Notes in Spanish video blog – On tour 1 – El Puerto de Despeñaperros…
Back from a recent trip to the south of Spain, we have plenty of videos for you over the next few weeks! Here is the first, from the terrifyingly-named Puerto de Despeñaperros!
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Posted in: Notes in Spanish L!VE, Videoblogs in Spanish | Comments: 8
Comments:
Comment from Kjersti
I loved the outtake! It’s good to know that even native Spanish speakers sometimes have a hard time too! 
I must have restarted my videos about 10 times!
Comment from ValenciaSon
Classic! Nice videoblog. The end was humorous, a nice, human touch. How many takes does it take each of you roughly for your podcasts or videoblogs? Is there a difference in terms of how many for each?
Comment from ben
The videos take a few takes, at most 3, sometime we do it straight off. The podcasts often come out perfectly first time, but if we haven’t recorded for a while we may need to start again a couple of times.
Comment from John Dunford
Hola Marina y Ben. Muchas gracias por un videoblog muy interesante. Hace cuatro semanas hicimos mi esposa y yo un viaje de nuestra casa en Andalucía a Ciudad Real y pasamos por la zona. Creo que se llama el Desfiladero de Despeñaperros y no puerto porque es un cañon, ¿verdad?
Saludo a todos,
John.
Comment from Kalinikos
Nice…
Comment from Chris
I understand that the name Desfiladero de Despenperros (Defile of the overthrow of the dogs) comes from the historic defeat of the Muslims at Las Navas de Tolosa a few K’s south in 1212. Three Christian armies came together to defeat the Almohad forces of Mohammed II al-Nasir and opened the gate to Andalucia. As a film maker working on projects in Andalucia I find the region and the history fascinating. There are so many untold stories and it is fun to investigate.
Comment from ben
Thanks for the info Chris, what a wonderful place to make films…
Comment from Christian
Mis vecinos dicen que el nombre tiene que ver con una batalla de la Reconquista. “Perro” es un nombre insultante que quiere decir moro. No se si es la verdad.