EP229 Talking to a Travel Agent | The Weekend

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  Hello everyone and welcome to EnglishPod.

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  My name is Marco.

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  My name is Catherine and sometimes you're just tired of work, you're tired of everything,

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  you want to go somewhere for a nice romantic weekend, you take a holiday or a getaway.

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  That's right.

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  So why don't we take a look at this word on Vocabulary Preview.

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  Vocabulary Preview.

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  Okay, so Marco, the word I mentioned is getaway.

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  It has a couple of different meanings in English.

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  What are we talking about today?

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  Well, to get away from someone would be to leave, right?

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  To try and stay...

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  Far away, but a getaway, so taking it as a noun, a romantic getaway,

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  is actually to take a holiday, a romantic escape from the city, escape from your daily normal life.

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  That's right.

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  So it's usually kind of brief or sudden,

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  almost like you're just going to sneak out and then come back in a couple of days.

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  Exactly.

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  So many people refer to them as...

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  Island getaways if you go to an island

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