The Rest is Spain - The Olive Press podcast - Episode 16

But I have to say, this one, this one on the cover is crazy.

So tell us about this one, John.

Yeah, I mean, uh, as I, as I learned to, in journalism, you have to tell so-called pub test, which is where you go down the pub on a Friday evening and tell your mates a story, and this ticks literally every single box.

It is [laughs] quite extraordinary really.

A guy, you know, and all of us do this, don't we? We park our cars at the airport, we go back to UK or back off on holidays, and you turn up at the whichever airport, whether it's Valencia, Barcelona, Málaga, P- Palma, and, you know, you hand your keys over to someone at the airport who says, "Great.

We'll when are you back?" You tell them, you know.

It's where it's all booked in normally, so you know when you're back.

Anyway, this chap, uh, and his wife in Marbella turned up at Málaga Airport with their car.

They basically, uh, handed the keys over, went off on their holiday, came back 10 days later, and went to, you know, the normal meeting spot, and the guy's like, "Mm, can't find your car." So he's like...

Actually, this-

Wow

... happened to me once actually, and they did find the car, although it was the next day.

But they, they said, "We can't find your car." And he was like, "Well, where is it?" They said, "Well, we actually don't know." So they were like, "This is ridiculous." What...

It's actually 3:00 in the morning, by the way.

It came in really late.

Oh, no.

So, so-

Just make it worse

...

they, they then got given a kind of...

It's, it's a company called One Parking Málaga, so we're give- they've got plenty of cars.

So they were handed-

Oh, I've used them.

Have you? [laughs] Well, they were handed a courtesy car.

Got my car back, so [laughs] I'm one of the lucky ones.