Laurence Falconer

How are you, Ciarán?

What's the crack?

Indeed, it was love.

Yes, the good old-fashioned reason.

Yeah, I used to be a history tour guide.

That was one of my jobs when I was living in Dublin and basically met my love there.

And yeah, she was a German from...

The middle of nowhere, essentially in Germany, Baden-Württemberg, up in the mountains there, kind of very close to the Alps.

I knew nothing about it, but we lived in Dublin for four years or so.

And then I followed her over to Germany.

And yeah, that was basically how I moved over, love.

yeah, do you know, I really didn't have a clue.

I'm fairly, I just kind of do things and I tend to do things quite on a whim.

You know, I didn't particularly research where I was going or whatever.

I was just essentially going with the flow and I thought, ah, yeah, sure, that could be grand and see what happens.

But Jesus, I wasn't prepared for how lovely the place was.

That was the biggest shock.

I had been to Berlin a couple of times, basically on clubbing holidays with my brother and some friends over the years and

I had an uncle who lived in a place called Recklinghausen up around northern Germany as well.

Anyway, I was absolutely shocked by the general loveliness of the place.