I'm pulling on my driveway. We know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, today, so many years ago, I've been doing this podcast for a while, I did a podcast called Tales from the Boat.

And it was basically a bunch of different stories about pro tours that took place in Los Angeles aboard the Queen Mary.

And actually it was a very popular podcast.

So I decided today I'm going to do a different...

I'm going to call this Tales from Europe.

So today, I'm going to tell some stories about some early pro tours in Europe.

Okay, we're going to start with the very first pro tour in Europe.

Pro Tour Paris.

Okay, so, set the scene.

So, one of the things that I really enjoyed about my early days at Wizards, or even still now, is the chance that I've had to travel.

Before, I mean, when I was younger, I went to Europe on a, like, a short trip as a student.

But other than that, I really hadn't gone a lot of places,

and I was very excited to sort of visit new countries and such.

So one of the things that was fun about doing the pro tour was I got to constantly visit new places.

So pro tour Paris was my first time in Paris.

I was quite excited.

I'm in Paris.

You know, and so what had happened was the way the system had been set up at the time was, right now, all the pro tours are run by the same group of people.

But back in the day, the European office would run the pro tours in Europe.

I mean, now there's a lot of cooperation.

Obviously, whenever we're in Europe, we get a lot of help, obviously, from the European office.

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