueva York, así que... espero que os guste!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Muchas gracias, Is!!!</span></div>
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Hi! Today I have <a href="http://www.la5thconbleeckerst.com/2012/04/valentina-en-in-your-eyes.html">a very special post about New York</a> that has just been published at <a href="http://www.la5thconbleeckerst.com/">La 5th Con Bleecker St</a>, a Spanish blog dedicated to New York <a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/2011/11/what-to-see-in-new-york-in-just-3-days.html">which I have already recommended to you a couple of times</a>.</div>
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It is my participation at the In Your Eyes section, where each person tells about their experience in New York through the pictures they took. You can see it <a href="http://www.la5thconbleeckerst.com/2012/04/valentina-en-in-your-eyes.html">HERE-</a>sorry! it is only in Spanish, but I have tried the Google Translator and the translation, though far from good, is understandable:).I had a great time writing it while I remembered my holidays, cause as you will have imagined <a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/search/label/new%20york">by the number of posts I have written on it,</a> I just love New York. So... I hope you like it!!</div>
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Thank you very much, Is!!</div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com5280 Broadway, Manhattan, Nueva York 10007, EEUU40.7143528 -74.005973139.9394103 -75.269400600000012 41.4892953 -72.7425456tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-21048544374426392612012-04-12T09:00:00.000+02:002012-04-12T09:00:02.891+02:00A House in Comillas, Cantabria<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000;">Un poquito de mi último viaje, esta preciosa casa de estilo inglés, tan raro por aquí, en Comillas, Cantabria.</span></div>
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I have found some references to it in the <a href="http://www.comillas.es/english/">website of Comillas Town Council</a>, it was built between 1899 and 1902 and designed by the architect Francisco Hernández Rubio for the Duke of Almodóvar del Río. </div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">La verdad es que el Puente de los Santos, sobre la <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADa_de_Ribadeo">Ría de Ribadeo o del Eo</a>, no me llama particularmente la atención, la verdad, lo que no deja de ser irónico en una serie sobre “Beautiful &Interesting Bridges” pero en este caso he querido incluirlo por todo lo que tiene alrededor.<span style="font-size: small;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Y además lo hace en la desembocadura del <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Eo">río Eo</a>, es decir, que detrás del puente lo que hay es ya el <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_Cant%C3%A1brico">Mar Cantábrico</a>. Desde luego la vista desde ahí arriba tiene que ser bastante espectacular, aunque yo me conformé con visitar <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribadeo">Ribadeo</a> (queda muy cerquita de la impresionante Playa de las Catedrales, <a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/2011/09/gorgeous-beaches-as-catedrais-lugo.html">de la cual hablé hace tiempo</a>) y ver <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castropol">Castropol</a> allá en la otra orilla. El puente actual es de 1987.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">To be frank, the truth is that the <span style="font-size: small;"><u></u><u></u>Los<u></u> <u></u>Santos<u></u> <u></u>Bridge<u></u><u></u>, over the Ribadeo Ria, also known as the River Eo Ria does not attract my attention in particular. Which might be a bit ironic considering I am writing onit in a series I have called Beautiful & Interesting Bridges, but I wanted to include because of all that surrounds it.<u></u><u></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">Well, to start with it has an undeniable symbolic character, since it links two Autonomous Regions in <u></u>Spain<u></u>,<u></u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Spain)">Galicia</a><u></u> and <u></u><u></u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asturias">Asturias</a><u></u><u></u>. <a href="http://www.ribadeo.org/?lg=ing">Ribadeo</a> is the town on <u></u>Galicia<u></u>’s side, <a href="http://www.campingsasturias.es/castropol.asp?idlengua=3">Castropol</a> the one on <u></u><u></u>Asturias<u></u><u></u>’. Ribadeo is very close to the gorgeous Cathedrals Beach, <a href="http://mywanderingwondering.blogspot.com.es/2011/09/gorgeous-beaches-as-catedrais-lugo.html">I wrote a post about it some time ago</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">It does so over the river mouth of the Eo, which means that on the other side of the bridge we have the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Biscay">Cantabrian Sea (Bay of Biscay)</a>. The views from up there must be spectacular, though I only visited Ribadeo and saw Castropol from the other side. This bridge was opened in 1987.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">The<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ria"> ria</a> –in case you are not familiar with the concept of ria, visit this site: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ria-" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr></wbr>Ria-</a> is <u></u>10 Km<u></u> long and about <u></u>800 m<u></u> wide and has several beaches. A good excuse to visit the border between these two regions…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">And just as I am finishing this post I realised taht I don't have any other picture than the one above... So check these links for some pictures of the Ria and the Bridge itself: </span></span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jagalo/3213461517/" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/jagalo/3213461517/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">and </span><a href="http://ribadeo.com/panoramicas/ria-de-ribadeo-castropol.html">this one for an overview of the Asturian side</a>.</span></div>Valentinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177111566863388304noreply@blogger.com5Ribadeo, España43.5373326 -7.043030743.4451101 -7.2009592 43.6295551 -6.8851022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746969402985902984.post-69536113626937063452012-04-02T09:00:00.000+02:002012-04-02T09:00:11.776+02:00More on Sanabria's Lake<div style="text-align: center;">
Some pictures of this beautiful lake in day time/<span style="color: #660000;">Algunas fotos del lago de día</span></div>
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Views from above/<span style="color: #660000;">Vistas desde arriba</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With the beautiful village San Martín de Castañeda on the right</td></tr>
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Sanabria's lake is surrounded by beautiful villages. These are some of them:</div>
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<a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefacio">Trefacio</a>: this is where I stayed, at <a href="http://www.sanabriaturismo.com/">El Rincón de Trefacio</a>. The village only has 186 inhabitants.</div>
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<a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Mart%C3%ADn_de_Casta%C3%B1eda">San Martín de Castañeda</a>, located 200 m above the lake has a great example of late Romanesque architecture, the <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterio_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn_de_Casta%C3%B1eda_(Zamora)">Monastery of San Martín de Castañeda</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">El lago de Sanabria está rodeado de preciosos pueblos. Estos son algunos:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefacio">Trefacio</a>: dónde me alojé, concretamente en <a href="http://www.sanabriaturismo.com/">El Rincón de Trefacio</a>. El pueblo tiene solo 186 habitantes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Mart%C3%ADn_de_Casta%C3%B1eda">San Martín de Castañeda</a>, a 200 metros por encima del nivel del lago, cuenta con un bonito ejemplo del románico tardío, el <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterio_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn_de_Casta%C3%B1eda_(Zamora)">Monasterio de San Martín de Castañeda</a>.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.sanabria.com.es/pueblos_sanabria/san_martin_de_casta%C3%B1eda.pdf">Click here</a> to find some more on the Monastery/<span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.sanabria.com.es/pueblos_sanabria/san_martin_de_casta%C3%B1eda.pdf">Haz click aquí</a> para saber más del monasterio</span></div>
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In 1930 this village inspired the great Spanish philosopher and writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno">Miguel de Unamuno</a> to write his famous novella, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Manuel_Bueno,_M%C3%A1rtir">San Manuel bueno, mártir</a></i>. In it two poems refer to the lake...</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">En 1930 este pueblo inspiró a <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno">Miguel de Unamuno</a> para escribir <i><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Manuel_Bueno,_m%C3%A1rtir">San Manuel bueno,mártir</a></i>. En el libro, dos poemas hablan del lago...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>espejo de soledades,</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>el lago recoge edades de antes del hombre y se queda</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>soñando en la santa calma</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>del cielo de las alturas</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>en que se sume en honduras</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">de anegarse, ¡pobre!, el alma...</span> </span></i><br />
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The other one refers to the Legend of Sanabria's lake, which narrates the origin of the lake and which I will tell you about in the next post...<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">El otro se refiere a la Leyenda del Lago de Sanabria, que narra el origen del lago. Más detalles en el próximo post...</span></div>
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