Hi I'm Elizabeth Day from How to Fail and I'd like to introduce you to Bist a village.

If you haven't heard about it already, it's a collection of stunning designer boutiques.

They offer incredible savings across more than 150 fashion and lifestyle brands with the likes of a Nina Bing

self-portrait and Astrid at Miu, as well as classics such as Jill Sander and Mark Jacobs.

They're located in the heart of the Oxford countryside and only an hour

from London by train or there's free parking all day. I would highly recommend planning a day out

at Bista Village.

The prisoner sits in his cell,

when you're really scratching at the stone of the wall.

He's marking and... we're really scratching at the stone of the wall.

He's marking another day in this stuffy, stinking dungeon.

Not that there's much point.

He's been here for months now. Every day is the same. Each day he hears the

creek and slam of doors, the maddening drip of a drain, the groans of other inmates suffering, and if the guards get

bored enough, the occasional shrieks of pain.

He shifts around uncomfortably on the uneven cell floor.

It's late in the year, and the heat that made the cell air almost unbreatable during the summer has died away.

But of course that means winter's coming.

He's heard enough about winters here in Salonika,

one of the most important cities in the Greek Byzantine Empire,

to know that it can get close to freezing.

The prisoner looks at the greasy rags he's wearing.

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