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Hi everybody. Welcome to a new episode

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of Easy English. So, after a long time

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away, we're finally back in the UK. So,

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I thought I'd quickly nip into Brighton

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and ask a simple question to the people

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wandering around. What are you up to

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let's head into Brighton. Here we go.

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Um, what are you two up to today in

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Brighton?

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Uh we're just shopping mostly. Yeah.

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Yeah. Just heading around. Um we're

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trying to find a thrift shop at the

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moment. What are you two up to today in

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Brighton? We are just on our lunch

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break. We're going to get some sushi

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actually. Can you tell me what you're up

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to today in Brighton? Um we are just

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wasting a day basically waiting for a

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ferry. What are you up to in Brighton

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today? Just wandering aimlessly around

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the lanes today. So, we're here for the

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beach. Obviously, I think everyone kind

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of comes to Brighton for the beach. Um,

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but we're on route now to an Italian

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restaurant and we're here for a concert.

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So, we've stayed effectively for the

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weekend and we're going to enjoy a nice

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pop concert um in Chalk just down the

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road. So, it's not far from here, but

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generally enjoying the sun. Where we

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live is very poor weather at the minute.

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So, we've come for a bit of an escape, I

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think, is probably how to round it up.

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Okay. A getaway. What are you up to in

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Brighton today? So, we've come to

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Brighton today to visit with my niece

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and my sister who are over from France.

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We're going down the lanes doing some

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shopping. Now, we're heading off to the

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beach. Just had something to eat.

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Probably get a snack on the on the way

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back and then we'll drive back to Kent,

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which is where I live. So, I'm with my

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boyfriend at the moment who is just out

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of frame cuz he didn't want to be in the

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interview. And heckling from the side.

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Yeah. Um, we just went to the Hello

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Kitty Cafe. Um, we had some food and now

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I think we're going to we're pottery

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painting. Um, and then after that, yeah,

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I'm not sure. Can you explain what a

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thrift shop is? Um, it's like a a shop

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with secondhand items, mostly clothing.

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Yeah, there's a vegan sushi restaurant

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there, so that's why we're going. Okay.

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And do you go there often? Yeah, it's my

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when I want a nice lunch, that's my

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trade.

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And today feels like one of those days

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to get a treat. Yeah. And what's your

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order? Um I get they do sushi burritos.

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So it's like a burrito with sushi, but

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it's all vegan. So I normally get they

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have a wrap which is like sesame

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chicken, but it's not real chicken. Um

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yeah, that's what I'm going to order

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probably. I actually haven't decided

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yet, so maybe I'll just figure it out

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once I get there. Okay. Oh, there's one

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behind us. Happy Mackie. That's where

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we're going. Go on. Oh, really? Yeah.

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We're getting a 9:00 ferry over to

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Santandere and we had a day to kind of

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kill. So, we thought we'd come to

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Brighton and do a bit of shopping,

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looking around,

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browsing for old books. Oh, wow. You

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come to the best place to look for old

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stuff. I know. I know. I bought some

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fabulous fabric as well. And I've seen

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there's two shops I need to go back and

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and have a look at fabrics cuz I sew.

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So, I love sewing. Okay, great. And um

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what are the lanes?

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Yeah, just bunch of colorful shops that

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fairly famous in Brighton. I think most

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of it's vintage, but also I think people

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just walk around to be near them, not

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even to actually shop. It's just to be

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in the environment of Brighton Agnes.

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Yeah. Bit to unpack there. So, um, first

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of all, whereabouts are you coming from?

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So, we live in Wales. We're coming from

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uh Cardiff. So, it's the capital of of

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Wales. Okay. And do you have a Welsh

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accent? I do. I think I do. I think we

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have slightly different versions of a

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Welsh accent. You're not from the south

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from No, I'm I'm from Liverpool in the

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northwest of England, but I live in Kent

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now. I've been out I left Liverpool when

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I was about 18 years old. And how does

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the south compare to up north? It's

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warmer.

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It's definitely warmer. More sunshine.

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It's more expensive. Definitely more

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expensive. And next you're off to

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pottery class. Yes, we're pottery

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painting. Pottery painting day. And this

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is like a hobby you have or like a

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one-off? No, we just kind of like I

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don't know. Usually our schedules like

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don't align super well, but today we

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were like, "Oh, we have like the whole

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day just do a bunch of like fun stuff."

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Yeah. Especially cuz it's a Monday. It's

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not like super busy in town at the

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Hello Kitty and pottery painting. Before

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or click the link up here. I thought

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like here in Brighton cuz people like

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dress a bit differently and so cuz I do

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and I just thought maybe I find some

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stuff. Yeah. Instead of like buying it

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somewhere. Yeah. What do you two do for

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work? We I both work in marketing.

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Marketing in the same company at William

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Reed. Yeah. You happy with your job?

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Like your job? Yeah. Yeah. We um Yeah,

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we run events. So, we do marketing for

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events. Have you been to Brighton

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before? Oh gosh. Once in my 20ies, but

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um both my daughters are um here with

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me. They're um coffee shopping, but they

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love it here. So, they've been um I

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think um thrift shopping.

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I see. students

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and um whereabouts do you live then? On

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the aisle of white. Oh wow. Okay. Yeah.

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Yeah. Wow. So you've come from the aisle

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of white to Brighton. And so we had to

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get a really early ferry this morning

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because of the aisle of white festival.

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We couldn't get booked on any decent

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travel time. So we had to get a 6:30

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bose and then we had a day to kill till

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our 9:00 ferry. Do you live in Brighton?

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No, I live South London. Okay. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. And how long you down for?

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What's that? Sorry. How long are you

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down in Brighton for? just a weekend,

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three days, but my girlfriend went to

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uni here, so she's kind of I come here a

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couple times, but she showed me showed

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me around. Yeah. Nice. Uh, and how often

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have you been to Brighton before? I've

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never w Okay, nice. And how are you

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thinking? How you making of it? Yeah,

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loving it. I My favorite bird is a

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seagull, so there's a lot of that

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around, so I'm quite happy. Um, but

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other than that, it's very It's very

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welcoming, I think. There's a lot of

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It's quite diverse, isn't it? is quite

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rich with all the different kinds of

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people and what people are doing. So, I

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think there's plenty to see here if

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you're thinking of coming around. And

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have you been to Brighton before? Yes,

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because my daughter was at university in

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Brighton for a few years, so I was down

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here quite a lot. And how do you like

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it? I love Brighton. Yeah, I love the

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place. And are you from Brighton? Uh,

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I'm from Canterbury in Kent originally,

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but I've lived in Brighton for like 4

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years now, I want to say. Yeah. Yeah. I

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moved here for uni and I actually got my

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my uni results today. Passed. Got my

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degree. Got a 21. Very happy with that.

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But yeah, I'm I'm just going to try and

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live here as long as I can cuz I like

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it. I really You'd like to stay. Yeah, I

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love Brighton. It's really really nice.

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Where you going for food in a minute?

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Uh, Ask Italian. Ask Italian. Yeah,

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we've got a voucher. So, we want the

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money off. It's okay. Ask Italian is

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pretty good anyway. Even if you don't

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have a voucher, I think. And uh out of

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interest, what are you watching? You're

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you going to a concert tomorrow? We're

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going to watch an artist called Peach

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PRC. I think she's quite relatively

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niche in the sense of of music and she

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just makes fun music. Quite, you know,

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queer based music. So, we're going to

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have a good time. And you get a nice

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long lunch break. We get an hour. Get an

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hour. So, we lally just like away. It's

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like grab and go situation. I won't keep

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any longer than you. Thank you. Thank

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you. And uh would you do something like

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window shopping? I think that's mostly

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what I do to be honest. Even when I'm

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inside the shop, I'm I barely like park

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the clothes. I just look at the corner

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of them and then it's pretty much window

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shopping the whole way. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Mostly like browsing, right? And

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um what is that something you'd like to

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do quite often then? I do it quite often

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to be fair. I'd say I'd say that's if

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I'm going shopping, it's mostly window

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shopping or I've chosen a specific thing

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I'm looking for and if I don't see a

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smidge of what that thing is, then it's

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just onto the next part. So, you have a

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9:00 p.m. ferry from where though? Not

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from Brighton. From Portouth. Oh, so

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you're going back to back to Portsmouth.

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So, it's a little bit random, but I

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didn't want to go to Southampton or

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Portsmouth. I wanted to go further a

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field and Winchester, we know like the

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back of our hands. So, thought right

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turn. Wow. And then so I'm guessing

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you're getting like a overnight sleeper

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ferry thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get walk

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our legs off today and and basically put

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them up tomorrow on the ferry. Oh my

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god. You're going to be knackered. Yeah,

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I think so. And how long is the ferry?

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About 30 hours. Oh, okay. So, over a

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couple of days. Amazing. Yeah. So, we

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landed in Spain on Wednesday morning.

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Wow. Well, have a great time. Thank you.

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And how does Brighton compare to your

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home to Cardiff? Nothing beats where

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we're from, I don't think. I think I'll

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always have um a connection to that

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place, but it's always good to see

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different things. Um this is our first

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first step of traveling really. We're

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going to go broader obviously later on.

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We're actually planning to go on a trip

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to Japan in a few years for our shed big

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birthdays. So, you know, it's all in the

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works, but we're easing into it at the

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moment. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Great. I hope

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you have a good time in Thank you.

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Thanks for watching this week's episode.

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Let us know in the comments below what

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you thought about the people I met today

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next time. Tra.

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