2009Foreign Language Friday: “I was learning Spanish in Spain, in Seville,” she says in her audio clip. “I’d just moved into a new flat, so I wanted to buy a chicken, to do a roast for my flatmates. I went to the supermarket and some woman took the last packet off the shelf.

“I thought I’d practice my Spanish so found a guy who worked in the shop. I didn’t know how to say it properly so I just said: ‘Where chicken?’ Unfortunately in Spanish the word pollo, for chicken, sounds like polla, which means dick.

“So I asked: ‘Where is the dick?’ in Spanish. Then I started asking for ‘polla grande?’ and doing signs for a big chicken. The man in the shop kept saying he didn’t know what I meant. I was pointing to the back room and saying: ‘Have you got any in there?’ Eventually he’s like: ‘Ah, pollo, not polla’.

That supermarket was five minutes walk from my apartment – from then on I had to walk 40 minutes to go to another one.”

This is Jane Meighan, also known as the travel blogger Runaway Jane.

Taken in Edinburgh, Scotland during the Blogmanay event for New Year’s Eve 2012.

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