Er excuse me, excuse me, please, can I just get by, con permiso?

The old town in Seville is just a maze of narrow streets, most of which are just wide enough for one small car. We stayed near the Plaza del Pozo Santo and had to park 20 minutes away by foot. The day we left I had to try to bring the car near our hotel to load our luggage. Suddenly I came upon a street market. The people at the market were none too pleased to see me trying to drive through the market, but all the other streets there were one way, the wrong way. I had only one way to go, through the people.

There was a policeman there and he said that they should have blocked the road off, but because they had not, I had no choice but to drive through the market, slowly, "despacito".

Comments

[Linda]

oh what an interesting site! did the passerby's just stand and look at your did they? looks so cluttered :)

[Linda]

by the way I skimmed through your blog - VERY interesting!
I live in Australia and I am attempting to learn Japanese from scratch - my dream is to go to Japan, I'm sooo intrigued by their language, history and culture.

I love languages and have completed a Bachelor of Linguistics at University here in Oz. I was an exchange student to Quebec, Canada living in the Abitibi region speaking ONLY Quebecois French - it was amazing. I lived there for 12 months just after I graduated from High School. Previously to that, I had studies French for close to 8 years in school however nothing prepared me for my arrival in Quebec as their dialect was VERY different!

My attempt at Japanese is purely a hobby but also a personal goal.

I love languages!

[Steve Kaufmann]

Linda, why not come an join us at LingQ and work on your Japanese

[Marc H.]

Steve,

This is pretty funny. Although maybe it wasn't so funn y when you were in the middle of it. :)