i am addicted to knitting socks. with the yarn joui brought from switzerland i made these babies! the fact is i get bored very easily and to knit two equal socks is just too annoying. i think these are funny and will definitely suit someone who enjoy wearing uneven pairs!
ok. this even impresses the southern portuguese: papas de sarrabulho it's so good. but...the description might take you apetite, that's why foreigners simply should not know! it's just...a lot of meat and pieces of bread in blood of pork. on the side, we eat fried potatoes, fried blood, tripe and pork meat. mediterranean diet anyone? some random pics of the x-mas lights in my city. all pics by my brother. hope you've all had a warm christmas!
on the 25th, we had an unconventional lunch. this picture is very dramatic on purpose but...well, it's the truth, we ate a baby pig from mealhada, cooked on the stake it had a very pepperish sauce and it was really good, i don't remember having eaten it before, only when i was a child who didn't appreciate food stuff.
in every portuguese home, the christmas is an eating marathon. the first day, 24th, in my home is like this: we always eat boiled vegetables (potatoes, cabage, onions and carrots, eggs) with boiled codfish and boiles octopus. in other regions of the country people eat turkey and other things. the dressing is really important and my mom makes a delicious hot olive oil sauce with onions and garlic. the deserts are rich in cinnamom. there is the "bolo rei", a cake with dry fruits and caramelized ones; there are the "rabanadas", bread in egg fried and then covered in sugar and cinnamom...yum yum i tried to introduce the korbaciky, but it was a mistake: a contextual inconsistence. then we open the gifts at midnight. this year we didn't go to "missa do galo", the midnight mass! i got this super cool analog camera, wooo hooo!!!
my dear colleagues in RmS had the idea of making the slovak dinner as my goodbye party! it, of course, started with a flipchart meeting in the meeting room about the order of the cooking, due to the little ammount of pans :D so they improvised a kitchen in the meeting room! this was the menu! bean soup, brydzove halusky and plácky! my friends started coming and i started getting the best gifts and getting all emo. the room was full and i was so happy for being able to see these people again, before i left! I got this beauuutiful traditional slovak scarf, hand embroidered! and i got a children's literature classic with the funniest dedicatory ever! ("you are the best spanish girl we've met!") and the food was yummy yummy yummy! and we even had vianocne punc, delish! but it was time to remove and clean my things time flies, but life goes on. it was such a great EVS, more than sad for being over, i'm just happy i made in with these people, these tasks, in this place!
jarka and yuliya invited me for a lazy sunday lunch as i was preparing my suitcase, i started picking souvenirs that might make them think of me (corny, i know). so, for jarka the "what would mcgyver do" t-shirt, and a traditional viana do castelo scarf for yuiliya! in return they offered me this lovely collage with the best moments we spent together! it really makes me smile everytime i look it, thank you so much! i wish you a great rest of EVS, or a great beggining in this new slovak life, as a "real person"!
the moments we spent together were really relaxed and funny. thank you for all your help, company, food and good mood! my very good friend rita came from the netherlands to visit me. because she had already been in bratislava two years before, i decided it was better to take her to my speacial place, my sweet brdárka. the journey was, for the first time, totally white but, like everytime, the colors of brdárka are as warm as the people who live there we spent the night in the kitchen burning "chouriço!" brdárka has a new cow, so now they are drinking milk from the cow. and this is the sheppard bringing it! some random stuff with glasses... or pacmans the following morning was white and -15. before we leave to radzim, anthony decided to make some brioche. it ended a total success! with the dough fermentating, we went for my first hike in the snow. the landscape was so beautiful, so peaceful i cannot explain! however, the journey was a bit stressfull as we were always followed by some dogs! so we arrived to the top of the radzim! but anthony omolette de fromage wanted to take us as well to some magical place in betweens the radzims, so i went to a place i have never been before. totally silent. in the night (16h00) we went to the stable to visit the animals - here is the baby cow! this is the quilt tiago's mother made. it's so beauuutiful! and, behold: three portuguese (5% of the population of brdárka), a french and an italian saw the most beloved fairytale of slovakia: perin baba!! we loved it so much, and were laughing the whole time! it's like a 100 times better than cinderela, in a traditional slovak vwooden village, old traditional costumes, death, trials, shame, oh, super!! after we returned to bratislava in the carriage with the 72...! i love brdárka so much. but i'm positive that the people make brdárka. and i will feel this anytime i meet them, anywhere.
thank you for everything, brdarkians! it was really inspiring to meet you, your lifestyle and your village! this was an event worthy of record, so it's never too late to mention it! two weeks ago jarka and yuliya decided it was already too long without me having iceskated before! so we went to a shopping center with an artificial ice arena and on my first step on the ice i thought... uh la la. but with help, a couple of falls, i had a lot of fun and decided i wanted to skate again! after an hour and a half of effort, juraj had a slovak dinner ready for us! a super yummy bryndzove halusky!!
woo-hoo! so, with the goal of celebrating his 25th b-day (cough cough), my brother decided to come to bratislava! (all pictures of the weekend are his) bratislava was as snowy and cold as ever, but it was great to stroll the streets, in between warm cafes of course. and some serious business hot chocolate! this is the christmas market in bratislava! and of course no visit would leave without this.
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