Madrilenos en Boston

By adamg on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 8:03am

Madrileños por el mundo: Boston

A one-hour tour of Boston by and for people who live in Madrid. It's all in Spanish, but even if you don't speak it, you can look at the pictures. My favorite part was when the local host, a native Spaniard now in Boston, and the interviewer jaywalk across Dartmouth from the park to the library and the interviewer expresses some fear and the host says something like "Nah, by law, Massholes have to stop for pedestrians" (or at least it seemed like that, my Spanish is a bit rusty). Also, apparently the Spanish word for "gay" is "gay."

Neighborhoods:

Boston

Back Bay

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Comments

Thanks for sharing this!

By ScottR on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 10:40am.

This is super cool, even if my castellano is a bit rusty...

Sure it wasn't massholes jaywalk?

By Markk02474 on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 1:33pm.

Or generally ignore traffic laws no matter their mode of mobility?

Ouch.

By Irmo on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 6:16pm.

The Suffolk student shows them Building 7 at MIT and has nothing to report except that MIT has a suicide problem.

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By MCC on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 8:51pm.

This MXM show airs on a local station owned by the government of Madrid. There is a nationally syndicated program in Spain with a very similar format which did a piece on Boston with a wider range of "hosts"

By the way, Adam, the first host in this video does not work in Boston. Her husband works as some type of technical director at Mapfre. She did indeed use to work in the banking industry back in Spain.

Video

By MCC on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 9:46pm.

Somehow it did not show in the post above.

Thanks

By adamg on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 10:06pm.

Told you my Spanish was rusty!