the guffaw I just let out at this cold open
"guys, it turns out getting these vaccinations are a lot more important than I realised"
he's called five diff. hospitals, it's been "absolutely insane and it's been an absolute nightmare". He says he's spoken to lots of different doctors. Two vaccines he can get at a pharmacy, two he has to get at a hospital at 8:30 tomorrow morning. He needs to be at the airport for 10am, it's going to be crazy. He shouldn't be getting all the vaccines together but it's the best he can do right now. He's off to the pharmacy to get Hep A and Typhoid now, tetanus and something else at the hospital tomorrow. It's a Bank Hol in Turkey so loads of stuff is closed.
First pharmacy turned him away, "I don't know why but he definitely doesn't like me, I don't know why, I don't know why, this guy hates me". [
Could it be because you walked into his pharmacy looking like a highlighter demanding a vaccine you should have had six weeks ago?]
Paul is off back to the hotel to get them to call him a taxi.
*two hours later*
Long taxi journey, he's been to three different pharmacies and the hospital. It's been a nightmare. A lovely doctor called Aiza is going to give him the vaccines tomorrow. She's going to pick him up in a taxi before she starts work and drive round to try and find the two vaccines he needs, then take him to her private clinic to have the other two.
Paul's travelled all round the world and never had vaccines and been absolutely fine. But he wants to be careful. He doesn't know how long the vaccines will take but he could be in mystery country for a while. ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE.
"The doctor really is a lovely woman, really young, but really really smart girl"