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presence in next to no time we have
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woken up on a beautiful day in cap
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dagged but we won't be staying here
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today because very excitingly we are
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going to go and visit my aunt and uncle
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and I'm going to give you a little
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glimpse of their new house in the south
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of France a lot of you have been asking
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to see it I know that you loved their
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house in England it was so beautiful but
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it is sold they have moved and what's
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lovely is that they're only a five or
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six hour drive from leand which sounds a
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lot but actually for us practically
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makes them neighbors and what's even
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better is they're not a tool far from us
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here in cap dag this is lot's favorite
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place in the whole flat looking at the
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view it's a beautiful day but
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surprisingly windy so I am grabbing my
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jumper you ready darling yes let's go my
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aunt and uncle have bought an absolutely
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beautiful historic home in France it is
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just wonderful but as you can see it's
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not at all decorated yet but look at
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these gorgeous Stone stairs the
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electrics have just been started so they
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have the electrical points ready to put
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chandeliers and wall light and I will do
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a t fuel when it is done but it is not
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done yet so there's a little bit of
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waiting to do so for now your sneak peek
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of it is of the Garden it is the most
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beautiful house we're in the south of
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France in the LOD do region where we
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will be having wonderful family
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barbecues all together and relaxing in
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the heated pool we haven't got it out
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today because well honestly it didn't
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feel warm enough but it's boiling now I
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didn't bring a swimming costume with me
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you don't think of it in May and the
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whole kitchen extension is like an
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orangerie with these beautiful Windows
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this is actually a lemon tree but my
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aunt's thinking of changing it cuz there
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aren't many lemons left whereas
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everything else is Laden the the other
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the two which were there they were huge
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they were like this and the grandson
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picked them up but it's a veritable
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Garden of Eden here this is an olive
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tree and it's covered in tiny tiny baby
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olives there's also a huge fig tree and
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I'm going to show you the alond tree it
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is covered absolutely
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covered aside from us calling it The
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Philip death tree I do actually think
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for everyone else that's going to be
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very delicious when they're ripe lelot
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absolutely loves it here this is the way
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to cook isn't it
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yes oh yes and of course there's
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champagne well I'm Ora you're on
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champagne it is beautiful
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sful it
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is Cheers Cheers Cheers everyone cheers
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to many many happy days here I think
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you'll have many many many many happy
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decades decades or even centuries I'll
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be buried in the cemeter you only just
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went to get it I'm amazed at how quick
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it was you know Domino Pizza in think
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bus you can they say oh
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be5 qu to n yeah you but you can't
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compare can you like a proper pizza
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place woodf fired oven yeah that's it
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you like Domin Pizza Philip loves it do
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you I'm not a huge F depends thick for
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me it depends on which one you go to a
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bit cardboard yeah you're not going to
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eat the
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box I love the fact that you have a
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whole pile of hats for
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everyone you got a good jawy angle going
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there Phillip do I good so I thought
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this was the one to go with the sort of
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rustick Jumper Rel look cuz there's a
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bit of a breeze and yet actually sun is
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beating down oh you're so lucky to be
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here and aren the people friendly this
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is good do you know Countryside F people
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are so friendly in this area we're
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noticing it everywhere we go and I think
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it's the sunshine everyone's in such a
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good mood all the time
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and as for lelot he can't walk 5 me in
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the whole of the south of France without
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people coming up what breed is he isn't
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he adorable can I hold
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him we're meeting everyone because of
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him I like this a lot this is a bit of
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the suffk norol coasters
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and little beach Huts from CR and Cathy
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Gore from London oh you know you're in
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real danger of not getting rid of us we'
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be happy if you stay here for as long as
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you want chocolate Pearl lemon curd
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salted caramel fruit and nut oat stem
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Ginger and macadamia nut the best of
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Britain lovely in the best of France in
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the best of France stem Ginger
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definitely for me I like your double hat
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thank you for a fabulous time always a
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pleasure I'm loving it it's the most
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beautiful house and I can't wa see it
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finished eventually okay bye-bye
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carefully bye bye bye we've popped back
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to cat D cuz Philip wanted to change
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it's so much warmer oh my goodness it
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changed like it's totally now it's warm
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hey darling hey my love okay but now we
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are going to go and visit something very
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very exciting we are in the old town of
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aged here you've seen cap D where we're
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staying that's the modern Port but it's
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by the historic town of a which has been
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here since before Roman times and we're
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in the
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walking towards chat Lan a spectacular
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art Novo mansion that was built the turn
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of the 20th century by Emmanuel Lon
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there's our first glimpse of the chat
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Lon it's just opened after a renovation
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that took over 20 years and more than1
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19 million EUR and excitingly we've been
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given permission to film a private tour
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Sunday on the shadow Diaries but in the
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meantime I'll give you a little sneak
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Peak
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I was tearful in there it is one of the
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most beautiful buildings that I've been
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in and I know you've heard me say before
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that art new is not my favorite period
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or style this is one of my favorite
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buildings in the entire world if you are
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ever in aged please come here this has
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been an enormous renovation it's the
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jewel of this part of France now in fact
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it was1 million for the initial
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renovation costs and it just shows what
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people can do when they get together to
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restore something and it's made me feel
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so much better about the chapel
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renovation our Chapel I think would fit
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inside the ballroom so I can't imagine
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the amount of work needed to restore
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that entire chadow I can't believe that
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we're able to do the chapel and this
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just made me realize just how incredibly
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lucky we are because was saying here
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that they had the same problem that
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people didn't want to restore what was
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decorative 19th century paintwork it
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wasn't considered important enough in
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the past and it's only recently that
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people have been thinking no we we must
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preserve this and as we're also
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restoring decorative 19th century
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paintwork I feel a real kinship with
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this Shadow and I want to say a huge
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thank you to all of the patrons of the
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shatow Diaries and to all of you who
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or domain and now today just keeps
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getting better and better because we're
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getting to see my aunt and uncle again
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they are coming to AG this evening to
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have dinner with us in a little beast
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strok in we nearly got run over there
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sorry about that we have been in the
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shat all afternoon actually I want to
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say a huge thank you to Flores who
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stayed behind after work just so that we
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could continue and finish filming that
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video for you you are a vision T you now
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you are
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magnificent oh dear I can't believe we
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get to eat with these two magnificent
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people dress you look great I actually
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think that's my favorite look on you
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it's like simple linen shirt jeans love
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it very you are starting with a sweet
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wine look at the way he rolls honestly
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list sh something I should have done the
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same but it should restrained I yes I
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show restrain very
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rare I have mushrooms and poached egg
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and a bu of chicken
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stuck Philip and ton Steven have liver
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on a bed of caramelized shot o marinated
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salmon marinated salmon a classic a
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classic oh that's what I love to see but
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that's why I didn't order fish for the
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starter cuz I'm having fish for the main
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course so try something else now is good
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mhm very good you look really happy and
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serious like it's so good it's
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serious does it work with the mka
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requires my full attention very oh the
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main course has arrived and I have
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fillet of seab bass with olives and
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Philip I've got to say I'm a little bit
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jealous of yours for that your palenta
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and tuna to tacky I am very excited so
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good wow that's the biggest rum Barber I
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have ever see you can smell the rum from
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there go into that it doesn't need to
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come any closer I can smell it from here
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wow we're so restrained look at us with
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our strawberries and
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fruits just delicate restrain I don't it
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didn't have any just finishing the wi
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we'll share Dar no thank you this is
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amazing that was a delicious meal but
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it's actually with heavy heart that we
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end it because we're leaving to go back
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to laan tomorrow morning and I'm going
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to miss you so much it's been amazing
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for next month and we get together again
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we will come and see you next month and
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you're coming to see us next month we
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are coming to see you next I'm enjoying
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this whole you being in France thing con
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nice to meet on a regular basis very
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important very important now where's
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your car cuz ours is Miles Away yes but
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you're doing this how are we byebye no
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the war will do us the world of good
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bye bye
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your bye love you bye
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