What are you reading?
Well, i haven't read
this in 10 years.
The story behind the letter.
There was this very special lady called Maria Angeles.
I haven't touched it for the past 10 years.
Maria Angeles, here we go!
This will be the last time i'm gonna
do some gardening work in my own house.
Okay.
Good luck!
We sold our house!
And now we're gonna start a journey
around the world.
And you're invited to come along!
So today we're at my mother's house.
Of course she's not all that thrilled about our travel around the world as we are but that's understandable.
But of course as a good mother she wants  us to be happy, so she's happy for us.
Now of course she's been watching our videos from day one and she's been supporting us since the beginning.
But at the end of the day she's my mother so she doesn't really have much of a choice, she has to.
I remember when i was about four or five years old i made her a macaroni necklace and she liked that too!
Anyway we're gonna enjoy the time we
have left in Holland before we leave.
Spend as much time together as possible
and...
Guys, cheers to the future!
And here are
some of the souvenirs...
we brought them over the years.
What are you doing?
A huge spider web.
You can't see him right now, he's in the corner.
I'm gonna cut around and i'm gonna leave it.
Well of course i'm not gonna leave it
like that for the new owner.
So i'm gonna cut it. Leaving the spider at his place.
This will actually the last time i'm gonna do some gardening work in my own house.
Ok, good luck!
And of course; The rest!
If you come any further, you will appear on camera.
That's why i'm standing here.
That's who i am!
And this is his face!
What are you reading?
Well, i haven't read this in 10 years.
There's a funny story to this.
This is a letter i got from a very very special person.
I need to tell a little background story for this.
The story to it is that in 2007...
I lost a lot of money that i invested in my own business.
It was all my savings.
After that life went downhills
and in 2010 i hit rock bottom.
This was just before i met Yolanda.
And there was this very special lady called Maria Angeles.
Now the story behind the letter.
At my 27th birthday we were already planning to leave Spain.
Go back to Holland,
re-school, start all over...
Press the reset button of my life
and change course.
And she predicted that difficult times were going to be
ahead of us.
And she gave me a very special bottle of
wine from the region where she's from.
It's called; León.
And she told me; When the shit hits the fan...
You're gonna sit down, drink that wine...
And it's a thinking wine.
Like she said in the letter; This will be the light at the end of your tunnel.
Or the light that will enlighten your
darkest moments.
And believe me in those 10 years we've
been in Holland...
We have faced many many hardships along the way.
And every time i was about to open that
bottle of wine i thought to myself...
What if this is not the time she meant.
What if there's something worse ahead of us.
I might as well save the bottle of wine for when that day comes.
And that actually pulled me through all those
hardship moments.
It took me long time to realise,
that was her intention all along.
That bottle of wine has been in my
cabinet for the past 10 years.
It hasn't moved since it's been there.
And i remember Maria Angeles actually came all the way from Spain to our wedding six years ago.
And i said to her; I'm gonna keep the bottle to celebrate a special occasion.
Now, it's been 10 years, what better occasion than we selling our house.
To follow our dreams travelling the world
I mean it's been a childhood dream
and what better way to celebrate it now.
In our final weekend. it's it's two days
before we're leaving.
So i want you to come with me and we're gonna go for this bottle of wine.
And we're gonna enjoy this bottle of wine together.
It has been here for the past 10 years.
I haven't touched it for the past 10 years.
This is a very very special 2008, Petalos
Lierzo, cool.
Now i must add to this...
Ever since i did my career change in 2010...
I haven't done this in more than 10 years, so i thought this bottle of wine would be a good....
Trial.
(Oops) You might want to cut that out or
leave it in for a laugh!
Ok, we've gonna let it breathe for a little while.
Just look at the colour.
How dark.
Maria Angeles, here we go!
Thank you.
Sounds good.
We are gonna enjoy this.
So i got one final word to say to my dear friend Maria Angeles.
But of course she's Spanish, so i'm gonna do this in Spanish.
I will put closed captions in there.
So make sure you enable your closed captions if you want to read what i'm going to say right now.
But first i would like to...
Oh this...
This is really really beautiful.
Special moment.
I have waited 10 years for this moment.
To savour this...
Oh wow.
Ok, so...
Dear Maria Angeles.
I thank you again for all you have done for us.
For that bottle of wine.
I never opened it during the hardships and believe me, we had them.
Plenty of it.
This bottle of wine you gave me, today it's a bottle of celebration.
To celebrate our happiness.
Today is our 6th wedding anniversary and it has been almost 10 years that we have been together!
To celebrate our future.
We are finally going to live our dream to travel the world.
With this fantastic woman.
We will never forget you.
You will always have a special place in our hearts.
We toast to live, to friendship and to happiness.
Salud!
Salud!
And like they say in Andalusia:
F***ing awesome!
Thank you very much, big kiss and till always!
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