Speaker 1: Welcome to person number one podcast. You're listening to the
Speaker 1: Jamo and Dylan Show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're on the way That dance bra little
Speaker 2: Man trip with before is celebrating. Gooday guys, and welcome
Speaker 2: back to another episode of The Jammo and Dylan Show.
Speaker 2: Today's episode two hundred and forty four. We're back up
Speaker 2: to date. Deal. How are you going?
Speaker 3: I'm going well, mate, We've saved all the catching up
Speaker 3: for this episode. We haven't we haven't spoken before, so
Speaker 3: it's going to be jam packed for everyone.
Speaker 2: I think definitely. I've written down some dot points of
Speaker 2: what I've done. Obviously you'd have a little bit of
Speaker 2: the rest of your trip to catch up on. And
Speaker 2: then what's life been back in Perth since you've been
Speaker 2: back home.
Speaker 3: It's all right so far. You know, the weather it's been.
Speaker 3: It has been a little bit average, had some good days,
Speaker 3: had some really rainy cold days. First week took me
Speaker 3: a bit to get over the jet lag, so that
Speaker 3: was a bit of a task, you know, going to
Speaker 3: bed at three, waking up eleven terrible, terrible. But journey
Speaker 3: home was good. We had a really really nice flight
Speaker 3: because it was empty. There was only about fifteen people
Speaker 3: on it. So that was a dream, you know. I
Speaker 3: was able to get some good rest. Yeah, that was elite.
Speaker 3: Just been getting back into the swing of things, you know,
Speaker 3: a bit of work. Saw Rog today. Actually caught up
Speaker 3: with Rog at Nando's, which was nice.
Speaker 2: How is he?
Speaker 3: He's good, the weasel. He's obviously back back in his unigrind.
Speaker 3: He had a break this week study free. He told
Speaker 3: me some interesting things, which I'll tell you off camera.
Speaker 3: One of them, yeah, can't be shared, just about you know,
Speaker 3: some people in his life. But nah, he's going well,
Speaker 3: Rog looks, he looks happy.
Speaker 2: I kind of want to cut the recording now to
Speaker 2: find out, but let's not do that. We'll save it
Speaker 2: to the end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I can always just send it on a
Speaker 3: messenger actually there. But yeah, so nah, it was good
Speaker 3: to see Rog and the Nando's was nice. So set
Speaker 3: them back here, you know. FOOTI is back which is
Speaker 3: nice this weekend as well. So now I'm going, well mate,
Speaker 3: how's your trip been going so far?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been good. It's been good. It's been exhausting,
Speaker 2: as you would know, like travel has been difficult.
Speaker 3: The actual traveling is very exhausting itself, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it kind of knocks you about for
Speaker 2: the next day as well. Enjoying the trip. Been to
Speaker 2: some really cool places. I'm in Nice in the south
Speaker 2: of France at the moment. Yes, it's so nice and
Speaker 2: we're going to get to enjoy it. Today we're off
Speaker 2: to Monte Carlo, Monaco, lovely. That's a good day trip. Yeah,
Speaker 2: cheeky day trip only like a twenty thirty minute train
Speaker 2: from here, so that'll be good. Nice and yeah, excited
Speaker 2: for the rest of the trip, I think, what do
Speaker 2: I have? Now got two and a half weeks left? Okay, good, good, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so still excited. Still plenty more to see, but it's
Speaker 2: been good so far. I've got a lot to catch
Speaker 2: the people up on, including yourself. Yes, yes, some tragic
Speaker 2: news the other day, which we'll get into. Oh mate,
Speaker 2: what are the chances? Yeah, but I've got like everything
Speaker 2: in order. There's probably some stuff I've missed. But let's
Speaker 2: kick it off with our London leg of the trip.
Speaker 2: So obviously you're what a busy week. So your last
Speaker 2: seven days in Europe was spent in London and we
Speaker 2: caught up with each other and it was jam packed
Speaker 2: and it was actually quite difficult in a way. It
Speaker 2: was a beautiful time, but you were under the weather
Speaker 2: then I was under the weather. It was quite difficult
Speaker 2: with sickness, and there was one thing in particular that
Speaker 2: made us sick and it was the underground. Tell us
Speaker 2: a bit about that deal.
Speaker 3: Oh mate. So you know, me and Jamo in general
Speaker 3: aren't really public transport users. We love driving, you know,
Speaker 3: we drive everywhere, particularly in Perth. That's just what you do.
Speaker 3: Everyone has a car. Now in Europe it's a bit different.
Speaker 3: People love public transport and you know, me, Jamo, aren't
Speaker 3: you know against this. You know, we're not all rich
Speaker 3: and high and mighty. We're just common folks. So we
Speaker 3: were like, you know, we use the tube. That's what
Speaker 3: everyone does in London, right, you got to it's part
Speaker 3: of the experience. This thing, the tube station now was
Speaker 3: only built in the seventies, but because of the constant,
Speaker 3: high volume use of it, it's just deteriorated a lot.
Speaker 3: It's fel forty years, fifty years, it's filthy, it's packed,
Speaker 3: it's gross, and every time we went on it we
Speaker 3: both started feeling ill, yeah.
Speaker 2: Really ill. And even we had Jamie Hutchinson on the
Speaker 2: show and he also has the same view. He said
Speaker 2: every time he comes down from the north of England
Speaker 2: down to London, he's always sick, and we hold that
Speaker 2: exact same feeling. The girls didn't really feel it as
Speaker 2: much as us, but.
Speaker 3: No, they were loving it.
Speaker 2: I guess we're just built different. But yeah, but no,
Speaker 2: the underground was it was so hot as well, Like
Speaker 2: you notice it in a lot of these countries, like
Speaker 2: a lot of the public transport is hot because it's
Speaker 2: underground and we just don't have that back home. But yeah,
Speaker 2: in some countries the public transport was really good. In
Speaker 2: Barcelona we found it was really good. They have nice, wide,
Speaker 2: modern trains. And then here in Nice there's a lot
Speaker 2: of trams. It's a little bit like Melbourne, like the
Speaker 2: trams are really easy to use.
Speaker 3: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and let's just go through what's happened so far. Deal.
Speaker 2: So we're in London. We did heaps of podcasts. We're
Speaker 2: having some problems editing them for various reasons. So the
Speaker 2: first episode we did was with Rufus Rice and you
Speaker 2: guys haven't seen the YouTube version of that yet. That's
Speaker 2: because we lost clips. There was problems with the SD
Speaker 2: card stuff that we didn't even know could happen. The
Speaker 2: files were corrupting during the recording. It was ridiculous. We
Speaker 2: put like so many measures measures in place as well
Speaker 2: to have extra SD cards, extra space on it, like
Speaker 2: the cards. Oh it was a nightmare anyway. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: episode was decent, rufus nice bloke. Tick that one off
Speaker 2: onto the next. Then we had Joe on No No.
Speaker 2: Then we did the PROTI.
Speaker 3: One Prottie see which was a great day. But it
Speaker 3: turned out to prove very difficult to get this recording
Speaker 3: off of your storage because explain it to.
Speaker 2: Him, Jamo, So the file size is massive. They record
Speaker 2: in a file that's called black Magic Raw. This is
Speaker 2: all mumbo jumbo to use. Who listen, but it's basically
Speaker 2: like a megafile that's like incredible quality, and they record
Speaker 2: the sound directly onto the video, so you have to
Speaker 2: extract the sound from the video. It's just a it's
Speaker 2: a whole big ordeal, something we're not used to. And
Speaker 2: my laptop, just because of all the podcast stuff that's
Speaker 2: been on, it doesn't have much space left. So I've
Speaker 2: had to clear things try and make enough room. Still
Speaker 2: don't have enough room, can't get the audio from the video.
Speaker 2: It's a nightmare. So we've put that episode on the
Speaker 2: back burner for now, but if we can get it
Speaker 2: to work, it will be the best looking episode we've
Speaker 2: ever done.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's professionally filmed.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It was me Jamo Prody. We're on the couches in
Speaker 3: their studio. We had a guy behind the camera, so
Speaker 3: we had a camera on us at all times and
Speaker 3: another one that was on the person speaking. The quality
Speaker 3: of that episode will be unmatched.
Speaker 2: Sam as well, very hard Sam film that episode for us.
Speaker 2: Great guy was lovely to meet him. And yeah, in general,
Speaker 2: our time in London was fun. We did two more episodes.
Speaker 2: One that has just come out that Joe Sugwan, So
Speaker 2: if you haven't listened to that, go and have a listen.
Speaker 2: That's one of the most wholesome episodes we've ever had.
Speaker 2: I think the way that I explained England, I wrote
Speaker 2: it down in my notes. It was when we were
Speaker 2: in Ipswich actually, so we went and watched a Premier
Speaker 2: League game in Ipswitch. Shout out shout out to Massimo
Speaker 2: for that and like you and I said, like we
Speaker 2: did the proper experience of England because we went to
Speaker 2: a smaller town and we had the proper Premier League experience.
Speaker 2: We went to a local pub. Great times, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro a what a day that was. You know,
Speaker 3: we experienced real England. We went to a place that
Speaker 3: not many people from London have been to and they
Speaker 3: laughed when we said we visited Ipswich. But you know,
Speaker 3: we had a great day there and it was a
Speaker 3: good experience.
Speaker 2: The quote that I've got from our experience in England
Speaker 2: was English culture is disgustingly awesome. It was like when
Speaker 2: we're at the pub, there was so much just like
Speaker 2: filth around, but it felt so right and.
Speaker 3: Like it feels authentic and it is authentic and they're
Speaker 3: real people, but it's just so English.
Speaker 2: But we we fit in, you know, the convict is
Speaker 2: we just fit in. Also, we're on the might have
Speaker 2: been on the sug episode where we were talking about like, hey,
Speaker 2: you've got a bit of Tasmanian in you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: I was talking to my auntie yesterday and she said
Speaker 2: that I've got a lot of Tasmane in me. The Compact. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're both from Tazavoy.
Speaker 3: Bro, that's my new team fucked. They're pissing me off
Speaker 3: every day of my life.
Speaker 2: Bro. Honestly, I wonder if they're still doing those ten
Speaker 2: to fifteen buck memberships. Might get one, I know, right,
Speaker 2: A proper second team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, proper second team them Tasmanian Devils.
Speaker 2: Boy. So yeah, that was good. How about our airbnb?
Speaker 2: I think we brushed on it when we're speaking with Rufous.
Speaker 3: Phew, but yeah, what a what a ordeal that was, honestly,
Speaker 3: so we get there.
Speaker 2: There's no internet. That was a big problem for us
Speaker 2: because we had to do things that require the Internet
Speaker 2: for our work. So that was unfortunate, just frustrating.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: We also didn't have any internet, so we couldn't upload
Speaker 2: an episode we recorded a while ago, and then we
Speaker 2: didn't even release it because we were like, well now
Speaker 2: it's not even in date, it's before our trip.
Speaker 3: We've done half of our treeah exactly.
Speaker 2: In that episode, I also said that I left my
Speaker 2: job of five years. So I was there at Office
Speaker 2: Works for five years, met some great people, had some up,
Speaker 2: had some great time, good experience, great people. That was
Speaker 2: the main thing, exactly. It is time to move on.
Speaker 2: It's been many years that I've been there, you know, grinding,
Speaker 2: there was late nights, there was early days. Like I've
Speaker 2: worked lots of different shifts and met so many different people,
Speaker 2: and I'm grateful for the time, but as you said,
Speaker 2: time to find something else and move on. So if
Speaker 2: anyone has any part time work out there, I'm happy
Speaker 2: to join your team, providing it's not hard labor. So
Speaker 2: thanks for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to be doing any of that,
Speaker 3: any of that, No way.
Speaker 2: Ro no chance. Elle's Court deal. What a fond place
Speaker 2: that in my heart.
Speaker 3: Forever, what a suburb. L's Court is honestly just one
Speaker 3: of the highlights of the trip. Just that area itself beautiful.
Speaker 3: We saw a lot of different parts of London, but
Speaker 3: the court mate that's our favorite. That's a bit of us.
Speaker 2: I don't think I could never not stay in ELL's Court,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's that good. We just loved it
Speaker 3: so much. You know, we didn't really eat London, not
Speaker 3: particularly for us. I know that's where a lot of
Speaker 3: the youth and the creatives like to be, but you know,
Speaker 3: for us, we didn't mind a little bit of.
Speaker 2: Els caught shut our west side, that's us for life.
Speaker 3: We felt home when we were there, it just felt comfortable.
Speaker 2: It did and then didn't feel unsafe at all until
Speaker 2: we went.
Speaker 3: To East Mate. East was scary, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: That, very scary our day with the Fellas and Prottie.
Speaker 2: That was elite. Going going over to East it was scary.
Speaker 2: But once we were in the studio where they have
Speaker 2: what would you call it, it's like a content creation center.
Speaker 3: It's a shared yeah, shared creative space, but they have
Speaker 3: what eleven studios within that or eleven office spaces within it,
Speaker 3: And yeah, it was just honestly elite, bro.
Speaker 2: It was so impressive and just like all the staff there,
Speaker 2: like we've met a few of them before when they
Speaker 2: came over to Australia and lovely people, good times and
Speaker 2: I'm happy to have had that experience. Also, we should
Speaker 2: have a few clips from Who's Punching we did with
Speaker 2: Cow and Chip coming out soon as well, so keep
Speaker 2: your eye out for that. Hopefully they'll be able to
Speaker 2: get those across to us. We also met our editor
Speaker 2: Dan How good is that?
Speaker 3: Oh what a lad? He came down and helped us
Speaker 3: for the Jamie Hutchinson epp and again just what a guy, bro.
Speaker 3: He brought us snacks. He's wholesome, he's a nice guy.
Speaker 3: Then what a moment that was because we worked with
Speaker 3: him for so long and now we're finally getting to
Speaker 3: meet him face to face. It was just well, it's
Speaker 3: been over a couple of years that he's helped us out.
Speaker 2: You know, he's made some of the tiktoks for us,
Speaker 2: he's been helping with some of the longer form content.
Speaker 2: He edited the Joe sug episode for us. So, nah,
Speaker 2: he's a great bloke, wholesome. We love Dan and hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll have a long future with him.
Speaker 3: As well, mate, I hope. So I really do.
Speaker 2: Just one thing. I've been like retro football shirt hunting
Speaker 2: in each country that we've gone to. So that's been
Speaker 2: a good little like side thing that I've been doing.
Speaker 2: I haven't bought anything, but I've just been there to
Speaker 2: appreciate what's on offer. And I'll tell you what. There's
Speaker 2: been some stinkers, and there's been some awesome stores too,
Speaker 2: Like there was one in oh really yeah, yeah, there
Speaker 2: was one in Amsterdam that was really cool, forget the
Speaker 2: name of it. And then there was some vintage markets
Speaker 2: that we've been to in various places that have had
Speaker 2: like crazy selection of teams that you know, you might
Speaker 2: not have even seen a shirt of theirs before. So
Speaker 2: now that's been a cool thing we've been doing, and
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to doing that in Italy because they
Speaker 2: have a better collection.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I'm sure that'll be elite.
Speaker 2: Yeah here in Nice, it's a beautiful, beautiful place, but
Speaker 2: not really known for the retro football shirt scene, so
Speaker 2: I'll keep looking.
Speaker 3: I doubt they have a lot there.
Speaker 2: Now, although they have the OGC Nice team store or
Speaker 2: down here online for sure. That's pretty cool. They have
Speaker 2: some nice stuff, like one of the the only teams
Speaker 2: that do I guess like lifestyle regular where right, So
Speaker 2: they'll they'll make you like oversized tea and slap their
Speaker 2: logo on it, but make it look minimal. So now
Speaker 2: shout out to OGC Nice. But yeah, like we're in
Speaker 2: Nice at the moment, beautiful beautiful place. We had some
Speaker 2: interesting weather. We had a thunderstorm on one of the nights,
Speaker 2: but now really lose. Yeah, it's weird, like there's been
Speaker 2: a few storms that have just come through different cities
Speaker 2: and they're only there for a little bit. They do
Speaker 2: a lot of damage and then they just disappear, so
Speaker 2: and they go, yep. We had like fifty five meals
Speaker 2: in one night and then it was like sunny, sunny
Speaker 2: the next day. So yeah, So after London that was awesome.
Speaker 2: What else did we do? So we went to Ipswich.
Speaker 2: We did a sightseeing tour as well of the double
Speaker 2: deck of the last on the last day. That was fun.
Speaker 3: Saw the sites of London they were there, all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean the historical part of it was cool. Yes,
Speaker 2: Vondall Park is good. That's in Amsterdam.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's one of That's one of the better ones
Speaker 3: in the world. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Grace and I was staying near there. That
Speaker 2: was our second leg of the trip. Amsterdam. Our experience
Speaker 2: was great. We had three nights there. It was beautiful.
Speaker 2: Then you've got like the Red Light District, which was,
Speaker 2: you know, an eye opening. We did the same sex
Speaker 2: show that you guys did.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: That was interesting. Like you said, though, no passion, there's
Speaker 2: no passion. It was just all work. And then yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of unfaithful people in the crowd, who I've
Speaker 2: got a girl, I've got a boyfriend back home, and
Speaker 2: then they're on stage and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, because they involved the.
Speaker 2: Crowd they do, which is great. It's good to see.
Speaker 2: But you know you can know these things. Yeah you don't.
Speaker 3: You're not forced on stage.
Speaker 2: No, it's like the whole Chris Brown thing, like girls
Speaker 2: have been like mad, Yeah, exactly is and then up
Speaker 2: they go and they getting as close to sex as
Speaker 2: you can with clothes on. Exactly with clothes on. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So now our experience of Amsterdam was great. Would recommend it.
Speaker 2: And it looks like quite a livable, quite a livable.
Speaker 3: Place, yep, one hundred percent. That's what I found as well.
Speaker 3: Then we went one of these cities that you think, Yep,
Speaker 3: I could definitely spend some more time here for sure.
Speaker 2: Beautiful greenery, just nice people. Yeah, not many, not many
Speaker 2: bad things to say about Amsterdam. Then we went off
Speaker 2: to Paris. Now day one was a nightmare for us.
Speaker 3: We Yeah, Carlie was telling me about this because Grace
Speaker 3: was talking about, You've had some trouble on the first day.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So we got to Paris and our accommodations reviews
Speaker 2: were really good. Like you know me, you're the same
Speaker 2: you always look at the reviews and as bad as
Speaker 2: it sounds you're searching for negatives, like because you want
Speaker 2: to avoid as many negatives as possible, Like you're doing
Speaker 2: this traveling, you don't want to encounter these problems, and
Speaker 2: obviously on a big trip you're bound to statistically encounter
Speaker 2: a problem or two.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: We walked into this place and it just wasn't as
Speaker 2: we imagined. And then the receptionist spoke zero English, so
Speaker 2: that was real, Like I understand, like we're coming to
Speaker 2: their country, so you know, you don't expect everyone to
Speaker 2: speak English, like it's kind of selfish of us to
Speaker 2: just assume they will. But then it made communicating very,
Speaker 2: very difficult. We translated out and we're just trying to
Speaker 2: get things across, and it wasn't working. So we went
Speaker 2: up to our room and while we were checking in,
Speaker 2: there was someone screaming, crying. It was like an exorcism
Speaker 2: or that they were being tacked, like it was really
Speaker 2: really disturbing, and it happened for about sixty minutes on end, NonStop. Okay,
Speaker 2: we went We're in our room, which is like five
Speaker 2: levels up from the reception and we can still hear
Speaker 2: it just as much. Then next door.
Speaker 3: Was that tell lobby nice, like or when as soon
Speaker 3: as you walked in, did you think, oh, oh, here
Speaker 3: we go.
Speaker 2: It was a stinker. It was a stinker.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, so straight away when you're walking in, you're thinking,
Speaker 3: here we fucking go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not great. And then it seemed like she was
Speaker 2: the only person there. It was weird. It was just
Speaker 2: strange vibes. We're in the room, Grace is like, nah,
Speaker 2: I can't do it, and I'm like, yeah, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2: I looked outside. We didn't have a view. It was
Speaker 2: like ruins of walls. There was mold all over walls.
Speaker 2: There was just like a weird slab of astro turf
Speaker 2: just on like this outer It was weird. Anyway, we
Speaker 2: had to try and find a solution to the problem.
Speaker 2: So we had a look on booking dot com and
Speaker 2: we found a place that looked really, really nice. But then,
Speaker 2: as you would know from the Airbnb stuff we went
Speaker 2: through in London, you have to like dispute things and
Speaker 2: you have to talk.
Speaker 3: To the money ain't coming back straight away.
Speaker 2: This process took a very very long time. And what
Speaker 2: was happening was they have a clause in the contract
Speaker 2: when you sign saying if you are to cancel your reservation,
Speaker 2: you have to pay what you paid on top of
Speaker 2: the reservation. So we paid to me, we paid like
Speaker 2: seven hundred bucks or whatever, and then they were saying,
Speaker 2: all right, well you lose that seven hundred and because
Speaker 2: of what you've put the hotel through, you have to
Speaker 2: pay another seven hundred. Doesn't make sense because if we're
Speaker 2: not staying there, they've got a free room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Bro. We walked down to the lobby and we tried
Speaker 2: to check out, and we said, look, we're going to
Speaker 2: a different hotel. This wasn't what we thought. Thank you
Speaker 2: au revoir right then yep. She basically was like in shock.
Speaker 2: She was like wait, why what were and obviously no English,
Speaker 2: So then I write it down on Translate and I'm
Speaker 2: basically saying, Okay, it wasn't what we expected. This was
Speaker 2: a problem. This was a problem. We're going to leave, like,
Speaker 2: we don't feel safe here. That was a big thing. Ye,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of banging happening, a lot of screaming.
Speaker 2: The safety was an issue. So we found this other place.
Speaker 2: We're standing out the front waiting for an uber, and
Speaker 2: the lady walked outside and started walking towards us and
Speaker 2: we're like, oh no, and it was a little bit
Speaker 2: horror movie. And then she just she was on the
Speaker 2: phone to someone obviously frustrated about the cancelation, confused probably,
Speaker 2: and then she walked back inside. We went off to
Speaker 2: the other place, checked in and this was like the
Speaker 2: perfect place we could have asked for in Paris. So
Speaker 2: it kind of worked out really well. We have lost
Speaker 2: a lot of money through the process. Booking dot Com
Speaker 2: didn't get our money back for the first place, which
Speaker 2: was the problem place. So no matter how hard, like
Speaker 2: I've sent message after message and then so did.
Speaker 3: They still so they made you pay that they made
Speaker 3: you pay on top of it.
Speaker 2: Nah, So we escaped that. We basically, if you canceled
Speaker 2: the reservation, then then you lose that money. But we
Speaker 2: chose to just keep the reservation and then just not
Speaker 2: stay there because then we're not only we won't have
Speaker 2: to pay that money. So technically we had two places
Speaker 2: booked at the same time. Booking were a bit confused
Speaker 2: about that, but is what it is. Move on. We
Speaker 2: got the place and yeah, we loved it. It was
Speaker 2: it was in like the most richest part of Paris,
Speaker 2: and you know, like from staying in L's Court. It's
Speaker 2: just like it's bliss because you know, you say, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you've got cool like spots, shops and stuff around.
Speaker 2: So our Paris experience was really good. We saw beautiful things.
Speaker 2: Really enjoyed our time there. And like you said, you
Speaker 2: enjoyed Paris too, and a lot of people hate it.
Speaker 2: I like it, bro Yeah. The only thing is that
Speaker 2: there was a lot of like there's a lot of
Speaker 2: perverted men in Europe, so like Grace Sny just walking around,
Speaker 2: they just stare and stare and stare sometimes like they
Speaker 2: do they don't really care. Nah, it's disgusting and sometimes
Speaker 2: like I'll stare back at them just to see if
Speaker 2: they're like gaming, and some of them put their head down,
Speaker 2: cower in the corner, some of them keep staring. That's
Speaker 2: one thing. There's just a lot of perverted men who
Speaker 2: don't give a fuck about like how they're perceived or
Speaker 2: anything like that. So but Paris was beautiful. It was
Speaker 2: funny when we went to the Eiffel Tower. We went
Speaker 2: there at night obviously when it hits every hour, the
Speaker 2: lights go on stuff. So we found our little spot
Speaker 2: and then I saw a rat like a big rat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's a few around that area because it's
Speaker 3: right near the river.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I basically I just instinctly just said, oh,
Speaker 2: there's a rat. Grace didn't like that because she really
Speaker 2: doesn't like them. And then we just kept seeing them.
Speaker 2: There's like little bushes and they hide in the bushes.
Speaker 2: Then they just run across one to the next bush,
Speaker 2: and we're trying to find a good spot and we're
Speaker 2: kind of like scrambling because we wanted like a good
Speaker 2: photo spot and everything. And then, yeah, it just was
Speaker 2: a big issue because there was rats everywhere. Grace didn't
Speaker 2: know that there was any rats in Paris at all,
Speaker 2: but there is, there is and no so our experience
Speaker 2: of the Eiffel Tower was a little bit sour just
Speaker 2: because of filthy rats and like, yeah, yeah, it's near
Speaker 2: the river. And then you've got like this kind of
Speaker 2: park where people sit and look up and take photos
Speaker 2: and everyone's eating food and they just leave it on
Speaker 2: the floor or like the bins are overflowing and they had.
Speaker 3: No That is one thing I've noticed in Europe. I
Speaker 3: completely agree, like people aren't on that recycling even like
Speaker 3: not even recycle, like we are. They're not even on
Speaker 3: that bin grind like we are in Australia.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 3: People don't give a fucking Europe.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then even in some of the nicest spots though,
Speaker 2: you put your rubbish in like a rubbish bag and
Speaker 2: then you just throw it out the front and half
Speaker 2: the time it's all like overflown and stuff. And anyway,
Speaker 2: so Paris Day one was horrible. The rest of it
Speaker 2: was great. And then we also went to the Paralympics,
Speaker 2: so we missed the Olympics. We were too late for that,
Speaker 2: but the Paralympics were on, and to be honest, it
Speaker 2: surprised me. We went and watched the wheelchair basketball Australia
Speaker 2: versus Netherlands, and I didn't know what type of crowd
Speaker 2: to expect. I didn't know what the numbers would be.
Speaker 2: This place it was called Bercy Arena, and I think
Speaker 2: it's like capacity fifteen thousand or sixteen thousand, and they
Speaker 2: packed the place out. There was chance, there was Mexican Wave.
Speaker 2: There was so much going on, and the atmosphere was
Speaker 2: like electric, like one of the most fun atmospheres you'll
Speaker 2: be around. So that was cool. And then just before
Speaker 2: we left Paris. We went to montmart Is that how
Speaker 2: we say it, beautiful.
Speaker 3: Spot, that's a great spot. Yeah, that's where we stayed
Speaker 3: this time in the elite.
Speaker 2: Area and just beautiful scenery. You can see all of Paris.
Speaker 3: It's just that was a great view.
Speaker 2: And then off to Barcelona we went. So that was
Speaker 2: great fun the city when one thing that we do
Speaker 2: regret was that we stayed to city, if that makes sense,
Speaker 2: so like not enough Spanish, more city. So we were
Speaker 2: in like okay, I guess like the grace explained it
Speaker 2: as we could have been anywhere in the world because
Speaker 2: we looked that aside and it wasn't as Barcelonay as
Speaker 2: we would have hoped.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then as we went out, so like we did a
Speaker 2: day trip which I'll get on to in a minute,
Speaker 2: and we also saw some sights. Just some great things
Speaker 2: happened day. So we spent one night in Barcelona. Then
Speaker 2: the next day we went and did the Barcelona stuff,
Speaker 2: so Barcelona FC stuff. So I went and did the
Speaker 2: immersive tour by myself and that was pretty cool. Would
Speaker 2: I recommend it to people? I think if you're a
Speaker 2: really big soccer fan or if you're a really big
Speaker 2: barsa or a messy fan, go and do it. But
Speaker 2: if you just are looking for something to do, pretty
Speaker 2: expensive to do, like all of the things there and
Speaker 2: I don't know, I enjoyed it. I'd probably give it
Speaker 2: like a seven out of ten. There are some cool
Speaker 2: things they have. I think it's more driven towards the
Speaker 2: real fanatics of the club itself, fanatics of messy or
Speaker 2: young kids, so you can get like if if you
Speaker 2: were like a dad who loved Barcelona and took your kid,
Speaker 2: it would be a great experience because you'd both Yeah,
Speaker 2: so did that quickly, got back to the hotel, change
Speaker 2: my clothes, and then we went out and watched Barcelona play.
Speaker 2: They won seven nil against like Smash or something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: smash them, so that was good. The stadium. I got
Speaker 2: to see the their old stadium, which is obviously being redeveloped,
Speaker 2: and that is just ruins at the moment because it's
Speaker 2: going to take a while to get that up to speed.
Speaker 2: But we saw the Barcelona Olympic Stadium and that was
Speaker 2: pretty cool. The only thing was that it was really
Speaker 2: really really hot and we were sitting in like direct
Speaker 2: sunlight and it was just we're just boiling away and
Speaker 2: you can't even like focus properly on the game because
Speaker 2: you're just sitting there melting. Atmosphere there was pretty good.
Speaker 2: I feel like the atmosphere in a closed stadium is
Speaker 2: normally better.
Speaker 3: Because yes, that's a bit of an older one, isn't
Speaker 3: it older one?
Speaker 2: And it's like open air, so like it was still
Speaker 2: cool though, Like it was pretty busy and lots of
Speaker 2: goals scored, so I guess we got our money's worth.
Speaker 2: And then yep, yeah, Barcelona architecture was crazy. We went
Speaker 2: to this place called Partner well yeah I did.
Speaker 3: We did a tour there, yeah.
Speaker 2: And just like walking around there is cool, like amazing
Speaker 2: views of the city, and I guess that's when we
Speaker 2: felt like, oh this is this is proper Barcelona because
Speaker 2: you can see just yeah, the whole scenery, the beach area, Barcelonetta.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, that's a beautiful spot.
Speaker 2: I love how like we will just walking along the
Speaker 2: foreshore and then you've got like a gazillion paddle courts
Speaker 2: and that I just thinking like us with the boys
Speaker 2: paddle and then that would have been cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they love it in Europe. Paddle It's massive. They
Speaker 3: got stores and ship it's taken over.
Speaker 2: I want to go and play, but like you kind
Speaker 2: of need four people. Yeah, I know, you mean because
Speaker 2: it's doubles. And then oh yeah, for got to mention.
Speaker 2: I whacked a few past testagan they have like robokeeper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2: It was weird though, because I was in line there's
Speaker 2: maybe ten people before me, and it just came with
Speaker 2: the ticket that I bought, so I was thinking, well,
Speaker 2: let's do it. Why not had a little bit of
Speaker 2: time and then no one was scoring before me, and
Speaker 2: I was thinking, gee, this thing's like saving everything. But
Speaker 2: then I was just kicking harder than the people before me,
Speaker 2: and it just takes too long to react. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the loophole. If you go there, just kick it
Speaker 2: hard and pick a corner and then you'll score. And
Speaker 2: then I just got a bit too cheeky towards the end,
Speaker 2: trying to do like skill shops and are Yeah anyway,
Speaker 2: so tossa demark Grace and I went on a day
Speaker 2: trip to this beautiful town up the coast. I think
Speaker 2: it was like an hour and a half, just under
Speaker 2: two hours a bus ride up there, Beautiful scenery on
Speaker 2: the drive up and then you get there and then
Speaker 2: the ten one's beautiful. I think there's only five and
Speaker 2: a half thousand people that live there, like beachcha yeah,
Speaker 2: and then it's only got like one or two or
Speaker 2: three main beaches and then you kind of move onto
Speaker 2: the next town. But it was great for a day trip.
Speaker 2: I'd recommend it to anyone going to Basa. And then
Speaker 2: we were enjoying our day, had some time on the beach,
Speaker 2: went to a couple of restaurants. Then we went to
Speaker 2: have a drink. Right now, there's a castle up on
Speaker 2: the hill and I guess that's like the main focal
Speaker 2: point of the place is this castle. And then there's
Speaker 2: a massive hill and you can walk around. It looks beautiful.
Speaker 2: Go up there, looks great. Took all of our photos,
Speaker 2: you'll see them on Instagram soon. And then we go
Speaker 2: down and have a drink and we just see these
Speaker 2: police cars, ambulances, fire trucks, just all of them start
Speaker 2: going up the mountain. We're thinking, hell, yeah, we were
Speaker 2: just up there. We're just like, you know, starting to
Speaker 2: enjoy our food. It's about what time was it maybe
Speaker 2: like a four point thirty or something, and we were
Speaker 2: on the mountain at four o'clock and an incident happened
Speaker 2: at four point fifteen. So we're eating our food, having
Speaker 2: a drink, and then all the things go past and
Speaker 2: we know something bad's happened. Maybe another twenty minute passes.
Speaker 2: Police start like clearing people off the beach, and I think, oh, no,
Speaker 2: someone's drowned or something. But then we saw the cars
Speaker 2: were going up the hill, and cars aren't It doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like they're supposed to be going up this hill.
Speaker 2: It's not very car friendly. And they start to like
Speaker 2: section off parts of the of the viewing towers and stuff.
Speaker 2: And then I started thinking the worst, and I was
Speaker 2: saying it to Grace. I was like, someone might have
Speaker 2: fallen She's like, no, no, no, I don't think that, like,
Speaker 2: don't think negative, and all the you know, I'm thinking logically,
Speaker 2: I think you think someone's actually fallen off. And then
Speaker 2: a helicopter comes over, and that's when I think, all right, well,
Speaker 2: that's not for leisure, that's for that's a rescue helicopter
Speaker 2: to try and help someone. And then I'll just cut
Speaker 2: the story.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Basically, a fifty one year old Mexican woman rest in peace.
Speaker 2: She fell off the mountain onto rocks, I get a photo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2: Allegedly, like the articles have said that she removed a
Speaker 2: barrier up near the castle, tried to take a photo, slipped, fell,
Speaker 2: and unfortunately passed away. So that was not a great
Speaker 2: end to our day. As I told you, I had
Speaker 2: a pretty much a ten out of ten day at
Speaker 2: Tossa DeMar and then it was kind of soured at
Speaker 2: the end because of that moment, which was unfortunate. And
Speaker 2: it was also really eerie on the drive home to
Speaker 2: think about the fact that we were up there only
Speaker 2: moments before it happened. So that was pretty scary. And
Speaker 2: I think this thing happens, you know, quite regularly up
Speaker 2: that mountain because they had a lot of safety barriers
Speaker 2: and whatnot. But it was pretty It was pretty dangerous
Speaker 2: up there if you weren't being I guess serious enough.
Speaker 2: But yeah, beautiful place. Would still recommend it. I don't
Speaker 2: want that to stop anyone from going, because if you're
Speaker 2: I guess not silly enough, you won't be.
Speaker 3: Removing eactly, you won't be in that situation exactly.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I've really been enjoying the trip, so far,
Speaker 2: we're off to well, we've got yeah, Monaco today, then
Speaker 2: we'd leave tomorrow. We're getting a bus to Italy.
Speaker 3: We're doing Lovely, Lovely.
Speaker 2: Doing Milan Rome. Then we go to a Greek island
Speaker 2: and we're back to England. For the last two days.
Speaker 2: I get to watch my beloved, say, Southampton play finally
Speaker 2: got that way.
Speaker 3: That'll be a great That'll be a great experience, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure, definitely, so very excited for that. And then, like
Speaker 2: I said, need to find a job when I get home,
Speaker 2: so I actually need to finish my resume. I've been
Speaker 2: putting that off the last few days. I haven't had
Speaker 2: much time to be honest, because we've been running around.
Speaker 2: It's busy doing heaps of things. But yeah, footy finals
Speaker 2: are on. I haven't been missing it because I've been
Speaker 2: able to watch a bit here and there. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I do miss the feeling in like back home around finals.
Speaker 2: I know, Yeah, it really is something different a so
Speaker 2: it'll be good to get back. Like you said, the
Speaker 2: jet lag hit your hard when you got home, and
Speaker 2: it probably will to me too. But I come back
Speaker 2: on Grand Final week, so at least that will be
Speaker 2: like the pick me up so that'll be good. But yeah,
Speaker 2: what do you have to deal? What have you been
Speaker 2: up to since you got back home? Obviously back in
Speaker 2: the work getting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, getting in the swing of things back at work,
Speaker 3: which was it was actually all right. A few new
Speaker 3: blokes have started. Yeah, the lad's so a bit similar
Speaker 3: to my age. So some good banter. And you know,
Speaker 3: guy from from India moved here a year ago in
Speaker 3: his thirties, love and life. Off to Frio for the
Speaker 3: first time this weekend year. So I gave him some recommendations.
Speaker 3: What is he going on or just like a day
Speaker 3: trip now I think just with his just with his wife. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a little check the town out, so, you know, good
Speaker 3: to her. Good to give him some recommendations. He likes Perth,
Speaker 3: but he agrees that it's he says, you know, in
Speaker 3: Mumbai you can go out at three am, go out anytime.
Speaker 3: In Perth not not the same.
Speaker 2: But he should be staying home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he shouldn't be out at three am anymore. But no,
Speaker 3: it's like I said, bro, it's been good. Carl's dad's
Speaker 3: birthday last night, Happy sixtieth Paul. We went to dinner
Speaker 3: which was good, and then Maum's birthday tomorrow, So happy birthday,
Speaker 3: mum sixty four, sixty four years young. So yeah, good
Speaker 3: weekend ahead, beautiful stuff, jam packed.
Speaker 2: I love it when you have a jam packed weekend,
Speaker 2: like it's not very often you get one, but when
Speaker 2: you do, I agree, you feel like you're doing life properly.
Speaker 3: Exactly, bro, exactly.
Speaker 2: So yeah, guys, we'll leave it there. We've got to
Speaker 2: catch our train shortly, so very excited for the rest
Speaker 2: of the day. And also, mate, keep your eyes out
Speaker 2: for the next couple of episodes. Obviously, we have two
Speaker 2: more from the UK tour to release and then some
Speaker 2: Good Way to be reunited. In a few weeks, we'll
Speaker 2: be back home and we'll be we will mate, ready
Speaker 2: and raring to go. So yeah, much love to you all.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the time, Dylan, and we'll see you guys. Well,
Speaker 2: would probably be Jamie Hutchinson episode next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe Jamie. We'll see you guys soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that episode's a funny one, so so enjoy
Speaker 2: that much love and we'll see you guys next time. Cheers.
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