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Music T, terms apply. Always read your policy docs. Good morning, people of the Giro de Italia, awakened this morning by the sound of a church bell,

just a stone's throw from my window of this hotel that I'm staying in. The Hotel Stondale, of

course, named after the 19th century French realist, Stendhal, who wrote Le Roogne Le Noir,

which is the only book of his that I've ever read, and I can't remember a single thing about it. Yeah, lovely church tower that just bonged 7 o'clock in the morning forcing me out for a run

and as I ran out, turned left and up onto the, a long dike with a long straight tarmac road along the top,

I could see the mighty river

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