00:00Well, it's pretty amazing. I think it's a unique experience. Almost everyone that comes
00:08here loves the experience. I think that it's pretty cool for people like me that are studying
00:15this thing, and we get to do our days of navigation here in an old galleon ship, and it's pretty
00:24fun too.
00:26Of course, learning about this ship is amazing, but it's just being here and seeing it all
00:30makes you think what it would have been like all those centuries ago on the seven seas.
00:34Well, there's not many of them like this. I know there are some, but like this one,
00:41there aren't that many. It's, I think, a pretty special thing to see one like this. It's not
00:46a replica of a specific ship. It replicates the galleons in general of the 16th century,
00:53and basically when they built it, it took them three years of investigation of how to
00:59build it, and they basically took a bit of every galleon that was created, so it's like
01:06a general galleon, basically.
01:09I am fighting every urge I have not to do my best pirate impression while being on board
01:13this fascinating ship, but Alfonso tells me it's actually a merchant ship, which was basically
01:18the 16th century cargo ship of modern day. This is a modern replica of what one might
01:22look like, and it tells a fascinating story from centuries ago.
01:26Well, they would learn that, first of all, this is not a pirate ship, that it's a merchant
01:30ship, and what they did at the time, that this was an innovation. It was one of the
01:36first cargo ships that were created. They would learn about the routes that they would
01:41make. They would go to the Philippines, to America, and go down the south. They would
01:45also learn a bit about the foundation that built this ship, which is now Victoria, which
01:51was the first ship to go around the world, and they would learn also how the people would
01:57live at the time, and how the people live here now.
02:00The Galleon Andalusia travels the world and has visited places absolutely everywhere,
02:04from New York to Shanghai, to places all over Europe, and the crew have had a great time
02:09exploring. I even saw a few of them sharing some Welsh cakes in their private quarters.
02:14Especially when we have this nice weather that is not supposed to be like this every
02:20day. And yeah, I think I'm going to be able to tell people in the future, hey, I've been
02:26sailing in a Galleon for a year, and it was awesome. Not many people are going to be able
02:31to say that nowadays.
02:32People here love this ship. It's one of the places where most people come. They tell us,
02:37they talk about us, about everything, about how they see it, and how they would not see
02:43it, and people here love it. Compared to other places, we love coming here because there's
02:49always an abundance of people coming and telling us and talking to us. I would be impressed
02:56if I had this in front of my house one day.
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