Siesta

It’s siesta time, isn’t it?

During a recent break at a business meeting, and while my customer was pouring a second cup of coffee, I was hit with the siesta question. Again. I had been thinking of writing a short post on the subject for quite some time, so after this incident I decided to get started. In fact, there are few words in the Spanish language which are this well-known across the world – siesta is right up there with fiesta, mañana, and probably cerveza. (Funnily enough, you could place them all under the same category of “leisure,” but this is a subject for … Read more