Right my loves, now time to thank our partner for this episode, booking.com.

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once booked what I thought was a perfect little boutique hotel and then immediately I found a place

that had a private hot tub on the roof.

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a lesson. You need to actually see all the options before you commit.

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upfront opinions, rant spans and general explicit comment, but you, comment? Content. But you know you love it. Good morning, good morning. Do you know what? In the words of Leona Lewis, I'm going to go, 10 more sleeps until his father Christmas day. Is that our song? Is that Lady Lewis? Yeah. I don't think that's the words though. No, I've just made that one.

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