The Trip to Spain Page #8

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this will be the best

phone call you've ever had.

- Yes.

- It's my film, okay?

- Of course it is.

- That's what it's going to be.

Good, thank you.

- That's what you should be in.

- Stands out like a sore thumb.

That's what Laurie needed

to pay his way around Spain.

He busked.

- Thanks.

- You know that, uh, Cuenca

was one of the last places

to fall to the Fascists in the Civil War

on March the 29th, 1939.

- Terrific position,

it's up on the hilltop,

so very difficult to attack,

and very easy to defend.

- Yeah, and they may

very well have held out,

if it weren't for the fact that the army,

the Republican army,

turned against the Socialist government.

If it weren't for that Franco

may have well not have won.

- Hello.

- I gave you money before, mate.

- Oh, yeah, sorry, fellas, take care.

- You can have a drink with

us, if you want, though.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

- You sure?

- Yeah, have a beer.

- I'm with Steve.

- That'd be lovely.

Cheers, man.

- No worries.

- You sound very good.

- Thank you, man.

- Especially like your backing singers.

- Oh, yeah, hardly Ronettes, right?

- You know them?

- Um, yeah, I suppose

near acquaintances, maybe.

- Wow.

- Yeah.

- So you guys here on holiday?

- No, we're working.

Oh, right?

- I'm writing a book about my, um,

sort of travel through Spain.

Replicating a journey I did when I was,

when I was a younger man.

It's kind of a little bit

inspired by Laurie Lee,

you know, When I Walked Out One

Midsummer Morning.

- Midsummer Morning.

Yeah, I know it.

- But we're driving it.

Cheers.

- Cheers,

mate, yeah, I love Laurie.

- That's part of the reason

when I saw you buskin' there,

I thought this is our Laurie Lee,

'cause he paid his way through Spain

by doing the same thing.

- With a violin, yeah.

- Yeah, that's right.

- Yeah, right on.

So you guys staying in Cuenca long?

- One day in every place.

I'm writing restaurant reviews,

so we go to one town, we're there a clay,

and then we go on.

- Oh, have you been in

San Sebastian for food.

It's the best place in Spain for food

by a country mile.

- Yeah, I know.

- We were near there in Santander,

weren't we?

- Yeah.

- Or Catalonia, not just Barcelona.

The food there's excellent, yeah.

- No.

- Yeah.

Well, we just

we were gonna go there, we just thought

it was a bit too obvious.

We're trying to do stuff

that's a little bit, kind of,

the kind of nooks and crannies,

slightly off the beaten track a little.

- Like Sanlucar, near Cadiz.

The tuna there is absolutely

bang-on, I love that.

- Yeah, I know, yeah.

It's more like the culture than the food,

although food's part of it,

but it's more like the

kind of culture, I suppose.

- But if it's food and culture

that you're lookin' for,

Valencia.

- Valencia.

- Yeah, you probably know it.

Casa Montana?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Yeah, that's the best.

- I know.

- And Valencia's got the Holy Grail.

- How long does it take to

get to Valencia from here?

- Valencia's like two hours

away, man, it's close.

- Let's go to Valencia.

- Well, no,

we're not going to Valencia.

- Go to Valencia.

- We've got a whole schedule.

- No.

- We can go to Valencia,

it's just two hours.

- We've got a schedule worked out.

We've got pre-ordained

route taking in some...

- Where's the fun in that?

Stray from the path, man.

- We sort of are straying from the path

by not going to places

like Catalonia, so...

- Oh, okay.

- You can go there for us.

- I will, again.

- Okay, again, yeah, all right.

Listen, I'm gonna head

back to the hotel anyway,

so, uh, I'm gonna head off.

- You're goin' back to the hotel?

- Yeah.

- Now?

- Yeah, yeah.

You're all right, you'll be

all right here with, uh, man.

Perhaps he'll play you a few tunes.

All right, mate, good luck

with your Bo Diddley stuff.

- Thanks for the beer, man.

- No, no worries, okay.

- All right, see you later.

- Sorry 'bout that.

- Touched a nerve, no more.

He doesn't like to be told

things that he thinks he knows.

- Hello.

- Hello, you look delectable and tasty.

- Like a piece of ham?

- Oh, all right, then, you look sexy.

- Don't feel very sexy.

Had a chat with the builders

and they can't start for another month.

- Hey, Mischa.

- Hi, where are you?

- I had a fan phone call today.

Do you remember the

agent Steve used to have

in LA called Matt?

- Sort of, yeah.

- Look, when you come back, I was thinking

maybe we could go out to

Rachel's for the weekend.

- Fantastic,

yeah, I'd love to do that.

- Nice place.

- Yeah, but, you know what?

Yeah, well, we'll definitely do that,

but why don't you come out earlier?

- He wants me to go with him,

and be represented by him in LA.

- Surely there's no

point in that, is there?

- Absolutely right answer.

Well done, I give you two points for that.

And that is what I will be telling

this little American

fellow in me own way, uh...

- And it's too far away from me.

- Yeah, of course it is.

- But isn't Joe supposed to come out?

- Yeah, but he

can do his own thing.

You know, he's a big boy.

- How old is he now?

- He's 20 years old now.

- Oh, you better watch out.

I might like him more than I like you.

- Yeah, you're gross.

- Look, I gotta go, I'll talk to ya later.

- Okay, bye-

- Oh, they're here.

Hey, you.

- Hola.

- Hola.

- How you doin'?

- Hey.

Good to see you.

- You too.

How's it going?

- Thank you, how are you?

- Great, yeah.

- Nice to see you.

- Hey, hi.

- Good to see you again.

How was your flight?

- Yeah, it was very good.

So, photographs.

- Look, it's just up the hill.

- What about them?

- Yes, I'm

gonna have them there.

Yep.

- These are about two

sizes too big, my shoes.

- Yeah, well, this is really painful.

I don't know how anyone

could fight in this stuff.

- You look-

- What shoes size did you give them.

- The size that you sent me over.

- I wear a seven, these

feel like a 10 or an 11.

- You've only got to

wear them for a minute, so...

All right, Steve.

- So, you guys ready?

- We could've got changed,

uh, up here, not down there.

- I can push you up.

- One, two, three.

Okay.

- I can give you a push.

- If you need

I can give you a hand.

- No, I don't need any

help, I've done it before.

One, two, three.

- Yay, Coogs.

- It's just about

getting the timing right.

Okay.

- There's no saddle.

Hang on.

Okay, do it quickly now.

- They lick their own asses.

Uh-oh.

Take the picture.

- Just take the picture.

Just take the picture.

What's she doing there,

is she on the internet?

Just take the picture!

- Yes, I'm coming, Rob.

- All right, guys.

- Don Quixote had three trips, I think.

He had the one that he

went out on his own.

And he went back, and he

just did Sancho Panza.

And then he had the sequel, and

this is now your third trip.

- When Cervantes wrote the sequel,

in the interim, after he'd

written the first part,

there was a fake sequel published,

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