OUR TRAVELS
Hi Anne and readers,
Did you have a nice weekend?
Anne, I’m glad you liked the tour around Buenos Aires.
You attached lovely pictures of the stalls that sell fruits at the end of your street and I really felt as if you were walking beside me explaining everything. The colours of the fruits speak for themselves. I love mango. The first time I’ve tried it was in Brazil. We can buy it in Argentina but it’s very expensive. Exotic fruits are my passion. By the way, what is a dragon fruit? And what’s the difference between sweet mango and sour mango?
I tried to reword the following sentences:
1) This avenue is related to the Tango.
2) Palermo Woods: They have 80 hectares
3) This street is full of paintings and sculptures
4) It’s one of the fewest squares that are totally asphalted
5) It’s among the best in the world
I could work out some of the words in the quiz you gave us.
FABOULUS, OUTSTANDING, FANTASTIC, SPLENDID.
By the way, I’ve just bought “1984” by George Orwell. At the bookshop there was a notice that read “books brought at your door” and I wondered if there was a mistake. Anne, is it right? As you say that “delivered to the door” is correct I want to know if the preposition “to” is used with the verb “to bring” too. I also wanted to know the phrasal verb that means “to decline an offer”, it’s on the tip of my tongue but I only remember the preposition down.
Talking about travelling, our first vacation together was in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) and San Andrés (Colombia). We visited the old city with the colonial houses in Cartagena. We went to the best restaurants and enjoyed ourselves immensely. In San Andres we sunbathed in the Caribbean Sea.
Cartagena (I was very young by then)
San Andrés
The following year Oscar invited me to the Bahamas and Miami. It was one of our best holidays. We visited 3 islands (Nassau, Freeport and Harbour Islands). Needless to say, the beaches were outstanding especially the pink sand in Harbour Island (it was really pink) and the waters were turquoise.
This is the best photo I took in my life
In 1995 we headed for the Patagonian region (the south of Argentina). We stayed in Villa La Angostura, San Martín de los Andes and Bariloche. It was the first time I’d seen snowing. Though I’m a bit agoraphobic I took the plunge and travelled by air-chair. We had a faboulus vacation.
In 1996 we got married and went to Punta del Este and Colonia (Uruguay) for our honeymoon. It was November (tourists usually go from December to March) so we could relax and walk. We had a good time but I would have liked to see more people. Next time we’ll go in summer.
The following year we went to Anguilla (a British virgin island in the Caribbean) and Saint Barths (French virgin island). In Anguilla I met my dear friend Mary Ellen from Ohio-USA but we didn’t know that we would become close friends. Since then we’ve been writing to each other every week. In fact she is in Anguilla right now because she always comes back on her holidays. I can’t describe these 2 islands. They were amazing. In Anguilla we were surrounded by nature, with white thin sand and turquoise waters. In Saint Barths we sensed the charming of the French.
Anguilla
Saint Barths
To sum up, the following years we went to New York
And Buzios (Brazil),
Then to Cuba,
Saint Martin (in the Caribbean),
Río de Janeiro (Brazil)
Florianopolis (Brazil) This is Oscar running along the beach.
San Salvador de Bahía (Brazil),
Morro de Sao Pablo (Brazil), Camino de los 7 lagos (The 7 lakes path) (Patagonia Region).
Camino de los 7 lagos
Iguazú Falls (Province of Misiones-Argentina) and in 2006 Villa General Belgrano (Province of Córdoba-Argentina)
We are very keen on travelling and discover different cultures. Fortunately we could make it and enjoyed our vacations very much.
Unfortunately we can’t afford a trip abroad now due to our exchange rate $ 3.20 (argentinean) = U$S 1, however it would be a good opportunity to travel around Argentina.
But I can’t give up my dream, which is to visit Paris and London one day.
Anna, here we have the same proverb and I’d love to go to the Mediterranean Beach.
Thank you Silwal Kishor, Naheed, Jom, Junus and Tanya for your comments.
Anne I wish you GOOD LUCK on your first lesson on Tuesday. Surely you’ll impress all the learners.
The end of the month is coming and I only have 2 days more to blog. I’ll miss it very much but I’ll try to follow the blogs and post a comment.
Anne and readers, have a nice week and take care.
Fondly,
XX
Cris
Comments
Hi Cris, what fabulous pictures you have shared with us. Speaking of travelling, you have got itchy feet, haven't you? Best wishes, Naheed
Hi Cris, You had the tremendous, fabulous, outstanding, incredible, fantastic and splendid trips. Thanks for sharing with us, I have a dream to travel to London one day too. My family like to travel all around the world, including Taiwan of course, Taiwan or Argentina are part of the world which means that the native land should be included on our travel list if we like traveling the world. Best wishes. james
Hi Cris, Thank you for sharing your travels with us all. As you, I love travelling but sometimes it's not possible. I have travelled by Spain and by other countries from Europe (Francia, Portugal, Alemania, República Checa, Bulgaria) but I've never been in America. My dream is travelling to the United States, Argentina, Cuba and Mexico. I hope some day I'll go there. Have a beautiful day! Kisses Mercè
Hi Cris and everyone, sorry I could not blog because of my overbusiness. In order to improve my English with a greater speed, I joined inhouse training programme on “ITES-BPO” started by my organisation (IT field). Hence a big chunk of time devoured by training. I enjoyed your beautifully written, fantastic blogs. No doubt Argentina is a beautiful country with a strikingly beautiful beaches. I hope, one day, I would be able to visit your great beautiful country. India is big mango producing country of many varieties. It is a summer season fruit. Here we designate it as king of fruits. Mango can be divided into two categories I) Mangos which are sliced then eaten ii) Mangoes containing liquid pulp which is sipped after thoroughly cleaning. Further mango can be sweet or sour (opposite of sweet). Dusheri Mango (Taste Sweet – Green colour mango) is sipped. Sandoori Mango (Taste sweet- its head is of pink colour and tail is green, it can be eaten by slicing or sipping). Malta mango(Size 300 to 600 grams, Dark Green colour, blended taste i.e. sweet + sour). Tota (Parrot) mango (Colour parrot, yellow, its tail is like a beak of parrot, generally big size approx 500 to 1 kg a piece, taste sour). Others are Chosa (sweet), Langra (Dark green, very sweet, tasty, eaten sliced), Chosra Mango, Safeda Mango etc. Now receipt for Mango soup/veg (you will get sound sleep after eating): Boil Desi mango 1 kg (or any sour mango but desi mango quite popular, small size, 20 gram – 50 gram size mostly sour taste). Mesh these mangos in a one litre water. Now fry this mesh. Pour big spoon of ghee/oil in pan. Put into pan 2 medium size chopped onions, put red chilli powder and salt according to taste. Now mango soup is ready to serve which can be used with rice or bread etc. as you like. Women likes (men also) it very much.
Dear Cristina, Devaluation of money is a real challenge to developing and under developed countries. Nepal is an underdeveloped country and our currency is weaker than your currency. That is why, I had written in my previous blog that it is beyond my imagination to travel your country and I do virtual tour to fulfil my desire to travel nice places. This time you have posted pictures of so many places and they are very fascinating.
Hi Cris! Your pictures are amazing as usual :-) See ya, Ana Paula.
Hi Cris, It is amazing all the pictures that you put it. I wish to know Brazil and your pictures encourage me to do it some day. Take care
Hi Cris!Hou beautiful places you have been in,I admire you very much!
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