Las curiosas tiendas de España Flashcards

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My husband Stephen and I live in a little village in the Midwest of the United States.

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Mi marido Stephen y yo vivimos en un pequeño pueblo del medio oeste de Estados Unidos.

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Our family has been blessed with love, happiness and very good moments, especially on our travels.

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Nuestra familia ha sido bendecida con amor, felicidad y muy buenos momentos, especialmente en nuestros viajes.

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The kids still go to school, and I work part-time in a lawyer’s office.

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Los niños van a la escuela todavía, y yo trabajo media jornada en una oficina de abogados.

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My husband has his own business buying and selling cars, and he has shops in various counties.

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Mi marido tiene su propio negocio de compraventa de coches, y tiene varias tiendas en varios condados.

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Since Sarah and John were very little, Stephen and I got them accustomed to travel.

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Desde que Sarah y John eran muy pequeños, Stephen y yo les hemos acostumbrado a viajar.

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Travel has always been our passion!

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¡Los viajes siempre han sido nuestra pasión!

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But when we had children, travelling became a little more complicated, and we started to choose closer destinations

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Pero cuando tuvimos hijos, viajar se volvió un poco más complicado, y empezamos a optar por destinos más cercanos

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We were planning the travel for almost six months

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Estuvimos casi seis meses planificando el viaje

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We wanted to have everything very well planned so that nothing would go wrong!

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¡Queríamos tener todo muy bien planeado y que nada saliera mal!

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The first thing we realised was that we had prepared everything very well, but without thinking that it was going to be so hot in Madrid during those days.

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Lo primero de lo que nos dimos cuenta fue que habíamos preparado todo muy bien, pero sin pensar en que haría tanto calor en Madrid aquellos días.

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The first thing we realised was that we had prepared everything very well, but without thinking that it was going to be so hot in Madrid during those days.

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Lo primero de lo que nos dimos cuenta fue que habíamos preparado todo muy bien, pero sin pensar en que haría tanto calor en Madrid aquellos días.

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So it took nearly one whole morning going to one, two, three, infinite pharmacies until we realised, and finally a girl explained to us that we had to go to a “droguería” to buy that.

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Asi que estuvimos casi una mañana entrando en una, dos, tres, infinitas farmacias hasta que nos dimos cuenta, y finalmente una chica nos explicó que teníamos que ir a una “droguería” a comprar aquello.

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We finally found one and bought our sunscreen.

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Al final conseguimos encontrar una y compró nuestro protector solar.

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Of course, in Barcelona there are supermarkets like in the rest of Spain, but we loved to discover the special shops for the different groceries.

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Por supuesto, en Barcelona hay supermercados como en toda España, pero nos encantó descubrir las tiendas específicas para los diferentes alimentos.

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For example, if you want to buy meat on your travels to Spain, search for a “carnicería”, that’s to say, a meat shop.

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Por ejemplo, si quieres comprar carne en tu viaje a España, busca una “carnicería”, es decir, una tienda de carne.

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The difference with Spain are these funny names and that these shops are usually grouped in the “mercado” (market) or in the areas surrounding it.

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La diferencia con España son estos divertidos nombres y que estas tiendas suelen estar agrupadas en el “mercado” o en las zonas de alrededor.

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Everything was very green, very alive, full of forests and cows, that produce some of the best milk in Europe.

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Todo era verde, muy vivo, lleno de bosques y vacas, que producen de la mejor leche de toda Europa.

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In Asturias we discovered another very curious establishment, the sidrería.

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En Asturias conocimos otro establecimiento muy curioso, la sidrería.

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The sidrería is a bar where there’s only cider, an alcoholic drink that is made from… apples!

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La sidrería es un bar en el que prácticamente sólo se bebe sidra, una bebida alcohólica que se hace a partir de las… ¡manzanas!

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Our experience in Spain discovering wonderful places was great, but discovering these places where they only sell one kind of product or thing, and their names, was very fun!

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Nuestra experiencia en España descubriendo rincones maravillosos fue genial, pero descubrir estos lugares donde vendían sólo un tipo de productos o cosas, y sus nombres, ¡fue muy divertido!