This is the first in a series of audio postcards Tim made from his recent trip to Europe. Wish you were here!

• San Sebastian on Wikipedia
• The Napoleonic Wars prove to be less dry than I somehow assumed they would be
• The San Sebastian International Jazz Festival - pretty great!

Sorry the late posting. To make it up to you, we brought cookies! Well, talk of cookies.

Here's the deal: for the next three weeks, instead our usual shows, we'll be sending you audio postcards from Tim's recent trip to Europe. This week, in addition to letting you know the deal, we're sending you a segment that was cut out of our show on Boston. Enjoy!

• Tim will be sending audio postcards from:
• Madrid
• Paris
• San Sebastián
• Paradise Bakeries, it turns out, is not just in Boston. They are in Boston, and the American Southwest
• People like Paradise Bakeries on Yelp. Most call out the cookies. They're really good, you guys!

Special thanks to Megan Corning for her dissection of the cookie cookie, and to the nice lady who spoke to me at Paradise Bakeries.

SNAKE ALERT! SNAKE ALERT!

A 6ft python was recently lost in a local Seattle park. First Kathryn and Tim panicked. Then, they sat down to record this podcast full of all the terrifying things you should know about snakes in order to execute a well-informed panic about the coming Snakepocalypse.

Note: Due to some microphone mishaps, the audio in this episode is iffy. Please bear with us.

Notes:

• The report of the Ravenna Park python's accidental release
• The Ravenna Park Python's Twitter account
• Teeth is a film that probably shouldn't have been made.
• The Brown Tree Snake that has invaded Guam
• Wolfram Alpha - try it with tea and crumpets!