Spotlight - 13.2019

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EDITORIAL 13/2019 Spotlight

FROM THE EDITOR

Irish adventures

W

hat a sight it must have been when,

in 914, a fleet of Viking longboats,

their enormous red and white sails

ballooned by a cold wind, landed

on Ireland’s south-east coast. Those

Norsemen were looking to establish

a settlement, and the place where they landed is today the city of

Waterford. Recently, Spotlight author Paul Wheatley visited the

city’s exciting and informative “Viking Triangle”. He also went

to the studios where the highly successful Vikings series is filmed.

Paul’s journey begins on page 26.

Earlier this year, we asked you, dear readers, to send us descrip-

tions of your favourite travel destinations, to tell us your favour-

ite jokes, and we invited you to visit us in the Spotlight offices for

an English seminar. How did it work out? You can find out what

our author Lynda Huebner taught at the seminar (pages 12–18),

enjoy the travel tips (pages 34–38), read a book review (page 71)

and have a giggle over the jokes (page 72). To help you find all the

relevant pages, we have added the “readers’ issue” symbol (see

the top left-hand corner of this page) to all these sections. From

all of us at the Spotlight offices, thank you very much to everyone

who took part. It has been a lot of fun working with you.

ballooned [bE(lu:nd]

, aufgebläht

fleet [fli:t]

, Flotte

giggle: have a ~ [(gIg&l]

, sich amüsieren

INEZ SHARP, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

[email protected]