THE LITTLE HEDGEHOG.

CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

I'm going to talk you about our experience last week doing 'El Camino de Santiago' in Galicia.  We're there five days, from Friday to Tuesday. 

We were 20 people: 18 students of 4th ESO and 2 teachers.

We ate very good and a lot of food, it was fantastic because we walked a lot and we were hungry.

Our rutine was: we woke up at 7:39/8:00 in the morning, we had breakfast and we started to walk, we stopped to have a snack (a big sandwich) and after finish the kilometres we have a shower and we have lunch, then, we just relaxed and we went around the village in the evening, after that we have dinner and we went to bed very early, at 10:00.

We started the first day walking from Palas de Rei in the evening to Melide, walking between 12 and 15 km. We were a little bit tired because of the 6 hours on the bus. 

The second day we went from Melide to Arzúa, 15km. I think it was the hardest day because of the slopes.

The third day we walked from Arzúa to Pedrouzo, where the youth hostel was very modern and it was very good, when we had dinner we watched a football match (R.Madrid-Barça) and we went to sleep at 12:00.

The fourth day it rained during almost all the morning! We were wet but nevertheless we had really fun. 

We arrived to Monte do Gozo, 4km far from Santiago de Compostela. That evening we went to Santiago by bus and we bought the "souvenirs" and we had dinner there. We returned to Monte do Gozo to sleep.

And sadly and finally, the fifth day we woke up at 7:00, we went to see two pilgrim's statues.

Then we walked 4km till arrive to Santiago, we had breakfast there and we went to see the Cathedral, we stayed at the cathedral's roof, it was awesome! We saw the "Botafumeiro", it flew above our heads!

After that we had lunch and...we came to Nava again, after an incredible experience that I would never change for anything!

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

ST. PATRICK'S DAY



SAINT PATRICK HISTORY
St. Patrick is a global celebration of Irish culture or around March 17. It remembers to one Ireland's patron saint, who ministered Christianity during the fifth century.

SYMBOLS

The most common St. Patrick's Day symbol is the shamrock. The shamrock is the leaf of the clover plant and a symbol os the Holy Trinity.

Religious symbols include snakes, as well as the Celtic Cross, the harp or the leprechaun and the pot of gold the leprechaun keeps hidden.

St. Patrick's Day is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

 

THE BLARNEY STONE (The stone of eloquence)

The Stone itself is still set in the wall below the battlements. To kiss it, one has to lean backwards (holding on to an iron railing) from the parapet walk. The prize is a real one as once kissed the stone bestows the gift of eloquence.

There is never a stone that whoever kisses, Oh! He never misses to grow eloquent 'tis he 

may clamber to a lady's chamber, or become a member of parliament.

                                   Francis Sylvester Mahoni

Many people wear an item of green clothing on the day.

 Parties featuring Irish food and drinks that are dyed in green. Many restaurants and pubs offer Irish food or drink, which include:

-Irish brown bread

-Corned beef and cabbage

-Beef and Guinness pie

-Irish coffee...

Some people plan a pilgrimage to St. Patrick's Purgatory.

Finally I've made a cloud of words relationed to this post:

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