John and Rooney enjoy the return of the songbirds, as they walk in the mountains.

Rooney and John look back on a year of podcasting surrounded by the birdsongs of Chaffinches and Siskins, and contrast struggling through a Connecticut blizzard with a lambent Andalusian dawn walk, COVID's 3rd vaccination, and learning Spanish via ancient and modern technology.

Rooney and John get out at dawn to discuss the meaning of dreams, Russian television, cosmology, learning a language, and earning a placement to spend a year in industry.

Rooney and John talk a rainy walk in the hills, discuss tapas recipes, fine wines, a Nigella recipe that didn't work out, mountain hiking, a mountain restaurant serving jabali (wild boar), and Malaga hosting a world Rugby sevens tournament.

John and Rooney are out, after 17 days isolating, celebrating, discussing the hoops you need to jump through just to get an internship these days, why Putin has amassed 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border, and other lighthearted matters.

After a long confinement of 10 days, Rooney and John venture out into a world struggling with the Omicron variant of COVID 19. John's recovery is at last underway. Rooney is relieved to be back out on the trail, as they review the mysterious and enigmatic world of the European Eel, Anguillus Anguillus.

Rooney and John walk out, trying to avoid people because John has contracted COVID. They review the holidays, a trip to one of Ronda's oldest and best restaurants, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, bullfighting tradition, the ancient history and battlements of Ronda, and John makes an unfortunate remark in the village bar.

Santa can't get COVID, surely? Fiestas and Ferias, how the Spanish celebrate Christmas and more.

Rooney and John take a walk in the rain on Christmas Eve, and remenice over what it all means.

Elitism and Classics.