Travel Blog: Holidays, Complaints, and City Guides
MY NEXT HOLIDAYS
Hello good morning. I´m the student Sergeant Mario González. I´m from Lobon a small town of Badajoz but in the present I live in Calatayud.
I´m 32 years old. I´m married and I have a daughter. She is two year old.// This summer I’m going to go on holidays to the Canary Islands.
I’ll travel with my husband. We’ll go by aeroplane.// We leave Madrid on August 11th at ten o’clock in the night and I hope to arrive there at twelve o’clock in the night. This day of arrival we’ll meet with a friend and we’ll go out to have something in a restaurant or in a bar, depending on the hour that is time. The other rest of the days we’ll go to the beach from the morning to evening and then we’ll take a bath in the open-air swimming pool in the hotel. At night we will have dinner in different restaurants and then we will have a drink in a pub.// The last day is on August 18th. The airplane leaves at 19:00 and arrives to in Madrid at 22:00 (local time).
LETTER OF COMPLAINT
Dear Sir/Madam,// My husband and I have just returned from one of your “special city tours” in Amsterdam (August 31 – September 10) and I am writing to complain about the holiday we were given.// To begin with, the hotel was not at all what we had been led to expect from your brochure.You advertise air-conditioned rooms with mini bar and private bathroom, but what we got was a tiny room with none of the promised appliances. The room only had a washbasin and we had to share the sanitary installations with five other parties on our floor. As for the hotel staff, whenever we called down to the reception there was simply no one around. There did not even seem to be any cleaning staff since our beds were made once during the whole of our stay.// Added to all this, the tourist guide included in your offer had fallen ill shortly before we arrived and there was obviously nobody in charge to organise a suitable substitute. // As you will realise, we are highly dissatisfied with the holiday your company provided and we do not see why we should put up with it. We expect a letter of explanation as well as a substantial refund of our money. Unless this is forthcoming, we shall have to take matters a step further.// Yours faithfully,// Mrs J Smith
DESCRIPTION OF CALATAYUD
Calatayud is a city in the province of Zaragoza. It has 20,191 inhabitants. The Jalón River passes through it. It has the Logistics Academy of the Spanish Army, as well as a National Distance Education University (UNED) center.// Calatayud has a past that dates back to Roman times. In its historic center, some of the best examples of Mudejar architecture in Aragon are preserved, so do not hesitate to visit the entire city center as well as these places.// Calatayud has many restaurants where you can taste the best of Aragonese cuisine, I particularly recommend the Puerta de Terrer restaurant, located in a winery, with a large selection of wines and grilled meats and fish.// Calatayud is also an ideal destination for those who wish to discover the best of its rural surroundings. Near this town we have the Sierra de Armantes and the natural park of the Monasterio de Piedra. A natural environment that has no equal in Aragon.// Calatayud is also a destination to enjoy if you like speed, nothing like visiting the Calatayud motocross circuit.// The Plaza Mayor is one of the prominent squares in Calatayud. It has the town hall, and houses of Aragonese style from the 16th century. In addition, it is in this square where these festivals of San Roque, patron saint of the city, always begin.
REPORT OF COVID-19
If we measured the evolution of the covid-19 pandemic as the swing of the waters, we would see that this health crisis has impacted our society like a tsunami that, although announced, has exceeded all expectations. Now that we seem to be glimpsing the end, the big question is what the sea will look like when all this is over. That is to say, it will not end at once but we wait for a long queue in which they can have small outbreaks of new cases.// This work begins right now, studying the effects of de-escalation. And he continues trying to predict what will happen in the more or less distant future. But the evolution of this pandemic is written on the fly and its future depends on both biological and social factors. So it only remains to trust the aspects in which we do have control, such as individual and collective preventive measures to avoid more infections.// The consequences of future outbreaks do not have to be the same. The problem with this first wave is that when we realized its severity, it was already too late because the virus had already spread.// The good news, if you can call it that, is something we have learned from this first universal pandemic of the 21st century. We are already psyched both with the consequences of a pandemic and with the measures to apply to mitigate its impact.