Thread: travel experience

hot spots of the country from south to north
- los lugares más interesantes del país del sur al norte.

to board the 1:45 AM flight.
- para subir al vuelo.......para abordar el avión

lot of confusion
-- mucha confusión.

we checked into the hotel -- what is for "checking in"?
- nos registramos en el hotel

grabbed some bananas
--tomamos algunos plátanos

The train journey on the bank of the lake was awesome.
--El viaje en tren por la ribera del lago fue impresionante.

The beauty of the alpine panorama, quaint wooden chalet villages, vineyard-covered slopes and sailboats skimming
across the blue waters are just beyond words.
-- La belleza del panorama alpestre, las aldeas con sus pintorescos chalets de madera, sus laderas cubiertas de viñedos y sus botes atravesando las azules aguas son imposibles de describir solo con palabras.
O
NO hay palabras para describir la belleza del panorama alpestre, las aldeas con sus pintorescos chalets de madera, sus laderas cubiertas de viñedos y sus botes de vela atravesando las azules aguas.

After a long walk along the lake we reached the "Chateau de Chillon" castle.
-- despues de una larga caminata alrededor del lago llegamos al Castillo de Chillon .

Chateau: castle: castillo

Hi Dragona!
Here in Cuba they are all plátanos but have a last name.
Now, what you call platanos for us is plátano macho ("male banana"). It needs to be boiled or fried or cooked in general, to be eaten.
Your bananas is our plátano de fruta ("fruit banana). You can eat them without cooking as long as they're ripe.
But in general we say plátano!!!!

bananas - plátanos

I think it's just the other way round :
you eat the plátanos
and the bananas you cook (or whatever, never tried it).

We in our language DUTCH also call the plátanos "bananas"
and we have a similar "fence-sitter" :
Ananas = piña = pineapple
(well...a bit beside the question, but perhaps interesting...)

Have a nice weekend !


GEE, Sandra T and Joel the detective seem to know it a whole lot better than me.
Yet I eat a banana every day !
In Belgium, we only eat the normal bananas, which are called plátanos in Spanish.
And it seems I was wrong regarding the ones you bake...

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in Argentina we only have "bananas", the fruit kind, that you just peel and savor. http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thu...led_banana.jpg or you can prepare a "licuado" (banana + sugar + crushed ice + milk, in a blender... great drink!)

Obviously, Argentinians are pretty savvy. Bananas are exactly that...yellow, sweet and peel-and-eat!

And they are incredibly delicious in many dessert dishes like ice cream, banana pudding, banana creme cake, bananas Foster, banana split, etc., (yummm!!)

I saw once a foreign cook (can't remember where she was from) preparing an "exotic dish" with the other kind (I've just learned they're called "plantains" in English), which she called "plátanos verdes" I think, http://www.boyds.org/images/platanos.jpg and explained what some of you mentioned, that they're hard and don't taste well if eaten raw...

Once again, you are correct Laura!
Plantains are plátanos which are very popular in dishes in my territory. I especially like them fried or baked with miel. And I've eaten those things in Hoffmann's recipe (the panqueques o tortas) and to me they were not very appetizing...a sort of hard, bland bread cake.


Sandra: Do they grow bananas in Cuba?


Joel: Plátanos are plátanos in Central America, at least so in Costa Rica, and bananas are bananos.


Frank: Pineapples are also grown in Costa Rica and are called piños. Have you ever eaten pineapple upsidedown cake? Fantastic!