About this episode
Mitch and Isi will give you their honest pros & cons list, advice & knowledge. And overall, try to convince you to travel to the UK by boat.
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Transcript
Intro
Mitch:
[0:22] Hello, everybody.
Isi:
[0:24] Hello.
Mitch:
[0:24] Long time no hear. Usually you say long time no see, but you don't see us. So long time no hear.
Isi:
[0:32] Sometimes you see us.
Mitch:
[0:33] Sometimes. So today, as you can see from the title of this podcast, Isi and I are proficient travellers by boat, when it comes to going between the UK and the EU, as it is now. - Yes, by ferry. - By ferry, which is the name of the big ship. And so we wanted to convince you and give you a bit of a pros, mostly prose, but some cons, list of why it is better to travel to the UK by ferry and give you some hints, tips, advice, because I think, when you're thinking of travelling to the UK the main thing you're always thinking of is Calais to Dover. But there's a huge extensive network of connections, all around Europe that can bring you to the UK by boat.
Isi:
[1:26] I think most people think about flying here, probably.
Mitch:
[1:29] Exactly. But I want, or we would like to give you a rundown of why it's actually better to travel by ferry.
Isi:
[1:35] Is that true?
Mitch:
[1:36] I think so.
Isi:
[1:38] Environmentally. Well, I've not compared the emissions of a ferry to a plane.
Mitch:
[1:45] Yeah, there will be a pros and cons list.
Isi:
[1:49] Don't... uh yeah, sorry.
Mitch:
[1:51] But before we go into that, I want to go into our section, our regular section of Unhelpful Advice, because we have a message. - Oh
Unhelpful Advice
Message:
[2:11] Hello, I wanted to talk English, but I'm shy. And I want you to help me, so I can speak English, for a long time, because I need to.
Mitch:
[2:29] Thank you for your message. So it sounds like you are someone who is very actively trying to learn English, but you're quite shy, which is understandable. I'm also trying to learn German, and I'm very nervous and shy about speaking German to people.
Isi:
[2:44] Even with me.
Mitch:
[2:45] Even to my wife. So the best way to learn English, one, is to watch our YouTube videos, to listen to our podcasts, to surround yourself in the English wor
