Category: spain
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6028 km on 15 Watts (POTA activation ES-2126)
This is my report from POTA activation ES-2126. During a visit to Mallorca, I activated a new park, ES-2126 Puig de Ses Fites Natura. I activated it from the walking route. The walk-in was a 1 hour easy walk along the track. Set-up was very quick and I was QRV in approx. 5-6 minutes. After…
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November Twilight
Now Winter at the end of dayAlong the ridges takes her way, Upon her twilight round to lightThe faithful candles of the night. November Twilight by Bliss Carman
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San Fermín 2021 🕰️ 🕰️
Ya falta menos. (Copyright César Oroz Martija – La Tira de Oroz. Si tienes dinero compra unos libros y posters.)
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Ensaimada de sobrasada
A Mallorquín pastry – pastry with sobrasada (a meat sausage with pimienta, strong flavour like fuet, nudja) topped with sugar. Strong, but tasty with a coffee. Normally eaten on a celebration day.
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Week 46: words of the week!
Español Somier: bed base (sommier (French) – bed springs, the base structure that supports a beds mattress) Cesar: to terminate (in the context of employment)
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Week 45: words of the week
Español Arándanos: (fruit) disminuir: to diminish (verb. similar to reducir) invernadero: glasshouse cotidiana: everyday (in)certidumbre: certitude (un/certainty) Negó: denied (verb: negar -to deny) La derrota: the defeat Apenas: barely (“apenas una hora antes de….” Barely an hour after…) Aún: yet (aún no lo sé – i don’t know yet)
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Week 44: this weeks new words
Español Cobre: copper Macete: pot Vajilla: crockery Tetera: teapot Juego de café: coffee set Mallorquí cap de fiblo: a tornado (or tornado-like) weather phenomenon is called a cap de fibló in Mallorca when it hits land (It is called a mànegue or a fiblon when it occurs out in the sea.). You can see a…
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Chary y yo
Oye Chary, no sé quién eres, pero tengo novia. Lo siento.
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Week 43: this weeks new words
Castellano Babilla: a specific cut of meat from a cow. Part of the hind legs formed by a set of muscles and tendons that articulate the femur with the tibia and the patella. Taste wise it is dry, you can cook it whole, on the brasa, sliced in stew or in fillets. Tejone: badger Colmena:…
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Week 42 2020: This week’s New Words
Castellano Yodada: Iodized. (Sal yodada) Navegar a vela: sailing (with a sail..) Enojo – anger, annoyance Se hará – verb, Usufructo – The right by which a person can use the assets of another and enjoy their benefits, with the obligation to preserve and care for them as if they were their own. This seems…
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Calçotada
The most traditional way of eating calçots is at a calçotada – an annual gastronomical celebration held between November and April. Calçots are grilled until charred, wrapped in newspaper to steam, then consumed by peeling off the charred skin and dipping the white portion in salvitxada or romesco sauce. The green tops are discarded. The…