Crossing the border into Italy

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ventamilia which is just on

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the border as you go from uh

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south of france

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nice

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that way you just cross over you go

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through a tunnel you're in italy

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ventamilia

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uh and uh i was sitting outside a cafe

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one evening having a brand in a cigar or

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something like that just thoroughly

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enjoying being a foreigner but no

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british there which is great one of

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those reasons one of the reasons i went

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there and this guy came to me very

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elegant sort of guy about six foot two

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gray hair

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cashmere overcoat over his shoulders you

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know just walking along and he came up

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to me

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with a perfect italian but perfect

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english accent yeah wonderful and he was

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the something like the professor of

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antiquities at the

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um

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where was it torino university

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right and he was just having a stroll

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around and he said i wonder he said um i

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want to try to the italian accent i

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wonder if

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would you like a nice cream

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and that's what they do they have an ice

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cream or they're in lake coma in their

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parade round

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in the evening

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you know everyone even if you're you

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know it doesn't you don't have to be an

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academic or an aristocrat everyone does

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that if you drive