November 13: The black soldier’s lament
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Europeans. |
| 0:20.4 | We are in two different cities as usual, but where are you actually? |
| 0:24.6 | I don't know. Where are you? |
| 0:25.8 | London Town. It's nice here. |
| 0:28.0 | This is my first time recording my boyfriend's new place. |
| 0:30.7 | And yeah, it's considerably nicer than my flat in Paris. |
| 0:34.9 | So I think I might just kind of stay here. Was that like a big, |
| 0:39.3 | bold declaration that you're quitting your job and moving to London? You heard it here first. |
| 0:45.2 | It's just so nice here. And also London is still part of Europe just about. So I think that'll be |
| 0:51.2 | fine, wouldn't it? Yeah, well, only for a few more months. We're not |
| 0:54.7 | talking about that, Katie. Yeah, sorry, the one thing that we cannot and do not talk about on this |
| 0:58.7 | podcast, the B word. But you're also in your new house. Are you all right? Because I was perusing |
| 1:04.3 | your Instagram this week. And I saw that you posted some stories of yourself listening to the church |
| 1:09.8 | bells, which are right next to your new |
| 1:12.1 | flat in Amsterdam very lovely church bells which ring every 15 minutes is it yeah and they don't |
| 1:17.3 | really ring every 15 minutes they play like a tune every 15 minutes that lasts about 45 seconds |
| 1:21.9 | and then they played a whole concert on saturday night they went on for two hours while i was trying |
| 1:27.4 | to work at home um So yeah, that was a challenge, but it is an amazing apartment. I am so jammy. |
| 1:36.8 | I don't know how I've managed to get this. All my left wing credentials have gone out the door |
| 1:41.2 | because I'm living in this gorgeous apartment. Have you managed to just start ignoring the bells then? |
| 1:44.7 | Because you did look like you're on the edge of some kind of breakdown. |
| 1:47.4 | I've stopped noticing them quite as much as I did initially. |
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