Coffee Break Spanish - Santander y Santillana del Mar - Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries Episode 5

Episode Date: September 24, 2020

We've reached the halfway point of our trip around the north of Spain with Victoria and Abel. In Episode 5 we're making the most of our final day in Santander before heading to our next stop in the Cantabria region of northern Spain. It's known for its medieval towers, Renaissance palaces, and the Romanesque Santa Juliana Collegiate Church. Can you guess where we're going? We're visiting Santillana del Mar, often considered as one of the most beautiful towns in Spain. Join hosts Mark and Anabel as they discuss the language used in Victoria's travel diary entry, focusing on interesting vocabulary such as the adverb bien and the phrase en rumbo.Travel Diaries will be published in one season of ten episodes weekly from 27th August. If you’d like to access lesson notes and a video version which features pauses after each sentence to allow you to practise your pronunciation, check out the full course on the Coffee Break Academy.At Coffee Break Spanish we provide content for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners, along with regular mini lessons on social media. Visit coffeebreakspanish.com for all the information you need to build your confidence in Spanish, whatever your level. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coffee Brick Spanish Travel Diaries, Season 1, Episode 5. Hello, all, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Annabelle. How are you? How is. Well, today, I'm super well. And you, what are you?

I'm doing. It's all right. So, content. Well, it's good. It's always. When it's the sun, it's always a lot. That's it. Well, today we're again with Victoria and Abel.

and they're passing a voyage during his Luna de Miel in the north of Spain. And we're following their travel diaries

as they take this journey. And of course, through their diaries, we're learning some new vocabulary, practicing your grammar and taking the opportunity to travel virtually when it's perhaps not quite as easy to do some travel in real life.

In this episode, they're a a people that's a little Santa Liana of the mar and then

you'll tell you about this this little Annabel okay okay

let's have a listen to the text as it was a day

a much we we we we we we

we we're the city there there many many

things there in sandand but before the the

we had we we we did we have prisa in the raquero and the

Palacio of the Magdalena a magnificent edificio that regalow the city to the family

real my part favorite was the play of the Camello where

we could see a great a great a form of Camel

when we we did a photograph a ola us

impap the mochillas. Tomamos rumbo to Santillana of the Mar, where we're a replica of the Cuevas of Altamira and his pictures

also visit the casco historic and we've been the collegiata of Santa Juliana, a church that is the monument Romantic most important of Cantabria.

The joy of the coroner, was the Cena, cocid mountaine and anchoas of Santonia. The

queso also was good very much. What good records I have of

this place, of this city, of this city, of this town

of the Mar. Yes, tell us. You explain because in the

years 90, I was a professor in a college, in

a institute secondary and he was doing classes of Spanish and the book that we used to class in class I was from this part of Spain. So, Santander, Santillianna of the Mar, Janes, San

Vicente de la Barquera, all these places which Victoria and Annabelle are visiting on their journey. So each time we come to a new place, I'm thinking, oh, I remember that. I remember my trip to Santillana del Mar. I don't have any photos, unfortunately, because it was pre-digital camera, pre-digital camera,

pre-phone, so there are probably printed photos somewhere, but I have no idea where they are. But it's a beautiful village. And if you get the chance to visit Santillianne del Mar, please take it. Has you been there, Annabelle? De moment, no. But after of listening, I'm going to hear. Perfect. Well, much thanks.

Let's then to read the text and talk of the language that there in this text. as it was going to be a day of much adventure desayunamus Fuerte and we're just as well time to be in time to be in much adventure as it was going to be a day of lots of adventure Desayunamos Fuerte

that's a preterate there even though it looks like a present we had a really good breakfast and we started off very temprano to see the city and we started off really early seeing the city. Anabel, bien temprano. Bien, yeah, it's an outverb

and can be used kind of similar to mui, but it's like very, much, it's like extremely. So, bien temprano, is that it was like very, very early. And we can use it with all the adjectives. So for example, It's bien rich.

Yeah, so we're talking about a dish there is really delicious. It's been rich. So using bien to reinforce. There are other ways of doing this, aren't there? Yes, there are more. Like, for example, mu, but very.

I love that one. Mu, but very, very temprano. We started off mui, but very, but very early, but very early. Very, very early.

Could we just say temprano, temprano? Yes, we can't repeat the adjective, just twice or three. The more you repeat it the stronger it is. So, Temprano, Temprano, Temprano. So it was like very early.

Excellent. So also the other great thing about that is it gives you time to think. So we're going to be in Temprano. Well, we're going to do. What were we going to do? A ver the city. That's perfect. Let's continue. There were much things to see. But there was much things to see. But before the food,

we'll start there. There's much things to see in Santander. So again, just a reminder,

last time we learned about the fact that there's something to be, or do, or whatever, would mean that

these are things that we have to do, ticking off a list. But here, there are just lots of things to see.

So there are much of things to see in Santander. There are lots of things to see in Santander, but an end of

the coming to have to head off. before lunch. Okay. So, so we

did we in see the rakeros and the Palacio of the Magdalena, a magnificent

edificio that gave a city to the family real. So we put it up

to see the raqueros. Mark, as has been there, remember the raquero?

Well, interesting, because They were constructed in 1999 and I stood in Santander,

I think in 98 so no I don't remember them You have to return They are actually

statues of children seated standing and diving for coins on the harbour wall in Santander

One thing I think is very interesting Annabel is how you pronounce this can you

say it again the name for this sculpture. Los Raqueros? Yeah. So there you said Los Raqueros. And earlier when you were saying it, you were singing it a little faster than seeing Los Raqueros.

Oh, yes. So you're dropping your S and that's very often something that happens, Lo Raqueros. And it's kind of there, but it isn't really there. But it's just to pick that up for our listeners.

What else did they see? the Palacio de la Magdalena, the palace of the Magdalena, a magnificent edificio, that regalow the city to the family real. So it was a magnificent building which the city regalow to the royal family

gifted to the royal family. Menudo regal. My part favorite was the Playa of the Camelho, where we could see a great a big My favorite part, my part favorite part, my part favorite

was the playa of the camel. It was the beach of the camel, where we could see a large stone with form of a camel. When us did we make a photographia,

a hole no empaped the mochillas. Okay, so when we were taking a photographic, when we were taking a photographia, photo, a wave, it soaked our

rucks our rucksaxe our backpacks. Nos empapos las motillas. So it to us soaked the bags, the backpacks. Now we could also say we soaked ourselves. We got soaked

and that would be for example in the rain. We and we don't even pass, even past our yes, okay, so to the bones. We got soaked to the bones as opposed to being soaked

to the skin. I think we've spoken about that before. Okay, let's take a short break there and we'll be back in just a moment with more of our travel diaries. We wanted to let you know that there's a premium version of the travel diaries course

and this includes a set of lesson notes where you'll be able to read the text from each of the diaries and work through the vocabulary and any explanations that we've provided. There's also a video version of the text where we've left space for you to repeat the words and phrases used, giving you an opportunity to practice your speaking and your pronunciation. For more information about this, head to coffeebreakacademy.com.

Okay, we are just about to leave Santander with Victoria and Abel, and they're heading on to the town of Santillana del Mar. So, Annabel, can you take the next sentence, please? Tompamos rumbo to Santillana del Mar, where we could see a replica of the Cuevas of

Altamira and his paintings rubestres. Very well. So, we're rumbo A. So, to head in the direction of.

We set off towards Santilliana Del Mar. And this next bit is very interesting. Where could be a replica of the

Cuevas of Altamira and his pictures or rupestres, so Pinturas repenturas are cave paintings

so it's cave art and we're talking about Las Cuevas de Altamira. Now the Cuevas de Altamira were actually featured in this book that I mentioned earlier, the textbook that we used in class and I was excited about going to visit them when we were visiting Santillian

Del Mar. However, they were closed to the public at that point so it wasn't possible to see them or perhaps they were just closed on the day that we went but now you can't visit them at all. No, now, lamentablement,

no se but there's a replica. Exactly. One replica, there's a replica of these caves that you can visit and to see

the cave art in this replica. It's a kind of like a museum, I guess, a cave museum. Now, just before we move on,

can we talk about this interesting verb here? And Abel, we've said Tompamos Rumpo a Santillian

of the where we could see a replica of the cluevas of

Alta where is it not where we could see

a replica of the ques a very interesting

thing so Podium is the conditional tense as you

know and this is used because we are talking about

a possibility in the past so where we could

see a replica so they had the chance

the to see the replica or not, but the chance is there. Okay, so if we were talking about Santilliana del Mar is an interesting town where you could see, if you wanted to, the Quevas de Althamira. So here we're talking about the fact

that Abel and Victoria went to Santilliana del Mar and Santillianna del Mar is a place where we could if we wanted to see the replica of the quevas. Did they? Well, we don't know for sure they mention it. So with this tense,

what we know is that they can do it, but we don't know for sure. Since they mention it, probably we imagine that they went, but we don't know for sure. Okay, makes sense. So hopefully that helps you understand why it's Podriamos.

We could have said, Tomomos Rambore Santidna of the Mar, where we've seen a replica of the Cuevas, and there is absolutely crystal clear that they did indeed see the caves. But they're just introducing this idea of possibility here where one option would be that we would see

the caves. Okay, where we could be, okay, where we could be, very well. Also, we sitamos the casco historical and we saw the colegiaata of Santa Santa Juliana, a church that is the monument

Romaniac most important of Cantabria. Perfect. So also, also, we visit us the casco historical. We've talked about the casco historical center. We've also visited the historical center and we saw the collegiata of Santa Juliana. And we saw the Collegiata of Santa Juliana. This is a church, a church, a church, that is the monument

Romano-romantic most important of Cantabria. So it's the most important Romanesque monument of Cantabria. The joya of the coroner was the cena Cucido Montaignez and choas de Santonia

Okay, so the joya The joya de la Corona the jewel in the crown The Piest was dinner La Cena Cocido Montanés So Cucido is a stew and a mountain stew

tends to have quite a lot of meat in it and it's quite delicious very, very tasty. And anchovies from Santonia. El queso also also was goodissimo.

So another thing that you're going to find in the hills. This is in the interior part of Cantabria, not at the coast. Another thing you're going to find there is El queso. The cheese also was delicious. So finishing our text again talking about food, which is always a good thing.

Let's listen to the whole thing now. As it was a day of much adventure, we're having to be very early to be in the city. There were many things to see in Santander, but before the food we had to marchar-as-a-as-you-nizabeth,

so we're d'n't we're prism in ver the raquero and the Palacio of the Magdalena, a magnificent edificio that regal the city

to the family real my part favorite was the the plain the psalmiel where

we could see a great a great a great a common when we

did we did we a photograph a ola us empaped the

mochila we we we're to santilana of the A replica of the Cuevas of Altamira and his paintings rupturess.

Also, visit us the casco historic, and we saw the collegiata of Santa Juliana, a church that is the monument romaniac most important of Cantabria. The joy of the coroner was the Cena, Cocido Montaignees and Anchoas of Santona. The queso also was good well, I think I'm

going to try and find my photos from this trip to Santilliana Del Mar I need to find my

memories from these days. Okay, we will be back next time with another episode, another

installment in the journey from Victoria and Abel. But in the meantime, why not

check out the full version of this course where you can access the lesson

notes, providing that information about each of the words and phrases in the text, and also the video version where you can see the words on the screen and we leave spaces after each part of each sentence giving you the opportunity to repeat and practice your pronunciation. You can find out all about that at coffeebreakacademy.com. And don't forget to check out our Instagram account

where you can see photos of some of the places visited by Abel and Victoria on their journey through the north of Spain. And you'll also be able to follow the journeys of our travel diaries in France and Italy and through the German and Austrian Alps. Just search for Coffee Break Languages on Instagram. Well, much thanks, Annabelle, as always. Thanks to you and to us. And we'll see the same next.

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