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There were two things that really struck me
- that the Sharpe series was NOT filmed in Protugal or Spain
Driving first South to the beaches and then to just a little bit north of Lisbon, I kept being irritated by the countryside, it was just so wrong and not what I expected... until I realised that Sean Bean had never marched through a backdrop like the one you see in the pics of a previous post, this one and the next.
- that Portugese is NOT Spanish
Having a working, touristy knowledge of Spanish, I sort of expected to be able to use that to get around and be polite, but não. It's obrigada/o instead of ¡gracias!, sim - not si, si being taken as a short form of cinco=5 and so on... and compared to Spanish, the accent is very odd, at times almost North-Eastern European or Russian... I swear people kept going 'davai, davai'... and a normal, harmless 's' was pronounced as a truely German 'sch' (not even like the English 'sk', a real 'sch'), turning Wellington's defensive works into the Linhas de Torresch Wedrasch...
The regiments already on shore were consequently reshipped, and the whole getting under weigh the same evening, anchored at the embouchure of the little river Maceira on the 23d and 24th.
The landing here,, which began on the 25th, was extremely difficult, and attended with considerable danger. The weather was tempestuous, and a tremendous surf broke upon the high shore. [...]
The horses of the third hussars, which had been seventeen weeks on ship-board, and were now obliged to swim ashore, could with difficulty reach the land. Often was an unfortunate animal, after having been cast upon the beach by one wave and unable immediately to get on his legs, borne back by the next into the sea, and again cast ashore to be drivenfrom it in the same manner.
History of the Kings German Legion, Beamish
( Looking for rio Maceira and being triaged at the hospital of Torres Vedras )
- that the Sharpe series was NOT filmed in Protugal or Spain
Driving first South to the beaches and then to just a little bit north of Lisbon, I kept being irritated by the countryside, it was just so wrong and not what I expected... until I realised that Sean Bean had never marched through a backdrop like the one you see in the pics of a previous post, this one and the next.
- that Portugese is NOT Spanish
Having a working, touristy knowledge of Spanish, I sort of expected to be able to use that to get around and be polite, but não. It's obrigada/o instead of ¡gracias!, sim - not si, si being taken as a short form of cinco=5 and so on... and compared to Spanish, the accent is very odd, at times almost North-Eastern European or Russian... I swear people kept going 'davai, davai'... and a normal, harmless 's' was pronounced as a truely German 'sch' (not even like the English 'sk', a real 'sch'), turning Wellington's defensive works into the Linhas de Torresch Wedrasch...
The regiments already on shore were consequently reshipped, and the whole getting under weigh the same evening, anchored at the embouchure of the little river Maceira on the 23d and 24th.
The landing here,, which began on the 25th, was extremely difficult, and attended with considerable danger. The weather was tempestuous, and a tremendous surf broke upon the high shore. [...]
The horses of the third hussars, which had been seventeen weeks on ship-board, and were now obliged to swim ashore, could with difficulty reach the land. Often was an unfortunate animal, after having been cast upon the beach by one wave and unable immediately to get on his legs, borne back by the next into the sea, and again cast ashore to be drivenfrom it in the same manner.
History of the Kings German Legion, Beamish
( Looking for rio Maceira and being triaged at the hospital of Torres Vedras )
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