The meeting was held in Málaga- Spain from October 23rd to
29th. Our subjet was: Gastronomy in our countries.
Every country prepared six recipes
according to an agreed template. We printed them and prepared the
recipe books as well as decoration at the school with big size recipes and
their corresponding photos.
On the
first day, Monday 24th, we welcomed the teachers and students at our
school, showed them around and let them see the decoration and the welcome
greetings our students had previously prepared. We entered the bilingual lesson
class and then attended the presentations by two of our Comenius students on
the city of Málaga and on Spanish gastronomy. Then we had a breakfast at the
school bar of “churros” and chocolate.
Finally we
travelled to the inner village of Torrox. There, in a country house, every team
prepared a dish from those included in the recipes. We had lots of fun. A
journalist came and took photos and wrote an article on the event which was
published on the local newspaper some days later.
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Turkey prepared a dessert of figs
with walnuts and cream “Incir Tatlisi”; the German dish was called “Spatzle”
and it was based on onions, cheese and noodles. The Polish team made some “Pierogi”
,fruit pastry filled with peaches, strawberries, blackberries… Portugal cooked
their typical cod “Bacalhau á Gomes Sá”, typical Lisbon dish with onions and
eggs. We could also taste the Spanish flavours of Migas, Paella, chicken meat
with almonds, fried peppers, Spanish omelette…
On the
second day we travelled to Granada, walked down the narrow and steep streets of
the Albaicín towards “El paseo de los tristes” and after lunch we took a guided
tour of its most famous monument: the World Heritage Alhambra Palace and its
amazing gardens.
On the
third day Málaga was the aim of our visit. A bus took us to the highest point
of the city, the Gibralfaro Castle where we could see the wonderful views and
then went down to take a guided tour visiting the market place, the cathedral…and
finally the Picasso museum where we enjoyed an interesting and interactive
visit watching the paintings and trying to understand Picasso´s works.
At night we
visited the Flamenco museum at “Peña Juan Breva” and learned about the origins
and roots of flamenco which was recently declared World Heritage by Unesco, and
enjoyed a great flamenco show.
On
Thursday, 24th went up to see the breathtaking views over the Tajo
in Ronda. The guided tour took us to the oldest bullring in Spain, the Arab
Baths and the old Moorish streets of the beautiful city where Rilke and other writers
lived for some time.
The farewell
party took place in Málaga at one of the oldest taverns in town “El Pimpi” where we
tasted the typical dishes of the place.
The cars
museum was visited on Friday-28th. The students enjoyed the walk
along the promenade and then we rehearsed some flamenco dancing at the school
theatre.
We may say
we have all enjoyed the tastes, the colours and the smell of our country and
we´ve tried to transmit the essence of the Mediterranean way of life, the way
we understand life.
Comenius Spain xvid por rafagg61
