Hello listeners and welcome to another episode of the Europeans with me, Dominic, speaking to you from Amsterdam and my wonderful co-host Katie Lee in Paris.

No, not in Paris. I'm in London this week.

Oh, well, how am I meant to know? Is it Skype?

It's nice here. It's very cold, much like the rest of Europe.

Yeah, is it nice there? My family have been like moaning and groaning about how horrible it is in London at the moment.

There's still some bits of snow on the ground in places. I flew into Luton Airport yesterday and it was very snowy and my glasses got really fogged up.

Oh, poor you.

Which was not very glamorous. It is thawing out, which is nice because it has been freezing cold across the entire continent.

I think you've had like proper frozen canals and stuff in

Amsterdam. Oh, it's been amazing. Although I have mainly been locked inside a windowless building,

but when they occasionally let me out, I mean, I must clarify, I'm not imprisoned. I am just

working really hard at the moment in an opera house. And yeah, but I did manage to go out yesterday

afternoon and have a little wander

on the ice while my husband and his father were skating beautifully with the Rijks Museum in the

distance with all those paintings of people skating in the 18th and 19th century. It felt very

romantic. Wow. But you didn't get on the actual skates yourself. How come?

Because of your bad experiences with winter sports. Yeah. I mean, it was only six weeks ago. I broke my

shoulder skiing with the same two people. And I thought having another adventurous experience with

skates was not a good idea. Walking was scary enough for me. What was it like walking on the ice?

Could you hear like cracking under your feet and stuff?

It was so amazing.

The noise of the skates on the ice is so beautiful.

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