Uncanny Story

I’m going to write a true story that happened to me a long time ago.

It was the night of St. Joan and, as always, I was celebrating the night of the bonfires with my family and some friends in the house that my parents had in the field, close to the mountain of Montserrat.

It was into the night when suddenly and without any explainable reason the night became day for a few seconds. We looked to each other not knowing what to say and wondering why the night turned into the day.

The next day we heard on the radio that something strange had happened in the mountain of Montserrat and that was not the first time that these weird stuff happened.

Some alien in the mountain, isn't it?

English or American writer ?

I have just started the book “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. I have chosen this novel because it was in the list of books banned from Sarah Palin and I thought that it will be so interested to read it, since it makes me remember the film that it was so nice.

But my feeling, when I read the firsts pages, has been that this book is not easy. Alice Walker is from Georgia and she uses American English with many abbreviations and terms that make me the reading so difficult.

When we want to read a book what is better English or American writer? From my point of view is better an English writer but I don’t know if I’m making a mountain out of a molehill.

What do you think ?

International Women’s Day

Today is the International Women’s Day, that‘s celebrated around the world each 8 March. It’s an important day to celebrate the achievements that women have done during the past.

In many countries they are marching to demand more rights for women because, unfortunately, in the twenty - first century there are a lot of women without the same rights as men like the same payroll, social justice, health-care……so on.

It’s a day to celebrate the past achievements and what they are going to do and can do in the future.

¡¡ Happy day to all women !!

Calçots

Now is time to eat calçots…., but what is the origin or history about this particular Catalan tradition ?

According to the legend “calçots” was discovered by Xat de Banigues a country person from the XIX century in the area of Valls. This man forgot that in the grill he had to put some onions and they burned, but instead of throwing the onions away he peeled them and he discovered that inside there was a fresh and delicious calçot”.

The “calçot” is the main character of the famous “calçotadas”,that are celebrated in the area of Baix Penedès, mainly in Valls. It's served with delicious romesco sauce, red wine or cava.

In Valls each year there is a competition in order to see the person who eats more calçots in a certain period of time. This year the winner has eaten two hundred and fifty calçots in forty-five minutes …….oooops!! incredible.

I thing that’s a good experience to enjoy eating calçots and I encourage you to taste it.

Let's go …and see you in Valls ¡¡