Take your time in Barcelona
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week we're wrestling with a big idea: time, and the lack of it. Most Europeans have experienced burnout, or felt close to it, at some point in their lives. What if we redesigned policies to give citizens their time back? To find out more, we called up Ariadna Güell Sans, one of the coordinators of the Barcelona Time Use Initiative, about how the city is using time to try to make life easier and fairer. We're also talking about incomprehensible euro-speak, and healing Franco-German relations with train tickets.
You can find Christian Rauh's study on the European Commission's unintelligible press releases here and Sarah Wheaton's reporting on it here in Politico. The European burnout survey can be found here.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: 'Something to Do' from Zadie Smith's 'Intimations', and Katy's Notion planner.
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02:35 Bad Week: Impenetrable euro-speak
10:46 Good Week: French and German young'uns
19:12 Interview: Ariadna Güell Sans on giving Barcelona's citizens their time back
34:57 Isolation Inspiration: 'Something To Do' by Zadie Smith, Notion and Rádio Olisipo
38:36 Happy Ending: The Netherlands' high school mayo dealers
Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. You can find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Katie, sorry, I'm late. You'd better have a good excuse. I actually do. I just jumped in the |
| 0:28.4 | lake just near my house. Why? Yeah, it felt like a kind of mad thing to do. It's November. I know, |
| 0:36.3 | but it is also 15 degrees, but it was really, really cold. |
| 0:40.1 | And it's not something I do. |
| 0:41.4 | I've got a friend staying with me who's into that kind of Vim Hof method. |
| 0:44.6 | Do you know what that is? |
| 0:45.6 | Vim Hof. |
| 0:46.7 | Is that a metro station? |
| 0:48.3 | No. |
| 0:49.4 | It's a Dutch man and like a guy who's known as the Iceman who like has created this method around |
| 0:57.1 | cold water therapy. I actually don't really know anything about it. We should look into this. |
| 1:01.7 | I think it's quite interesting. But it seems to there seems to be more and more research about |
| 1:05.2 | it having great health benefits. So I thought I'd give it a try. I was just mainly very cold. I mean, you sound very |
| 1:12.2 | perky now, so this should be quite a nice episode. Maybe you should jump into a cold lake every |
| 1:16.7 | week. Can I not? Yeah, it might be 15 degrees there now, but winter is definitely here. Well, |
| 1:22.5 | it's here in Paris anyway. And actually, I'm kind of happy that it's wintry now, because it's a great reason to |
| 1:28.2 | wrap yourself up and listen to the Europeans. Your weekly, non-boring catch-up about |
| 1:33.3 | stuff that's been happening around Europe. And what have we got coming up this week? |
| 1:37.0 | Well, this week we're going to be talking about a big topic, time. Most of us feel like we don't |
| 1:43.5 | have enough of it, but why is that? And why is it that some |
| 1:47.8 | people seem to have more time than others? And can we do anything to make that division of time |
| 1:53.1 | fairer? These are all questions that our guests this week have spent a lot of time thinking |
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