Hello friends on this continent and beyond. This is Katie in Parisis i'm joined by dominic kram in amsterdam is

amsterdam this week yeah i'm back finally although i have been everywhere this week you're such a little

globe trotter uh and we are back with another week of european miscellania and i've had a rubbish week

so i'm hoping dominic that chatting to you and our lovely guest is going to cheer me up oh no what

happened uh so if you're listening to this while eating, I really apologise for the story I'm about

to tell you, but you know how I just got back from a work trip to South Africa? Yes. Well, while I was

away, a friend was staying at my place in Paris, my friend Christy, she's visiting from Hong Kong. And she sent me a message while I was away saying, oh, I've arrived safely, but there's this weird smell coming from the back of your flat.

And I can't work out where it's coming from, but it's disgusting.

And I was like, okay, I'll fix this when I get back.

I got back on Saturday, very tired after an overnight flight.

And Chrissy was right.

There was this hideous smell that smelled like rotting plants coming from the back of the flat.

And we cannot, for the life of us, work out where it's coming from. And even worse, there's quite a lot of flies in the back room that seem to be coming from nowhere.

And finally, I go out into the corridor and I realised that the smell seems to be coming from the door that goes down to the cellars of our building, which backs onto the back room of our flat. And with great trepidation, I unlock this door. And this cloud of flies

hits me in the face, along with this putrid smell, unlike anything I have ever smelt before.

And it turns out that, you know, I live next door to a restaurant. I remember that restaurant.

They own some of the cellar space.

Yeah.

And they've left a cupboard full of potatoes in there.

And because it's August and we're in France and France basically shuts down in August,

they have just left these potatoes in them and forgotten about them.

Like literally thousands of potatoes.

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