Pour The Wine, It's Rom-Com Time

Hallmark's Passport to Love: To Barcelona, With Love

• Garry & Amy

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Pour the Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time is getting its passport stamped! Join Garry & Amy as they are whisked away to beautiful Barcelona, Spain! "To Barcelona, With Love,”* starring Ashley Williams and Alison Sweeney, is a heartwarming story where a translator secretly rewrites an American author’s novel, turning it into a Spanish bestseller. What follows? A whirlwind journey of friendship, creative sparks, and maybe even a little love. Pack your bags, pour a glass, and explore the irresistible charm of Barcelona! No passport required!

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Amy:

Welcome to Pour the Wine. It's RomCom time where we'll sip some wine and review all things RomCom on the Hallmark Channel. I'm Amy.

Garry:

And I'm Gary.

Amy:

And Gary's going to be pouring the wine.

Garry:

Yes, Gary is.

Amy:

The Cabernet Sauvignon.

Garry:

That's right.

Amy:

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Amy:

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Amy:

What else can they do?

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Garry:

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Amy:

We'll chat. You can also send us an email, yes, at pourthewineitsromcomtime at gmailcom. So shoot us an email. Let us know what you think about what we're reviewing or what Hallmark's doing or the events they have coming up. We'd love to hear from you.

Garry:

Yes, we would.

Amy:

All righty, should we get into what we're reviewing today?

Garry:

We sure should.

Amy:

We sure should get into what we're reviewing today. We sure should. We sure, should you like to hear?

Garry:

it. Here it goes. Here it goes. Today we're reviewing the first Passport to Love movie To Barcelona with Love that aired on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, june 7th 2025. If you missed it, you can catch it now on Hallmark Plus.

Amy:

Yep, you sure can.

Garry:

So tell us who's in this one.

Amy:

To Barcelona with Love stars, the one and only Ashley Williams.

Garry:

She plays.

Amy:

Anna. She, of course, is a Hallmark favorite. She's been in more than a dozen Hallmark productions, including 2024's Jingle Bell Run with Andrew Walker.

Garry:

That was a fun one.

Amy:

That was a fun one. The Hannah Swenson mystery A Sprinkle of Deceit which is with Alison Sweeney, who's also in this. Really good. She was in Falling Together with Paul Campbell. He is from the Three Wise Men and a Baby.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

Three Wise Men and a Baby. The Sister Swap movies, A Hometown Holiday and Christmas in the City with her real life sister, Kimberly Williams Paisley. And do you know what she was in?

Garry:

What was she in?

Amy:

She was in the father of the bride movies with Steve Martin. Yeah, that's her real life sister. Awesome. Those were all in 2021. She was also in never kiss a man in a Christmas sweater in 2020 and the four Christmas and evergreen movies. She is also in the reality show small town, set up on Hallmark Plus and it is renewed for 2026.

Garry:

And that is such a super cute fun show it is.

Amy:

If you haven't seen it, we would strongly recommend going to Hallmark Plus and checking it out.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

She's so bubbly, much like her character in this.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

And fun and genuine and it's just a really, really cute, cute show. She, of course, will also be in the next Passport to Love movie To Barcelona Forever. The continuation of this one, yay. Some of her other work includes Lifetime's Sister Wife Murder Murder, where her character name was also Anna, because she's Anna in this one.

Garry:

Are you okay? That's interesting.

Amy:

That's Annie, Are you okay? She was in one episode of the Good Doctor and she was in 23 episodes of the Jim Gaffigan Show, where she played Jim Gaffigan's wife between 2015 and 2016. Interesting.

Garry:

Yes, we watched that.

Amy:

You didn't realize that.

Garry:

No.

Amy:

Yeah, we watched that you didn't realize that.

Garry:

No, yeah, we watched that. No, I know we watched it. I didn't know she played the wife. It was a cute show.

Amy:

Kind of humor right up our alley, sarcastic witty funny. Allison Sweeney plays Erica. She too is a hallmark staple. She is widely known for playing the title character in the popular Hannah Swenson mysteries, which we have not seen.

Garry:

Nope, not yet which we need to change.

Amy:

Yes, she's been playing Hannah Swenson for a decade. There have been 11 movies in that collection so far. The first five are actually known as Murder she Baked, and then they moved to the Hannah Swenson Mysteries. The 12th one, a Pie to Die For, will air June 22, 2025, and the 13th one, cook to Death. Death is in pre-production. Oh yeah, her other hallmark work includes love and jane, part of 2024's love you, arie. I think you're gonna get to say that all year long. I am this time each year in 2024, which was really cute the Wedding Veil movies all three, and those were in 2023. The Chronicle Mysteries she was in four in 2019 and one in 2021, where she plays a podcaster helping solve murders Awesome. And she, too, will return into Barcelona Forever the continuation of this one.

Garry:

I can't wait.

Amy:

Can't wait. As far as her other work, she's best known as Sammy Samantha on Days of Our Lives. She's been in 3,619 episodes from 1987 to 2025.

Garry:

In the 80s that's a long time she was also in one episode of Friends.

Amy:

Uh-oh, oh my gosh. Okay, there you go Way back when she was also in an episode of Webster Webster.

Garry:

Webster in 1985.

Amy:

Oh my gosh, 1985. And looking at her IMDb, it looks like she's been pretty exclusive to Days of Our Lives and Hallmark since 2013.

Garry:

That's pretty cool. That's loyal. Right there, Some loyalness.

Amy:

Now the other actors in the film are Spanish actors. Yeah, alejandro Tous I'm not sure how to pronounce his last name, it's T-O-U-S. He plays Nico. He's a Spanish actor. I didn't see any other hallmark work for him, although he could come back. I could see him coming back.

Amy:

Me too. Hallmark work for him, although he could come back. I could see him coming back me too. He returns as nico into barcelona forever. His credits go back to 2001. He was in la aquaria blanca 99 episodes from 2023 to 2025. He's largely known in spain for playing alvaro aguilaruilar on the popular Yo Soy Bia series. He was in 368 episodes of that from 2006 to 2009. And you know what that translates to.

Garry:

What.

Amy:

Bia is an ugly assistant.

Garry:

Oh.

Amy:

Oh, it doesn't translate to that, I'm sorry. I'm reading the description. Bia is an ugly assistant, but very efficient and is not liked by the beautiful ones and those who hate working. So, it's like Ugly Betty.

Garry:

Ugly.

Amy:

Betty Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Aw, isn't that pretty cool. So I went down a rabbit hole there. So Yo Soy Betty La Fia was a Colombian telenova from 1999 to 2001. And the Yo Soy Bia that he was in started in 2006, as did Ugly Betty. So both of those two are like remakes of the Colombian version of Ugly Betty. I know and we love Ugly Betty.

Garry:

Yes, we do so.

Amy:

I really went down a rabbit hole during all that. So, miguel, oh, I'm sorry. Let me rephrase javier santos plays mateo and you can find him at javier santos 89 on instagram and he has a really cool post about finishing up production. How thankful he was for everyone. Just seems like a really cool guy. There's a video of him tearing up. I couldn't find any other work with him, maybe because he's a spanish actor.

Amy:

Imdb had actors listed for this movie that are in the next movie right, so I don't, I think, there was some I don't know I don't know, it was weird it was hard to find it was hard to find mateo. You know work of his nacho nugo plays joseph. He is also on instagram. If you would like to find him, nacho nugo on insta, and he does have a a link to his.

Amy:

Um, help me casting company my brain is the but um, and he has several credits listed there which I will not embarrass myself and say because they are in spanish and I don't want to butcher them. So so he's young, but he had several credits listed, and I'm sure Javier Santos probably does as well. I just don't. I couldn't find a whole lot about him.

Garry:

Well, you know.

Amy:

Yep, there you go.

Garry:

Sometimes we find them and sometimes we don't.

Amy:

Sometimes, we don't. Well, most of the times we do, but but don't take it personally.

Garry:

Well, most of the times we do but, but don't take it personally.

Amy:

I was too busy going down the deep dive of ugly Betty.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

So there you go. That's who's in to Barcelona with love.

Garry:

Awesome, yeah, all right. So what did you think?

Amy:

What did I think you want me to go first?

Garry:

Well, if you want to, I can go first. I can go first. Go first, go first, go first. You go first. You go first, I'll go first. Okay, I really loved the movie. I'm sipping my wine.

Amy:

I'm sorry, yes, yes, I hear you.

Garry:

I'm sorry Alison Sweeney and Ashley Williams. They're like sisters, or?

Amy:

something I agree. I agree they're real life friends. I know they're real life good friends and you can tell.

Garry:

Really, really showed in the movie. I mean, I loved the opening music, I loved the architecture, yes, I loved the culture. I loved, oh, the street vendors.

Amy:

Oh, so cool. Oh man, when she went in the food. Yes, yeah, the food vendors and the food market, or whatever. It was Right, right.

Garry:

I just loved it all. What'd you think? Hated it? No, just kidding, I just loved it all. What did you think?

Amy:

Hated it. No, I'm just kidding. I think our travels are off to a fantastic start in Passport to Love, yes, while we definitely get a romance in there right, and it's kind of cool because it's in Spain and it's a. Spanish man and the language and stuff, rico. I love that we have two wonderfully strong female actors who they share the billing, by the way.

Garry:

Yes, you know, they share the billing.

Amy:

And they play perfectly off of each other and that could have to do with them having a real-life friendship. I mean, I thought Ashley Williams was exceptional. She's just so cute and fun and happy-go-lucky and, like I said, I think she's like that in real life. I'd like to believe that. I'm sure she has her down moments, but her character was just like she is on the reality show yeah when she goes to the town, she's just so genuine you know and, um, you know when she's mad she's not really mad, mad, I don't know.

Amy:

It's like it's so good and alice and sweeney perfectly plays the more serious, grounded but also totally genuine. Yeah, it's like a woman's so good and Alice and Sweeney perfectly plays the more serious, grounded, but also totally genuine woman in the film. Yeah, I mean, they're so good and they're both. You know, their characters are still trying to find their way and, of course, I love the on-location shoot of Barcelona.

Garry:

Yes, you cannot beat that.

Amy:

I've never been, but what an introduction right.

Garry:

Yes, I would really love to yes, to Spain, I mean.

Amy:

I might actually like to go there.

Garry:

I like, yeah, like you mentioned the streets, the architecture, the cities.

Amy:

I mean I, I loved it all. You know what we didn't do what we didn't.

Garry:

We didn't read the synopsis let's back it up. It's time to drop the synopsis.

Amy:

Now that we've told you what we think, we'll tell you a little bit about what it's about. Here's the synopsis Erica, an American translator, secretly rewrites a Barcelona-set novel. Translator secretly rewrites a Barcelona set novel. Complications arise when a bookseller, Nico, invites Anna, the credited author, for a signing in the city and, as we mentioned already, it was filmed on location in Barcelona, Spain, in March of 2025. Ashley and Allison now have a behind-the-scenes podcast and we've listened to a couple of episodes.

Amy:

It's really cute. Go check it out. It's called Mia Moore, with Ali Sweeney and Ashley Williams. That is super cute, fun, genuine, and they're talking about their time. I actually think they might still be in Spain during a few of the episodes that we listened to. It kind of sounded like maybe they started it before they left. I'm not 100% certain about that, but it does sound like it, and they give a lot of antidotes about when they were filming.

Garry:

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

Amy:

It's pretty cute. Yeah, we've listened to two. There are four episodes so far. We've listened to two. St Geordie Day, which is discussed throughout the film, is an actual holiday. It's celebrated on april 23rd oh it's also known as the day of books and roses that's kind of cool exchange books and roses as a sign of love and affection. Yeah, I thought that was really kind of like valentine's yeah yeah, they filmed honor near los ramblas, which is a famous street in barcelona, the cathedral beautiful sagrada familia.

Amy:

Sagrada Familia. Yeah, it was beautiful. They actually filmed in the gondola at one point. They are in a gondola and they filmed in there, and Ali speaks a little more Spanish than Ashley, so A little more A little more, a lot more.

Garry:

Okay, I thought that was pretty cool, because you don't see that too often.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah.

Garry:

You know, and that's one of the things that about americans and and acting we don't do really do a lot of the other languages like they do, like they'll come here and somebody that speaks spanish will do an american english accent or talk in english, but you rarely do you see someone go over there and speak in spanish right, right.

Amy:

Well, she didn't speak in spanish the whole. I mean she just no, not the whole time, but still I mean, if I could speak that much, I'd be like, really, I know, like wow, you'd be fine.

Garry:

Because we don't teach it early enough here and we don't. I don't think we teach it the way it should be taught.

Amy:

Right, right, but to be a I call it a ghostwriter translator? Yeah, that would be really cool.

Garry:

I mean, how hard would that be to translate it into another language?

Amy:

Well, you know Ali Sweeney's character, erica, does take the matter to her own hands and pretty much writes the book when she's translating it writes Anna's book and it is a big hit in Spain because of it and it's not a hit in America with Anna's version.

Garry:

Right right.

Amy:

But Erica's version.

Garry:

You know, what was so funny is I was thinking that they were friends, but they were mad at each other when the movie first started. Really, they mentioned that Anna was going to go to Barcelona. She had that. Erica had that look on her face like and I thought they were friends but had fallen out.

Amy:

But actually she was the ghostwriter, you know what it's so funny that you say that because I have that in my notes also that we didn't. I didn't read the. Sometimes I do the legwork before we watch a film and I'll write the synopsis down and look at the actors and everything, but I hadn't done anything before we watched it the first time.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And so I didn't, and we didn't, watch the trailers, so I really thought that maybe she. Yeah, there was some beef between them Right right. I just didn't know what. Because of the way Erica was acting at the beginning about the book and about Anna, I didn't know if they were rivals, and I too was surprised to find that out that she was, that she was a ghostwriter.

Garry:

Translator speaking of spoilers, I was getting ready to say that, go ahead we, we are going to give away spoilers, so hit the pause button, go watch the movie now.

Amy:

Watch it, it's worth it.

Garry:

Go watch it and then come back, hit, play, watch it, come you know, and then drop us something on social media. Let's talk let's talk, let's maybe you saw something we didn't, or maybe you probably did yeah, but um yeah, so I, I thought that was really cool all right, so you want to get into our favorite scenes yes, all right. What did you have? Did you have? How many did you have?

Amy:

uh, I have. I mean, there were I really enjoyed the whole movie honestly. Um, I have a handful like four okay that I picked out, but well, let's go back and forth. Okay, one and then all right, I really liked the meet cute. Even though it wasn't a meet cute it was me between friends soon to be friends right, I thought that was really cute. So, at the beginning, well, towards the beginning, well, I guess, yeah, towards the beginning and um, anna thinks that erica was sent there to be her assistant so she like asked her for food or something and erica's like I'm your assistant.

Amy:

I'm here just to show you around and I thought that was really cute. So we had a meet cute, just not a romantic one. So I thought that was really cool.

Garry:

Yeah, it was. It was a really good thing.

Amy:

It was a cool way to do it.

Garry:

And I loved how she didn't act like a snob about it.

Amy:

Right, right, like what. I don't have an assistant, you know right she was like oh okay, I'll just carry my own stuff then, god, her character was so good, okay, yeah, what about you?

Garry:

I actually close to that particular scene was when she finds out that um erica is the translator. Oh, because? She knew so much about the book right.

Amy:

Right, and she was like what actually? Do you do, do you do.

Garry:

Or Anna says that to Erica. I knew it.

Amy:

I wondered how they? Yeah, yeah, because throughout that beginning part, like Nico's telling Anna things about the book and she's like what?

Garry:

Yeah, did I write that? The dolphin.

Amy:

I remember him writing about a dolphin. You know, it's just funny.

Garry:

Yeah, I wonder if he had to spear the fish to make his food.

Amy:

Yeah, when she confronts Erica.

Garry:

Yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah, that was a good scene. What else do you have?

Amy:

I really liked when they found the secret bar. Oh, that was so cool Because they're looking for it that long. But they are looking for it and you know, and I almost said allison sweeney, but her character, erica, kind of doesn't believe anna's, like you know neither does tell you anything, and he doesn't really believe her and then all of a sudden they find it.

Amy:

I just thought it was so cute and I think it was actually really. Um, I think they might have said it was actually really a bar behind something, but I could be mistaken, but I thought I heard an interview of them say that.

Garry:

But isn't that always the case? You know you live somewhere and you think you know all the nooks and crannies, and then somebody comes from out of town and right, oh did you ever go to this place.

Amy:

You're like I never even knew about that well, and anna's so bubbly. She's like people tell me things, you know, like people will just. And her personality invites people to tell her things and she's like see, I like when they got inside of the little secret bar or restaurant.

Garry:

She pulls out her phone and she does a translation, like I told you.

Amy:

so In Spanish. Oh yeah, it was so cute. Just little quips like that. What about you? Another scene.

Garry:

Yeah, I like how they gave a just kind of shout out to roxanne.

Amy:

yes, yes, well, and that's a shout out to cyrano yes, yes yeah, steve martin, and uh, daryl hannah, I think was in that steve martin and daryl hannah.

Garry:

Yep, yep, yeah, because I also had the. Uh, the little secret so what?

Amy:

when you say the shout out, you mean the actually scene where they did it, or you just mean when they, when they were walking?

Garry:

they were talking about. I can't remember what Erica said Anna Anna was, she was rattling off some things. And then they both at the same time said ooh.

Amy:

Roxanne, roxanne, oh yeah, yeah, that scene they did, but the password to get into that restaurant was free refills.

Garry:

Oh, that's right, you had to say free refills, yeah.

Amy:

Free refills, free refills yeah, when she said that and they opened it up, that was pretty cute.

Garry:

They all looked at her like what yeah? That was cute so yeah, what else did you?

Amy:

have. I loved all the shots of Anna going around eating the food and taking selfies. It was just really cute and fun and I know Ashley Williams has said that. You know she's really eating the food. Like a lot of actors and actors, you know when you're in a scene you don't really eat, but she was like it was so good she was actually eating.

Garry:

She did a really good job of eating and talking.

Amy:

Yeah, eating and talking. So I just and I loved all those scenes because I just think her personality I have to believe Ashley Williams and if she's not really like this in real life I would be shocked, but she just seems like the most bubbly genuine, you just want to hang out with her. Yeah, you just want to hang out with her, so I thought it was really cool.

Garry:

You know, not to get drunk or anything, just to hang out. Oh, no, no, no know and eat and be a foodie with her and go around and I mean, yeah, she's just cool yeah, I also love that scene too, how she went from vendor to vendor yeah she was tasting the food and she'd give um pieces of it to other people and take a selfie with them yeah, and I thought that you know, when you love something, that should be your job right well, and that's what her passion out in this right.

Amy:

Yeah, and I thought that was.

Garry:

that was really good and I liked. One of my other scenes is when they decide to write the short story together I thought that was such a really cool scene and when they finish Ashley. Anna was crying and she was like this is really good. And I was was crying and she was like this is really good and I I hand to god.

Amy:

it looked like she was really crying I don't know, it was towards the end of filming. That's what I was gonna say. Was that maybe that was filming and she was sad, but she really looked like.

Garry:

I mean, I don't, I don't know how they filmed it.

Amy:

But if they filmed it out of sequence and they had, yeah, they did that one last and they were.

Garry:

Well, she's really good at crying man. Yeah, that was good Because she had a couple of cries. I'm telling you she's really good, really good.

Amy:

So the last one I had was the Cyrano de Bergeac type Roxanne type scene where Erica is trying to feed Anna the lions while she's with Nico, so it is like that.

Garry:

She was repeating exactly what she was saying at first.

Amy:

Which happens, you know, in those type of scenes. But I thought that was cute. Yeah, did you have any other favorite?

Garry:

scenes. My last favorite scene was when Erica and Nico were at the bar watching the football game. Yeah, and Erica and Nico were at the bar watching the football game.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

And after the game they both looked at each other and they just had that look. Yeah, and you're like how many of those looks are you going to give each other before?

Amy:

you realize? Yeah, before you say something to one another.

Garry:

Yeah, so that was my last.

Amy:

Yeah, that was pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, sure yeah.

Garry:

So do you have any cheers?

Amy:

I have all the cheers, barcelona and the spanish music sprinkled throughout the entire movie I loved, loved that you, I like no green screen yeah, I think you're right yes, I think you're right, and if you're wrong I'm impressed.

Garry:

That means it was good, I think even that um sky ride, they get, they got oh, they were really on.

Amy:

They were, they were on it, so if there was going to be a green screen, I would have thought that's where you would have put.

Garry:

Yeah, so I am so glad they did not do that just um.

Amy:

You know, like we said about barcelona, just the scenes the cities, the, the cathedral the beautiful, just the architecture. All of that just wove beautifully into the story and that's what's so cool about like Europe and over there the streets?

Garry:

It's just the architecture.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

Architecture and the history.

Amy:

Well, they're a lot older than us, right? Well, yeah, I know they got a few years on us Americans here.

Garry:

Yeah, we don't have a lot of nice buildings that you can Well we have buildings, they're just not as old as you know, yeah, I mean because we're baby, we're baby I just love their culture you know, yeah, they really take pride in their things that they believe in.

Amy:

Another cheer of mine, of course, would be Allison and Ashley. They just totally shine in it. Yes, cheer of mine, of course, would be allison and ashley. They just totally shine in it. Yes two actors and or actresses. I'm trying to be appropriate.

Garry:

I don't know it's off to them it was just their friendship shown through.

Amy:

You know, like you could really just see their friendship in this and it was so great, you know, and they kind of you, you know, at the beginning, you know they had like a little bit of a banter and then they grew closer and you could just really it was just really they were great in it. I really really liked them in it.

Garry:

How about that ham she was carrying around?

Amy:

I know that was funny.

Garry:

Was that was, that was a ham. Yeah, it was a ham, that was funny.

Amy:

Any more cheers for me there was one more scene. I thought it was Scene, or cheer we're on cheers there, or cheer we're on cheers.

Garry:

There was a scene I forgot. Oh, what scene was that it was when Erica walked up on Anna. She was at a food truck and she bought something. She was starting to eat it and she kept asking her have you started writing the short story? And Anna was looking up in the sky and just kept turning around. Every time Erica was asking her something she kept turning around right like complete circle.

Amy:

I thought that, that was cute. That was cute. She's like no, no, no no, I, I actually do you have any cheers then that you wanted to?

Garry:

cheers or cheers cheers, any more cheers because you went back to a scene so I didn't know. No, I'm sorry.

Amy:

I I had one more cheer. I love that the romance is an important part of the movie and drives the story, but the fact that the developing friendship between anna and erica is a central part of the storyline also is very cool yeah so it's not just about you know the love story it's also about the friendship between the two women and I think you, you know, I think people who like Hallmark movies will appreciate that you know very much, because you do have women who are close friends and or you meet by chance.

Amy:

What does she say? It was fate in the movie for them.

Garry:

Cause she thought fate had brought her there to find love.

Amy:

Right.

Garry:

But that it actually brought her there to become friends, to find love, right, but that it actually brought her there to become friends, to find friendship, right, right, yeah, I thought that that was really really cool, really cool.

Amy:

And then there was one thing that let me see if I can find it, what Ashley said, like laughter is contagious.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Optimism is a choice. Right and I was like that is so true.

Garry:

It is true.

Amy:

You know I mean, yeah, you can be down and out, but you know you also have a choice. You can make the best of it.

Garry:

Mateo had said something too. He was the flower shop friend.

Amy:

Yeah, we haven't really talked about him.

Garry:

He was really good. He was really good. I liked him. I was like that yeah, that little angel devil on her shoulder is like no, no, no, you wrote this, you take ownership.

Amy:

And he was encouraging Erica to tell Nico how she really felt about him. He was like that best friend. Yeah, I thought that that worked really well.

Garry:

Yeah, because he had said something, Because Erica, she wasn't listening to him and he said you know, a ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what the ship was built for.

Amy:

Right, right, I remember yeah.

Garry:

He was like set sail, girl set sail.

Amy:

Because he had the flower shop.

Garry:

Yeah, he had the flower shop. And there was one more thing that one of them said. I just had it in my head and now I can't remember what they said.

Amy:

There were just some really cute, you know, like Anna at the table when she was with Nico was trying to teach her Spanish and I forget what he says, and Anna laughs and she's like a little fast for a wedding, don't you think? Oh yeah, Because he says let's go to the cathedral. I think that's what she's like a little fast, you know and she's just smiling. It's just so cute, you know.

Garry:

Oh, I know what it was. It was when Erica and Nico finally kind of realized they loved each other. Yes, and Erica said something like you know, we both love words. Yeah, but we're bad at communicating or whatever she said, so I thought that was pretty cool yeah she did.

Amy:

She did say that, and that like I love you moment was actually seemed more legitimate than some of the other ones that we've seen, where they've known each other for five seconds, where, here you know, they've known each other for like five years, ten years she's really, you know, into him and he's really into her. But neither of them said anything because he thought she liked someone else or hobby. He thought she liked um mateo yeah and you know, mateo's door swings a different way.

Garry:

Yeah, right, yeah well, and that's what was funny because they never gave each other a flower in a book.

Amy:

Right right, oh right right During St Jardice.

Garry:

Yeah, something like that. I can't remember it, but I thought it was so funny because it's like you've known each other for 10 years and you've never given each other a flower or a book. Aw.

Amy:

Well, and I think at one point Mateo says you know, it's about friendship too, because she says you don't have to give me a flower every year to Mateo.

Garry:

Erica says that to Mateo Right.

Amy:

And he's like well, it's about friendship, it's not just about love, yep.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Erica says that to Mateo Right and he's like well, it's about friendship, it's not just about love.

Garry:

Yep, right, so I thought it was. But one more funny little thing is when Anna said when she was in America she had told her publisher that because she couldn't understand why her book wasn't selling. And she's like well, did you go on Goodreads? And she's like I thought you didn't want me to go on Goodreads. Yeah, and she goes. Well, it's like you. You know, you wrote a book without being in Barcelona. She goes well, I use Google Streets.

Amy:

She said I took a tour.

Garry:

I kind of walked it. Didn't she say I walked the whole city, or something?

Amy:

Yeah, that was really cute. She's like duh.

Garry:

Yeah, that was really cute. I mean, who would have thought of using Google Streets? That's actually kind of funny, because you could do that. It'd take you a while, but you could do it.

Amy:

We were thinking it's St Jordy Day.

Garry:

Yes, jordy Day. Yes, there you go. I don't know why we couldn't.

Amy:

I was thinking of Quinto. All right, any jeers.

Garry:

Actually. No, I didn't have any. What about you?

Amy:

I have a jeer. Oh my, I have a jeer. Ding ding, ding, ding ding.

Garry:

And I'm just going to say this and this is about Hallmark.

Amy:

This is not about the movie.

Garry:

Okay.

Amy:

It's about Hallmark showing a preview for the next movie where Nico is proposing and Nico and Erica are not together yet people.

Garry:

Nope.

Amy:

They're not together yet Nope, yeah, so there was a commercial that aired during the airing of it, and we saw it. We're like what? Now, I mean to be fair, it's not shocking that they ended up together, right, like you kind of know that's where it's going, yeah, but I don't want to see a preview of him proposing when they haven't told each other anything yet.

Garry:

I know we were so bummed I mean, it could have gone south and they didn't give us a spoiler alert. But no, no spoiler alert.

Amy:

So I think someone in programming might be in trouble, but that's it. There were no jeers about the actual movie itself, just about the commercial. Yes, so now I know a scene in the next movie, but that's Is that it for your jeers. That's it for my jeers. That is it All right then.

Garry:

So, out of five corks, how many do you give it?

Amy:

Ten. I give it a five. I give it a. I'd give it. I'd give it a five. I just loved it. I loved Alison or Alison. I loved Alison Sweeney and Ashley Williams. They were awesome. I loved the actors, too the Spanish actors. I I loved the actors, too, the Spanish actors. I loved the setting. I mean, all of it just really worked. I just really thoroughly enjoyed it and I think I'm going to enjoy the next one also.

Garry:

Yeah, and it's nice to see that they picked up some local talent and they were really good.

Amy:

Oh yeah, I really enjoyed it. Yeah, I give it a five too. Yep, all right. So is that a wrap?

Garry:

That, yeah, I'd give it a five too, yep.

Amy:

All right so is that a? Wrap, that's a wrap.

Garry:

All right, well, thanks for listening. Be sure to follow the podcast wherever you listen so you don't miss one. Also, follow us on social media. We'd love to hear from you, we would. For you to leave us a review.

Amy:

What is that? What are we doing? I don't know how much wine have you had.

Garry:

I had one sip of wine. I've had you.

Amy:

Yeah, I was going to say I've only seen you.

Garry:

Anyways, you can leave that review on Apple Podcasts and or Spotify and let's just hope it's a positive one. We hope it's a positive one and we would appreciate it if you take the time to do it, we always appreciate it. Yeah, yeah.

Amy:

Be sure to join us next Wednesday for of the second Passport to Love movie, the continuation of this one to Barcelona Forever. It airs on Saturday, June 14th 2025 on the Hallmark Channel. You can also now join us on Tinsel Tuesdays for our Hallmark Reviews of All Things. Christmas, yes. Until then, fill up your glasses and push play. Thanks for listening, Cheers.