So when the opportunity came up to come out to Strasbourg and present the News Hour live from one of the World's most important buildings... it wasn't a hard decision to make.
Strasbourg is a beautiful city, with great people and really easy to get around but it must be pretty quiet for three weeks of the month.
MEPs only come here to vote, the rest of the time they are in Brussels or the UK, so when wandering through the massive building, I wonder, what's the point?
But it does have a point – a sombre point – it marks the peace we now have. Just 70 years ago during World War Two having politicians from Germany and France meeting on the border to discuss issues was unthinkable.
From the people I've spoken to, the chamber in Strasbourg is here to stay.
I went to a few debates, they weren't packed with MEPs but a decent number showed up for most. It was different to my usual experience. The politicians seemed friendlier with each other than in Westminster. When they said thanks at the start of their speech it sounded genuine. Maybe it's because they're from different nations and their respective parties aren't busy bickering away back home.
At one debate MEPs were discussing whether governments across Europe should share drivers' information so foreigners can be fined for dangerous driving in any EU country.
Labour says yes, UKIP says no. None of the other UK parties spoke in the debate but it did raise a number of interesting points. When UKIP spoke (I was able to spot them because they were the only tables out of 751 to have flags on them, Union Jacks obviously) it was all about how this was becoming too much like one big country. But the Labour MEP rejected that, she said it would help prosecute those with foreign cars who were driving like maniacs on UK roads. Both raised valid points in an atmosphere of respect.
I left the debate early, just as a bus load of school pupils arrived. They were fitted out with the same headset MEPs have – it translates everything said into every official language of member states.
Later that day I was curious to find out what role faith plays in the politics of Europe. I met up with a Christian who spends a lot of time praying with MEPs, to find out.
He said there were a lot of politicians who came to him, some very open about their faith, but others not so much.
I asked him why that was and he suggested some countries, like France, are clear that politics and God do not mix. None-the-less he said some members from countries like that are still open about their faith.
It's been an eye opening experience of an institution I/we really should know more about.
But one thing I learnt, when the press says something has been 'imposed' or 'come from Brussels', it hasn't. This parliament discuses legislation for months to get as close to a consensus as possible so any laws that are passed to member states are agreed on by the majority of MEPs here.
And with just 34% of us voting in the 2014 election, a lot of us have no right to complain.
