Thursday, November 10, 2011

Mixed flavours in Spain

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. 

 newspaper link
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…
After lunch we went to another village on the coast and took a walk along Málaga´s bay
 Some photos in Picasaweb
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

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