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Welcome to a Spain. Hola too. Oh, look at us go. Espanol is
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perfecto. Ei.
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Okay. Today we're gonna It's the 13th episode. So, it is the 13th episode. It
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is. So, we figured we are just going to throw in all of the bad luck things that happened into an episode and we hope you
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find it entertaining. Um, but in order to start off on a bit of a positive note, hopefully you have an a Spain. I I
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have an a Spain. I do, you know, and so so I people complain about the
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bureaucracy in Spain and that it can be cumbersome and um and it can be and
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there's things that don't make sense and I think we've said this before in other episodes that it doesn't even make sense
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to Spaniards, but it's just the way it is. But anywh who, so um children of a
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certain age get um free. Right now they can have free uh like metro cards for
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the subways and the buses. They're they're free. And to what age do you know? Well, might put you on the spot.
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Sorry. Yeah. So it goes up into age like 30, 31 because they it's through the European Youth Card. So you the European
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Youth Card is this thing that if people don't know gives them their discounts to museums and sites and all these things
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all over Europe and discount subway fairs and train fairs and all that kind
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of stuff. So that is literally in our Spain right there before you even go any further.
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It really is. But carry on because there's more. So my daughters before so before they had these cards and they
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were these cardboard cards and my daughters had to carry this uh their pass a copy of their passport to show
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that this card belonged to them in case they got stopped and they're changing it
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now. Uh preface that with the European youth card is for 14 above. So my younger one doesn't have it. So it's two
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different processes to get this card. That's neither here nor there. The thing is is they have this cardboard card and they're getting rid of the cardboard
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card. Okay. And so now we have to get these plastic cards and I had to get passport photos taken and so there's
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going to be um their photo on this plastic card so they don't have to worry about bringing IDs with them. It you
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know so these things aren't transferable. Perfect. Fine. So this was all supposed to have been rolled out by
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April 31st and I went in like March got all the stuff delivered it. Everything
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everything was fine. My paperwork I did online was fine. No mistakes. Yeah. Go me. That's right. And go and go um the
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translate apps on the Oh, right. It worked. And so anyway, um they said, "We
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got your thing." And then they sent out an email saying, "We're having delay, so we've extended the the when your other
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card's going to die from April 31st to May 30th." Okay. So, I was like, "Okay, and we'll let you know when we send out
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your cards." I'm like, "They're not going to let me know." Sure. And lo and behold, I'm like, and every day I've
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been checking the mailbox. Where's this card? Where's this card? Where's this card? Right. And and I got an email
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yesterday and it basically said, "Don't worry, be happy. We wanted to let you know that your your cards um your do,
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you know, your children's cards are in the mail." And I was like, that would never like I could have never imagined
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the the New York metro system telling us that, right? We're mailing your cards.
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It's on its way. I was like, that's amazing. Yeah. I'm like, I don't have to stress. It's not that I was, but you
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know, you you're hoping it's coming and they're like, "Nope, it's now I know what's coming. Now I could open the mailbox." For sure. Because I think
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there's always a part of you that's wondering if you did it right or if it got lost in the system or something. So even just like the confirmation, right,
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that it's actually been it not only did you do it right, but it's in the process and it's on the way is very efficient, I
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have to say. Very efficient. Very, very efficient. That's amazing. Yeah. I I
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remember Yeah. I mean, I think it's it's one of those things that you're never quite sure that if you've done things
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properly when you're doing things in another language, I think so there's always that part of you, right? So,
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well, that's exciting. Nice one. Yeah. So, it's good. And that is the end of the positive things for today. That's
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the end, you know, and and we and I think we've decided that because it's the 13th episode, we we don't want to
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tempt fate. Let's just talk. Let's get the bad ju guu out of us so the next 300
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episodes are filled with love and light. Exactly. I think that's probably a good
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plan. Um, so what's your Yeah. Which Let's have you start. What's your like I
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I don't know if we could do these in chronological order, but what's the first print fall? The first mistake that I
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made was the very first minute that we got here.
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started really well. It wasn't a bad thing necessarily, but it did turn into a bit of a bit of a kfuffle, which was
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um as anyone that's listened to our first episode knows um we came over with
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quite a few bags, 12 in total, gigantic bags. So, so we're crazy. And we were
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going to just rent an Airbnb and u my husband found a really nice Airbnb somewhere out in a little village
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somewhere. And so what our plan was was to rent a
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one of those nines van things for one for the first night, get all of our bags
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to the Airbnb, come back and get our little European car. Right. Question. Did you fly into Valencia or did you
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change planes and fly into Okay. Oh, yeah. We flew through Lisbon. Okay. Yeah. We spent a few hours in Lisbon and
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and then flew on a tiny plane that I was not expecting with actual propellers.
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which I was like, "Oh my god." And I it was like, "We're so almost there. I can't have a have a meltdown over
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propellers on a plane." But when I saw it, I was like, "So, remember when you asked me on the episode one, like, why
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did we take the the plane to Madrid and and and not fly to Valencia?" Because
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you can't fly from Valencia to London from London Valencia with pets. Like, that you just can't do. So, there was no
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change. And part of the reason was, well, if we're going to have a three-hour layover, might as well just get our butts on the train and come
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down. The other one is I didn't want to be on a propeller plane with the cats and my kids who hadn't been on propeller
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planes and just had just traverse the ocean. So, I feel your pain. Yeah, that
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was a moment where I was like, I'm just going to not mention this because I don't want anybody else to start freaking out. Let's just all pretend
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it's not happening, right? And you get on I haven't been on a plane that small in a very long time and that is not my
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thing. So, I'm just Yeah. I'm like, "It's two hours. Hopefully the propellers stay on the plane." Anyway,
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that wasn't even the thing. Um, it was perfectly fine. Um, and so we we rent
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this big car, this big van, which is designed for it's like a nineperson seedater nine-seater van or whatever,
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right? Like a tour van, right? One of those kind of things. It was big and it got everything in perfect. Was no
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problem. But we drive out, we get to the town that we're where the Airbnb is, and
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it is the quaintest, perfectest little Spanish town that was built in zero.
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Like, literally, it was really cute. But the problem with these towns, as anybody that's been
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around Europe knows, the roads, the streets, I want to call them roads, the streets are tiny. They are not designed
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for these types of vans, right? They are designed for a little Fiat and a donkey. And a donkey or a bike.
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and we can't find the Airbnb. So, we're driving around this town. We The address that they gave us, as we've talked about
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in other episodes, did not work. We didn't know. We couldn't find the Airbnb. We're driving around. And as we're driving around this old town,
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every time I get to any kind of curve or or corner, god forbid, that I have to make a turn, I'm doing it like a
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10-point turn. And I'm looking at all the scrapes on the wall. Right. Right.
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And I hope that's I hope that's not our red paint, right? We've been we've been here before and I'm thinking no one's
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making it around these corners in their regular cars. And we've rented this car. I can't take it back with all these
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scrapes and things on it. So, it takes us like 10 minutes to make any kind of
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turns. And I we actually make it we make it there without putting a scratch on
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the car. So, I was super proud of my driving skills. Right. No problem.
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Thank you. But that was a that was and yeah, that was a fun way to start. Oh my goodness. Yeah, that was our first one.
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And I wouldn't And then where did you park it? Were you able to find a park or did you just go to the edge of town and park at the field? Exactly. We kind of
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parked in front, dragged all our bags up and then Yeah. Yeah, we managed to We did manage to find parking. Um and we
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probably because we didn't know where we were going, we probably didn't need to drive through all those little streets,
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but you know, that's where we were sent to try and find this address. So yeah, that was fun. That was my fun one. Yeah,
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good times. So that's a combination of bad logistics
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of what cars to rent and also a lesson in in uh addresses in Spain. Addresses
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and small town life. If you're going to drive into small
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towns in Spain, rent the smallest car you can get. And I think I brought up in my in I
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think the first episode about our move about how we did take the plane to Madrid and then our bags were one bag
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was missing. And so I had this long layover between the plane and and to the train and it was like 9,000 degrees
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after having come from 40 below July in London. And so we're like sweating and
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and we have not like like literally like 15 minutes to get from the okay maybe it was not literally 15 maybe 30 minutes to
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get from the airport and to onto our train and it was like a 10-minute cab ride but then we're at the airport and
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we're at um so I had given up my phone
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because I had to port the number because I wanted to keep my American number so I had to port that in the States before we
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left so we would have that. So, we had we're using my daughter's phone and
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um but my I forgot to switch an app over to her phone. So, we didn't have like Uber on her phone and the Wi-Fi wasn't
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working in like the garage. So, we're trying to find to get an Uber to get us to the train station with that. And then
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when we get to the train station, we have like five minutes to get on the train. And I'm like, and I think I told I'm like chucking the suitcases down the
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escalator and my leg gets caught and I'm gushing blood off because that got cut on the escalator at the teeth of the
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steps and I I had a bandana to collect my sweat from my brow. So I tied that around. Delightful.
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So were you also wearing like all the clothes that you needed to be warm in
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England? So you're all sweating like well so our so what we we had made a wise move is that because we were
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sweating in London and stuff right but one of our cats had made an accident in the pet carrier as we were getting off
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the thankfully as we were getting off the plane so it wasn't like smelling up the whole plane. So part of the our
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delay too was we had to go find a bathroom to clean out this thing and we had all these I'm just throwing that
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port that bathroom was disgusting but it was disgusting before we got there. So he just added oh no no there was like
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all these diapers overflowing the it was like it was a family bathroom. So we're like our our cat poop covered towels
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will just add to the charm. And so you're not keeping those to wash later. No we're not keeping those to wash
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later. And and so while we were in there, I was like, "It's so hot." I was like, "Kids, pull out shorts from the
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suitcase. Let's change." So we changed into shorts while Oh, perfect. That's perfect. Yeah. At least you had time to
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do that. But which is also why my leg got cut because now it was bare and exposed.
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It's like like it was seemed like a good idea and then it turned into a bad idea and then it was a good idea. And I'm
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walking with the the bandana around my ankle, catching the blood, chucking, you know, and they don't have it's not like
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Amtrak in the old days. There's no porters here helping you with the luggage on on the train. I'm trying to
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get these six suitcases up the stairs. Oh, I mean, should we talk Madrid
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airport? Should I throw my Madrid airport? Bring it up.
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So, you know, I do love a cheap ticket to fly. It does make me happy. Who
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doesn't? Yeah. So, so one trip that I decided to do, which I will never do
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again, was there's several airports in London that you can go to and some of them are closer to where you want to be
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than others, right? So, I decided and this was I think close to Christmas. The
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whole thing was a disaster and it's amazing we even made it like to where we wanted to go in England to be frank. So,
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first of all, we had to change change planes in Madrid, which So, you flew from Valencia to Madrid? To Madrid. Yep.
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On a normal plane, by the way. There was not a propeller plane. Um, so that was fine. We flew in, but we only had half
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an hour to change over in Madrid, which I have actually never, not that I
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remember. I don't think I've ever been to the Madrid airport before. But I don't think you ever want a half an hour at any airport, even if it's a tiny
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little regional airport. That's a very, that's a very small amount of time. I think it could take a half an hour to
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get off your other plane. Well, well, I thought it's it's the same country, you know? I was thinking we don't have
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passport control. I didn't think about the fact that I would. So, all in all, I
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mean, I Okay, so we land. Mhm. And then
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the airport, I don't know who I don't know if the airport has just which is probably what happened. It's just grown
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and grown and grown because it's not designed to get from one spot to another
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easily. So, you know, like in most airports, you have an area with um with
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all your gates and then if you're going from one gate area to another gate area, it's just conveyor belts for people and
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and you can get from terminal one to two to three with ease at most. Yeah. Yeah.
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Or they'll have a monor rail. They'll have something, right? Yeah. So if you get out of your gate area then you go
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you get into another place. Madrid airport from my experience of where I had to come from and to where we had to
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go was just all gates and they have gates on the left and food and
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restaurants and shops on the right. So as you're trying to get from one end of the airport to the other, all you have
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is people. Gotcha. You've got people lining up for gates on the left going into the into the walkway that you need.
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You've got people waiting for food and coming in and out of shops on the right coming into the area that you need to walk in. So you cannot do a beline from
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A to B in that airport. You are just constant. Can I ask what airline you cuz what terminal was this? Cuz Madrid has
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several terminals. So Well, we had to go from one terminal to another or one. We had Did you have to go like to terminal
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4 cuz like that there's one terminal that's away from everything that people are like if you have to switch you have to give yourself a lot of time. Yeah.
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So, they have signs, which is nice, on in in the airport that says if you're
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going to this, and I can't remember if it's letters or numbers, honestly. Let's just say it's letters. If you're going
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to you're in A, you're going to see C, it's going to take you roughly this much time to get there, right? So, that's quite nice. I don't know how accurate it
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is because of it's not a straight line and one I mean, it's got to be a busy airport. So you are just weaving around
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people from left to right and then there's another and then someone walks in front of you and you're and you don't
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have very long to get from A to B. So you're like get out of my way. Zena is like running behind me. I'm like we got
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to do this as fast as possible. We've got our tiny bag that fits on a Ryan Air flight right like with us. And so we're
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and oh my god it was so terrible. And then we get to the other part and I and I realized then at that point I had
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forgotten that we also need to go through passport control. Why? Because we're going to England. Ah, so you have
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to Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uhhuh. Great. Right. Great. So, we get So, then we get
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pushed out not just I think from passport, but also to do security again. Mhm. So, we get pushed out of this other
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part of the airport to go in and do the passport control again. And that has a line. And I'm just like, this is we're
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we're done. Like, we're not getting in here. This is not happening. And at this point, I can't remember how much time it
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had taken. We finally get through through the passport control through to the other thing and it's and I don't
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know the universe was was working for us at this point. Our flight was delayed
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but that would not that's an a oh my god have you ever wanted a
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flight to be delayed? That's the only time that I've ever wanted that to happen. Right. Right. And it was delayed only like 15 minutes. But it meant that
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when we when we got there to the gate that we needed to get on the plane, there was actually a line of people waiting to get on the plane. And I was
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like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we made it." That was the most chaotic like interchange at an airport that I've ever
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gone through. And I will never want to do that again. I would recommend to anybody if you have to change planes in Madrid hour or two. I will say my lovely
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neighbors upstairs, they take the train to Madrid and then they fly out of Madrid. They don't do the They're like,
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"We don't do that." And obviously for this reason because I think also if you're flying probably what happened to
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you, right? Because you're flying you're flying nationally. So it's a different terminal and then there's the international terminal and that's and
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from what I if I remember correctly that's its own terminal far away from the other part. So and that's what
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happened. Yeah. And it's not designed for you to move freely from one place to another. It's just it's designed for
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shopping and eating and and and being standing still standing still which they
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do very well here. They do that very well here. They're not in a rush to get anywhere. They're not in a rush to get
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Oh my gosh. Um, which leads me to, we've talked about this before. I am a fast
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walker. Uhhuh. Me too. I am. It drives me crazy walking around the city here.
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Yeah, it is. They will, they will they will they will walk five a breast and they will not part ways for you and you
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could be carrying like a headburn. Me and my daughters were carrying last summer. I think I've talked about that
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in the episode. sweating our faces off, dying of heat exhaustion, and no one's
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moving out of our way, and we're like, "Do you not see us?" No. I was I was at
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a thing where um one time I was walking around, and there was there must have been like an office party. So,
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everyone's outside the front door of this building, like a good 50, 70 people
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all smoking cigarettes, having their office mimosas or whatever, taking up the whole sidewalk and into like the
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street. And I'm like, there's nowhere for me. I mean, I can't walk. Now I'm walking into the street. Granted, there aren't a lot of cars here. It's fine.
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But still, I'm like, this is not, you know, do this is not how we do. It's not what I'm used to. Face, right? Yes.
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So, when I when I I was one time I when I was I was in London and I was walking from like the tube to somewhere and I
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was walking and I was doing my regular walking pace and I'm like, why am I so happy right now? What what is going on?
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How is this working? like I'm not bumping into anybody. And I suddenly realized everybody walks fast there.
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That's probably where I got it from. And I hadn't noticed like how much difference it is here until I went there
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and I was like, I'm not even over to people are overtaking me. Right. Right. And I'm now the slow walker because I
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spent too much time in Spain probably. Well, I think I brought it up a few weeks ago. My Paloma, my youngest was
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when you get once we got to London, you know, she was like, "Oh dear, they know
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how to walk here." She was just in pure heaven walking the sidewalks. everyone's just there's a flow and right she's
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she's definitely a big city girl so she'll she I think when she's of age she's going to ditch me for the cities
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of like Paris or London her and her and Zena together probably yeah well it's funny because I also think one thing
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I've noticed here and I I don't know why it is I but people don't seem to
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generally pick the left or the right to walk you know so it's not like it's not
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like you find yourself walking on the wrong side because you're English or something I mean it is just people Sometimes the slow traffic's on the
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left, sometimes it's on the right. Sometimes, like you said, there's just a group of people walking together and you can't get by them. It's not it's there's
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not a logic that that I don't I don't think there's a logic that we're missing. No. And and I notic you've got
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that five breast because this just happened to me this morning actually. There was five breast and they like
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they're not splitting like you know I would we would start to split in the crowd maybe at least 10 feet in front of
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them, right? Like we'd be like, "Hey, we're taking this." It was like I had to like like right as I was ready to like
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hit them like body slam them. Then they're like, "Oh, well part we'll give you that's an inch on this side, an inch
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on that side, and I need a few more than one inch on either side to get through." So
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Oh my gosh. Yeah. So that's been something that has that's just constantly But like
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I don't if when you walk around the city, it's just how it is, I think. Right. But yet other times they're very courteous and other things. We've talked
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about being on the subway and they get up for people like me sometimes and it makes me mad. Not that you want that
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happening, but I don't need the seat. I can stand up. I am fit, young, and able. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Well,
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anyway, that was something that made me happy that when I was in London, but here, yeah, it's definitely something that I I run in against too much, I
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think. What else have you got? What else pitfalls have you got? Oh, so there is
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So when we first moved here, and I don't know if I've mentioned this in other episodes about our apartment flooding,
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so I don't know if I've brought that up. I don't think so, but I had the worst memory. I asked my husband. So we've
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lived here now for a a couple weeks. And you know, for people to know, like
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utilities work a completely different way here. It's a whole thing when you
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move into a place to get utilities switched into your name and they're kind of like not switched off before and we
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know nothing when we get here and so and they also don't care here like don't
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worry be happy things will happen it'll get taken care of and I'm coming from America and I want the electricity to
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start the day I arrive and like it needs to be now and it's like don't worry about it but also you pay for which is
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new to me and I don't know of anywhere in America this is like I've lived in a lot of places but you choose how much
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electricity even makes it to your apartment before you even get to use it right and the the people you can pay for
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less much but if you use more than you're paying your power goes out it just shuts off all the power to your
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place and so it was taking we had been here for like two weeks and the electricity still hadn't been switched
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into our name and my upstairs neighbors. So sweet. Um, Robin and Jan giving you a
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shout out. Love you ladies. And so there you go. They they had they had
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contacted before we moved here because they had heard through the Facebook grapevine that, you know, we were moving into the building. Very stalkerish, but
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it's okay. I like them now. And they were giving me these warnings like here's the phone company you need here.
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Like here's who we get our cell service through. Here's who we get our cable through. This is who we do. And you got to worry about the electricity. and they
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told me about this before, but it still was like I mean you can tell me all the Greek sentences you want to. It doesn't
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make sense to me but but I knew I had a thing. And also and also that you have to give give away your bank account
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number to to everybody when you set these things up, right? And I'm like I'm literally asking everybody that I know,
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which is nobody, right? It's okay to give my bank account number. They want it for everything. And and it's just Yeah. Yeah. You just give it to you just
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give it. I'm like everybody phone company and you and you don't get paper bills so they're just taking money out.
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Like if you don't read your emails, you don't know what your bill's going to be. And I don't know about you, but I get 73,000 emails a day. I've been so sick
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of, you know, I rarely look at my emails for like I look for like 10 minutes and all right, that's what happened in 10
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minutes. But if a bill came and I was like, I'll get to that tomorrow. I'm not getting to it tomorrow because I've
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gotten too many. But since then, it's gone from memory. So yeah, you're like, "Oh, I gota now you just always have to
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keep money in your account versus being like, "How much do I need to put in my account this week?" Right? Like it's a
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different You don't pay your bills the same way. You just you always have think what it's going to be and know to keep
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that in your account. [Music]
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Lovely thing called a sanit, which is the most disgusting thing on earth. And it's very common um in older buildings
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um because the plumbing will just be one pipe on one side of your apartment. I
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have not come across this. I've lived in three places now. Never come across this. You're the first person I know
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that. But it's probably a city thing, maybe two. Well, it's a renovation thing. So, most apartments will only
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have one pipe. So, if you look at like floor plans of apartments, you'll be like, why are there three bathrooms in a
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row on one side of the apartment and then all these other bedrooms and like the in like the master's nowhere near
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the biggest bathroom that should be their bathroom, right? It's like not on suite or whatever. And that's because there's one central pipe that's got all
25:35
the sewage pipes. So, if you want to renovate your apartment and put your bathroom on, say the other side of the
25:41
apartment, you now have to get the line to that sewage pipe, which means it's a smaller pipe and all this stuff. Okay.
25:47
So, what happened with your bathroom though? So, the Santa is That's the really like 13th episode part of it.
25:53
Yes. It's so gross. So, so the sanit is is a poo blender. It's a merator of poo
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and tissue. So, it could all fit through a small pipe that's now going Okay, I'm just going to not listen to this part.
26:05
You just go ahead and tell the story. I'm gonna disconnect and let me give me a give me a sign when I when I can come
26:10
back. So that's in my bathroom, right? So that's but that handles everything from my bathroom. All my bathroom goes
26:16
through this thing. The sink, the shower, the And the other bathroom, too. No, the other bathrooms are next to
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that's all that plumbing is hooked to the sewage. So it's just my bathroom. Oh, I see. So because you got a bathroom
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in another part of the apartment, it had to be connected to this thing to get it through. Right. So it has small pipes.
26:32
It's not using a normal size pipe to get to. Okay, that's interesting. Yeah. And so every time you flush or like you run
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the water for a few seconds even cuz it's this container that holds everything in it
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and once it reaches a certain level, the motor shoots on and and does the blending and puts it through the pipe.
26:50
Right. Okay. And so um this was happening. So like you and I we didn't
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know this at all and we hadn't had the electricity switch in my name yet. So the people that lived here before did
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not have a lot of electricity being sent to the apartment. So if you had the air conditioning on and flush the toilet,
27:10
the whole power went out in the whole apartment. Well, that's common. Yeah. Right. But if you had, you know, if you
27:16
had the oven on and flush the toilet, the whole thing would go out, right? So we're like, what's going on? So
27:22
that's how this thing was working. So it was 3 million degrees and we go to there was a big fair in the park and so the
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kids and I were going not realizing that the toilet was trickling and we left the air on and we came home two hours later
27:37
in the incomplete apartment was flooded because the power had shut down. So the sanit was now overflowing because it
27:44
wasn't working to send it just because the electricity had been turned off and it hadn't been turned back on into your
27:50
name yet. Right. what had been turned off because the Santa trip was going because of the trickle and it turned off
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the power to the apartment which now turned off the power to the sanit. So now it was overflowing
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and we got home at like midnight 1:00 in the morning and we're crying and the place is flooded and we've got four
28:08
towels and like what do we do? And like the landlord's like don't worry about it. We're like what do you mean don't worry about it? Ew. That's so
28:14
disgusting. That is like the last thing you want flooding your apartment you know. Yeah, it was the last thing for
28:22
sure. But you know the opponent he had a workman out the next morning the next morning and it turns out it was not even
28:29
I mean the power was the problem but there was a there was something wrong with the thing itself as well. So oh I
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was going to say I was going to say there must have been because there's no reason for if it shuts down it should just stop and if you're not lit
28:41
literally using the toilet over and over again there's no reason there was a trickle in the toilet so was there was water constantly going in. Oh I see. Got
28:48
it. Okay. Like there wasn't this Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god. Like the perfect storm
28:53
of horrendousness. Horrendous. And thankfully we had only been here like 2 weeks. So we had like no furniture and
28:59
like we had nothing left. Oh, thank goodness. Right. We had nothing to no rugs or carpets. So it was just that and
29:05
that was air out. And I was like, can we just get this electricity switched? I just want the electricity. I want all
29:11
the electricity coming my way. All of it that I want. I want all I want all of it.
29:16
Yeah. We have certain things. We can't be running like everything in our house at the same time cuz it will it will
29:22
flip it. That is one of the fun things. But then I went to a friend's house in the States and and and their whole their
29:28
whole house got tripped by a haird dryer. So I'm like, "Okay, this happens everywhere. It's not just here. I just hadn't experienced it that
29:35
often with with that kind of thing until I moved here." Right. And here you need the air in the summer and you need to
29:42
flush the toilet. So, well, do you though? But I don't and I
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don't know what the type what the I don't think the price difference could have been that much difference to send the extra. I mean, my electric bill
29:54
isn't crazy, so I don't know what they were saying before. And I think it also depends on how many people are living in
29:59
an apartment. You know, if you're one person and you can manage things, then you don't need to have everything
30:05
running at the same time. Well, I think if I were to redo this apartment, I would just put the air and I keep the electricity low. I'd put the air
30:11
conditioning onoff button by the toilet. So, every time I flush, turn off the air and then turn it back on.
30:20
There should be, you know what I would do is I would get like a what's it called? Like a a sp a spare battery that
30:25
runs the toilet one cuz you just don't want that going off, right?
30:30
That should be on its own circuit. I think this is a permanent emergency circuit for sure. Oh my goodness. That's
30:38
hilarious. The awful I'm sorry. We've survived. It's a story I can now tell
30:43
others. Yes. And I've been to your apartment many times and I would never know. So, they cleaned it up very well.
30:48
Thank goodness. What a horrible thing. Oh my goodness. Well, on a on a possibly
30:55
more fun note in the sense that it's not quite so a cleaner note. A cleaner note.
31:01
We have a dog got arrested story because that was fun. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Can let's go back four seconds and
31:08
repeat that. You had a what? The dog got arrested. How do dogs get arrested? I've heard of cat burglars, but we'll see.
31:13
Oh, they that would be much Well, that wouldn't be better. When we first got
31:20
Blaze, I think so, we didn't realize quite what an escape artist and she was.
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And at this point, we'd I think had her only maybe like two weeks or something. And she had actually figured out how to
31:33
open all the doors in our house like within a week, okay, when she was like 3 months old. So, you know, she knew how
31:41
to open things. And we had an the we have a we have a gate into our garden
31:46
and we also have a like a car, like a driveway gate that's large, like a big
31:51
gate that opens up and it's two big metal gates. And we hadn't really thought that
31:58
those needed to be locked. Um because they're really heavy and quite hard for
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us to open, right? Um, something must have happened where it was very, very
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windy and she must have managed to do something and then the wind I think maybe took it the rest of the way. We're
32:14
not really sure. Okay. Um, we have been locking the gates ever since this happened. So, we didn't have a Ring
32:20
camera out there yet. No, I would have loved to see her. Probably took She probably took a key and unlocked it. Like, who knows?
32:28
She's She's quite clever. I mean, she is a German Shepherd. They are very smart dogs. They are very smart dogs. And if
32:34
they want to be somewhere, they will be there, right? For sure. So, I'm in I'm in England and with Zena and I'm with um
32:42
my brother and the cousins, you know, and all the kids and we're we've been to Legoland. We've had a long day in
32:48
Legoland. We're we're driving home and everyone, you know what it's like when you've spent a day at one of those
32:53
places. Everyone's just done. Spent you're dying. Half the kids are pissed off because of something that the other half of the kids did. Like, you know,
33:00
whatever. Like everyone's hungry or they've eaten some crappy food and feeling too much sugar, right? Too much
33:05
sugar, not enough sugar, too much of this. Like no one's happy, right? So, and you've spent $3 million and you've
33:11
spent $3 million. So, the parents aren't happy either. Like, it's just No one's happy. Not a good scene. Um, so we're in
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the car on the way and I get a call from Jawad and he's like, "The police have plays." And I'm like, "What do you mean
33:24
the police?" He's like, "I don't know. Like, I don't know what's going on." like so and and and and I'm like, well,
33:30
I can't do anything. Was he home when this happened? He was home, right? And I think this whole thing happened in like
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5 minutes. It wasn't like he left and Bla1 was wandering around outside, but somehow she managed to get out. He left
33:43
and the SWAT team was outside with your dog in handcuffs. I'm trying to imagine this scenario how a dog gets arrested.
33:50
Well, apparently he comes out and there's police there. Blaze is tied to a
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pole like and she's Bla1 is just ridiculous right at that age. I mean she was she's already she's still the most
34:02
energetic dog. She's just the silliest dog. She's not eating anybody or doing anything. She's probably trying to lick the police officers. Like she's just
34:08
every loving everybody but she's tied to a pole. And Jad is like that's my dog. And they're like well do you have any
34:14
proof or whatever? And we and it's all happening in Spanish and he doesn't can't understand it. It's just that
34:19
vocabulary is just way too much. Right. So he calls me and he's like, "The police have blaze. I don't know what to
34:25
do." And there's like, you know, there's some neighbors there. And I mean, it was just like this big mess. And they're
34:31
literally right outside our gate. It's not like she's run to another like she's not across town, right?
34:37
She didn't go anywhere. She doesn't have the neighbor's cat in her mouth.
34:43
But I mean, it was just funny cuz it's like she literally went nowhere. She escaped and went nowhere, right? She's
34:48
like, I want some sun on the on the front side. So, I was like, "Oh my god, I" and so I
34:55
was like, "Oh, let me call my friend. Let me see. She can call you and she speaks she's um she's Scottish, but she
35:01
speaks fluent Spanish." And I was like, "She's probably the best person to try and like figure out what what on earth
35:07
is going on here." So, I call her. Thank goodness she's driving back from Madrid
35:12
in the car. So, she's, you know, she's driving. She's like, "Sure, I'll call." So, she calls Jad, talks to the police.
35:19
Turns out because Blae was running around outside without a collar on um
35:25
she because she had literally only had her like a week or two and there was like there's I there's a whole thing of
35:30
like you she was chipped but you don't want necessarily there's a lot of things
35:36
that puppies can hang themselves on basically and that's the end of them. So not having a collar inside the
35:42
parameters of our house and garden seemed like a good idea at the time. Um, but she had managed to get out. Someone
35:49
had found her with some kids and she was probably jumping up on the kids or something and being super excited. And
35:55
turns out it was our neighbor down the street, but they didn't know we had a puppy yet. Okay. And one of our neighbors had said that's their puppy,
36:00
but the I don't think the police believed them. So, she managed to like completely get, you know, get everything
36:07
sorted out, tell what was going on. The police had already called. So, what will happen if your dog gets out? Is they the
36:13
police here anyway? They have a like a a place that has room for dogs that maybe
36:20
train dog catcher place. It's not it's not a city company. It's like a private company that does probably they breed
36:26
puppies and have and do training and things like that. So they called had already called them. So Jawad had to pay
36:33
€50 to get Bla1 out of jail. It's like a towi. Like a towing fee. Yes. Exactly.
36:39
And if he didn't pay them, then then Bla1 was going to get taken by that by those people and then we would have to
36:45
get them back from them. So it was like, okay, so yeah, there was a tow fee to get her back out of jail. Okay. And then
36:52
so that was fine and we got her back, but then um like a month she wasn't in jail, she was just tied to your tree,
36:58
right? She was about to go to jail. She's Did they had the company showed up yet? Was the truck? No, that was the
37:04
thing. Yeah. So that was the thing where we had this window of opportunity. Ask the question. Mhm. Was this like a a $50
37:10
cop bribe or do you think it went to the company? Was the company cuz I' I've actually found stray dogs and called
37:17
them too and had and so that they I know that they the problem is is that the police don't carry a chip reader. Okay.
37:23
Which would be nice if they did, but that that company has a chip reader. So
37:29
or so it's kind of like if you had a chip reader, you'd maybe know where the dog belonged and then that would be the
37:34
end of the story. Right. Right. Um, but obviously what the police's main job is to get stray dogs, you know, especially
37:40
very exuberant ones that are running around trying to be friends with everybody to get them into a safe place,
37:46
right? So, yeah. So, we got and we got a bill like um a month later for €100 for
37:52
having a dog without a collar that Oh, so you had another fine on top of that. So, you got a fine and like this ticket
37:58
from $150 $150 at the end of the day for for this little puppy that got its
38:04
little ass out of the gate onto the street next to our house. Any place is
38:09
cute, but I don't know about 150. I hope you would have left her. I hope she's working it off somehow. No, I still
38:16
think the kids are more expensive than the dog, but it's it's a it's it's quite a tie.
38:22
That's why I don't have dogs. Dogs can be very expensive cuz dogs eat glass. Cats don't. I have two cats and they don't I have to agree with you. Dogs
38:29
will eat anything. Anything. Anything. Oh. And then I was like, "Yeah, cats
38:35
know. They're they they're quite discerning. I think they will survive longer than dogs." Yes. Especially on
38:41
their own, right? Oh my god. For sure.
38:46
Oh my goodness. Yeah. Social Blaze. I'm trying to think if I have something else. I do have one that it's happened.
38:53
I I miss trains here when I think I'm doing things correctly. You miss you
38:59
miss trains or you miss trains? No, I don't miss them like for lornly like I
39:04
wish we had them more. I mean my body gets on them, you know, buddy.
39:12
You in love with trains? Shh.
39:18
I wasn't supposed to tell anybody. I'm still waiting for my my my toy train collection to get here.
39:26
Okay. So, you miss trains? I miss trains because things So, this is a this is a Valencia thing and then I'm sure it
39:33
happens elsewhere. So, we have the So, we've talked about these metro cards. We've talked about the free metro cards
39:39
for the kids and we've had the how we get around Valencia episode and we talk about the zones and the A's and the B's,
39:46
the AB and the B zone and the C zone and all that stuff, right? and how you get on these things. And I'm going to tell
39:52
the story and I still don't know it, but I hadn't had this problem before. So my,
39:57
you know, my daughters go to school outside the city and I had to go to school and I had planned it with just
40:03
enough time, but someone I knew ran into me on the street and was like, "Hey." And I'm like, "I love you. You're great.
40:09
Don't have time. I have to get to the north station because it's not it's not the subway that gets you out there. You have to take the the commuter train."
40:17
The train. And so I'm like, I have to get out there. And I had like two
40:23
seconds. I mean, I got there and they were like, the plane, the train, the plane, the train is got the boarding thing. And I'm trying to find my my
40:31
card. And then I realize I brought the wrong card. But I'm like, oh, it should work because it's this higher level and
40:39
it's not going through and it's not going through and it's not going through and like and like this is the train I had to make to get to school on time for
40:45
the thing that I had to get there for. Like I couldn't wait 30 minutes for the next train, right? Because there would have been another one in like 20 or 30
40:52
minutes. It's pretty regular, right? Yeah. It's pretty much every 23 minutes that train. And the guy was like, "This
40:57
is the wrong card." I'm like, "What do you mean it's the wrong card? This is" And I didn't realize it was the wrong card cuz like we had said before, I had
41:04
the the metro cards all look the same. You have to write on them which one's for which zone. And he's like, "No, but
41:10
you need this card for your return. On your way there, you need the other card. It's a whole thing about the Yeah, I
41:18
know. Don't ask me. So, they had certain turn styles that only take certain cards because those are the trains that are
41:24
going from that section, right? Cuz you can use your metro card on the commuter train. So, you can use that. But anyway,
41:31
it was a whole nightmare. And I'm like I'm like like I can't miss my daughters. I think it was for like an award, you
41:36
know, something I had to be there for otherwise like I'm a really bad dad. You would have been the worst parent, right?
41:42
The only one not there. get to um the um the uh so I'm leaving there.
41:48
I'm like, "Well, how do I get out there now?" And then I'm like looking and as I you know, as you know, I'm a a frugal
41:54
single father. So I'm like looking at Ubers and you know the the the the ride
41:59
shares to get out there and I'm like that's like from the station it's like an extra 10 bucks from my house and my house isn't that far. And I'm like what
42:05
I do? So then my my frugal behind got on the subway and then took the subway to
42:11
the end of the line like across town where I knew I could still get an Uber because you can't get Ubers outside of town. You can only get them in the town,
42:16
right? Like you go like if you're out in Pusoul you're not getting an Uber back into the city. It's very hard to get
42:21
one. So I was like go to there just so I could save like 15 bucks and I did. It was ended up only being like a 12 ride
42:28
to the to the school and I got it in there in time. But it's these things you like you have these cards and I was like I'm gonna have to get a stronger Sharpie
42:34
so I know the difference. So when I'm because it was more of me also being flustered. And then like when I calmed
42:40
down on the train I was like looking through my wallet and like I had the other card. Why aren't you keeping all your cards
42:46
with you at all times? Well, I did and I didn't realize it because it was put in another thing and I was like there but I
42:52
was too flustered and it the train was leaving like I would been like running like in some old 1930s movie, you know,
42:59
running after the train. I know. I will say I didn't even know we had Uber here yet, but we just were at the airport and
43:04
I saw an Uber car and I was like, "Oh my god, they are because they're not out where we are." Or if they go out here, I
43:09
don't think anyone knows that we have it yet. Well, Uber Cab Cabifi free now. you
43:15
know, um, Uber is new. When we first moved here, Uber wasn't here. It was just Cabify and Free Now. And so, and
43:22
you know, side note, if you're using the ride shares, you have to look at all three to see who's the cheapest because they all have different rates.
43:28
Ironically, it's all the same car. You're getting the same car to you. The same driver is signing up for all three
43:33
things. Oh my god. I find with in regards to the as far as it being a
43:38
disaster, like I find that I go to the metro station and the train is just not
43:45
leaving at the time that the app says that it's going to leave and I get frustrated from your station. Yeah. And
43:52
I'm like, it says it's going to be this time and I get there and then it's not because it's a holiday or it's a this or
43:57
it's a that or maybe someone didn't update the app or whatever crazy thing because you're using the app. I told you
44:03
the Google Maps is the best for the schedule. I know that now and I'm definitely gonna do that. But I was
44:08
using who would have thought that the actual app that is created or the website created by the company that's
44:15
putting the trains on would actually know when the schedule's happening. But yeah, I think Google is doing it better. I've never used the Metro Valencia app.
44:22
It does confuse me. But I will say the EMT, the bus app, that one is like right on the money. I don't know how they know
44:27
where all their buses are and they're like one minute away and you're like there it is one minute away
44:34
because we're on the last line the last stop on the line. I get excited if I drive down there and I park and there's
44:39
people on the station there's people on platform cuz I'm like oh I must have got it right this time I get like excited
44:46
because there must be a train coming cuz all these people think there's a train coming. Do you ever get there like oh the train's there you're so excited then
44:52
you're like we're sitting at it for 10 minutes cuz it's not ready to start talking. That doesn't seem to happen. It
44:57
might sit in other places, but it does seem to come and go from Beta pretty pretty like swiftly. Well, we had a
45:03
moment. We had a moment at Beta. You dropped us off at a night time. We were there for a night time and the train was
45:10
there and we sat in the train for like 10 15 minutes. were like, "Why is this that like we're excited?" And and my my
45:17
youngest got very scared because the ah ah Spain, uh here uh not Los
45:24
Angeles, not America, like you know the the homelessness and the what the the kind of that that stuff you don't see
45:31
here. You just don't see the kind of mentally ill people on the streets and on the subway and and so she had not
45:38
seen any person out of sorts and on the
45:44
train was the town drunk with another friend and they were loud and obnoxious
45:49
old man and just like having a party but Paloma was shaking cuz she thought it was like what she was used to seeing in
45:56
LA on the sidewalks and she was like this person's in there and she was like shaking next to me. I'm like, "Honey, it's just a drunkard. It's fine. Just
46:03
let it go." But we were sitting there for 10, 15 minutes and the thing wasn't moving. And she's like, "He's getting
46:08
closer." And I'm like, "Don't worry. All these people, no one else is worried. We're fine. No one's" And it's not like
46:14
everyone's ignoring. Everyone's just like, you know, rolling their eyes at him knowing he's just the right He's just the
46:21
Yeah. I mean, I will say nothing from my experience, nothing of all the trains and metros and tubes and undergrounds
46:27
that I've been on, nothing is worse than the DC metro for leaving you in a in a tunnel for 15 20 minutes because they're
46:33
suddenly doing one line and and a and a trip to DC from Alexandria that would have taken like 15 minutes now is taking
46:40
like 45 minutes and like so common. Yeah. So, I've not had that experience
46:48
here that often. I have faithfully knocked wood wherever my wood is as I knock the top of my skull. Um I don't
46:55
know. Thank you for clarifying that. Yeah, I I um have not been stuck in the
47:02
subway here yet. Thank you. Yeah, I don't think I think they're pretty efficient here. So that's a that's a good thing. Yeah. And what I do like for
47:08
someone who can get claustrophobic, like I'm not claustrophobic in a subway car, but if it stops and they're one of those cars that you can't move between cars,
47:15
like I can get very claustrophobic that way. What I love about the subways here is it's one long car no matter how many
47:21
cars is. There's no doors between the cars. It's just it's a one hallway the whole length which is so refreshing. And
47:27
it's also fun because when it turns you're like I don't see that person anymore and look at they came back as it makes its way through the curving
47:33
tracks. It's very fun for me. It's like a roller coaster. Yeah.
47:39
I love that. Yeah. I think the generally speaking, I have we've not had a lot of
47:44
bad experiences on the on the underground and and metro system here. I think it's pretty efficient and very
47:50
nicely done. It is. It is very It is very nicely done. Some of the stations are even air conditioned. The newer ones
47:56
which are very Oh, really? Yeah. Fancy. The one in Rousafa, it's like if it's hot, it's freezing cold down there.
48:02
You're like, "Huh?" That's a good thing to know. I don't think this is very environmentally friendly again. How does Valencia keep getting green city of
48:09
Europe? But whatever. Well, you should see what the other cities are doing.
48:15
Well, we were in the Paris Metro in summer and that was not fun. Hot and smelly and Yeah, it was not Oh my god,
48:21
the the the London Underground. I mean, I a little bit different lines of different situations, but I mean, they
48:27
get so hot and then they open the windows at the end and then you've got this hot air blowing, hot smelly air,
48:34
that mildwy moldy air. And then there's that one line where it's the windows are
48:39
open, but it's like the the the cars are scraping the tunnel cuz it's really loud. I forget which line that is and
48:46
that's all that's all that's how it works down there. My friend who lives there, they put
48:52
their earplugs in. They're like on this one. I'm like, "What are you doing?" I'm like, "Oh, that is kind of loud." Yeah, that is. Yeah. See the sparks flying as
49:00
you're coming by. I'm going with all the lines.
49:06
I mean, I have many more that I can say, but I mean, I've I've missed trains in in Madrid, too, which wasn't fun, and
49:13
had to reby the tickets cuz I bought the non-changeable like, "You missed the train, you're screwed tickets." And Oh,
49:19
yeah. And thought we had plenty of time. We're at a restaurant. I'm like, "Oh, our trains are two hours. Let's just sit and enjoy the meal and we'll get a cab."
49:26
Not realizing that Madrid is not a siesta city and they have rush hour at
49:31
5:00 p.m. Oh, interesting. Well, there you go. So, we're like, "Oh, we have plenty of time. Our train's this. Let's
49:37
get a cab." And then we look at the apps. We're like, "It's a 45minute ride to the thing and we were with other
49:43
people and we're like, "It's going to be too long to get to the to the subway, which would be the quicker way to get
49:49
there and we No, we had and then they sent I had order a van and they Uber had
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sent a Corolla." I'm like, "That's not going to sit that's not going to fit five extra people." Oh my goodness. And
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it was that was a nightmare. We get there, we're like, h that's not that's not and then we spend extra 180 on
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tickets to get home because they were last minute tickets that I'm booking them in the cab. You know, that's a
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disaster. And I'm not even going to get into all the places I've shown up that were closed, including the Toya place that we've been trying to go to. So I,
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you know, I'm hoping it's not closed for good. And we are going to try maybe next week we could try again. We'll try
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again. Yeah. And if not, we have a list of maybe you should go there first. Then I'll I'll talk to there come swing by
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and catch me and we'll park somewhere else because I will say it is a thing and I think it's something that happens
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most likely more sort of outside in the more rural areas because it does happen to me a lot where a restaurant just
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decides that it's not going to open that day or it's or whatever it is and and nobody needs to be told these things
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because there's not really a an expectation that places are open. It's more like a joy if you get there and
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they're open kind of situation, you know. Well, what's today? Wednesday what's today? Wednesday or Thursday? What day? Thursday. Oh, we're already at
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Thursday. No, I need to be Wednesday. I need it to be Wednesday. I have things that need to get done yesterday that I
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would quite like it to be Tuesday. I've never I've never felt that way about a week. I usually want it to be Friday, but this week seems to have just It
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could go back two days for some reason. I was saying that, you know, oh, on Thursday I'll go up into this. I'll go
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into town and see if it's open. But that's now Thursday is Friday. So that's what's next. I don't have Friday. I
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don't have Friday. Tomorrow. I think if it happens again, I'm going to set up a camera across the street and just wait
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for it to open so that we don't have to go down. Can we get a portable Ring camera? We could just put it there now
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and then like it's open. I'll be there in an hour. Or maybe we can find someone that lives nearby and like, could you
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just keep us posted? It's just it's a bit outside of my area of where I know people probably you too. Right. Well,
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you know, okay, let's end this with a an awe of that and things being closed. So, you know, we had moved here in in the
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summer and then it was August where everything's closed and and you know, everyone says everything's closed of the
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boards and everything isn't closed. It's just different and weird hours and things might be closed for a week, but
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they're open the rest of the month. And they will often put up a sign that says we're closed from the 2nd to the to the
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25th of August or something, right? Or we're only open Friday mornings and we open Monday afternoons or whatever. Like
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we're closed on the weekends, but there was a I needed a hardware thing from a hardware store. I don't remember what it was. And there was one on the corner.
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And the guy that owned the little restaurant there saw me and I'm like didn't have the sign. I'm like, and I
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know it was August, but like it was opened earlier in the day. So like I was like, this is going to be open. I didn't know. I was like, "Well, maybe it's just
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Siesta." And he was like, "Give me your number and I'll I'll text you if it's
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open." Because he had the restaurant across the street. And then he texted me. He goes, "Looks like they're at August hours." Cuz it was after CS
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doesn't look like they're opening up. And then like Monday he was or Monday or Tuesday. The next week he texted me. He's like, "If you still do the thing,
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they're open." I was like, "Oh my god, that's so nice. That is so sweet." A that's the way to do it. So we should
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ask the people across the street if they'll text. Text me by WhatsApp. and you just, you know, but I'll buy it for
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thought from you, too. I'll make it worth your while. Yeah. But you know what? Maybe that's how it's done. Like, I do feel like, especially since we're
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in a small town up here, I do feel like there is some inner messaging going on
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that people have that we are not privy to as foreigners. Um but maybe that's
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what maybe that is what people are doing because you know there a lot of these shops and restaurants even the hardware
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store even those places are catering to the to just the local area. So if they're on holiday, they might be on
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holiday with half the people that shop there, right? You know, it takes a village to raise a village.
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It takes a village to open a shop. So people would know like if so and oh
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so and so is also the uncle and the and the brother and the this of these. I mean, people just know what's going on,
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I think. Yeah. It's their it's their life. Like it's that is their extended family. That's their that's their whole
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community. like the real that's their nuclear community is the village, right? Is the village and I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case here in
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Spain because the people are very, you know, large families and also very close with a lot of people, I think. So, but
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you're sort of on the outskirts of that a little bit as a as a foreigner, I think. Yeah. Um, but that could be the
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way. But that was really nice. Lovely thing to do. So, our print falls and propalls can
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on a positive note. We're ending that on a positive note and stay tuned. Oh, you
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know what? I have to I have to give a shout out. Oh, yes. Oh my gosh, you forgot. I forgot some. Last week we were
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talking about um uh we talking about restaurants, restaurants, like the things that makes us smile and all that
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stuff. And we had um uh uh we had mentioned um the Peruvian restaurant and
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what a joy. And we went back and they teach treated us like celebrities and they were so nice to you.
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and she remembered you and you she saw your name and she knew that you had like
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uh that that you didn't speak Spanish and so she had to be there like it was so so sweet. So sweet. And what did you
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do? And what did you forgot to name the restaurant forgot to give them a shout out. So I want to say one uh Shindi and
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Jose I'm sorry but their restaurant is Musuk and if you're in in Valencia it is
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delicious Peruvian food and they got my daughters to eat cow heart. So that's how that's how good it is that my do my
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daughters ate and how friendly they are that they said, "Okay, feed me something I would never eat. G give us something
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that's just amazing." And then they did. And they did. Yeah. Well, that's good. I think. Yeah, I like that. So, there's
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some good stories at the end of our crazy bad stories for the 13th episode.
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The 13th episode. All right. So, join us next week where we're gonna talk about bidas. Yes. Oh my goodness. favorite
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drinks means drinks. And when I first moved here, I thought Babidas meant something like baby cuz it sounds like
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baby. Like it sounds cute. It does sound cute. Yeah, we're not drinking babies here. They're not serving babies at the
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menu delia. We will be talking about all of our favorite drinks and maybe some we haven't tried. Exactly. Maybe we'll have
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tried the ones we haven't tried by next week and have tried them. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. All right. Bye everyone. Bye. or
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