fionaistravelling

Several paragraphs about Portuguese lessons and Portuguese Grammar start this blog, you can skip down to the asterisks if you want***but who knows, it might be interesting even for those of you who DIDN'T do a four year languages degree or a two year bilingual secretarial course....  Language Matters I never really trained as anything in my life, apart from as a bilingual secretary (and maybe, later on, as an 'oral historian' or an 'educationalist', which aren't really proper careers.   I did a French and Italian degree which always makes me think that I got a degree in 'ordering the beer on holiday' - but if I'm anything, I suppose I'm a "linguist".  I spent two years at different times living in French speaking countries, and my French is still pretty good.  I learned Spanish in my late twenties to go to Peru, and my Spanish is a bit better than my Italian because I never really had any connections with Italy or Italians.  I did some ...

  This week's blog comes courtesy of Chiropractors of Blackpool - this time a year ago my right knee wasn't working at all and I could hardly get up the stairs at home let alone go up a mountain! And now both my knees are pretty equal at weight bearing and I have a week of scrambling, climbing and trekking to report on… . I highly recommend Amie Bracey  who has transformed my life !  (Along with the wonderful physio Angela Davies from Fulwood Therapy Centre   who keeps my latent  sciatica at bay with regular appointments and exercise pointers ) In this blog I turn into a rock climber and amaze several local guides(and terrify my niece) with the fact that an older woman can do scrambles… I also uncover several new muscles in my legs and have to spend a day in a hammock rubbing deep heat into my legs while everyone else goes up another mountain… but that is to come !   It's Friday 5th January when I'm writing this (though Sunday 7th when i'm publishi...