The Trip to Spain

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A foggy clay

In London town

Had me low

And had me down

I viewed the morning

Mm, with alarm

The British Museum

Had lost its charm

How long I wondered

Could this thing last

But the age of miracles

Mm, hadn't passed

Yes, for suddenly

Ooh, baby, I saw you there

Through the foggy London town

The sun was shinin'

Everywhere

- Hello, Rob, Steve.

- Who is this?

- Steve Coogan.

- Hey, how are you?

- Good, good, how are you?

- Yeah, good.

Where are you?

- I'm in London, just got

back from filming in New York.

A play a chef, it's called Medium Rare.

Produced by Martin Scorsese.

Have you met him?

- No, I've not.

- He's great, he's great.

Anyway, they want me to do publicity

for the launch of the series,

to do a series of restaurant reviews.

This time, A Trip to Spain,

for the New York Times.

- I know, the Observer asked me.

- All right, so you know about it.

Okay, well, so it's a New

York Times-Observer thing.

You know, it's a paid job.

- Mm-hmm, yeah.

- So, yeah, I'm asking you

if you'll come with me.

- Yes, I will come.

- Good, great, well, my

people will be in touch,

with, uh, oh, you.

- Yeah, well, you know,

Rob's not gonna be here.

Rob, Steve's here.

- 'Kay.

- No, 'cause he's got a ferry to catch.

Where are you?

Okay.

We'll see you when you get here than.

Okay?

Yeah, bye-bye, all right.

- Is that all good?

- No, that was the builder.

He's running late.

Right, have you remembered

your passport, your wallet,

your phone,

- My passport, my wallet,

my phone.

- the book you're reading.

- I've got everything I need to go out

into the darkness.

Right, come on, Daddy's

going, follow me out.

- Dad, you forgot your hat.

- All right, bring it down.

- Oh, well done.

You can give it to him now.

Got it?

- Bring it to me.

- Let's say goodbye.

- Ah.

- Buenos (Mas.

- Mm, how you doin'?

- Good, you know Sally?

- Yes, sir, hello, Sally.

How are you?

- Hi, Steve, yeah, good.

How are you?

- Nice to see you.

- Nice to see you, this is Charlie.

- Oh, hello, Charlie.

I don't think I know this one.

- No, and this, you

remember Chloe, don't you?

- Yes, of course, clear.

Hello, Chloe, how are you?

You were a little baby last time I saw you

and you've gone woosh like that.

- That's what happens.

- Yeah, that's right.

- Brought along a lot

of stuff, didn't you?

- Ah, well, some of this is Joe's.

You know, my, uh, my son?

- I remember him.

- He's comin' in at the end of the trip.

- Gimme a kiss.

Oh, who did that noise?

- You did.

- I think you did that

noise, didn't you love?

Charlie Farley, oy.

- Kiss for Dad.

- Hello.

Thank you very much.

- Bye-bye, darling.

- Bye, darling.

- Muah.

- I love you.

Have fun.

Enjoy yourselves.

- Look after them.

You'll take care of Mommy, okay?

- Yes, I will.

- You will,

won't you, Charlie, yeah.

Have a good trip, and,

uh, you look after him.

- Yes, I will try and bring

him back in one piece.

- Yeah, please do.

- All right, then.

- Have a good journey.

- Adios, amigos.

Adios, amigos.

- Hasta manana.

- Manchego cheese, he said goodbye!

- Love you, bye!

- Bye.

Bye!

- Are we gonna get this ferry?

- Um, well, I'd say probably yes.

It's a little bit of

jeopardy I think kind of...

- Oh, here we go, here we go.

- Adds a little bit of...

- Living your life

on the edge by getting to

a ferry a little bit late.

- I have two cabins for you.

- Mm-hmm.

- One Commodore cabin

and one De Luxe cabin.

- Okay, which is the best.

- Zee Commodore cabin is zee best.

- Oh, great.

- Mr. Coogan should have that.

- Oh, Rob.

- Commodore Coogan.

- Okay.

- Thank you.

- Is this the Commodore?

- No, zat's zee De Luxe cabin.

- All right.

See you later, Commodore.

- Okay.

- And there's your key.

- Thank you, merci.

- See you later.

- Nice.

- Then I'll show you yours.

- Okay.

What did you say your name was?

- Oo-ho-har.

- Oh-ho-har.

- Oo-ho-har.

- Oh-ho-har.

- No, Oo-ho-har.

- Oh-ho-har.

- Yes.

Is that near enough?

- Yes.

- You're right about

this being a better way.

This is more romantic.

This is more like a journey.

- It is.

And you know what the most famous boat

that left here was, the most

famous ship, I should say?

- Ah, the Mayflower?

- Yes, the Mayflower.

- Pilgrim fathers?

- Yeah.

- Pilgrim fathers for justice,

they tied themselves to that crane,

demanded more breadfruit

for their children.

- Where were they headed.

- They were headed to America.

- Yeah, what part of America?

- The coast.

Santander much the

largest city in Cantabria

with a population approaching 200,000.

We filmed much of Moonraker here.

Morning.

- Buenos diaz.

- Buenos diaz, mi amigo.

- Buenos diaz, mi amigo.

- This is stunning.

- This the way to approach a new country.

- Did you sleep well?

- Yeah, like a, like a baby, yeah.

- It's lovely, isn't it?

- Yeah, well, it's the

gentle rocking motion.

I think you either have

sea legs or you don't.

- Santander, the largest city

in Cantabria by some margin,

population 200,000.

An elegant, stylish resort

with excellent transportation connections.

- Reading Lonely Planet?

- Just stuff I've picked up.

- Rough Guide?

- Stuff I've picked up over the years.

I'm a sponge.

- Yeah, um.

- Ah.

- I'm Charles.

Prawns with sea salmon.

- Gracias.

- Nice fresh.

- Thank you.

- Muchas gracias.

Like mama used to make.

- Ah,.

- Bueno,.

- Thank you, gracias.

What did you say to him?

- I said it's charming, charming

that his mother made it.

You know, up at Leo's.

- What's happening in New York?

- I've been seeing a lot of Mischa.

You remember Mischa?

- The girl you were seeing

when we were in Italy?

- Mm-hmm, yeah.

- You're seein' her again?

Didn't she get, she got...

- I, I'm in love with her.

- Thought she got married.

- She is married.

- Oh.

- Um, I know, it's not right,

because it's not ideal.

- Carry on, take your time.

Give me details.

- It's not ideal, but we

just bumped into each other

and, uh, and you know, we just,

you could tell it was just there.

I smiled, I gave her one

of my smiles, and, uh...

- Well, I mean, you don't

have to say any more.

One of those smiles.

- Then like an anchovy, she

just wiggled into my net again.

- Is it exciting?

- It is exciting, but it's

not like the first time.

It's not like I don't know her.

It's like we've rekindled what

we had before and it's so...

- It's still exciting.

- Oh, yeah, it is.

- Us, you lose excitement

when you're married.

I'll tell you that.

- Yeah, well, you can't have everything.

The thing is you can't have everything.

- You can't have everything.

- You can't have everything.

- That's my mantra, you

can't have everything.

- Yeah.

- When people complain

no, yeah, make a choice.

- Very, I, I couldn't agree

more, couldn't agree more.

- I have a young family.

For a man of my age, my kids are young.

- Yeah, how old's your wife?

- 43.

- Mm-hmm.

You just got those kids in,

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