{"id":2003,"date":"2013-09-05T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:51:32","slug":"viva-la-vuelta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/viva-la-vuelta\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva La Vuelta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-Vuelta2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2008\" alt=\"The Vuelta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-Vuelta2-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-Vuelta2-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-Vuelta2.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Steve was a huge fan of the <i>Vuelta<\/i>. When he used to live in Spain, he would join hundreds of Spaniards and fellow Brits in lining the streets along the cyclists\u2019 route each year. Every year, the race took a different route, so sometimes he\u00b4d find himself down on the coast while other times he\u00b4d be inland and occasionally in the mountainous regions.<\/p>\n<p>He was a keen cyclist himself and loved the adrenalin of competitive cycling although he was far from the riding standards of the <i>Vuelta<\/i> cyclists. The strength and discipline that those cyclists possessed was incredible, and he admired their stamina and level of fitness which carried them through the three week long race.<\/p>\n<p>Steve and his friends would usually make a day of it, grabbing a bite to eat in a <i>chiringuito<\/i> before finding a good vantage point from which to see the riders approaching. The crowds would gradually increase in size as the local police strung security tape between the gated sections. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pagosahotsprings.com\/how-to-purchase-valium-online\/\">Valium<\/a>)  The cars and trucks advertising their wares with loud music would let everyone know that there wasn\u00b4t much longer to wait. The <i>Guardias<\/i> on their motorbikes would lead the sponsors\u2019 and teams\u2019 cars, while the helicopters circled above. Then, the distant cheering would signal the cyclists\u2019 approach and the crowds would push forward to get a good look and take some action shots with their cameras. The rush of speed and force of power as the cyclists passed them was immense\u2026and then, just as quickly as they\u00b4d appeared, they were gone, vying for their positions within the <i>Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite no longer living in Spain, this annual event wasn\u00b4t something that Steve was prepared to miss; it just wasn\u00b4t the same on TV! He\u00b4d kept up with his Spanish lessons and every year he looked forward to his summer holiday when he could go back to Spain and catch up with his friends, chat with the locals and get caught up in the excitement of the awe-inspiring <i>Vuelta<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve was a huge fan of the Vuelta. When he used to live in Spain, he would join hundreds of Spaniards and fellow Brits in lining the streets along the cyclists\u2019 route each year. Every year, the race took a different route, so sometimes he\u00b4d find himself down on the coast while other times he\u00b4d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,185,327],"tags":[234,327,10],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-historic","category-spanish","tag-second-language","tag-spanish","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}