Nature Through the Seasons

Nature is always present, but it isn’t boring because it is changing all the time. Let’s go to a trip in Soria through nature along the year! 

Temperature decreases, take your clothes because it’s… WINTER!

 

Many people use this season to rest and stay at home, near the chimney but, are we hibernating animals? We are too young to do this. We must put on our skis, and enjoy the snow. Some teenagers need to travel long distances to access to famous ski resorts, however in Soria we are lucky because we have Santa Ines’ Ski Resort, where you can find marvelous views, covered by snow. Because of this, several winter competitions are held every year in the surrounding forests. Last Sunday there was a triathlon competition in which participants had to ride a bike, run six kilometers and ski. Everything in nature!

Bye bye snow, hello flowers…SPRING is coming!

During this season you can have a picnic on the field or spend the night in a shelter with your family and friends. Many villages celebrate some of their traditions in nature, for example in my village we meet during the second Saturday of May every year. We walk through the forest until we arrive at a flat where there is a church and we spend the day there eating and enjoying with our families. We try to pick up as much waste as possible when the feast ends. However, not everybody respects nature, and if we continue like this, we’ll destroy our own landscape in a few years. If I were as politician in charge of the enviroment, I would organize excursions at the weekends to collect rubbish in nature. What would you do?

Hot, swimming pool, holidays, beach, ice creams… SUMMER is here!

If you hate overcrowded places or being splashed in the swimming pool, you can find your place in nature to relieve from the heat. Take your bicycle, and search for a small pool in the river. In spite of the frozen water, you can get cold surrounded by nature. Maybe you are thinking that you can do more things in swimmingpools than here, but you are wrong, because rivers are shallow so there is less risk of drowning. Besides, like you are in nature, you have more freedom without people watching you. This is the best place for shy people!

Bare trees, brown, yellow and red colours, fields covered by leaves… AUTUMN arrives!

Nature brings us tourists who are attracted by mushrooms. In the past, only people from villages appreciated them, but in recent years the population of rural areas increases during this season, because of mushrooms tourism. Here are some tips not to damage the environment and to become the best mushroom collector. You must put them inside a basket, not in a plastic bag. In addition, it is necessary to cut them with a special penknife. Finally, since the biggest ones are usually hidden, you will have to remove the shrubs or search under the lumps on the soil.

I hope you have enjoyed this adventure through nature remembering the best things for every season. Since I don't want to bore you, perhaps we can see around in nature before our next post!

Driverless cars

Hey friends! How you are friends? I hope you are OK. Today I am going to write about science and technology, especially about driverless cars. I think that this topic is very interesting and you are going to learn a lot of things about it, because probably they are going to be the future of transport in the world.

To begin with, a driverless car is a vehicle that is able to percept, recognise the environment and navigate without human input. The technology of these cars is very advanced. They have a lot of sensors like the GPS or the speed one that is needed to control the speed of the car and to know the route that the car has to follow. One important advantage of these cars, is that they are electric, so you don´t have to waste petrol, which is very pollutant.

However, driverless cars still have to improve a lot of things. The most important thing is their safety. Nowadays, they don´t detect signals, pedestrians or bicycles, so the driver has to be really cautious and aware. They need to improve these sensors so that they can have a better security. Besides, the battery only lasts very little time, something they also have to improve so that they can have more autonomy. In the future they will add charging systems in fuel stations, so that people can recharge their batteries.

Currently, these cars are not available in the market, but in a short period of time they will be. They are being tested, because at the moment they can only be driven in highways but not in cities.

I hope you have enjoyed and you have learnt a lot of things about driverless cars. I will see you next week! Bye!