Hello, Dominic, hello Dominic, hello listeners.

This is Katie reluctantly reporting for duty from Paris.

I regret to report that I am back from my trip to Naples and Sicily.

Well, it sounds like the holiday brought you back grumpier than ever.

It's good to hear.

What's that supposed to mean? You're lucky

there's a podcast at all this week of all the holidays that I have ever taken in my life.

This is the trip, but I really, really didn't want to come back, Dominic. Oh, I'm sorry for you.

I'm like totally, well, no, actually, I'm not sorry for you no I was stuck here in the Netherlands which actually

was the warmest place in the whole of Europe since we last recorded for a few days which I felt

like I just had to say after you were like mouthing off about how awful the weather is here all the

time and actually I wanted to point out

that we've had a drought for a month, so there's been no rain. So ignoring the climate apocalypse for a

moment, I just wanted to say, ha, you're wrong. It's not raining all the time. I stand corrected.

I knew I'd live to regret that comment. It is now raining, fortunately, which is quite a relief for my

garden. But how was the holiday? I mean, let's just put it this way. I cried over breakfast

one morning because it was so good. Like, it had homemade ricotta and fruit from next door and honey

from the neighbours and the woman from the pensione

that's kind of in where we were staying, she said, you know, it just makes me so happy to see

you this happy with your breakfast. And I started crying. I got a bit hysterical. Oh, dear.

But apart from that, it was great. I'd spent the entire week eating and swimming, mostly.

That sounds perfect. You were in Naples and Sicily, right?

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