Hello and welcome to the Europeans.

We have a very nice episode for you, but it is slightly mini.

And I guess that's kind of okay because it's half term in much of the continent.

It's like that mini horse we were talking about the other week, but a podcast.

So we actually don't have any guests because the guest that we were meant to be interviewing on Friday was sick, sadly. Get well soon.

How dare he?

Hey, sorry.

Don't pour scorn on a person who's been afflicted with sickness.

Get well soon. And we're really looking forward to having on the show next week instead.

So him and his assistant have both

been struck with some kind of viral lurgy. And it's partly because it has suddenly become winter,

I think, here in Germany. And in much of the continent, the weather has turned. But have you

had a nice week nonetheless? I have. I have been teaching the journalists of tomorrow this week at a Paris journalism school,

which has been really fun. And I was really glad that we talked about rap last week, because I've

been able to drop a lot of contemporary rap references, which makes me sound very cool and young.

Did you actually?

I did drop a couple, yeah. I don't think it worked on them. They're still like, you're a weird old lady.

Well, that's a good way of introducing yourself, Katie, because we actually haven't said who we are.

You are a weird old lady, Katie Lee, living in Paris. Thank you. That is what it says on my business cards.

Yes, indeed. Yes, I am a journalist living in Paris. And who are you? I am a weird old man, Dominic Kramer, and I live in Amsterdam, but I

really hesitated there because I've been in Berlin for now, seven weeks. I'm an opera singer.

You're like an old-school Berliner now. I know, and soon I'm going back to Amsterdam. I'm very

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