Portugal

The fact that there are no places to go after midnight in Ireland, there are no places to go after midnight in the UK.

We have an extraordinary situation where in Ireland we pride ourselves on being partiers, being talkers, musicians, late night people, drinkers, carousers, and yet anyone who has spent any time this summer in Spain, Portugal, wherever you happen to have been, Eastern Europe, wherever it was, right? What you know is the nightlife in these countries is far, far superior to the nightlife in our country, number one.

And number two, the nighttime economy, which is a greater idea, which is of does the economy live...

Not, it doesn't have to be 24/7.

Yeah.

Spain, the price is about €3 a pint.

In Portugal, it's only about €2.50 a pint, and people have come back from Portugal, and they're saying exactly that, right? Shockingly, for a country that is so associated with Guinness, the price of a pint in London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, is 3% less than a price in Dublin.

It's incredible.

I mean, you look at the global conflict layered on top of this.

Portugal, which is a massive colonial superpower at this time, is aggressively trying to maintain an absolute monopoly on Japan's incredibly lucrative trade industry.

And riding shotgun with Portuguese trade is the Jesuit order of the Catholic Church.

Correct.

And many of them, in fact, were.

So eventually, over the course of the 16th and early 17th centuries, these conversos fled Spain and Portugal.

and many of them ended up in amsterdam where they were allowed to return to judaism openly and the tolerant dutch republic allowed jewish communities to establish themselves with some restrictions but with a relatively a relative degree of freedom they weren't confined to a ghetto they didn't have to wear any special marking on their clothing Spinoza was born in 1632 into a family of Portuguese Jews who were part of a larger Sephardic, that is Iberian or Spanish and Portuguese, Jewish community in Amsterdam.

We know he attended school for a while, but when his father died, he had to take over the family business.

However, we don't know very much about his youth, aside from some mercantile exchanges.

Yes, mostly Africans,

yeah.

Also from the Caribbean because the Spanish and Portuguese Jews were deeply invested in plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean.

Every side had agents operating there because it was one of the few places in Europe where you could plausibly have German and Allied nationals mixing in public without immediately shooting at each other.

Kind of like Portugal, when we were in Portugal, Tom.

I remember.

Yep,

But not every city is an internal summer.

So if you don't like the winter, go to your target city in winter and see if you can love it at its worst, right? I think that's a big surprise I see for people, especially for Portugal, that go in the summer.

And then they move there and they're like, wait a minute.

Why is the winter so damp and cold and inside I'm freezing? Yeah.

That visa just started in 2020 in Estonia.

Before that, there was no such thing as a Digital Nomad Visa.

And it only became like Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Croatia now have that.

But Spain's Digital Nomad Visa came out, I think, two years ago.

be fantastic if that was the way

it's the same in Portugal isn't it wasn't Tanya and Craig saying that as well like they have to leave no

man's land and you you have to open something close it that's it in the story it's like you know the Tet in Europe like it's the same crack that's kind of an open road there obviously it's kind of no man's you do your thing like you know what you're expected not to obviously litter or do harm to anything on it you know that kind of way God, wouldn't it be fantastic?

Wouldn't it be fantastic? Like, you know yourself, you know, you're like parents of Ireland and, you know, you see these little roads and laneways and they just go on and on.

So I was supposed to be even out this morning for a little spin and didn't get the chance.

I was thwarted.

But yeah, Spain and a lot of Spain, a lot of Portugal, a lot of France over the last several years and really, really adored it.

Anywhere there was to go, like went to the guts of three weeks, the odd time.

Yes, road trip.

Portugal.

Portugal.

More Japan.

A lot of

So it spread.

Maybe if the wind is not very strong, it is not spreading so quickly like what we're seeing in Portugal and Spain because of the wind or the fire.

It spread below the ground slowly, but yeah, all over the area.

Putting it out is even more challenging, yeah.

That out, straight away.

Portugal first chance.

Thank you very much, boys.

Come on.