Welcome back to the Europeans, a podcast that normally prides itself from being recorded across the continent between Paris and Amsterdam and Warsaw. Except this week, our little team got to meet in real life for the first time in more than a year. Yay. It was very lovely,

but we are still recording this apart. It's true. I left yesterday and I was very sorry to see

you go, Dominic. I was sorry to see you go too. I always forget when I see the rest of our team

in real life, how tall the rest of you are, because I only ever see your heads on the screen.

So it's quite disorienting to see you all physically and be reminded that you're all giants.

We're not even that tall.

You're calling me a short ass.

Sorry.

But it was really nice.

We got to hang out and eat lots of vegetables that have been dug up by our producer cats on the farm in Amsterdam.

It's true.

Cats like at one point when we were in the middle of meeting just was like, oh, I've got to go and pick up my vegetables.

And she was like, I'll be back in a bit.

Like two and a half hours later, she came back with like half a farm in her bag that she'd cut off with her secretors.

We did enjoy eating it all, though.

I believe you've been left with quite a lot of cabbage to dispose of.

I have, and quite a lot of slugs in that cabbage.

What a lovely gift.

Yes, no, it was really lovely.

It was, and we got to do lots of planning for the months ahead,

which is probably a good time, listeners, to tell you some rather big news.

You ready?

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