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Today we're in Rotterdam. This could be anywhere. This could be

Liverpool or Rome. But it is actually Rotterdam, isn't it Denny Gray that we're sitting in

after a well a very rare double stage at the Tour de France fam we had stage two and

stage three today and now we're sitting in a rather serene

Marina aren't we here in Rotterdam?

We are and did I was waiting for the beautiful South to come out Rose and you finally got it in

You and Lionel Linal thought I was too young to even know the

reference, but there you go, he'll be pleased to hear that I've started the whole episode with it,

weren't he now? Beautiful, beautiful. Yes, we're in Rotterdam. We've been here for a couple of days, of course, but we finished yesterday stage in the Hague. And yeah, are you enjoying Rotterdam? It's a very modern city,

it was very, it was completely, almost completely rebuilt

after the Second World War, having suffered a lot.

And it now feels a very modern city, but quite hip and happening in places isn't it we we've we are

cool cred goes down when we use words like hip happening cool cred these are all things that make us look like total squares.

We've described things like this, but no, I completely agree.

It is kind of a young, I don't know what to say without sounding like a really old person.

But no, it's kind of, it's all built, obviously it's famous for being Europe's largest seaport and is kind of like all built upon these I mean

they're not really islands but they kind of feel like semi islands don't

they loads of bridges across the city and you kind of keep walking across one harbour to another

and then you get into a different district. We've been to the cool district didn't we on the first night that

was where we ended up when we first arrived.

We kind of walked into the center today and there was like a fantastic little

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