Thursday, 23 April 2009

Barcelona and learning the Spanish language.

Barcelona is an example of those places you arrive to and immediately feel secure. You step off the aeroplane and the heat hits you straight away - particularly if you arrive in summer time.

Not only do they learn spanish with the help of the countless quality learning language colleges and centres in Barcelona but they occasionally end up learning Catalan too. It took me a few spanish lessons and quite plenty of practice to essentially decode between the 2 languages - Spanish and Catalan. Wine export from Spain has nearly doubled from 5 years ago- presumably because of the fact that Spain is manufacturing more new, world-class wines than previously and also Spain has some of the finest wine values around. Tempranillo remains the principal grape employed in Rioja and the wines are recognized as being some of the finest for cellaring. Riojas personality depends on long-ageing in Yank oak. It produces 3 wines, basically from the Tempranillo grape. Ribera del Duero and Rioja represented the twin tops of Spanish wine quality till the 1990s. But other Spanish regions are now challenging their dominance in the wine world. There are now over 150 different red and white wine varieties being vinified in Spain. To the untrained ear, one possibly wouldnt know if one were being spoken to in Spanish or Catalan - that information will come with time. * Parc Gell * La Pedrera * Casa Battl * Las Ramblas * La Boquera - a wonderful indoor market with the most up to date fruit and fish.

+barcelona

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