A: YEAH I DIDN'T UM I DIDN'T LOOK ON THE FORECAST WEATHER FORECAST

B: UM YEAH I HAVEN'T EITHER BUT I MEAN UH I WOULD CHECK IT IN THE WEEK OF OUR UH

A: YEAH YEAH

B: OF OUR UH UH

A: IT'S TOO EARLY

B: WHEN WHEN WE LEAVE YEAH BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT MIGHT CHANGE UH ANYWAY WE WOULD BE QUITE CLOSE TO THE COAST I GUESS SO IT'S NOT SUCH A BIG RISK

A: MM HMM MM HMM

B: THE CAPTAIN CAN CAN TAKE SOME SOME DECISIONS SOME COURSES IN ORDER TO AVOID UH US BEING TOO EXPOSED <OVERLAP>

A: <NO-SPEECH> CERTAIN YEAH

B: YEAH

A: CERTAIN WINDS

B: WELL IT IS A SORT OF INTRODUCTORY TRIP YOU KNOW SO IT SHOULD BE SOFT ON YOU

A: SO IN MY MIND THERE ARE ALL THESE IMAGES AND SINCE FROM I DON'T KNOW MOVIES LIKE UM UH THAT ONE UH I'VE WATCHED UHTRED YOU KNOW

B: <LAUGH> YEAH THE YEAH THE LAST UH KINGDOM

A: KINGDOM THE LAST KINGDOM YEAH <LAUGH> YEAH AND THOSE VIKING GIRLS YOU KNOW

A: SAILING THE SEAS <LAUGH>

B: YEAH BUT

A: YOU

B: AND I DON'T I DON'T KNOW TO TO WHAT EXTENT VIKING GIRLS WERE WERE SAILING THE SEAS I I THINK THEY WERE TENDING TO BABIES AT HOME RATHER THAN SAILING

A: UH ACTUALLY I'VE BEEN TO A MUSEUM IN SWEDEN AND UH YEAH THE GREAT MAJORITY DID THAT THEY WERE

B: MM HMM

A: JUST WOMEN BUT <LAUGH> BUT UH THERE WERE SOME WARRIOR GIRLS <LAUGH> YOU KNOW

B: OKAY <LAUGH>

A: AND THEY FOUGHT FOR JUST LIKE MEN

B: JUST LIKE MEN MM HMM

A: YEAH JUST LIKE UM I I IMAGINE THEM TO BE VERY BIG YOU KNOW

B: YEAH OF COURSE

A: IN ORDER TO HAVE SUCCESS AND NOT TO GET KILLED IN YOUR FIRST BATTLE <LAUGH>

B: YEAH I MEAN THEY ARE ALWAYS BIG RIGHT NORDIC PEOPLE

A: OH MY GOD THEY'RE HUGE THEY'RE HUGE I DON'T KNOW THEY I WA I WAS LOOKING AT THEM LIKE THERE LIKE I WAS FIVE YEARS OLD <LAUGH>

B: OKAY YEAH <LAUGH>

A: AND THEIR PARENTS IT WAS STRANGE <LAUGH>

B: IT IS FUNNY YEAH

A: <LAUGH> IT IS FUNNY UM UM BUT UH UH I I'D LIKE TO GO TO SOME UH SANCTUARIES YOU KNOW MM

B: MM TO SEE ANIMALS

A: ANIMAL YEAH

B: BUT YOU KNOW SANCTUARIES ACTUALLY HOLD ENEMIES ANIMALS WHO HAVE BEEN SAVED SUCH AS ANIMALS WHO WERE UH IN A CIRCUS OR BEING ABUSED

A: YEAH I KNOW YEAH

B: AND THEY WERE RECLAIMED SOMEHOW OR MAYBE UH UH CAPTURED BY THE ANIMAL POLICE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND PUT INTO CARE OF UH OF THIS KIND OF SANCTUARY

A: YEAH I KNOW THEY HAVE SOME SAD STORIES

B: YEAH THEY DO

A: IN THEIR LIVES BUT

B: YEAH

A: I THINK THAT'S A HAPPY THING NOW THEY ARE

B: YEAH OF COURSE

A: IN A FIVE STAR HOTEL HOTEL RIGHT NOW <LAUGH> SOMETHING LIKE THAT

B: HEY DO YOU REMEMBER THE BEAR SANCTUARY WE VISITED

A: YEAH YEAH

B: THE TRAUMATIZED BEARS

A: YEAH HAVE I TOLD YOU TOLD YOU THAT STORY ABOUT UM MY UH COLLEAGUE WHO WENT TO ANOTHER BEAR SA SANCTUARY

B: MM HMM

A: AND UH THERE WAS A A GIRL FEMALE BEAR

B: MM HMM

A: THAT UH CAME FROM THE CIRCUS

B: HMM

A: AND UH WHEN I IT WAS THE THE THE CUSTOMERS WERE UH BROUGHT W WITH THE TRUCK IN THE SANCTUARY AND THEY HAD YEAH THERE WA THERE WAS THEY WEREN'T UH WALKING ON FOOT

B: UH HUH

A: AND UH WHEN UH THE BEAR SAW THE TRUCK <LAUGH> SHE JUST STOOD UP ON <LAUGH> HER TWO FEET AND SHE PUT HER HANDS YOU KNOW LIKE IN A <LAUGH> LIKE IN A IN A BALLET <OVERLAP>

B: AH OKAY

A: POSITION <LAUGH> AND STARTED TO DO PIROUETTES <LAUGH> YOU KNOW LIKE IN THE CIRCUS AND IT WAS A BIG HUGE ANIMAL DOING SO GRACIOUSLY

B: <LAUGH>

A: PIROUETTES AND IT WAS JUST AMAZING AND THE WHOLE CROWD OF PEOPLE

B: YEAH

A: STARTED TO <CLICK> <LAUGH> CLAP THEIR HANDS AND <OVERLAP>

B: OH MY GOD

A: SCREAM AND THE LADY FROM THE CENTER IS JUST SAY NO NO NO WE DO NOT DISTRACT IT YOU KNOW <LAUGH> WE WANT THEM TO BE BEARS NOT BALLERINAS <LAUGH>

B: YEAH

A: IT IS FUNNY AND SAD AND UGH

B: YEAH YEAH YEAH BUT YOU KNOW WHAT'S FUNNY WHEN WE WERE UH LITTLE CHILDREN WE ACTUALLY LIKED THIS BECAUSE WE WERE KIND OF UH UH PRIMED WITH I MEAN FAMILIES EVERYBODY AROUND UH WANTED US TO GO TO CIRCUS AND FOR APPLAUD WHEN A BEAR

A: MM HMM

B: WOULD BE DANCING TO UH

A: YEAH AND ALL THOSE THOSE TIGERS I MEAN IT'S SO HUMILIATING TO SEE SUCH A <OVERLAP>

B: YEAH

A: HUGE FASCINATING ANIMAL YOU KNOW <LAUGH>

B: YEAH

A: LIFTING HIS PAW <LAUGH>

B: <LAUGH>

A: IT IS SILLY

B: YEAH AND I REMEMBER THE THE LADY IN THE RING PUTTING HER HEAD INSIDE THE UH MOUTH OF THE LION OR THE TIGER

A: SUPER <LAUGH> WHAT

B: YEAH

A: CAN I SAY

B: <LAUGH> BUT AND EVERYBODY WOULD UH TALK I MEAN AT LEAST IN MY FAMILY THAT THERE ONCE WAS THIS ACCIDENT AND THE ANIMAL ACTUALLY CLOSED <LAUGH> HIS MOUTH AND

A: REALLY

B: I MEAN I DON'T KNOW MAYBE THERE WAS MAYBE THERE WASN'T BUT IT WAS UM UH SOMETHING TO TO BRING A BIT OF UH SUSPENSE TOO

A: OF COURSE YEAH <LAUGH>

B: THE SAME AS UH AS UH WITH THE UM ACROBATS

A: MM HMM YEAH

B: AND TRAPEZE THE JUMPS AND SO ON

A: UH I ANOTHER COLLEAGUE OF MINE TOLD ME A STORY UH IT SHOULD BE TRUE 'CAUSE I THINK UH THERE WERE IN THE THERE WAS IN THE NEWSPAPERS AT THE TIME I DON'T KNOW IN THE FIFTIES OR SOMETHING THERE WAS A UH TRAINING LADY WHO THAT TRAINED ALL HER LIFE LIONS

B: MM HMM

A: AND SHE HAD THOSE UH CUBS LION CUBS AND SHE RAISED THEM FROM CUBS TO GROWN UPS

B: YEAH

A: UM BUT THERE WAS A RULE UH FOR UM FOR LADIES TRAINING LADIES TRAINERS THAT THEY

B: MM HMM

A: WEREN'T ALLOWED TO GO IN THE CAGE WITH THE LIONS UH WHEN THEY WERE UH IN AT THEIR PERIOD YOU KNOW

B: OKAY

A: AND BECAUSE OF THE SMELL YOU KNOW OF THE BLOOD

B: OKAY YEAH

A: AND <LAUGH> SHE ROSED SHE RAISED THOSE CUBS S SINCE WHERE THEY WERE I DON'T KNOW LIKE THIS <LAUGH> AND UM THEY ATE HER

B: <LAUGH> OKAY

A: <LAUGH> THEY DIDN'T MA THE STAFF OF THE CIRCUS DIDN'T MANAGE TO SAVE HER

B: AND AT LEAST IS <DTMF>

A: YEAH WILD ANIMALS <LAUGH>

B: YEAH <LAUGH> THAT'S WHY I STAY AWAY FROM WILD ANIMALS

A: YEAH <LAUGH>

B: EVEN STRAY DOGS SO NO SORRY

A: <LAUGH>

B: STRAY DOGS SHOULDN'T BE ON THE STREETS

A: <LAUGH> YEAH THEY SHOULDN'T BE THEY ARE CUTE THEY ARE NICE BUT NOT ON THE STREETS

B: YEAH

A: UH BUT I WAS THINKING UM TO VISIT UH THAT SANCTUARY WITH EAGLES AND UH OTHER HUGE BIRDS <LAUGH>

B: UH OKAY YEAH SURE I MEAN UH I I I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT OTTERS BUT UH

A: OTTERS I LOVE OTTERS <LAUGH>

B: YEAH <LAUGH>

A: THEY'RE SO FUNNY

B: YEAH I MEAN UH UH I THINK THAT THE WHOLE THING WITH OTTERS IS THAT YOU'D UM CATCH THEM SLEEPING WHICH THEY DO ALL THE TIME BASICALLY

A: <NO-SPEECH> <OVERLAP>

B: UH IF IF IF YOU CAN CATCH THEM WHILE THEY ARE ACTIVE THAT'S FINE BUT OTHERWISE YOU KNOW THEY JUST FLOAT UH AS A DERELICT SHIP WITH REALLY NO WORRIES AND NO DIRECTION

A: <LAUGH> WITH THEIR TUMMIES UP <LAUGH>

B: YEAH YEAH WITH THOSE

A: <LAUGH> BUT THEY'RE SPECTACULAR WHEN THEY'RE S WHERE WHEN THEY TRY AND HUNT OR JUST PLAY THEY'RE

B: YEAH

A: AMAZING <LAUGH>

B: UH I I THINK THEIR DESIGN IS AMAZING BECAUSE THEY CAN FLOAT SO WITHOUT ANY WORRIES I MEAN THEY CAN SIMPLY STAY LIKE THIS AND UH THE PHYSICS UH DO THEIR JOBS NATURE DOES ITS JOB THEY DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING WHICH IS FUN

A: YEAH

B: YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY ARE AWARE THAT YOU ARE THERE UH LOOKING AT THEM

A: THEY THINK SO

B: I'M NOT SURE I DIDN'T WHEN I SAW THEM THEY WERE JUST IGNORING EVERYBODY

A: <LAUGH> B BECAUSE THEY WERE THE STARS OF THE <LAUGH> I DON'T KNOW ZOO OR WHERE DID YOU SEE THEM

B: UM IN SEVERAL PLACES BUT ONCE WE WERE TO UH NO ACTUALLY WE WERE NO BUT UH I I HAVE SEEN THEM IN MANY UM UM ZOO OR GARDENS IN IN VARIOUS UH CITIES IN EUROPE AND IT'S THE SAME THING UH ALMOST EVERY TIME THEY JUST STAY THERE FLOAT YOU KNOW WEASELS ON THE OTHER HAND WEASELS ARE MUCH MORE ACTIVE

A: BUT YEAH

B: YOU KNOW WEASELS ARE THE THE THE ONES WHICH ARE SORT OF TUBULAR AND LONG

A: I I KNOW I KNOW UH BUT THEY ARE ON LAND THEY DO NOT FLOAT

B: YEAH THEY DON'T FLOAT <LAUGH>

A: <LAUGH>

B: ACTUALLY I ONCE SAW AN OTTER I THINK IT WAS IN UH THE THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN PRAGUE IN PRAGUE I THINK AND UM UH IT WAS UH SORT OF UH PUTTING ON A SHOW UH FOR THE VISITORS IT SEEMED VERY AWARE THAT PEOPLE WERE WATCHING

A: <LAUGH>