The tv program, “Comando Actualidad”, starts in the village Coria del Rio, Seville.
The presenter talks to a woman, named Milagros; he tells her: “Milagros, How many horses are here…!, is not it?”, and she answers: “35 or 40….”; the presenter asks her: “35 or 40 horses have you at home?” and she answers: “Yes”. He asks: “And why that?, What do you do?”, she answers: “To pony cars, the public service of Seville”. He asks her: “Are you a Horse car driver woman?, she answers: “Yes” and he tells her: “But you are already retired”, she answers: “A little bit….”. He asks her: “And who runs the business?”, she answers: “My children”; the presenter asks her: “Are the licenses inherited from parents to children?” and she answers: “Most are inherited”.
After that conversation, the woman goes into the home to call her sons; she says: “Come on….that you have go to work…”.The presenter says: “How are you…, good morning. Are you preparing yourselves for the job?”.
The presenter asks her: “Milagros. Are there many women, like you, who have engaged in this work?” and she answers: “No. I was the first one; afeter that there was a girl, but she stayied a few time…”, he asks her: “Why?” and she answers: “I do not know…; it shall be because it is a world of men, there are no many women who dare…it is very hard too”, the presenter asks: “Why?” and she answers: “Because they are many hours in street”.
Milagros says: “The City Council has given a garage for the 97 horses, that we have in Seville".
The presenter goes to the garage with one Milagros´son.The presenter asks him: “Is there any work…?, Are there many tourists?” and he answers: “It depends on the date. Good date is in Spring…, October…, Christmas”.The presenter says: “Better Spring and Autun…, when hot is gone” and he answers: “Exact”. The presenter asks him: “How you can manage with tourists?. How you can manage with languages?”; he answers smileing: “As we can…, step by step..Four monuments and..the price and the time..”, the presenter says: “The price, is not it?. How much is the maximum that they have paid to you for a trip?”, and he answers: “To me the maximum….well that is the Fair goes up very much and if you are 2 or 3 hours, but they pay you 300 or 400 Euros”. The presenter says: “300 or 400 Euros for one trip…, that manage you the day and almost the week”. And Milagros´son says: “Well…some days I come back without anything….after 10 or 12 hours…and that day you do not want go back for working, but the next day you have to go back to the routine”.
After that, he says: “We continue the task, let us go to the Cathedral". The presenter says: “The Giralda. Is this the main stop?” and Milagros´son answers: “Exact.It is the main stop, because it is where all the tourists come; it is what keeps tourists visiting. We are coming, we ask the turn and the first-come, first load. Who is the last one?”, a soft voice is heard: “I am, Pepe”. The presenter asks: “How many have you ahead?” and he answers: “I am the fifth.Perhaps in an hour we are all out, or we are here all morning, or all the day”.
Another Horse driver man tells a tourist: “That should be cost 100 Euros for you. That is an official rate”. The presenter says: “We see that they resist, they fight” and a companion of Milagros´son answers: “They will always try to reduce; you can ask them 50, you can ask them 20; if you ask them 20, they will tell you 10; if you ask them 50, they will tell you 40”. The Milagros´son says: “The garman….the German is a tourist….” And the presenter finish the sentence: “The german people are the hardest one?” and the Milagros´son says: “Yes”.
The presenter is close to a group of tourists, who seem to be Spanish; he says: “Hello, good morning.Where you come from?” and they answer: “We are from Galice”. A sir says: “Two tickets miss” and the presenter asks: “¿have you already bought the tickets, for all the group?” and the sir answers: “Yes.Two tickets miss” and the presenter asks: “How much has cost you to go into here?”, the sir answers: “It has cost 50 Euros for 10 persons”; the presenter says: “50 Euros, 10 persons;then, it has been 5 Euros….With any discount?”, the sir answers: “No, none..ah, to the pensioners….We are going up”.
A guide explains something inside the Cathedral: “This is the tomb where the remains of Christopher Colón. And his second son, Hernando Colón, was born in Seville”. The presenter asks him: “How many years are you as a guide?” and he answers: “Around 40”, the presenter says: “¿40 years inside the Cathedral?” and he answers: “Now, I am the oldest one and I was missing a leg”, the presenter asks him: “Has you broken a leg?” and he answers: “No.They cut me the leg” and the presenter says: “And even so you are still touring the Cathedral…and explaining….”; he says: “Well….explaining on wheelchair, in 2000, from the hospital to here and from here to the Remedios, where I live”. The presenter asks him: “Whom, a famous, have you guided?” and he says: “Who was the President of the United States, Gerald Ford”. The presenter asks him: “How many languages do you speak?” and he answers: “Some. I also knows to speak by sign and by phone”.
Now, the presenter goes close a young man, who is the Sacristan of the Cathedral of Seville and he says: “Hello, good morning, The Sacristan of the Cathedral of Seville…” and he says: “of the Cathedral of Seville”.The presenter follows: “And a lot of work, I suppose, because it is a Cathedral…one of the biggest” and he says: “Yes. It may take thousands, thousands of people…it is awesome. What they most are looking for is to climb the Giralda, which is the famous monument of the city of Seville…”, the presenter asks: “May we climb the Giralda” and he answers: “Yes. Right now”. The Sacristan says: “This score reflects the number of people in the interior of the Tower. In this part, where the ringer lived…… ,up to 5 generations have passed…Well, this was the lobby and they lived, exactly….here to the left. This was a kitchen and the door leading to the living room”; the presenter asks: “How long time is that nobody live here?”, the Sacristan answers: “30….years about. 3o years that it is not played with rope” and the presenter says: “And now, that no ringer there is….” And the Sacristan says: “There is a computer system…with the different chimes….”; the presenter says: “Double Pope, says there, What it means?” and the Sacristan answers: “That is the Pope´s Funeral”; then, the presenter says: “There is a program prepared…?” and the Sacristan follows: “If the Pope dies”, the presenter also says: “If the Pope dies”, the Sacristan says: “Or if a Cardinal dies. That they call them…”
They are going down on a stairs and the Sacristan says: “35 ramps and 17 steps there are up. There are ramps, because formerly, the Muslim prayer that rose to the tower, ascended by mule or horse, and then it was more comfortable up a ramp”, also the Sacristan says: “We find the largest bell, which is the bell Santa María”; the presenter says: “This is the largest bell in the largest bell tower, because this is one of the most important bell tower”, the Sacristan says: “Yes, yes.This is the largest bell tower in all Spain”.
Now, the presenter says: “We are going into an area, where tourists can not log in” and the Sacristan says: “No, they can not do it”. The presenter asks: “How many meters can we be?” and the Sacristan answers: “I think we are more than 70 meters”, they look the view of the Cathedral from the roof and the Sacristan says: “It is the Cathedral and the largest one” and the presenter says: “There is no Cathedral in the world, which has a surface as large as the Cathedral of Seville” and the Sacristan nods: “as the Cathedral of Seville”. And the Sacristan adds: “That building, that is just there, is the Archive of the Indies. Here, to the left, we have the Alcazares, with its wall. A little further back, the two towers, , with the Square of Spain and all the grove, that is in front, is the Maria Luisa Park”.
Now, you can see two carriages, which are arriving to the "Square of Spain". Then, the presenter goes close to a group and tells them: “Hello, good morning. Where you come from?”, they answer: “From Galice” and he says: “From Galice?. What are you searching here?” and they answer: “The province”. The presenter asks to the guide of this group: “This one was made for the Exposure of the year 29” and he says: “Yes, of the 29” and the presenter asks him: “And now for what it is used?”; the guide answers: “It is the building….what is more visited in the city. This is the Palace, where the film “Lawrence of Arabia” was made, if you remember. Here also was made the “Stars War”, the Square of Spain”. The presenter tells a lady: “Here each one goes to its province, is not it?” and the lady says: “Of course. Galician people go to our”.
Now, the presenter is in a fried-fish shop and he talks to a responsible man. The presenter tells him: “Fernando, we are in a fried-fish shop…, this is very typical of Seville”. And Fernando answers: “Yes. Cazón in adobo, Choco and here we have cod”. The presenter asks him: “In a strong day, how many kilograms of fish you can frying?”, he answers: “But…above all Cazon and choco, which is the king product, approximately 100 kilograms of each one. But, for example, in Holy Week, you can arrive to 200 kilograms”. Now, the presenter talks to a sir, who is buying fried-fish: “Are you from here, from Seville, gentleman?” and he answers: “Yes” and the presenter tells him: “And this one what is, a tradition for you?” and he answers: “From I was a child”, the presenter says: “From all the life..” and the sir says: “Yes, yes.It was one of the things that I liked more: to go out to dinner to a fried-fish shop with my parents. Before, it was the food of poor people, the fish was very cheap and now is prohibitive”. The sir goes to a table, to eat with his family. He says: “Little prawns and choco”.
The presenter says: “Beteen all the tourists, who visit Seville, more than the 15 per cent choose lodge in private houses and apartments: a cheaper option and it gives them more freedom”. The presenter knocks at a door and when it is open, he says: “Hello, good morning. May I enter?” and a man answers: “Of course, man”.This man says: “I lived in a very big loft, that is this one, where we are and I have made a restructuring and I have a zone, which I have for renting”. Then, the presenter says: “Mean: this is your home and the rest is rented”.
The presenter knocks at another door; he says: “Hello, May I enter?”; a boy open the door; the presenter tells him: “I am Pau, Comando Actualidad. Are them your parents? And he answers: “Yes”. The presenter tells them: “Hello, Where you come from?” and they answer: “From Panamá”. Pau asks: “And why you decided to come to an apartment and not to a hotel?” and the boy answers: “Because it is more confortable: we come three…, an the tv….it is more confortable…it is more family….It is as if you were in a house…I like very much colors.., and the colorful..it is liñe interesting, I should say…”. The presenter asks him: “Marcos: Is this a work your?" And he answers: “Yes. I am a designer”, the presenter asks him: “Ofmovies?”and Marcos answers: “Yes”. The presenter says: “And here you give free rein to your creativity”; Marcos says: “Yes.This was painted with brown color and a boy tell me he did not like brown”. The presenter asks him: “You've been a long time renting?” and he answers: “No, not too much time, I have 2 or 3 months”, the presenter asks him: “How much is it 5 days here, in this space?” and he answers: “But…500 Euros, more or less”, the presenter says: “Mean: 100 Euros per day” and Marcos says: “It means that 3 or 4 persons can live here. Look: they have come since groups of lawyers till girls with groups to do Bachelorette parties and people from all the world…, many foreigner people”. The presenter tells him: “The tenants, who you have now, leave today and, when the next come?”, Marcos says: “But…this just afternoon come another group”.
A guide visit a house with a group and says: “Well. I ask you for of course respect; this is a private house, which they will open for us, they are going to have the courtesy to open up. Let us go inside, in order that you can see this patio…Hello….Well, here we have the owner of the house, who receives us, who has had the courtesy of receiving us…”. The owner says: “If you want to see a little bit….This is the summer dining….This is the little bit sun, that enters; this is the only sun that enters”.
The presenter asks to the owner: “Ana, hello: How is it, that your home and your patio are attractive touristic?” and she answers: “I'm glad they come, be seen and enjoy the patio, because pretty little job gives me, but I enjoy it, the first that I am enjoying it”. Another lady tells the owner: “In the garden you have no flower” and she answers: “There, no, with shadow there is no flower. The flowers have to be from here to there”, the lady says: “But in the andalusian patios there are usually flowers, Are not them?” and the owner answers: “But, no”.
The presenter asks to the owner: “What is what catches their attention more to tourists, when they enter?”; the owner answers: “But…the tiles, the tiles very much, yes”, the presenter says: “They like very much the tiles”. And she explain: “I have seen a lot of times some Japanese making photographs to the tile by 10 inches”, the presenter says: “From so near” and she says: “I think that they want to copy it, yes, the Japanese..”. The presenter asks: “Is this a typical house of Seville?” and the owner answers: “Yes”. The presenter asks again: “How is it distributed?”; she answers: “There is a central patio and a gallery around and it has two floors, that in summer we come down here”, then, the presenter says: “And upstairs you make life in winter”, the owner says: “Till the month of June: the Day of Saint Anthony, when you come down”, the presenter asks: “Why, because you support better the hot?” and she says: “Very much better…. There is a difference of temperature at least about 6 or 7 degrees”.
The group say goodbay and we can hear to a lady, who says: “Thank you very much” and you can hear, I suppose that to the owner of the house, who says: “Happy travel”. And the owner tells the group: “You have had a very good luck, because it is not hot….this is a good luck”.
Another lady start to sing. When she finish, the presenter asks her: “In which language you have sang”, she answers: “In Euskera”, the presenter says: “In Euskera…, a typical song….” And the owner says: “What a wonder…a lullaby…” and the presenter says: “This is a cultural exchange fledged”.
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Well, I have finished this post; excuseme if you think that it has been too much long. And I hope that you have tought that it is interesting. Sincerely, I will tell you that it has been a little bit hard, because the translating; but I thought that perhaps you should like to learn Spanish at the same time that you saw how is our life.
Till soon, thanks for your patience and receive kind regards from
Luis.
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