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Broke Chicks Guide To Europe · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gaddigal Land Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land. Hey Ticks, I'm Al and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sal and this is.
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  Speaker 2: Two broake chicks to show that shares the life lessons
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  Speaker 2: and kids to be rich. We're here to share our
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  Speaker 2: Broke Chicks Guide to euro long awaited. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: our dams have been flooded with you chicks asking all
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  Speaker 2: of your questions about our Europe trip and begging for
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  Speaker 2: this episode, and we're so happy to finally give it
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  Speaker 2: to you. M Mmm, the highs and the lows and
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  Speaker 2: the high school football and Europe, the saves, the splurges
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  Speaker 2: and the things that TikTok lied to us about. Yeah, definitely,
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  Speaker 2: And we asked you chicks also to send in your
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  Speaker 2: questions so as well as the ones that you've been
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  Speaker 2: sliding into our dms with, we're also going to be
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  Speaker 2: covering a lot of the questions and topics that you
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  Speaker 2: chicks requested for our Europe episode. But before we start
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  Speaker 2: every episode, we talk about what we're obsessed with, so sour,
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  Speaker 2: cue the music.
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  Speaker 1: These are my obsessions.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting so good at that, I know we sound great.
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  Speaker 2: My obsession this week is actually something that we were
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  Speaker 2: obsessed with when we were in Europe, the show My
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  Speaker 2: Lady Jane, which is the best show I have watched
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  Speaker 2: in so so long. It's like a feminist, revisionist interpretation
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  Speaker 2: of Lady Jane of like the Tutors period. And if
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  Speaker 2: you like Bridgiton or the Tutors, you.
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  Speaker 1: Will love this show. You're a book top earlyer, this
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  Speaker 1: show is for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's enemies to lovers, sword fighting in all.
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  Speaker 2: Essences of the word, and it is just so camp.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so funny. It's so funny.
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  Speaker 2: And also the sound is like exclusively female covers of
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  Speaker 2: classic rock songs.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so so good.
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  Speaker 2: I am really sad to say that this was the
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  Speaker 2: first season, and I believe it's gonna be the last
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  Speaker 2: season because it has been canceled. It hasn't been renewed
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  Speaker 2: for a second season, which we're so upset about. And
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  Speaker 2: I usually wouldn't recommend a show that's like that because
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  Speaker 2: it's just like edging you.
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  Speaker 1: But this show is so so good. It's on Prime,
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  Speaker 1: Please go watch it. What's your obsession?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna go on the same same tangent as you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, and I've recently started watching for the first
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  Speaker 3: time ever, Crimy Minds.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Criminal Minds. I love this show.
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  Speaker 2: It's exclusively cooled in our house. Quimmy Minds, Oh, Quemy, Matt.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I do appreciate TV shows as they come
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  Speaker 3: out now, especially original ones, but I do really miss
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  Speaker 3: the twenty one episode seasons and forty minute episodes like
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  Speaker 3: Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, Cremy Minds, and so I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people have already watched Criminal Minds, but.
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  Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with it. And yeah, every night me and
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  Speaker 1: Crimy Minds. Okay, shall we get into the a. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we're on a plane. We've got excitement in the air.
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  Speaker 2: The fake Jane's fresh, the face mask is on, the
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  Speaker 2: nails have freshly been done that morning, because I left
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  Speaker 2: it to you last minute, and I walked in at
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  Speaker 2: nine thirty.
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  Speaker 1: I said, can you do this? In thirty minutes? I
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  Speaker 1: got a plan to catch were.
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  Speaker 2: Our way our first trip to Europe.
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  Speaker 1: I know we said this.
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  Speaker 2: We genuinely never thought that we would go to Europe
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  Speaker 2: in our life, and the fact.
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  Speaker 1: That we did.
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  Speaker 2: I cried at the airport because I was like, who's
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  Speaker 2: calling me?
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  Speaker 1: It was I don't know what.
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  Speaker 3: It is, but I never think the holiday is happening
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  Speaker 3: until literally I'm on the plane.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't like, it doesn't matter how much I plan
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  Speaker 2: or book or pain in advance, it doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: it's actually happening until I'm on the plane and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, I feel the same way. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's maybe as well because like, I didn't travel at
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  Speaker 2: all until I was twenty one, and still very fortunate
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  Speaker 2: to have even done that, but I feel like it
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  Speaker 2: just still always feels so surreal. It was amazing. So
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  Speaker 2: we started in Italia.
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  Speaker 3: And we went to Rome and then we went to
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  Speaker 3: sestri Levante.
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  Speaker 1: We loved Italy. Italy was probably my favorite place that
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  Speaker 1: we went, and Rome was just the most beautiful place ever.
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  Speaker 3: And then sestri Levante is like north in Italy and
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  Speaker 3: it is just a little bit above the Chincoteta and
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  Speaker 3: it was really quiet. It was I felt like we
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  Speaker 3: truly got the Italy experience. And we also went with
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  Speaker 3: our friend Mattie McCrae that my partner. It was like
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  Speaker 3: the four of us and it was just the best.
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  Speaker 3: It was a dram and then Maddie and Rob.
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  Speaker 1: Headed home and it was a sell and Alex stravagant
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  Speaker 1: and so where.
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  Speaker 2: We went to Grease Baby, and we started off in Athens.
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  Speaker 2: We were only there for two nights. We did the
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  Speaker 2: acropolis there amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It was hot.
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  Speaker 2: In our experience, I would say that like one to
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  Speaker 2: two days in Athens is more than enough, especially in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of summer.
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  Speaker 1: It was very, very hot.
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  Speaker 2: And then we went to Eos, and then we went
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  Speaker 2: to Paros, and then we did plan to have two
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  Speaker 2: nights in Mikonos, I think, and then we love Paros
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  Speaker 2: so much we were like, let's see if we can
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  Speaker 2: change this without having to pay any fees. And we
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  Speaker 2: were able to change our accommodation and stuff and not
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  Speaker 2: pay any cancelation fees, and we decided to extend our
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  Speaker 2: stay in Paris.
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  Speaker 1: It ended up working out. Yeah, it was amazing. And
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  Speaker 1: then from Greece we went to London, London Baby.
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  Speaker 2: We spent about a week there and we did a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of work, a little bit of play, recorded
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  Speaker 2: a few episodes of the pod, run into Gem Diamond,
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  Speaker 2: friend of the show, Friend of the show, and.
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  Speaker 1: Our producer Rush was also there. That is fun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was so so fabulous.
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  Speaker 2: I love just like exploring with your friends in a
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  Speaker 2: different city.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, Ariana, what are you doing here? That was
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  Speaker 1: like truly what our entire euro trip felt like.
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  Speaker 2: It was like we had friends in every city of
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  Speaker 2: like other people bar crawl that you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: go on like a full holiday with your friends. You
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  Speaker 2: can have different itineraries, but if you can line stuff up,
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  Speaker 2: even if it's like a little bit of effort, it's
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  Speaker 2: just so good because you've got like so many things
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  Speaker 2: to be excited for that it's not just about the place,
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  Speaker 2: but it's about the people that you spend it with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was so than to be I love it
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  Speaker 1: and I stand by it. So that took us about
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  Speaker 1: four weeks. Yeah, so we're in Europe for around four
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  Speaker 1: weeks total.
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  Speaker 2: A little over a week in Italy, a little over
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  Speaker 2: a week in Greece, ten days in Greece, Yeah, ten
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  Speaker 2: days in Greece, and then about a week in London,
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  Speaker 2: and then four days in Paris.
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  Speaker 3: By the time we got to Paris, we were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was very we were very torn.
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  Speaker 1: We were still crying in the Yeah, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I was sobby. Oh I was sure it was a
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  Speaker 1: good time. Yeah, very fine. But shall we get into
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  Speaker 1: our highlights and low lights? Okay, we're gonna Should.
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  Speaker 2: We start with the low lights and then end on
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  Speaker 2: end on a high Okay?
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  Speaker 1: My first low light of Europe the teavs. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 3: While we were in Europe, I posted a video ontok
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  Speaker 3: and I was asking if I had been scammed because
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  Speaker 3: when I tell you, these teavas took a bandada against
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  Speaker 3: my big toes.
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  Speaker 1: The blisters were insane. They were like full on wounds.
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  Speaker 2: They would yes, I could not wear any other shoes,
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  Speaker 2: accept full enclosed shoes like sneakers or cowboy boots. So
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  Speaker 2: I am at the beach in like sneakers and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, guys, look, And the thing is we ended
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  Speaker 2: up getting teebers because everyone was like, these are the
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  Speaker 2: comfyer's shoes.
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  Speaker 1: And that was like a consensus.
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  Speaker 3: That was everything we saw on TikTok and also in
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  Speaker 3: our Facebook group bro Chicks Club, until one chick came
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  Speaker 3: through in the comments and she said, you wear them
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  Speaker 3: as loose as possible, wear them loose, and then wear
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  Speaker 3: them looser.
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  Speaker 1: Our wounds heeled ya, and then they wear the comfy
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  Speaker 1: of shoes. Yeah, Lucy Goosey was the way to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like, would I recommend them? Yes, with
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  Speaker 2: an asterisk, I would recommend them with that advice because
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  Speaker 2: I have yet to find another pair of sandals that
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  Speaker 2: have done a better job.
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  Speaker 1: We have a roller coaster relationship with teevs we do.
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  Speaker 2: That leads me onto my next low light, which was
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  Speaker 2: the heat sometimes. So we went in peak summer, of course,
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  Speaker 2: which is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's euro summer, like that's.
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  Speaker 2: The vibe, but it is fucking hot in Italy sum
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  Speaker 2: in Greece, in Paris it was hot and it felt
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  Speaker 2: like a different kind of heat than what I'm used
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  Speaker 2: to living in Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: And you run hot and I do run hot.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I'm saying sometimes because when I was
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  Speaker 2: at the beach it was great. I loved, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being hot and then being able to run in the
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  Speaker 2: water and then run back out and you know, repeat
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  Speaker 2: that process multiple times. But when I was walking through Athens,
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  Speaker 2: or I was walking through Rome and there was not
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  Speaker 2: a beach in sight, it was definitely a struggle from that.
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  Speaker 1: And we did do this, and I'm glad we did
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  Speaker 1: pack light.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't bother packing jackets on previous trips with pack
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  Speaker 2: jackets being like, oh what if it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: At night, you will not if you were, which we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: For this trip, we were smart.
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  Speaker 2: We were exactly and I feel like most of the
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  Speaker 2: pieces that we packed were really lightweight materials like linen
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  Speaker 2: and whatnot that not only made it easier to packs,
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  Speaker 2: you can pack more stuff, but it was the perfect
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  Speaker 2: lightweight things to also like protect you from the sun
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  Speaker 2: and keep you a little bit cooler because it's fucking hot.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going during peak eurosummer time, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be cold in Australia, So in your carry on, make
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  Speaker 2: sure to pack like a T shirt and shorts to
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  Speaker 2: get changed into before you get off the plane so
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  Speaker 2: that you're not like there and you're matching sweats, just
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  Speaker 2: absolutely dripping buckets.
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  Speaker 3: I also loved that part of the plane right where
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  Speaker 3: we got changed out of US sweats into like US
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  Speaker 3: summer and pail and I was like, it's happening, Oh yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 3: and then a super quick low light was prepare to
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  Speaker 3: line up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The ques, especially in Italy, there basically wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: spot to get like dinner didn't have a wait.
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  Speaker 1: I think like most other places were. Okay, London was a.
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  Speaker 2: Bit like you've got a book, you've got to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, plan, not necessarily like before you leave.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to have a whole itinerary of like
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  Speaker 3: reservations a day before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the day before, like have a think about where
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  Speaker 1: you want to eat.
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  Speaker 3: If you pass somewhere on the street and you're like,
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  Speaker 3: well that looks good, just book the reservation.
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  Speaker 1: And you can always cancel it if you don't eat it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. Okay, shall we get into the highlights. First
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  Speaker 2: highlight would be traveling.
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  Speaker 1: With the investie. There's nothing like and.
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  Speaker 2: We're having this chat before this potty ep because, as
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  Speaker 2: we said before, like the whole part, like the thing
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  Speaker 2: that made it, honestly like the best trip ever was
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  Speaker 2: seeing everyone and having like you know, meeting up with
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  Speaker 2: people in certain spots and getting to have those experiences,
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  Speaker 2: but also obviously getting to travel together, because who you
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  Speaker 2: travel with will make or.
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  Speaker 1: Break Yeah for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you really need to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: whoever you're traveling with you.
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  Speaker 1: Are aligned in your travel styles.
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  Speaker 2: Like if one person is like, okay, I've got an
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  Speaker 2: itinerary I plan it to the tea, and the other
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  Speaker 2: person's like, I'd just like.
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  Speaker 1: To go with the flow, like.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where I'm going next like this, and
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  Speaker 2: that you two probably shouldn't travel. I think if you
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  Speaker 2: sit somewhere in the middle, you can, because you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be exactly the same.
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  Speaker 2: With that, you have to have compromise with whoever you're
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  Speaker 2: traveling with. Make sure that like you're both contributing things
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  Speaker 2: that you want to do. And if there's something that
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  Speaker 2: like you want to do and your friend doesn't, also
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  Speaker 2: be okay to do it on your own.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think that's definitely something to keep in
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  Speaker 1: mind when you're traveling with friends, to like have the compromise. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think, yeah, traveling with friends everyone should
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  Speaker 3: do because we travel a lot with like partners.
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  Speaker 2: But I think getting a trip in with your besties
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  Speaker 2: is just as important. I think so like you make
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  Speaker 2: such core memory together, and I think it can be
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  Speaker 2: really good to also like reinvigorate a friendship. You get
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  Speaker 2: so many amazing stories and personal jokes and experiences together by.
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  Speaker 1: Traveling with your friends, So I think it's good.
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  Speaker 3: To mix it up so our next life lesson is
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  Speaker 3: brought to you by the sponsor of today's episode, Velocity
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  Speaker 3: Frequent Flyer, the loyalty program of Virgin Australia. So biggest
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  Speaker 3: life lesson that we did take from this was how
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  Speaker 3: to be strategic and how you can earn and use
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  Speaker 3: your Frequent Flyer points because it's not just something that
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  Speaker 3: your parents were doing childhood.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually a vibe and I'm obsessed with it. Ols
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  Speaker 1: and official points hacked, Oh oh my god. Every week
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, how can I hack my points? It's the best.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously we both earned Velocity points. So we flew
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  Speaker 2: to and from Europe with Singapore Airlines because they're partnered
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  Speaker 2: with Virgin Australia.
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  Speaker 1: So this meant that we.
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  Speaker 2: Could actually earn Velocity points and status on our flights
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  Speaker 2: and access the Chris Flyer Lounge at Singapore Airport during
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  Speaker 2: our layover because of our Velocity Gold status, and we
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  Speaker 2: earned almost ten thousand Velocity points just on our flight
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  Speaker 2: to Ryme so good.
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  Speaker 1: We hadn't even started on the holiday. We already got
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  Speaker 1: almost ten thousand points and that's enough.
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  Speaker 2: Points to redeem a Virgin Australia flight from Sydney to
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  Speaker 2: Melbourne with points to spare, so not bad good saws.
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  Speaker 2: And the cherry on top is that the Velocity Frequent
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  Speaker 2: Fly program is also free to join.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bit of a no brainer and it's definitely
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  Speaker 3: something that I wish I was doing earlier in my twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine all of the points that we would have collected
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  Speaker 2: by now.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm also like, I'm glad that I've incorporated it
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  Speaker 3: into a habit of my spending. It's just it's like
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  Speaker 3: front of mind. It's like you know when you're eighteen
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  Speaker 3: and you're shopping and you're like, no, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: get a promo code, like I'm not gonna buy this
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  Speaker 3: the other PREMI code.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's where it is in my brain. That's growing up.
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  Speaker 3: But as well as flying and traveling, like we mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: you can earn Velocity points on everyday purchases, so like
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  Speaker 3: your petrol, shopping, ride shairs with DD.
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  Speaker 1: Like I've converted to d D just so I can
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  Speaker 1: earn points.
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  Speaker 2: But my favorite thing about it is that you're earning
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  Speaker 2: rewards and points on money that you're already spending. I've
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  Speaker 2: been collecting Flybys points on my groceries or my Kmart
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  Speaker 2: runs because they're basically weekly.
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  Speaker 1: At this point.
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  Speaker 2: But then you can transfer them into Velocity Points too,
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  Speaker 2: and you can you know, open up these apps and
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  Speaker 2: they also have ways to activate offers to get even
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  Speaker 2: more points. So an example that is no longer live,
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  Speaker 2: but an example I did in the past was for toothbrushes.
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  Speaker 2: For when you bought tooth brushes and there were three
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  Speaker 2: dollars fifty, you got seven hundred and fifty points.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a promo.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's an example of one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: you can put in or you can activate it when
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  Speaker 2: you're doing your grocery shopping for certain types of shops,
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  Speaker 2: like you get you know, and extra points for shopping
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  Speaker 2: pantry items or.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those examples are no longer valid, but they have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, updates of offers all the time that before
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  Speaker 3: I go to do my weekly grocery shop, I always
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  Speaker 3: check that.
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  Speaker 1: And again it's just something that I'm like, I.
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  Speaker 4: Wish I'd been doing this my entire life, Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 4: And it's just looking for all the different ways that
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  Speaker 4: you can earn Velocity points on money that you were
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  Speaker 4: already going to spend and rewarding yourself for money that
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  Speaker 4: you're already going to spend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we think that the only way you
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  Speaker 3: can earn points is through getting credit cards or through travel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: all through travel, which you definitely can earn points through that,
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  Speaker 3: but there are so many other ways to explore how
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  Speaker 3: you can earn points, and there's a lot of it
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  Speaker 3: comes from like brand loyalty or places that you're already spending.
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  Speaker 2: Money exactly, and you feel like such a savvy queen
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  Speaker 2: earning points on every.
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  Speaker 1: Dollar that you spent.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So the other life lesson here is don't forget to
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: add your Velocity number to your booking when you fly
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: with Virgin Australia, Singapore Airlines and other partnered airlines to
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: make sure that you're also rewarding yourself for your travel.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: It's like slar points queens. Okay. The musical bar in
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: London Overtures.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: If you like show tunes and musicals, please go there.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: It's like a hole in the wall.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: That we went out with Gem Diamond and we went
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: to this pub and I was telling Jem about this
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: New York place that we went to that was like
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: a show tunes bar called Marie's Crisis. Yeah, and we
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: were like that was one of the funnest nights, and
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: I was like, London and New York are like the
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: same font. I was like, they've got to have something
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: like that here, And so then anyway, we ended up
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: finding it and.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: It was the best night. It was the best night.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I would say it's in my.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Top three nights that we had in the whole trip.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I would even go as far to say maybe the
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: number one.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I think it was maybe the number one too, Like
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: it was so fun. We made so many friends this night.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: It was just so silly, and the people there were
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: just so beautiful and amazing.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: The bartenders were so nice. One of them, I was
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: so we were so drunk, and one of them ended
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: up taking like fifteen minutes to make me a shot
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: and I went to do it and I just tipped
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: the whole fucking thing over the bar and he looked
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: at me and I was.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Like, this is your fault. The kind of life lesson
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: that I pulled.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: From this is that even when you're going on overseas
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: trips and you're going away on holidays and there are like.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: The truest things to do, and you know.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: The tiktoks of like the ten best things to do
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: in London. Also remember to find the weird, niche things
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: that you really like, Like in no TikTok or broad
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: sheet article, was there anything about this musical theater bar.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: But because we love show.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Tunes and like hair Spray and The Great show Men
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: and Wicked, we were like, this is so fun, let's
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: go do that that. It's like do those things that, like,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: remember what your interests are, remember the things that you
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: like doing, and make sure you do that, Like there
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: are so many cool and unique things to do overseas
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: that will align with the interests that aren't necessarily interests
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: of like the masses.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: And then our last highlight would be.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Be organized but not to a fault, kind of like
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: what we're saying before, like reserve places if you do
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: want to eat there, have a bit of a plan,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: have things that are going to make the holiday a
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: seamless process, but don't feel like you need to have
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: every hour mapped out or anything like that. Because we
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: got a question on the question book saying like should
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I plan or go with the flow, and like both.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Don't I feel like you need to meticulously plan everything
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: because I think that will just end up stressing you out,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: but also going to the flow, you will end up
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: missing out on things because they do get booked out
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: in advance.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: So I would say with tours, especially in Rome.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Book those like as soon as you can, as soon
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: as they open it up, because they do get booked.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Out, and then you have to end up paying.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Like a triple the price to go with a tour
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: because they buy the tickets and then they sell you
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: the tour Save or Splurge Europe edition. So easily the
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: most popular question that we have received is how much
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: should you budget? So your budget really does depend on
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: what you want to do and how you like to travel.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: For example, we knew we wanted.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: To stay in hotels or secure airbnbs. It's really personal preference,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Like we wanted places that we could keep our luggage
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: securely and just having the security of knowing like there
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: was a front desk and security.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Because it was our first time.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've kind of learned the life lesson of
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: when we like went for you know, something that was
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: outside of the city center and how we ended up
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: like spending double the money to travel to all the
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: things that we needed to go to that you actually
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: save money by booking the hotels and the airbnbs that
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: are actually in the city center. So I do really
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: think it depends on what you want.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: So before we left on.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Our ig story, we asked how much people have spent,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: because I think it's good to pull in the range.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know, we.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: We originally tried to budget one hundred dollars a night
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: on hotels, which just did not end up happening. We
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: were pretty good though, like we ended up getting like
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: mainly like two hundred a night, which like split between
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: two b ends up around that. So it was actually
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: okay because we're also just like savvy in the way
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: that we've been like we'll sit there and go through
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: it for ages.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: But I would say that we were kind of in
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the mid tier.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: We didn't necessarily just like go hell for leather, but
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: we were like, this is our first Europe trip. We've
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: saved up, like we want to do the things that
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: we want to do.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: I don't want to like regret not doing something because
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: it was maybe one hundred dollars aud more than I
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: wanted to spend when in like two years time, the
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: one hundred dollars, I'm not like in amiss, you know what,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, whereas.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: We're also like older, Like if I was.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Eighteen and doing this, it would be a very very
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: different holiday.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But I genuinely would not have been able to afford
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: this when I was eighteen, And.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I'm so impressed with how many people can exact that,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: just like is a testament to their savings.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: So I think, if you want to do it, you can.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: You just need to figure out the itinerary and how
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: you want to do it and the things that matter
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: to you and the things that don't matter. So the
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: answers like varied from seven thousand dollars, like people did
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Europe on seven thousand dollars, to twenty five thousand dollars,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: and then there were some that was forty thousand.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Dollars, which was wild. Yeah, but that's the thing.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Like these responses also included people who were backpacking doing centiquies,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: staying for four weeks or staying for three months exactly.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Some people were like.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I paid this much, but I booked a few bougie things, yeah,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: you know, and they were go in the more bougie route.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: So I think that's the thing, Like there's no one
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: best budget for Europe or one number that I think
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: that we can give being like this is how much
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: you need to say for Europe, because it really depends
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: on where you want to go, what time of the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: year traveling, and the sorts of things that you want
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to do. But I think that you can make it
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: work for your budget, and it's just a matter of
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: being conscious about.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: The things that are the most expensive is the flights
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: and the accommodation.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you can really kind of.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Manage your budget from then on, I reckon when you're
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: over there, Like, there's definitely you know that is like
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: choice from that point.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, it's just having a number and a goal
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: for yourself and then you can always change that if
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: you need to. But I think just having something to
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: start with is really helpful and motivating.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So how I would go about doing that is like,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: think of the number that you want, like maybe look around,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: see what you want to do, and then think of
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: the number that you want. If that's like ten thousand,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: let's say, then divide that by the amount of weeks,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: but shorter. Because what happens is with your booking, if
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you book to pay later, you end up paying within
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: the month before you go, So you kind of want
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: to have that money saved up and ready to go
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: at least a month before you leave.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's kind of how to do it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: But did you want to run us through some of
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the things that will affect your travel budgets? So number one,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: not comparing or using simple tools to save money, so
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: for example, sites with price match guarantees or free cancellations
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: as well where you're traveling to and when you're traveling.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: So if you're going to travel to Europe in June, July, August,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: that's probably going to be the most expensive time of
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the year. If you're not married to the idea of
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: going in like the euro summer, you'll save money. Yeah,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: if you go during some of the shoulder seasons, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I think that a lot of those places, like in
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Italy and in Greece, it's.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Going to be warm even in autumn.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: And spring, so you can still do a lot of
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: those things and go on boat tours and stuff like that,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: but you might be able to save a bit of money.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: You'd save a lot of money by doing that.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I look at it an accommodation and I accidentally put
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: in the wrong dates and the difference between September and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: July was three thousand dollars. Wow.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah for six nights. Yeah, the difference was three thousand dollars.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: So again, if you're not married to like the euro
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: summer months, you will save a lot of money.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: And then, like al said, book tours for popular tourist
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: spots in advance, so things like the Coliseum, the Vatican,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: the Louver because, like al said, a lot of third
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: party tour guide companies buy out the tickets and then
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: they sell them with a premium. So especially if like
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: you are happy to go at your own pace and
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: you don't want a tour guide, you just want to
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: walk around the loove and do your own thing, You're
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: going to save a lot of money by booking those
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: things in advance directly through the site rather than through
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: a third party.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: So try not to leave those things to the last minute.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, So some of our favorite saves and some of
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: our favorite spurges save unlike food ANDBVS and dining, So
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: you do not need to be going to like Michelin
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: star restaurants or like five star restaurants. Some of the
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: best food we had were the most like hole in
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: the wall.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: You would not.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Expect much from it, but it's like the most authentic
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: experience and those were easily the best meals we had.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: We splurged like one night on a fancy meal and
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: it was not worth it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Like it was fun and the like place.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Was beautiful and like getting dressed up, but like, I, oh.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I hate myself for this. So because I was like,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I want to build Rachel.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: So we're there and I was like, I'm going to
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: try an eatsta because we'd been somewhere earlier that day
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: and Mad's had got an oyster and she's like, oh,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: it's beauty like it Like I'm in Italy, I'm gonna
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: have an oyster.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And so then that night I was like, I'm an Italy,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have an oyster. I don't like oysters. But
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I went in Rome literally and I was like, but
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I mean Italy, I'm gonna have
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a late star. Yeah.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: This motherfucker was big fucking oyster I've ever seen in
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: my entire life.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: This was like a cow of an oyster. It was huge.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: It was like you know how they bring like a
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: dainty lit the fork.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: You could have just brought a normal sized fork out
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: to scoop it out. It right, honestly, it was so
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: they brought it out and I was like, Oh, the
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: motherfucker is not going to slip and slide, because I
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: don't know how everyone else ees their oysters, but I'm like,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: throw it back. The only other times I've ever had
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: oysters is when we go to like a fancy like
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: work event. This motherfucker was so big that I like
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: put it in my mouth and I went for it
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: to go on like slide back, and I didn't slide back.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: And then then then this.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Thing, this this runny plato, was like sitting in my mouth,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: and then.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I thought about it for too long. I thought about
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: it for too.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: No, And I look at Rob and sounds piercing herself,
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: and I have the fear of God in my eyes.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: And Rob is going, do not spit that out, Alex,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: do not, And all the weights are looking.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Mischelon Star five Star restaurant. It was a castle and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: there's all these people around, and.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I'm looking and going.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And I'm either going to throw up or I'm gonna
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: spit it out.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: So I picked up that oyster shell and I put
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: it back where it came from and I was.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Like, I couldn't do it. I thought about it too much.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I thought about it way too much. But Rob was
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: also so embarrassed. He was like Alex and I was like,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: you have to eat it? What?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: And I go, you have to eat the oyster. They looked,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: they saw.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like there's a smashed up oyster which it
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: already started smashed.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was like, you have to eat it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And he's like, I don't want.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: To eat it, and I was like please, because also
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: in Italy, if you don't finish your food, they're like
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: you didn't like the food, whereas they know.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And I was like, and so that's.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Where Rob earned his stripes on this trip, for when
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: he picked up my half salive a soaked oyster and
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: ate it vinegar free.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: That's what real love is. I love, oh my god,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the loveless. And it's like going fancy does not make
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a good holiday.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: You do not need to go to the five star
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: restaurants in order to get the best experience.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because and maybe we're just like uncultured yeah, which
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: like is probably true, but what do you mean.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: But like if you don't enjoy, like shocking oysters at home.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: That's not going to change just because you're an it.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: You also don't need to go to the place that
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: is like the most expensive. Like there are so many
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: places that were holes in the wall that also had oysters.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I probably would.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Have spat those out too, And then says is your transport.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: It was actually so easy to get around once you
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: figure it out, and there was an incredible app.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: So before we left, we'd done some research on the
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: different types of apps that we should use, and city
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Mapper was one of the most recommended apps to plan
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: your bus and train trips, especially in London and Paris.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: It's so easy to get around those cities using the
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: tube or catching the busy job.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: It was so easy. I was very pleasantly surprised.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think we'll get into this later. But
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: like what we'd seen on TikTok, I was expecting it
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: to be like the wild Wah West, like on the
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: public Woo witt you that song Will Smith. Yeah, I
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: was expecting it to be like quite hectic on the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: public transport, especially in London and Paris, And in our experience,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: it was fine and we saved like a lot of
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: money doing that, but they do have like ubers and
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: taxis and stuff. Yeah, but you will save a lot
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: of money if you just get the train. Yeah, And
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: you know what, I will say, sometimes the taxi is
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: worth it because like.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: When there was one day in Rome.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: That was like high thirties and the walk was forty
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: five to fifty minutes to something we wanted to go to.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And I knew that, well, we knew if we walked
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: that once we got to the thing we wanted to do,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: we were going to be in a shit mood. Yeah,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: because we don't want to walk fifty minutes in like
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: high thirties. That I was like, this is worth it
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: for the experience in order to have a good time.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: But like when it wasn't like that, when it was
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: like a twenty minute to thirty.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Minute walk, We're like, exactly, because.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Once ten minutes is done, you're at twenty minutes, which
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: is so close to ten minutes, which.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Is you're there exactly, you know, and you're there math
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: that time.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: So like, those are the things that you can save on,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: but to splurge on, you do want to splurge on,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: like the experiences and the things that you know are
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: so unique to that holiday and so unique to the
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: culture and the spaces that like, even though they are expensive,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: like are a once in a lifetime opportunity. Yeah, and
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: I also think like lean into the cheesy tourist activities
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: like if it's your first time, go to the pasta
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: making class, do the coliseum tour, like those were the
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: best days that I think. Sometimes you think like, oh,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: like I'm just being a lame tourist, but I'm like, no,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: it's fun and these things are iconic and have historical
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: significance for a reason, like you will learn so much
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: or gain so many amazing memories that will absolutely make
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: the trip. And yes, sometimes they're a little bit of
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: a splurge.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: But it is so worth it completely.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: And then our final splurge is the vintage shopping.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: The vintage shopping, especially in London.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, was some of the best I have
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: ever experienced, and that includes in New York and LA.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: The vintage shopping in London is unmatched.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: It was so so good.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I think that you also can find some really good
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: bargains as well.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Whereas when we did vintage shopping in New York.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: And LA in the last time, we were there, it
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: was so expensive, and I was like, I could find
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of this stuff for a lot cheaper at
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Gleave markets, whereas in London, I was like, oh my god,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: there are so many unique pieces that I have never
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: seen before across any of my vintage shopping travels.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: And they're not that expensive.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: So our favorite spots, if we have to pick two,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: were brick Laye Vintage Market and also the Portobello Road Markets.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: You can spend hours and hours here.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, And our last segment of the episode, Things TikTok
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: lied to us about Europe number what.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: The luggage.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I'm sure most of us have seen those videos of
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: chicks just hauling these suitcases upstairs, which is valid, but
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: we did not have a single time that we had
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: to do that. So we actually got like the backpack suitcase,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: like the backpack is suitcases, which were really good.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Like I thought that bag was super lightweight.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I fit everything I needed to, but it was a
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: little bit smaller. So there's a kind of a pro
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: and a con because it meant I didn't overpack.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: And it meant I didn't overspend on shopping. Yeah, same,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: but I still wanted to.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: It was but the thing is you don't need to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: go and buy a completely new suitcase. The one you've
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: got is fine because really the amount of times that
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: you will have to haul it upstairs, if you even do,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: is very minimal. And so many places that you stay
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: off of transfers and the people help you with your
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: bags like it's actually chill, it's fine. Yeah, I would
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: do some research on where you're staying and the accommodation
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: and like Google map it from the ferry to where
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: you're going, reach out and see if there are transfers
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: available or what options there are for you, and how
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: likely it is going to be that you're going to
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: be dragging your suitcase around because yeah, like al said,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: we did not experience that at all, and.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: We could have just used the suitcases that we already had.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: The next thing that TikTok lied to us about is
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I guess, like planning your trip and which places to.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Go to, like the best places to stay.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is especially relevant for Greece, I would say,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: because you know, there are lots of different Greek islands
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: and lots of them are popular for different things. We
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: went to eos Paris and we were going to go
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: to Mikinos. Like we said, EOS is super super popular,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: one of the most highly recommended places on TikTok, but
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: it is a party island.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like not for us.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: So okay. I genuinely think we were probably in the
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: top ten percent of oldest people there fully for one,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: which like that's fine.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: We just didn't know that.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: And it was all hard techno club vibes, which if
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: that is your vibe, you would probably love that, but we.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Didn't realize that.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: We were just like it was just like, yeah, this
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: is such a cool, fun party buy with like lots
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: of people.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: That's the energy. It was full of, like twenty one
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: year old Australians.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's so fine if you're within that demographic
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: or you like techno music and you want to go party.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: We still had fun though, and we loved the silent disco.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: One night that I was like, how did we get here?
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And like the beaches were beautiful, our accommodation was
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: so great. We had an amazing time. Yeah, But I
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: think that was something that we didn't realize when we
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: were doing the research for EOS. Yeah, there was probably
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: an eye that would have aligned more to our interests
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: than Eos because basically it's nocturnal there, like one's out
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: and about during the day and then no one goes
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: out till like midnight, and I can't do that. Yeah,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I'm too old for that. I don't think I've ever
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: been a start. No, I've never been a start at
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: midnight girly. So I think you can still use TikTok
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: to research, because there was also things that were helpful,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: like when we were like, okay, where should we stay,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Like what suburbs or what cities like that's how we
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: found NOWSA to stay in Paros. Yeah, so that is helpful,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: But we wanted to stay in Paros because of the
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: word of mouth. So pull research and tips and recommendations
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: from TikTok.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: But maybe people that align more within.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Your interests, or people you know that have similar interests
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: to you, because like, if we're going to go again,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: which likes I hope we do, we probably wouldn't do
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Eos again, yeah, but we would do Paros definitely, you know.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: And also factor in your downtime and rest days.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: We don't do this, and then when you're on the
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: holiday and you do need a bit of a rest day,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: you end up feeling.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: A bit guilty for it. Yeah, but I feel like
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: we're getting over that. Like there was a night in
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: London that we were like.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: We're tired, and we ended up staying in and we
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: watched Nodding Hill.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was still like one of my favorite nights. Yeah,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: it was wonderful. You do kind of.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Feel this pressure that you're like, oh, this is this
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: is such an expensive trip. But if you don't allow
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: yourself to rest, you won't, like you'll be playing catch
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: up the whole time.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: The next thing, TikTok lied to us about Europe, So
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: I tried the TikTok viral X. So there were lots
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: of different things that we were like, we have to
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: go here and here because we've seen them on TikTok.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: So I think, you know, the expectations were a little
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: bit different to what we've seen on TikTok versus the
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: experiences that we had at some of these viral places. Yeah,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: you're seeing like the highlight and like, especially when something
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: does have has gone viral, you do have to also
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: expect like the line and like the way that yeah,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: you are getting the highlight reel. Yeah, the other thing
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: that TikTok led to us, it.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Was like Paris will be fucked Like it was like,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: it's going to be so busy, it's gonna be people everywhere.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: And then the Paris was the quietest place that we went. Yeah,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: it was so quiet because everyone that lives there left. Yeah,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: because we were there during the Olympics.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: We were there probably on like maybe the second or
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: third day of the Olympics, so we were expecting Paris
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: to be rammed, but really all of the Parisians had left,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: and then everybody else who was on their eurosummer if
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: they weren't going to the Olympics, they weren't going to Paris.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it was one of the quietest places that
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: we went. And I think a lot of people also
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: were saying, like sometimes people say that Paris is like
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: underwhelming or it doesn't live up to the hype, and
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I must have different interests to these people,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: because I thought it was beautiful.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I loved it. I thought it was beautiful.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: But I think out of all the places we went to,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: and I also think it's hard because it was the
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: last stop and after you start getting a bit tired,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: exactly and all that stuff that I'm like, if Paris
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: was the first place we went to, I'd probably.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, but I would say that if I.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Was going to like rank everywhere we went, I would
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: put it Italy, Greece, London, Paris.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so literally the order that we did it literally, Like,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I do think Paris is beautiful, but I think because
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: I also do like hustle and bustle.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think because it was quiet, I was
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: like m and there was quite a bit of construction
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: because of the Olympics, which did take away from like
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: some of the magic, some of the magic of it,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: I think, but like seeing the Eiffel Tower sparkle and
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: like being able to.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Walk through like that was all beautiful. Yeah.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: We met a beautiful girl named Courtney. She is one
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: of the chicks and messaged us and was like, are
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: you guys coming to Paris by any chance? Like I'm
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: a dancer at the Mulan Rouge and would love for
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: you guys to come.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Like that wasn't on our itinerary, but we were like,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: oh my god, of course, and then we ended up
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: like going out for a drink with her after and
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: it was like so fun like that, that's a shit
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I love about holidays. Yeah, yeah, that was the best.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: And then the next thing that TikTok lied to us
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: about was, I guess how dangerous it is in Europe
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: or the safety and security element of it. I think
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: that from both TikTok but also you know, some of
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: the conversations that we'd had with people beforehand, we were
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: expecting like.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Pickpockets left right and center.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: You know, that we'd be standing on the side of
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: the road in London and people would be coming and
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: snatching our phones. I'm not saying that that doesn't happen
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: and that you shouldn't have your wits about you, but.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: It seemed a lot more chill than we thought it
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: would be. Yeah, but we were like on the first.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Day where were like try it, I'm ready. Yeah.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Like every time I like put something in my bag,
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: I was like locking it like straight away, being like, yeah,
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: you're not gonna You're not gonna get me.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And like if you just.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Wore your wrist strap and it became a habit, yeah
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: phone like whereas like on the first day I was
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: putting that wrist strap on as tired as it was
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: going to go whereas by the end of it, I
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: was like she's on, She's fine. Yeah. Yeah.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: And like with you know, our anti.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Theft bags, I think because we got those and we
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: invested in those, it gave us the peace of mind
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: because we'd done the right thing. Yeah, we went like
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: they're like holding our phone out in the middle of
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: the road. Yeah, just like.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Wrist strap free. Yeah, it'd be crazy. Yeah.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: A few people were.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Asking what bags and stuff that we talk We both
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: took the Pierre Cardon anti theft bags, so they have
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: like the anti slash material and then also the built
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: in locks into the zips. I also bought some anti
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: theft lock zips so that I could take like my
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: poppy listen and cross body bag and still.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Use a bag that I already had.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Like al said, we had wrist straps, and we also
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: had like cross body phone straps that we just wore
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: every single day. And then we also had like the
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: RFID wallets or SLA leaves for your cards so that
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: your cards.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Can't get skimmed.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: And then we had air tags in like everything, so
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: in our luggage, in our passport, in our wallets so
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: and in our phone, so.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: That that way you know, we had like the peace
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: of mind as well. I think that TikTok.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I'm saying TikTok lied to us about it, but if
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: anything like it made us overly cautious, which beforehand was
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: making me quite stressed then excited. But I think it
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: was a good thing in the It's a good thing
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: because it made us like be conscious and aware, but
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: it was a bad thing because we got wrapped up
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: and being stressed about it exactly, and then we got
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: there and we're like, oh, it's actually chill.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: The last thing that TikTok lied to us about was
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: the fairies and trains, especially the fairies. Like I thought
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: it was going to be like you know those the
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: North Sea tiktoks and it's like.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: And the bone is like about to capsize. It was
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: not like that at all. And Alex and I and
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: that they were going to be so sick.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like Alex and I do both get like motion
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: sick at times, and both of us were completely fine.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: I feel like you couldn't feel it moving at all.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I know it's different depending on what type of ferry
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: that you go on.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: But also one that was like a bit rocky and
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: that's fine. Yeah, Like I.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Don't know, I just feel like and I also thought
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: that you know, you see all the clips of people
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: like dropping off their luggage downstairs and then going upstairs,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: and how it's like, you know, you feel like you're
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: in a group of.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Cattle, like going on to the ferry.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Why that is is because we booked the first fairy
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: of the day.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you're going.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: And you're doing the fairies with the Greek islands, book
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: the first faerry of the day because the crowd is very,
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: very small compared to the middle of the day, because
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: that's when most other people are booking it. So we
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: booked for like seven am or eight am, and it
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: was so easy.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was quiet eye.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: And then also it means that you arrive earlier in
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: the day so you can still enjoy and make use
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: of the day when you get to your next Greek island.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: So that's like all the life lessons and tips and
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: tricks that we learned from our first broake Chicks take Europe.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: There's two lessons I want to leave you with. What
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: it's fucking expensive.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the expense comes from the dollar exchange.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: It's really it's up there that you know, keeping that
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: in mind, like when you are.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Paying for something, it's essentially double like what the price
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: is in euros or pounds. So we have a highlights
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: on TikTok and on Instagram of like Day in the
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Life London, Day in the Life Greece, and Day in
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: the Life Italy of some of the more affordable things
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: that you can do. And we can make sure that
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: we upload any stories, but like maybe a list that
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: people can just screenshot of our recommendations because there's so
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: many that's so hard to fit in episode, Like there's
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: so many stories that we want to sell, but like
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: maybe we'll save that for the live show, yeah, on
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: the twelfth of October. But the second one is this
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: quote that I read that perfectly encompassed how good it
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: is to just travel in your twenties or any age.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: And so this is what it says.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Travel with friends, travel solo, but travel as much as
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: you can. Explore the locations, meet people, experience cultures, different foods,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: different languages.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Traveling is important.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: For your growth as a person. If you stay locked
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: in one city, you never easily learn how much more
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: life has to offer. You need to open up. This
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: is the age to experience, you must know how peacefully
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: and equally wild beach life can be. You must know
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: how exotic a mountain life can be. These experiences are
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: going to stay with you for the rest of your life,
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: so pack your bags whenever you can and leave your
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: city behind.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I love them. It was just so beautiful.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: And travel can be a bit intimidating, I think, and
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: obviously the financial situation plays a really big role in it,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: but also sometimes our comfort and ability to say things
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: too hard also does. I want to make sure that
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: I'm expressing empathy to the fact that travel is expensive
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: and that's not always an option, but there are ways
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: to even just get out of your city affordably. That
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to be a big international trip, but to
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: experience things that are outside of your routine, to find
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: new things in life, to find new people, and change
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: like the environment that you are in, because that is
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: how you will learn and grow and become the most
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: multifaceted version of yourself. And I just, yeah, I just
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: love it, and I want everyone to come here with
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: us next year. Yeah, I think you know, it's an
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: amazing opportunity to create memories that you'll look back on
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: and remember later in life when you're thinking of like
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: the best moments of your life, like, there are so
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: many moments from Europe that I was like, that's up.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: There was one of the best moments of my life.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: And I feel like I cried in every single city
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: because in those moments, I was thinking, I am in
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: the golden years and the good old days right now,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: and I think, why not try and grab those opportunities
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: as often as you can.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: That's lovely and I want to go back. It was
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: the best. And thank you so much chicks for having
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: us in your ear holes. Please feel free to DM
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: us with any questions that you have.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: We're always here to help and assist in any way
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: that we can. But if you are heading off to
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Europe or you're heading off on a holiday, have so
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: much fun, have so much fun.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: You can add the best time.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Honestly, I don't want to be like, don't stress,
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: because I know it can be stressful, but don't stress.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: You'll have the best time. Honestly, I don't want to.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Say don't stress, but uh, don't stress, coming from somebody
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: whose stresses, Yeah, you'll have the best small stuff. Yeah, exactly,
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: all right, chicks, Well, thanks so much d having us
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: into your e hols. We love to be here and
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: shout out to am I k Made.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: For making this episode of Two broad Chips Happen by Chicks. Bye,