Finally, here's the next part of my Basque Country holiday report! So sorry for the delay, but my RL has been pretty busy over the past few months and I didn't have time to sort my photos.

Previous parts can be found here, here and here.


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Today in Spanish class we read this text which I found pretty funny and have therefore decided to share with you:

El diario de Prudencio, hipocondríaco sin remedio.Lunes ( Read more... )

Because I'm on a roll today:

Here's a video of a group of Welsh children singing a Basque song, namely "Ilargia" by Ken Zazpi!

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The guy who plays the guitar is from the Basque Country and did his teaching practice in Llanfairpwll (Wales). The children of his class were very interested to learn about Basque culture and they prepared the song ( Read more... )

Today in Spanish class we listened to/sang a very interesting song.

Here are the lyrics:

Fue amor desde el primer día ( Read more... )

On the 6th of August Athletic played a friendly against Tottenham Hotspur in London, and since it was also a welcome opportunity to see blue_eyed_miss again, there was no way I was going to miss that.


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I was a bit hesitant to make this post because I always figured posting lyrics for the sake of posting lyrics was a bit gay, but bibi_bloom assured me it isn't, so here you have a really awesome song that I'm kind of addicted to right now - and it's not just an awesome song but also has lyrics that I consider a message to all of my friends:

Urtz - ( Read more... )

I just texted blue_eyed_miss about this but I just have to share this with the rest of you as well because it's just too hilarious.

If you remember this post, you know that my home town has a really awesome Spanish bar, and J (the friend of mine who accompanied me to the Basque Country in September) and I went there tonight. Before you ask, no, the Spanish guys ( Read more... )

In case anyone is planning to visit me, be prepared to be dragged to what is now my favourite place in this entire city: the tapas bar La Bomba. It's been here since around 2000 but somehow I hadn't heard about it until last year, and today is the first time I went there. It was so much fun. My first impression was that someone had taken a bar ( Read more... )

Last night I had a really weird dream and I don't know if I should blame this on the House M.D. marathon that teh_farmer and I are currently doing ( Read more... )

¡Hola!

Next Monday the first semester of my Spanish lessons will come to an end and since I have a couple of Spanish-speaking friends here, I thought I'd give them an update on what I've learned so far.

When I meet a person, I can informally or formally:

• ask them about their name
  
• ask them where they come from
  
• ask them where they work and which ( Read more... )