S13 Ep42: Stage 2 | Tirana – Tirana | Giro d’Italia 2025

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🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0	Draghaarra.
0:02.0	Ragla!
0:07.0	Ragla! You're listening to Girovada. You're listening to Girovago, the cycling podcast at the 2025 Girod Italia, celebrating 10 years of the cycling podcast
0:41.0	on the ground every day at the Girod Italia.
0:44.3	And today we are in Tirana.
0:46.2	Cozze chite and cozze, cozze bichin'en.
0:50.6	No spi could de chikora, no spiqude chicaura.
0:56.0	Cozestine and coce coce bechini
0:58.0	No spi could she cora
1:00.0	se lo manchernice
1:03.0	For the second time now
1:09.0	Have you stretched your abey vocab beyond one word?
1:12.2	I can say hello in a couple of different ways, two, three different ways, and I can say thank you now
1:16.0	quite competently. But we've got a day left. Who knows what surprises that might reserve. Lionel,
1:22.9	on the start of today's episode, we heard, well, we heard some Slovenians, no translation needed
1:26.9	there. Rogla, roglah, we've heard some Slovenians, no translation needed there.
1:32.3	Rogla, we've heard that before. What else did we hear? Well, some Albanian folk music.
1:37.5	There was quite a lot of this going on around the city as I walked down from my visit to the nuclear bunker down to the finish of the time trial today. Lots of people, it felt like Tirana was on Fet today. Maybe it was
1:46.9	just a regular Saturday. I don't know. It didn't feel like it was necessarily connecting up with
1:51.3	the Juerd-Italia. The Juerd-Italia did feel a little bit disconnected from the city today,
1:55.7	didn't it? It feels a little bit incidental here in Tirana to a certain extent, but I think
2:00.3	there's a bit of curiosity nonetheless.
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