C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Krog in jutranja ladja The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- Devetdesetdnevno žito In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- Zbor na čereh Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- Zgrajeno iz tega, kar so imeli On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- Vas pod nevihto At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- Stol ob ognju A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- Ladja pripluje Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- Megla se za njo zapre On her last afternoon, Polly climbs high over the whole island one more time before fog rolls in from the... Audio
- Vas, priklopljena na vulkan Walking through the village, Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant... Audio
- Večerja, zakopana ob zori Beside a steaming lake, Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below,... Audio
- En krater, dve barvi Polly finds an ancient volcanic crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined... Audio
- Ptica, ki so jo dvakrat imeli za izgubljeno Deep in an old laurel forest, Polly searches for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found nowhere else... Audio
- Zadnja dva vrtova v Evropi Polly lands on a terraced hillside where one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe still uses... Audio
- Devet otokov, tri plošče Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and finds a coastline of black... Audio