Galicia Makes A Great First Impression [Season 1, Episode 16] - a podcast by Sheila Dee & Evo Terra - Third World Survivors
from 2015-04-21T18:00
Full Show Script
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[mi español es muy mal]
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EVO: ¡Viva España! Of all the countries in the first leg of our world tour, this is the one I, personally, was most excited about. The food, the culture...
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SHE: ... the warm weather...
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EVO: Right, that helps, too. And it doesn't hurt that I speak a little Spanish.
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SHE: Oh, whatever! I've seen you consult Google Translate like every time you've tried to talk with someone that doesn't speak english. Spending 20 minutes a day on Duolingo a few times a week does not a fluent Spanish speaker make.
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EVO: Hey, don't spoil the illusion. These people look up to me!
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SHE: Whatever. But speaking of giving good advice, this trip does let us test out some of our earlier assumptions. We're hopping back into the Schengen area. You'll recall from an earlier show that here's a limited amount of time we're allowed to stay in this area of Europe. We should be nowhere near the limit on our number of days, but there's also a very good chance we've misinterpreted the rules.
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EVO: The danger was that a border agent might interpret those rules differently. Turns out, we had little to worry about on this, our third border crossing.
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[border]
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EVO: Getting to Madrid was one thing. Getting to Galicia, one more plane hop away, was another matter. Because after getting through the easy border crossing, we realized we had forgotten something rather important.
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[no tickets]
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SHE: Spain, so far, is everything we wanted it to be. And that mostly means warm and dry. We made some friends as soon as the taxi dropped us off at our flat. Somehow we got invited to a birthday party by a bunch of locals that night. We have about two hours of audio that some of you would love to hear, but we're not releasing. After six weeks of low alcohol British beer, those Spanish spirits hit us really hard.
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EVO: Yeah, us and everyone else at the party. Then again, if we get enough support at Patreon, that's just the kind of stuff that we'll have to use in our blooper reels. And let me tell you, it's one giant blooper. Did I really sing along to a Spice Girls song? Oy...
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SHE: After our time frolicking with the locals, we made our way to Santiago de Compostela. It's claim to fame is the Camino, a pilgrimage of hundreds of miles from dozens of points across Europe that all end up here. We're not religious, so I'm not going to try and explain it. That's what Wikipedia is for.
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EVO: To continue our confirmation bias from last episode, we once again found ourselves in...
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