The story behind the name

Hello friends! Just a short blog post today! It is now just 3 days until I fly to Tarragona to kick-start my year abroad and I am super excited! But before I go, I thought I should explain the origin of my blog name. When I sent the link of my blog to my friends (hello anybody reading) I think I got about 6 requests asking me about the name of my blog. The answer, friends, is that we had a translation exercise this year at uni which involved us translating “fresh as a well scrubbed lettuce” into Spanish, hence the name “fresca como una lechuga bien frotada”.

If I am not mistaken (please correct me if I am wrong Spanish friends) it equates to the English “fresh as a daisy”, although a couple of my Spanish friends have also questioned it so I don’t think it is as common a phrase as “fresh as a daisy”. I think one of my favourite things about learning other languages is their idioms and expressions which make absolutely no sense when translated into English! Perhaps I will continue to update this post with a list of Spanish idioms throughout the year…