Author: o_diana (Page 58 of 61)

London Bridge

Уривок з тексту книжки Марка Твена “Принц і Жебрак”.  Оригінальний текст на сайті http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Mark_Twain/The_Prince_and_the_Pauper/Chapter_XII_The_Prince_and_his_deliverer_p1.html

This structure, which had stood for six hundred years, and had been a noisy and populous thoroughfare all that time, was a curious affair, for a closely packed rank of stores and shops, with family quarters overhead, stretched along both sides of it, from one bank of the river to the other. The Bridge was a sort of town to itself; it had its inn, its beer-houses, its bakeries, its haberdasheries, its food markets, its manufacturing industries, and even its church. It looked upon the two neighbours which it linked together–London and Southwark–as being well enough as suburbs, but not otherwise particularly important. It was a close corporation, so to speak; it was a narrow town, of a single street a fifth of a mile long, its population was but a village population and everybody in it knew all his fellow-townsmen intimately, and had known their fathers and mothers before them– and all their little family affairs into the bargain. It had its aristocracy, of course–its fine old families of butchers, and bakers, and what-not, who had occupied the same old premises for five or six hundred years, and knew the great history of the Bridge from beginning to end, and all its strange legends; and who always talked bridgy talk, and thought bridgy thoughts, and lied in a long, level, direct, substantial bridgy way. It was just the sort of population to be narrow and ignorant and self-conceited. Children were born on the Bridge, were reared there, grew to old age, and finally died without ever having set a foot upon any part of the world but London Bridge alone. Such people would naturally imagine that the mighty and interminable procession which moved through its street night and day, with its confused roar of shouts and cries, its neighings and bellowing and bleatings and its muffled thunder-tramp, was the one great thing in this world, and themselves somehow the proprietors of it. And so they were, in effect–at least they could exhibit it from their windows, and did–for a consideration–whenever a returning king or hero gave it a fleeting splendour, for there was no place like it for affording a long, straight, uninterrupted view of marching columns. Men born and reared upon the Bridge found life unendurably dull and inane elsewhere. History tells of one of these who left the Bridge at the age of seventy-one and retired to the country. But he could only fret and toss in his bed; he could not go to sleep, the deep stillness was so painful, so awful, so oppressive. When he was worn out with it, at last, he fled back to his old home, a lean and haggard spectre, and fell peacefully to rest and pleasant dreams under the lulling music of the lashing waters and the boom and crash and thunder of London Bridge.

Готель, який зроблено з… солі!

Salar de Uyuni, Uyuni, Bolivia  ( video після  тексту)

Dario Lora, manager of Luna Salada Salt Hotel: The hotel is unique. It is made of salt, it is like a museum. You can sleep in a bed made of salt bricks, you have the desk made of salt bricks, you have the floor made of salt, everything made of salt! It’s the biggest salt flat in the whole world having a stretch of twelve thousand kilometres. Here’s where everything begins. The people from Colchani strike the salt bricks. You can see here, lines … these small lines represent the rainy season and the sediments in the salt.

We select this location in the hill so we have a really nice landscape of the salt flat. You can see all the salt flat from the Luna Salada Hotel. Here in the restaurant everything is made of salt. Here we have a table made entirely of salt. These chairs are made inside the salt flat. The local people here in Colchani they are specialists in making handicrafts, everything made of salt.

Here in the hotel we are in a high altitude. We have more than three thousand metres. So one of the challenges is cooking the food at this altitude because the cooking takes more more time for the pressure than we have in the altitude. So one of the popular dishes that we have in Bolivia is quinoa.

[Dario Lora speaks to the chef in Spanish – At altitude around 18 to 20 minutes and 8 to 10 minutes at sea level.]

All the salt that we use in the dishes came from the salt flat. It’s a better flavour to have this salt, it’s stronger, the taste, and it’s more pure.

One of the biggest challenges we have is the rainy season is because the weather destroys all the salt bricks. That’s the reason that all the time we are changing all the salt bricks around the hotel. Another problem that we have in the hotel is the corrosion in the wires. Sometimes we have to change all the wires because it is very corrosive the salt. All the wires are made of copper and we have to put a plastic tube to protect all the wires. In some cases we have to change the the plaques because the salt destroys all the plaques from inside.

I am excited to be part of the hotel. There is only in Bolivia this kind of hotels. It’s like a piece of art.

– See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/video-zone/salt-hotel#sthash.ug0e4RsN.dpuf

Очікувати з нетерпінням

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Just the fact that there’s something good coming in the future empowers you in the present.

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Наташа Купер. Friend? Girlfriend? Boyfriend?

Наташа Купер. Nice / Fine

Наташа Купер. Як когось похвалити.

Ведмедики Гаммі

Всім, хто був малюком у далекі 90-і та їх майбутнім або підростаючим діткам =)))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9pUhpcNn8M

Ви зрозуміли пісеньку з мультика? Якщо не дуже, то на російській версії сайту є пояснення та переклад. Хто зна? Може, Ви зможете придумати свої історії про складні слова і поділитеся своїми секретами з нами. =))

Наташа Купер. Подяка.

Наташа Купер. My friend and I? My friend and me?

Lorelei
Lyrics: Rudolf Schenker and others
Music: Klaus Meine and others

There was a time when
We sailed on together
Once had a dream
That we shared on the way
There was a place
Where we used to seek shelter
I never knew the pain
Of the price I would pay

You led me on
With a cloak and a dagger
And I didn’t know
You had made other plans
You had me believe
We were meant for forever
I really thought
My heart would be safe in your hands

Lorelei
My ship has passed you by
And though you promised me
To show the way
You led me astray
You were my lorelei
What kind of fool was I
Cause I believed
In every word you said
And now I wonder why
Lorelei

There was a time when
We held one another
Bearing our souls
In the light of the flame
Those were the days
Now I’ve lost my illusions
Sometimes I wake in the night
And I call out your name

Lorelei
My ship has passed you by
And though you promised me
To show the way
You led me astray
You were my lorelei
What kind of fool was I
Cause I believed
In every word you said
And now I wonder why
Lorelei

Now there’s a light
That shines on the river
Blinding my eyes from so far away
Shot through the heart
But now I know better
As hard as it is to resist
The song that you play

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