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Don't just flick on past this. It's not an advert. It's more important than that.

The response to our appeal for support as we build towards next summer's launch of NSF Live in France has far exceeded our expectations, but we want to go further. Listen, tens of

thousands of you have already shown your support by signing up entirely for free, simply to receive

news of the NSF team, Lizzie included, as we put our plans in place. But we think, in fact, we

know that there are many, many more of you out there.

So please, if you haven't already done so, just pop your email address into the homepage of the NeverStra's file website.

And if you're on Facebook, spread the message or on any other social media, spread the message,

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You do that, and we promise we'll be there to bring you the words entirely for free next summer. I'm walking in the footsteps of Giuseppe Verdi, who often used to visit Montecatini, Montecatini

Termay, to be precise, this elegant Belle-epoc spa town in northwest Tuscany,

where I've been for the last 36 hours exploring the place,

going and taking the healing waters of the various different springs that bubble up from deep underground

and offer up this healing, salty water that has been gushing from taps and fountains here for millennia and has given this

place its historical purpose it's a lovely place and the weather's been kind hard to believe

actually that it's the middle of november i've explored up to monticatini alto the old

medieval hilltop town that overlooks the valley, the Nyevole Valley with Luca to my left and Florence to my right and Pistoia just over the hill and not far from Pistoia, the little town of Karata.

It's Wednesday morning. I've just had a tremendous coffee and a sparkling water San Pellegrino

in the beautiful surroundings of Giovannini's cafe in the middle of town and now I'm just walking up

to the Hotel Malta Croce where historically for many many years decades even

Astana back in the era of Alexander Vinikorov as a bike rider always used to have their

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