Sardinia
About Sardinia
Sardinia, officially the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy. It is located 200 km west of the Italian Peninsula, 200 km north of Tunisia, and 16.45 km south of the French island of Corsica. Sardinia is one of five Italian regions with statutory domestic autonomy. It is divided into six provinces and two metropolitan cities. Cagliari is the capital and largest city, followed by Sassari. It has over 1.5 million inhabitants as of 2026.
On the show — 11 mentions total
You can be fined for stealing sand from Sardinia. Even if you take a small drinks bottle full of sand, you can be fined a thousand euros. In the summer months of 2015, they seized five tons in smaller and bigger consignments, but lots of it was just little bottles, which people take as a souvenir.
from No Such Thing As Harry Potter And The Great Overreaction, 2018-03-09 at 00:13:26 · read transcript
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He's French. No, it was a lookout post that was used by occupying Nazis during World War II, then got abandoned and his paternal grandparents arrived from Sardinia, and they occupied the cave, and they slowly renovated it over the years. Funny, he didn't take up cricket rather than football, those bats in there. you've got the tone of the lame jokes on the podcast right down to a tea.
No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 · listen
Or casu marzu? Casu marzu. Have we talked about that before? Oh, I think so. It's great. It's from Sardinia. It's actually illegal. I think the EU banned it a few years ago. You can still get it on the black market. Yeah, the way you make it is you infest pecorino cheese with maggots, with these cheese fly maggots. They eat the cheese, and then they excrete it while they're inside.
171: No Such Thing As A Half-Ape Vampire, 2017-06-30 · listen
They use this hair to embed themselves in the seedbed, right? Exactly. Little roots. Yeah. Then you make this amazing silk out of it. You go through it. It goes through stages of processing. I went to Sardinia, which is really where the only people left to do it. What? I saw them going through. In fact, I think there's one woman left I read. Did you meet one? I met that one woman. Oh, Chiara Vigo.
535: No Such Thing As An Inside-Out Dolphin, 2024-06-13 · listen
They use this hair to embed themselves in the seabird. Exactly. Yeah. Then you make this amazing silk out of it. You go through, it goes through stages of processing. I went to Sardinia, which is really where the only people left who do it. In fact, I think there's one woman left I read. I met that one woman. Kiara Vigo. Oh, wow, you've got opinions on Kiara Vigo.
No Such Thing As An Inside-Out Dolphin, 2024-06-13 · listen
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