Hello and welcome to the Europeans, the show that keeps you up to date with a broad selection of very important and occasionally not so important and silly stories from across this diverse continent of Europe.

My name is Dominic Kramer. I'm in Amsterdam,

back from holiday. Yay. And that voice you hear is Katie Lee, my co-host in Paris. Hi, Katie. How's it been? Hi. Good. Although I just want to check, am I actually talking to the real Dominic? Because last

week while you were away, we heard an AI version of you

so I just want to check that you're actually human that was really freaky I think you can tell

it's me because I don't have that like strangely Australian twinge that somehow AI gave my accent

I liked it it was a more exotic version of the Dominic that we know in love.

It certainly was, but no, this is me for real. Although it's weird. Like, there's no way I could

really prove it, right? There's no way. I can't see you. I can just hear you. And you could

well be a robot. Maybe Voicek has locked me out forever and from now on no one's going to know.

But you've been on holiday for two weeks?

I have.

Was it lovely and refreshing?

It was, refreshing's a good word for it because it was quite cold.

We decided to go on a summer holiday to the Scottish Highlands and it is really one of the

most beautiful places I've ever been to. It's

like a fantasy land, and we knew the weather could be bad, but it really was worse than we even

expected. It was raining almost every day, and it was about 11, 12 degrees. Living inside a Scottish

cliche. Well, it's even worse than the cliche. Like there were news reports. Why is the summer in

Scotland even worse than normal this year? But I guess at least we weren't in a heat wave,

because that's the alternative. And in a way, I think it's easier to deal with a lot of rain

than 45 degrees. Well, we're very glad to have you back. Thank you. I'm happy to be back.

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