Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast probably the best way of learning about life in Japan

without actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Border, be joined as always by

England's top Japan enthusiast Mr Pete, Donaldson, Pete, how the devil are you doing?

What's going on?

I'm very good. I mean, I want let people through the curtain. We are recording the day

before this show goes out and it's we're on the eve of the big

football euros final England during the final with Spain we're hopefully going to be

beating them and I actually had a weird I just walking up from a dream where I was in the euros I was in the England team

How much of a like a little boy's dream was that this morning to have a little dream.

Dream a little dream about being in the euros.

But the euros had lost some of its luster and it turns out we were just me and the other England players were just kicking around a little

earbud from a Sony annex 5 setup and that was getting televised but every time we'd get to a certain point in the

match we'd have to move to another room to kick this tiny earbud around but I

still had that kind of like pride to be English and proud to play for the English team and to play soccer professionally.

It was a really lovely little dream.

I think you need some help sometimes.

I do need some help, yes.

I can't talk.

You can't talk.

And you can't talk.

Last week with the snake and whatever was going on there but yeah I mean

that's a bit a bit odd but I guess it's a timely dream to have yeah the euros but yeah going

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