This document provides an overview of British culture and compares it to Spanish culture. It discusses famous British differences like unusual sports activities. It also describes traditions around castles and ghosts in Britain, noting legends around paranormal activity in various castles. Finally, it makes comparisons between the sports, traditions, and castles of Britain and Spain, concluding that while there are differences, understanding differences helps people understand each other.

2. Britain is different

3. Objectives:
To acquire some knowledge about British
culture
To learn about some British peculiarities
To compare British and Spanish culture in
order to understand their differences and
similarities

4. Contents:
What does difference mean? (D 5)
Famous British “differences” (D 6 )
Other peculiarities about:
Sports (D 7 - 15)
Castles and ghosts (D 16 - 24)
Traditions (D 25)
Miscellany (D 26)
Comparisons with Spain (27 - 28)
Conclusions (D 29)

5. What does difference mean?
The quality or condition of being unlike or
dissimilar
Variety among things of the same sort
(RAE)

6. Famous British differences:
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7. Sports

8. Tossing the caber

9. Throwing the hammer

10. Cheese rolling

13. Bog snorkelling

14. Extreme ironing

15. Hashing

16. Castles
and ghosts
There are lots of cases of “Enchanted castles or
Ghosts”, most of them in England and Scotland,
with stories about apparitions near huge,
misterious and legendary mansions
These legends are mostly reinforced by the
gloomy atmosphere of these castles which are
large, dark places with a lot of centuries of
History.

17. Ripley Castle (E)
Nowadays: local property.
Legend: People talk about a nun who
knocks at the doors and goes into the
bedrooms when invited

18. Pevensey Castle (GB)
Nowadays: In ruins.
Legend: Lady Pelham
always defended fiercely its
emplacement when his
husband was out. She died
in the middle of a battle.
Her ghost and those those
of her army usually appear
around the place and
people can also hear the
sounds of the violent battle

19. Castillo Hermitage (E)
Nowadays: cultural
heritage
Legend: people talk about
paranormal activity: shouts,
doors opening and closing, a
dwarf dressed in rags and a
beautiful woman. According
to the local legends, William
de Soulis, one of the first
owners, practised black
magic and it is the origin of
these strange apparitions

20. Castillo Comlongon (E)
Nowadays: Hotel.
Legend: people can
see a woman dressed
in green who is
crying. She was
Marion Currethers,
who comitted suicide
jumping from one of
the towers

21. Balnagown Castle (E)
Legend: "Black Andrew", who was accused of
raped and executed in the castle, appears and /
or attacks visitors who dare walk inside the place

22. St. Donat´s Castle (W)
Nowadays: cultural
heritage
Legend: paranormal
activity such as: the
sound of a piano or the
apparition of a panther;
but the most popular
legend talks about two
female ghosts who
appear, one announcing
disarsters and the other
looking for her lost lover

23. Buckingham Palace
Nowadays: Royal
Residence
Legend: It is said that,
on Christmas Day,
people can see a monk
chained to the big
balcony. Besides, you
can hear shots (Edward
VII comitted suicide
there).

24. The Brown Lady: The ghost of Mrs. Townshend

25. Traditions
Saint Valentine Who was he?
Guy Fawkes
What is this?
April Fool’s Day

26. Miscellany
The speaker’s Corner Nottin Hill Carnival

27. Comparisons with Spain
Sports Traditions

28. Castles
Castillo del Buen Amor
to the Archbishop Alonso de Fonseca, who had a lover (Doña María de Ulloa). Because of that forbidde
forbidd

29. Conclusions
Differences make us extraordinary
Differences achieve balance
Knowing differences help peoples understand
each other
Great Britain and Spain, are they so different?