The carnival in Cuba it’s a great fun. It takes place in he month of August. People hope to entertain because is a public holiday.The floats,the dancers,music,orchestra, fireworks,and rhum and finishing watching the sunrise. In Cuban carnival reflects the joy. Go there and have a good time and you will alwaysr emember it.
by Vanessa, a Cuban girl living in Sant Boi
In Carnival, some people think they can be another person. They can be a devil or an angel.
You can be Cleopatra or Madonna.
You can made it with clothes and make-up.
And then you go out to street and enjoy to the party.
There are a lot theme specialy shops.
You can buy all kind of things about anything.
Teresa, Julia & Conxita.
You can join the most important carnival near my town ¡Sitges!. It is famous around the world because in that town live a very important gay community. That community has a special way to live the carnival.
You can see drags queens with differents and flashy fancy customs. The spectacular parade is very famous.
Elisabeth, Gema Toñi, Ros
The carnival of Rio is the most famous of the world. People around the world arrive each year to Rio de Janeiro the last week of Febraury.
The most important things of this canival are the march with floats and dancers of the samba schools, with his colorfull fantasy dresses.
Maria & Joan
He went to New York aproximatly four years ago. It is a charm city. There several interesting place like Central Park , Time Square, Liberty Statue , the Subways netwrok ( Metro/underground ) . You can be ashamed in a sightseeing tour to the diferent suburbs like the Bronx specially at night, but its the Fifth ( 5 ) Avenue especially with its huge Skyscrapers , it´s like being inside a movie.
CRISTIAN
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He went to New York last four years more or less , I Charm the city , its Central Park , its Time Square, Its Statue of Liberty , their Subways ( Metro ) , their neighborhoods eye with the Bronx at night especially , but its Fifth ( 5 ) Avenue especially its huge Skyscrapers , it´s like being inside a movie.
CRISTIAN
GOLONDRINAS The swallows (“golondrina”) are the little ships that are doing tourist routes around Barcelona port. The trip lasts 35 minutes from “Moll de la Fusta” to the out side dock and you can disembark and take a walk. The price is 4€ for adults and 2 € for children . It is possible another route to Olympic Village where you can sail along the city’s coast. This trip lasts 1h.30m. and its price is 9 € for adults and 4,10€ for children. The oldest ship was make for the international EXPO in 1888.Now the new boats can take around 150 to 196 people.
Goes to Barcelona and Monserrat , Igualada.
Marga and M Angeles
PUBLIC TRANSPORT OF SANT BOI
There are different kind of public transport. We have bus and train. There are buses to travel into the town. And there are buses to go other town or Barcelona city. The train goes to Barcelona city and other town of Barcelona. The problem of the buses is the time that you stay in the bus-stop if you lost it. The train is quicker if you go to Barcelona city.BARCELONA (VILA OLIMPICA)
The olimpica village is the suburb by the sea. There are too many tourists. In the Olympics games sportists live in the flats.There are a lot of good bars and restaurants. The public transport is good, with buses and metro. It is a very important nightlife area in the city. In the summer people go to the beach. Near there is a shopping centre, with shops and bars, the mall is called Diagonal . The zoo is very near.
M Angeles
There are too many tourists. There is an excellent football and Olympic stadium.There is a little crime in the morning but at night it’s sometimwe dangerous. In the summer the tourist visit the gardens and parks. Once a year, they make a fashion catwalk. Every week the fans of singers go to the concerts in the Palau Sant Jordi.There are good restaurants and cafés but they aren’t very cheap.
Núria
I live down town, near the sea and the beach , there is one main street that many people visit .There are the best restaurants and a very important Opera theatre, Liceo , the shopping is very attractive in this street, there is a beautiful market too, la Boqueria , and a monument to Cristobal Colon.There are museums, like wax museum, Sea museum, Arts, one aquarium and an imax cinema too.This zone is very visited by tourists because it is very famous in Barcelona .
Toñi
It is an old district of Barcelona. Now it is a fashion district , there are many shops, a lot of nightlife, many people walking in the street and many restaurants.
There is a very pretty gotic church, Santa Maria del Mar, also called "The sea cathedral". This place is near the city centre. In the last century it had an important and big market but now it is closed but the structure is conservate.The steets are very narrow and the flats are very cheap and old.
Leonor
Barcelona has got various museums. In Reina Cristina avenue it is The National Art Museum "MNAC" there is also a bussines and congress zone and it is also very famous for its fountain with water in colours. The name of the area is Plaza España . It has got several hotels and There is a famous street whit many shops. It's called Sants Street. It is a very visited area with many tourists all year round.There are a lot of good bars and restaurants. Public transport is excellent there are buses, underground and train.
Sitges Sitges is a town near Barcelona. It is by the sea. This makes Sitges the nicest town near Barcelona. Its weather is ideal. Its sun is always shining. Its streets are narrow but you can walk calming. There are many, many shops with fashion clothes. There are very nice old buildings . But the most important is the interesting people that you can see walking in its streets. The people of Sitges is different. It is a favourite place for gays. There is very nightlife too. Many dracqueens go to Sitges in the night and in the carnival. The carnival of Sitges is very famous. The Cinema Festival it is also very important.
Ana Romera
Lines of buses in Sant Boi of Llobregat (Barcelona).
SB1
SB2
L70
L72
L74
L75
L76
L78
L96
TRAIN (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat).
The urban bus of the town of Sant Boi . ( The principal stop is the station and the hospital ( comarcal/County).