https://picasaweb.google.com/112860836649995895286/SpainAndFrance2014?authkey=Gv1sRgCO3d2Y7AiaLKagSaturday, May 3, 2014
Link to our pictures from France and Spain 2014
This is the link to our pictures from our trip to Spain and France 2014
https://picasaweb.google.com/112860836649995895286/SpainAndFrance2014?authkey=Gv1sRgCO3d2Y7AiaLKag
https://picasaweb.google.com/112860836649995895286/SpainAndFrance2014?authkey=Gv1sRgCO3d2Y7AiaLKag
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Things We Learned
1. St Jorge's Day- A Catalan holiday where the men women a flower and the women give men a book.
2. First of May- a big deal in France, a non-working Holiday where the men give women Lilies of the Valley.
3. The Catalans, in Barcelona and Northern Spain mostly. A proud people who have their own language, traditions, and strongly want their own Nation.
4. The Cathars- a religious order during the Middle Ages who were eventually destroyed by the Catholics around 1300.
5. The expression for having a cold in french is "j'ai rhume" and it's very difficult to say!
6.Some of the public toilets in France now have toilet seats, but many still do not, so therefore, French women must have a special ability to squat.
7. The best way to shower is to sit in the bathtub rather than stand in the tub with the hose as it sprays all over the place. The bathtubs can be very large.
8. The "Chemin de Liberte" or "Chemin du Bons Hommes" are the trails leading from France into Spain that were used during WWII to lead Jews and other refugees, as well as downed American and British pilots, out of Nazi Germany and France into Spain and freedom. These were the same trails used in reverse during the Spanish Civil War where the Republicans were fleeing from Franco.
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2. First of May- a big deal in France, a non-working Holiday where the men give women Lilies of the Valley.
3. The Catalans, in Barcelona and Northern Spain mostly. A proud people who have their own language, traditions, and strongly want their own Nation.
4. The Cathars- a religious order during the Middle Ages who were eventually destroyed by the Catholics around 1300.
5. The expression for having a cold in french is "j'ai rhume" and it's very difficult to say!
6.Some of the public toilets in France now have toilet seats, but many still do not, so therefore, French women must have a special ability to squat.
7. The best way to shower is to sit in the bathtub rather than stand in the tub with the hose as it sprays all over the place. The bathtubs can be very large.
8. The "Chemin de Liberte" or "Chemin du Bons Hommes" are the trails leading from France into Spain that were used during WWII to lead Jews and other refugees, as well as downed American and British pilots, out of Nazi Germany and France into Spain and freedom. These were the same trails used in reverse during the Spanish Civil War where the Republicans were fleeing from Franco.
Pat
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