【精短听力】出发吧！寻找温热的地中海味道，去浪漫缤纷西班牙

微信公众号：【英语PK台】每日18点推送当日课堂音频及全文本

联系主持人 新浪微博： @京晶am774 @英语PK台

14点、22点听直播+千人互动区：http://t.cn/R648k8q 

Travelling throughSpain with Denise

DeniseKeele-Bedford is an Australian artist who regularly visits China. Denise lovesto travel also to many other parts of the world. In this feature she is talkingabout a recent journey to Spain - a journey through major cities but alsoquieter countryside locations.

Bruce enjoystalking about Spain because it was where he did much of his early travels -going to the islands, the mountains and the coasts. Spain is a populardestination for people from northern Europe, including Scotland, because theweather is warm.

In this featureDenise starts by talking of Barcelona, the great city on the Mediterranean. Shetalks also of the capital, Madrid. Then of smaller cities such as Segovia andof the wine country.

Today Spainincreasingly attracts Chinese tourists who are also enjoying the scenery, thefood and the historic cities.

Track one

Track two

One of the things in Madrid that I really did love was the San Miguel market

A very famous market in Madrid - a food market - I am not sure how much weight I put on because I really ate my way around Spain

San Miguel market is very famous for all sorts of food - we had lunch there one day - most enjoyable

You make me quite envious - thinking back to my days of ‘Viva Espana’ - we used to sing that song ‘Viva Espana’

(Spain) was a major destination for people from Scotland - to escape the rain, escape the cold - go to Spain and enjoy the sunshine

But you were not just in these big cities like Madrid and Barcelona

You were doing a lot of travelling - right up to Bilbao

From Madrid we headed out into a couple of ancient cities - Segovia was one of those.

While we were there they were advertising a bullfight

Bullfighting in Madrid is generally a ‘no-no’ these days - but in Segovia they were going to have a bullfighting festival

From there we headed into the wine country - into dry areas - reminded me a lot of Mildura in Victoria (Australia) where you have a dry climate but they have canals and a lot of water and so it is very good for the wine

We went to a place called Penedes which is a wine district - many wineries in that area

The Bodegas - you go in - it is the big barrels of wine - you can sit there all day sampling until you decide which one to take a bottle back

A lot of these bodegas are underground - in naturally occurring caves or they dig down

That is very good for wine to keep it cool

They also make cheeses which Denise loved!