a perfect portrayal of like the average British guy abroad, especially in Spain. And then also

it's kind of tapping into this mythology of British criminals who kind of went on the run in Spain.

And it was a very popular location to, you know, retire. I mean, there was a, we used to go to Spain

a lot when I was a kid. We used to go to this village called Meehass and there was a restaurant kind of on the hill outside the village like on the

way up called the Valparaiso um and it was like notoriously just like British gangsters would

hang out there it was like the gaudiest place like you know like bright white like umbrellas

that were up at night and like, you know, kind of

fairy lights all through these palm trees and stuff.

And supposedly like the craze used to go there or something.

But yeah, I think there's particularly like the southern coast of Spain.

There's this real, yeah, ex-British gangster mythology and people who sort of, I don't know,

maybe aspire to that a bit.

And so this film definitely is, it's referencing something that you're aware of.

Understood, yeah.

I've also heard the same about Cyprus, that Cyprus is also, especially in the period of EU membership and free movement, that Cyprus was a place where lots of British gangsters

went to go sort of hide out at slash retire. But in this case, I'm aware of the phenomenon

of Brits in Spain. I've only been to Spain once as a small child. I don't have any recollection

of meeting Brits. But one time when I was coming back from East Asia,

my flight to New York stopped in Seattle. And I had a long enough layover to see some friends

and then come back to the airport the next day. And so I, at the Seattle airport, waiting for my

flight to New York, it's a long haul flight, technically speaking. So it's in the same terminal

as a lot of international flights.

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