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hello everybody this week myself easy

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and our dog nola decided to travel

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across the coast and visit the seaside

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town of hastings

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we wanted to know what the people were

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doing there and what they like about

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hastings

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here we go

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me um why are you here in hastings

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well we uh

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we love to come to the to the uk

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uh we've been here a few times uh before

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i think like three or four times yeah

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and we like the city because it's it's

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it's

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a kind of a quirky or a weird city

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college

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college okay you're coming back from

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college uh

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no this is our after no after easter

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break yeah

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i'm not from hastings but like i grew up

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in battle which is like

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sort of 15 minutes away okay and so then

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why did you come here uh because well

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you've got to see for a star which is

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nice i don't know it's just

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like we just went to the 2p machines on

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the on the front like there's just fun

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stuff to do and i feel like around here

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there's not that much fun stuff to do

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so yeah

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okay why are you in hastings right now

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um

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just to get away from london

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for a couple days yeah okay

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uh and what what made you choose

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hastings as opposed to brighton or

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something like that we went to a

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whitstable last week

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no was it it was about two weeks ago

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yeah and then i chose hastings yeah this

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weekend it was his time yeah it is what

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you do yeah so

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newly it was supposedly the it was

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medieval town right right

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so yeah we came here for that and also

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you know there's a show called peep show

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yeah and there's this guy named jeremy

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osborne he goes to hastings to get bread

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for the school here we came here for the

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bread we came here for the bread it

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wasn't even the right bread they didn't

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have the the spot flour but we didn't

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get we did get some bread so

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inspired we gotta come back

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why have you come to hastings why didn't

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you go to brighton why didn't you go to

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i don't know seaford actually that is a

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good question i don't think i know the

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answer we wanted to be by the seaside

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okay we knew that much

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yeah um i have no idea we've never been

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here before that's why we wanted to come

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here

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this is a good reason a good answer but

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there seems to be like three from what

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i've seen so far this would be three

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sort of things there's like the old town

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they have the the arcadey

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like promenade thing and then the old

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historical stuff around the outside

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what what what what kind of ticklish

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fans here i mean you said you were here

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in the arcade probably you know speaks

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to my like youth the arcade um

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because i like the old town as well it's

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it's nice but i feel like it can be a

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bit expensive um right so like like a

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lot of the shops around the street and

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stuff are really expensive so it's nice

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i come and see it because it looks

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really pretty but

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i don't know i couldn't really afford

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probably to buy stuff so then uh what

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have you seen so far what can you

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recommend literally nothing

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just up there yeah

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yeah old pump house the pump house okay

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they pump well

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uh really so that's the only thing you

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can recommend

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we well yesterday it was raining the

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beach is beautiful the yeah the beach is

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beautiful man and the street is amazing

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here so when you go back to antwerp and

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your friends are like oh what do you

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recommend in hastings what is the first

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thing you would tell them to see oh yeah

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well it's not one thing it's just a

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whole experience it's the sea

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uh because we stay in an airbnb which is

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well

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next to the sea it's called ata marina

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uh so you have sea view it's wonderful

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yeah and there's something that you

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don't find easily in belgium because we

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just have a short

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uh coastline

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um

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and then well the english pups

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it's something yeah it has some

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atmosphere at well you don't find in in

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belgium right okay yeah and uh

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what the whole atmosphere here yes

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now back to the episode what the people

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like

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for on the most just nice yeah

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um i feel like people are friendlier

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friendlier in hastings than they are

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like if you went to like

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tomridge wells which is sort of like i

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don't know half an hour away but it's a

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very different vibe like the people here

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are like a lot

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i know nicer i guess to talk no i don't

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know like just like friendlier because

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i'm i'm essentially a tourist what would

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you say is like a like a good thing that

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tourists should go and see your old town

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this this bit yeah

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it's full of unique stuff all right so

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probably

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see from like east hill

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because on if you go to under east hill

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the

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seafront out you can then walk to

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fairlight along the sea front

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along the river

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fairlight's a massive track that's

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way up there yeah so you can walk along

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the entire seafront

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so at the top of the the funicular

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railway yeah yeah is where the inventor

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of television did his first radar

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experiments

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right how would you know that because

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i did all the research about what we

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were going to do here

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okay okay are we like am i stopping you

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from are we on like a time

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schedule got a notebook

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we have a legitimacy okay this is good

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though i want to know like what you've

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got like plans for the next couple of

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days well we need to go to boots to buy

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some makeup

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oh i so the castle is so is important

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because it's featured in the bayer

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tapestry because it was involved in the

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battle of 1066. i think

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i'm pretty sure that's in my notes but i

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don't want to get my notebook out on a

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camera

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and is that where you're off to next

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okay so that's just up there

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that way yeah hold on but there's two

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funiculars right i saw one there's a

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funicular up there

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it's one of them is where the inventor

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of television first did his radar

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experiments okay

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that's not me oh great and then um

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so what have you got on your itinerary

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for your time here then other than going

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to see the

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the big trip yeah is to go to boots

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we need some makeup with some shampoo

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you need to like tell people what boots

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is because now you've mentioned pharmacy

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and a cosmetic shop it's nothing

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historical no absolutely not we just

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haven't had a chance before we arrived

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okay oh and the pub pump room that one

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let's say you hear of someone and i'm

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gonna go check out hastings what is

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apart from the pump house

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oh babe that's all it's about

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what do you tell him to do because

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obviously his thing like he said it's a

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ancient town you know it's got some

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history to it yeah where are you telling

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them to go first

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the pump up

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no

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definitely the beach but not in this

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weather yeah we came so we came at the

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wrong time okay the wrong time we don't

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have enough time you know as we're

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heading back to london

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so it's unfortunate we came yesterday

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the weather was terrible

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and did you get to see any of the you

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know the castle on the hill

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it's raining all day yesterday he just

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took shelter in the house yeah no we

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love the pump house the pump house is

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great they're gonna she loves the pump

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outs even more than i love the pups

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you're terrible

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you're terrible do you have shares or

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stocks in the pump house no i wish wow

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we just got cheers and stocks in each

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other

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if you met someone and they were going

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to go to hastings yeah what's the what's

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your thing go here this is what we have

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to

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don't do i would literally just be like

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the 2p machines

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no what would i say you give me

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something what would you say you come

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here

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and then tell me because you said about

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the old town which we're in now

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just give us like a description of it

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what how do you best describe it uh

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unique you can find a lot of weird

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things here um

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mostly uh antiques yeah

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homemade stuff

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yeah

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independent stores

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yeah and if you're old enough there's

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like a ton of pubs right yeah there's

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like i can't there's a ridiculous amount

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of pubs i can see maybe like four in my

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eyeline

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the best one's probably

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the red dragon it's just down there yeah

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why is that uh

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cheap and good

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nice atmosphere as well at night and

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then give us one thing to avoid

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and i'll let you guys um

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probably the underground car park

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that or just people you see puffer

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jackets yeah

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i haven't done in ages but i used to

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really like to do yes going up the lift

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the lift yes up to the old castle nice

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so i think that's probably because it's

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i think if you haven't been here before

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it's definitely something yeah that's

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true to be fair and there's two lifts

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right yeah yeah there's like a really

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old knackered one yeah yeah and that

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goes to i don't know what it just goes

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like up

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hill of the hill but then the other

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like and then you're at the

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is for the castle right i think so i've

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literally never really been tasting this

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castle i have like even when i was a kid

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20 years ago on a school trip or

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something

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it's and it's

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the the lifts are kind of unreliable

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like they're not open sometimes right so

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it's definitely something if they are

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open it's what you're doing because this

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is not common and it's not expensive

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either yeah also the true crime museum i

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just remembered i love the true crime

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museum go there i haven't been there for

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ages but like when i was younger all the

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time english crime we're just like yeah

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it's just english crime you're going to

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be like this is the bed that this man

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was lethal injected on so

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okay two few machines

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true crime museum and a lift that

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doesn't really work so well

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fantastic that's brilliant thanks for

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