Rather unexpectedly, I'm not spending the summer in Jaca; I'll miss the folk festival which takes place every two years there, as well as the mild climate and the floods of tourists. I'm working in Cambridge, as a director of studies for a Young Learners course. Cambridge is even more full of tourists than Jaca! I'd forgotten how pretty and gracious it is. Not having brought my camera with me, I've bought a disposable one with which I should be able to make a disc and digitalise to put one or two photos on this blog. (On the left there's a photo of a Victorian postbox outside King's college)
Oh yes, a taste of England: Yorkshire Tea, Indian restaurants, cheese scones are some of the indulgences of being here!
Walking on the lawn. there's another luxury. Grass here is so well-tended. And the garden flowers as well. The English really are good at that. In and around Jaca the wild flowers are spectacular. I can think of orchids of various kinds, wild irises on the mountain slopes, gentians of different shapes and sizes to mention a few. In England it's really the parks where I've seen good displays of flowers, like the lovely areas full of daffodils you get in the early spring. I miss that at home in Jaca; my daffs don't come up very abundantly in the garden.
Oh yes, a taste of England: Yorkshire Tea, Indian restaurants, cheese scones are some of the indulgences of being here!
Walking on the lawn. there's another luxury. Grass here is so well-tended. And the garden flowers as well. The English really are good at that. In and around Jaca the wild flowers are spectacular. I can think of orchids of various kinds, wild irises on the mountain slopes, gentians of different shapes and sizes to mention a few. In England it's really the parks where I've seen good displays of flowers, like the lovely areas full of daffodils you get in the early spring. I miss that at home in Jaca; my daffs don't come up very abundantly in the garden.
