MIREIA-MARIA-LUCY RADIO PODCAST (1)

Mireia, a resident of Menorca, shares about the culture, places, and traditions of the island. She recommends visiting in the summer for the best experience, with festivals like Sant Antoni and San Cristoforo being highlights. Menorca is also known for its incredible beaches, with Cala Galdana being a favorite. Other beach recommendations include Travolugia and Santa Marta. Lucy, who owns an Asian restaurant in town, recommends trying their special dishes like talladines and rice, as well as sushi. The restaurant is open all days except Thursdays in winter and every day in summer. Mireia and Lucy both recommend visiting Menorca for a great summer experience. ♫ Hello, this is Maria, welcome to different destinations, today we are going to visit Monorca. Today Mireia is visiting us, she is a girl who has been living in Monorca for 16 years and she is going to tell us about the culture, places and traditions of the island. Good morning Mireia, welcome to different destinations, how are you? I'm good, thank you for inviting me. I'm so excited to learn more about this beautiful island. I'm also excited to tell you a little more about my sport, so let's start. You are young, what time of the year would you recommend to visit the island to a foreigner? I can recommend the summer, I think Monorca is the best summer island. Why do you think that? What can you do in Monorca in summer? I think so because in Monorca we have the best horses festivals. I think the two best festivals are Sant Antoni in Furnay and San Cristoforo in El Miglioro but the two festivals that make a bigger feeling are San Bartomeu in Ferreria and Sant Joan in Ciutadella. Everyone talks very well about Monorca's festivals, but the island is also well known for the beaches. Are they really as incredible as they say? Yes, I spend every day on one different beach. The beach where I spend more of the summer days is Cala Galdana, because it's in Ferreria, my town. Ok, so Cala Galdana is great. What else can you recommend? If you want to walk, I can recommend Travolugia, because I think it's a beautiful beach and it's near Cala Galdana. But if you don't want to walk, Santa Marta is perfect. So if one day I come to Monorca, I will go to these beaches. Apart from the holidays, I've been told that the beach is very good there. Yes, I have a friend who knows more about this, because she has a restaurant in my town. Can we call her? Of course, let's call her. Hello Lucy, I'm in a program and they asked me about the food in Monorca. And I told them that you have a restaurant in our town that foreigners have to visit. Do you mind if they ask you some questions? Of course, no problem. Hello Lucy, welcome to different destinations. Tell me a little about your restaurant and why is that good. In my restaurant we serve Asian food, because my family is Asian. Our special food is talladines and rice, my favorite. We have a lot of different types of rice and talladines. For example, three delicious rice, which a lot of people like, so I recommend it. Another type is a prawn rice with egg and peppers. And about talladines, I recommend it with chicken, because it's more tasty. But it depends on your taste. We also make sushi, which is a special food of Japan. Oh, it looks yummy. And what opening hours do you have? In winter we open all days except Thursdays. In summer we are open every day. Our opening hours are from 7 to 4.30 in the afternoon. And in the evening we open from 7 o'clock to 11 o'clock. And why do you recommend your restaurant? I recommend my restaurant to all of you, because I think that it's good. And in Menorca we don't have a lot of Asian restaurants. Ok, so people should go to Asian restaurants when they visit the island. Thank you for telling us about your restaurant. Bye, thank you. Bye. So, to finish with this, I'm going to ask the final question. If you had to choose between spending the summer in the Caribbean or in Menorca, where would you choose to spend it? I would choose Menorca, no doubt. So guys, now you know where you can spend the best summer ever. Thank you for spending some time of your day with us. See you soon. Bye. Bye.