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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Lakes and dogs

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Politics, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Calming things are much needed this week, so we're talking about lakes and we're talking about dogs. Our guest is the poet and author Kapka Kassabova, whose latest book To The Lake is a beautiful account of life on the borders of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. We're also celebrating cleaner skies, human-canine relationships, and putting booze to good use.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Dominic, Long Time No C. I haven't spoken to you for hours.

0:19.9

Hi, Katie. How are you? Should we pretend we haven't talked for a while?

0:23.4

We've got loads to catch up on. We don't. I know everything about your life and everyone's life.

0:27.6

I guess that's one of the few very nice things about this horrible time that we're living through.

0:31.8

I'm talking to friends and family probably more than I usually do, which is nice. Although I find when I speak to them, I mainly just, we just talk about the virus,

0:40.9

or we talk about Skype versus Zoom.

0:44.0

That seems to be the big conversation right now.

0:46.8

Have you been Zooming?

0:47.9

I feel a bit too old and out of touch with technology to do it.

0:50.9

Yeah, I'm a bit intimidated.

0:52.1

Yeah, I have been using Zoom and I don't really

0:54.5

understand what the fuss is about. I mean, I know we're very loyal to our European Skype machines.

1:00.7

Anyway, I like the meme that's going around at the moment, suggesting that the whole crisis was

1:05.0

invented by Zoom, because they're one of the only people that have seemed to be benefiting at the

1:09.2

moment. The only people that are benefiting are Zoom and YouTube sports instructors. But have you been? How's your

1:16.6

lockdown so far? It's been fine. I can't complain too much. I've been trying to sunbathe

1:23.2

on our little roof terrace, which we're very lucky to have. But it was only seven degrees this

1:29.5

morning, so sunbathing wasn't that successful. You're going to be brown as a berry by the end of

1:34.6

this, though. That's nice. I hope so. Although I heard that in northern Europe, you can't get any

1:40.7

vitamin D from the sun until late March. It's nice though. I think it's cheering.

1:45.0

How's it over there in London? I've been having quite sharp mood swings and one good example of

1:50.5

that is that I bought a jigsaw puzzle this week. Lots of people are getting heavily into puzzles,

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