Hello and welcome to the Europeans, your weekly dose of the European elixie.

Don't you always say that and it always sounds so weird?

Hello, Dominic.

I don't always say that.

This is the Europeans.

It's your favourite moderately serious, moderately fun podcast about Europe with me, Katie Lee, a journalist in Paris,

and my suave opera singing friend Dominic Kramer in Amsterdam. Except this week we've both been in Munich.

I had probably, I think, a much more fun time there than you did, because I went for my friend's

birthday.

And we stayed in Munich for a night and then we went to a little town called Regensburg, about an hour away.

And it was so nice. It's a kind of little student town.

And it's super Christmassy. There was a

Christmas market and we just had a lovely time and we met some great Europeans. We met a girl

on the train who shared a group sort of discount train ticket with us. Oh, that's so nice of her.

Yeah, well no, that wasn't the nicest thing she did. So got chatting and she said, oh, why are you here? And my friend said, oh, because it's my birthday. And she was like, no way, it's my birthday as well.

And we're having a party tonight. Do you want to come? So we went to a party in the student halls in

Regensburg and had a great time and met loads of really, really nice people. So shout out to you, Annika. Oh, also, my friend kissed a guy, Dominic.

Oh, yeah.

He was not only called Dominic, but he had a tattoo of the word Europe on his arm.

No.

Yeah, I want to take a picture, I forgot.

We should have interviewed him.

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