¡Hola España!
Petra K.
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About culture, language, places, food, music, impressions, feelings - everything that is related to this beautiful country.
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Recipe: croquetas de jamón
Croquetas de jamón can be found on the counter of every single tapas bar. Althogh it is probably not the healthiest Spanish food – as it is basically fried béchamel, – I can assure you that Spaniards and tourists equally love having them as tapas or for...
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Tips to learn Spanish
Spanish language is becoming more and more spoken worldwide. Currently there are about 500 million speakers on the globe. I have come across some predictions holding that sooner or later Spanish will take over the role of English as the lingua franca. Although, for now,...
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6 reasons to choose Salamanca as your Erasmus destination
Being a former Erasmus student, I know that how your experience turns out to be depends on many different factors. One of these factors are the recipient country and city that can be very decisive. Ever since I got here, I was convinced that the best way to live in...
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Transport outside of Salamanca
Previously I have already explained how to get around within Salamanca and in the outskirts. Now, I would also like to tell you how to travel between cities and how to get to the airport. Coaches The most often used means of transport in Spain are coaches. There are...
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38 semana cine e idiomas
Despite the high number of international students in Salamanca, for some reason, the problem of the lack of movies in English has still not been solved. It is a big question for me that in a city full of thousands of Erasmus students every single year, why not to play...
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Virtual culinary tour: Typical Spanish dishes, desserts and drinks
I always say that if I had to choose my home country based on its gastronomy, it would be Italy without hesitation. I love pasta, I love pizza, I love lasagne… However, I have to admit that I am positively surprised in the Spanish cuisine. Not like I had any...
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Public transport and other ways to get around in Salamanca
There are many things Salamanca is famous four, but the public transport does not belong to them. Salamanca is a city of drivers and pedestrians, but if the given situation doesn’t let you to be any of those, getting around can easily turn into a time-consuming...
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Tales of Salamanca - pieces of the Spanish literature
Without doubt Salamanca is a historical city and thanks to that there are thousands of stories its walls are hiding. In this post, I would like to introduce two of them that I was told by my Spanish friends and I find them very interesting. These stories are fictional,...
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Reunion in paradise
On Sunday I could finally meet Kellen, my Brazilian friend, who I hadn’t seen for almost a month. The thing is that both of us were travelling in Spain, however not at the same time and thus, we always happened to avoid each other. But yesterday, we finally had our...
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Dance workshop in Salamanca
I have been dancing since I was a little kid. I have tried many different styles from ballet through Latin-American dances to hip-hop. Yet, the workshop held last Saturday in the Azabache dance academy was a whole new experience for me, as I got to familiarize myself a...
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An unexpected visit and the Raid 4L Trophy
The other night the most amazing thing happened: I was about to go to sleep, following my bedtime routine, when my boyfriend stormed in to the room, took the computer out of my lap and said: “Get ready, we’re going out! ” I didn’t know what was going on, but I...
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Spanglarian: The ups and downs of using three languages at the same time
I’ve been having thoughts since high school about how cool and beneficial it could be to speak many languages, but little did I expect that this wish would actually turn into the reality of the 23-year-old me. Surely, I have always known that I have a talent for...
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Salamanca through the eyes of others: Interview with a Chinese
Today I am bringing you the second interview of the series of "Salamanca through they eyes of others", and this time the story teller is Li from China, a nineteen-year-old boy, who has been living in Salamanca for more than two years now. Before deciding to start a new...
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Basque adventures: episode 3.
In the previous posts devoted to our Basque adventures (episode 1, episode 2) I tried to give you an idea about the habitants and their culture, while taking you on a tour across the beautiful Bilbao. Now there is only one episode left, and this time Getxo and Vitoria...
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Basque adventures: episode 2
In the previous post I have introduced the Basque Country, this underrated faraway land in Spain, and have shared some of the basic information you need to know about its unique cultural characteristics. But now, let’s start with our three-day-long adventure. Our main...
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Basque adventures: episode 1.
It had been quite a while since I was dreaming about visiting the Basque Country (País Vasco, and for my Hungarian readers Baszkföld) and specifically Bilbao, the city considered to be the national capital by the Basque people. Although I cannot recall where my...
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Salamanca through the eyes of others: Interview with a Brazilian
Since I have quite a specific situation living in Salamanca, I was thinking that it would be a good idea to ask some of my friends to talk about their own experience, in order to get a more complete picture of the life here, of prices, food and places to visit....
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The Salamanca tourist guide
I have been preparing this post for a long while now, because my intention was to give you a thorough tourist guidebook to Salamanca, but for that I needed to gather a series of information and take photos that had not been taken yet. So hereby I would like to present...
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Burgos, the Spanish Edinburgh
Our last travel destination before I returned to Budapest for the holidays was Burgos, 240 km northeast from Salamanca. It is the capital of the province of Burgos and is still located within the autonomous community of Castilla y León – just like Salamanca, Zamora...
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Zamora
The protagonist of our second trip outside of Salamanca was Zamora, the capital of the province of Zamora and another city in the region of Castilla y León. Since I knew that I was going to spend Christmas at home in Budapest, before returning, we tried to cross out...
