we are nikki and carlo and our family
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live in positano italy nearly 500 steps
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from the road but surrounded by fruit
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and olive trees and with a fabulous view
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our garden overlooks the sea and we grow
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our own food we show you what life is
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really like on the amalfi coast
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so please subscribe and welcome to the
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i'm going on a road trip
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i'm going to drive up to tuscany
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to visit celine i haven't seen her
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since we went to anglia in may
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and last year i was going to do this and
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then we got plunged into lockdown around
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about this time last year and when i was
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going to do it this spring time and we
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got put back into lockdown and i
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couldn't do it and now there are no
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it's about a six and a half hour drive
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and i'm just gonna shove some things in
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the bag and go i haven't planned this
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very well toiletries and also it's
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probably going to be a little bit cooler
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oh these steps are killing me
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with this bag on my back
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it doesn't look very big but it's heavy
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this is the worst part about going
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anywhere this is what puts me off
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about traveling or just going away for
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weekend just having to get up to the car
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with all the stuff that you need for a
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and i've pretty much got it down to pack
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i'm a light packer i don't bring much i
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don't need much i've got like two pairs
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of trousers one skirt
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three tops a cardigan
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that's pretty much it
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oh i wish i had my car outside the house
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but i've got a seven hour drive
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and i'm probably not gonna arrive before
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much before midnight i should think by
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i forgot to put my laptop in my bag i
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can't go without it
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otherwise it's not a new video on sunday
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milk is what happened i had an argument
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with sky just before i left asking her
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to go and buy some milk country point
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blank refused to go and buy the milk and
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there wasn't any milk in the house so
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because i was distracted about this i
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forgot to put my computer in my bag
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there's no way i can go for five days
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without my laptop i need it there's not
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gonna be any videos i can't answer any
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emails for work or anything like that so
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i'm gonna have to put it off and get up
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very early tomorrow morning and drive up
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to tuscany then instead
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i've now come to buy the milk
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and now i'm gonna go home
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seven o'clock in the evening
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not on my way to tuscany
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and carlos back from work
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yeah god if we could give some of these
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away it'd be amazing
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now nearly six o'clock
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if we can get to tuscany
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i think it might be the it's the 30th of
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september today it was so hot last night
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me and carlo both woke up about ten past
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drenched in sweat it was just far too
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both gave up on sleeping that's why i'm
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up at this time i mean i have my alarm
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set for half five anyway
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that's just too hot to sleep
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he's now on the sofa with all the doors
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on my way to the car
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now seeing as this is a fairly new car
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we bought it in may
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and then the summer came we really used
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it's got one of those um
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one of these things here but i have
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absolutely no idea how to use it
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and i need to try and figure that out
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before i go because i need the map
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only for the last part of the journey
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but i might not want to stop at
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it is just starting to get daylight now
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i am at vika quincea and i'm getting
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petrol yesterday i mentioned that i'm
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going to visit celine now i've just
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realized that if some of you have only
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been watching for a few months or not
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long at all you'll have no idea who
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celine is because she hasn't been in my
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videos for quite a long time
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celine is the reason that i live in
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positano we met at summer camp in
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england when we were eight years old
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and then when we were 11 she turned up
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at my school and we became firm friends
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from that moment on
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when we were 12 her parents invited me
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on their family holiday to positano and
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i came with them to positano every year
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after that and we both ended up living
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in italy so um that's quite funny we
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both speak italian now we both have a
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so celine ended up in north italy in
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lucca she's a private chef
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and that's where i'm going i'm going to
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spend a few days with her
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we're going to spend the first couple of
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days at her house and then we're going
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to move somewhere in
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somewhere else in tuscany because she's
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got a job as a private villa so
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hopefully we'll get a tuscan villa tour
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and it'll just be a nice few days to see
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her she was last in my videos in may
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when we all met up in umbria at the
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castle so i'll link that here if you
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haven't seen it already
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now i'm going to concentrate on driving
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before my phone falls off the dashboard
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so not the arrival i was hoping for i
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off a roundabout onto the right road
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towards her house i know it's
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complicated the gps has always been
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difficult there and i've been around
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this roundabout so many times now and i
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finally went a different way around the
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roundabout and i've ended up almost back
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on the motorway in fact this is the toll
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gate here in front of me
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which i don't want to go through
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because i don't want to have to pay
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again um and celine's told me to stop
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there's a little car park and she said
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wait here she's going to come and get me
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because i cannot find my way to her
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house what a disaster
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now i would never have known that there
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was a little tiny street here off the
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side of a toll booth
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oh my god you're going to get me
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we had a very relaxing afternoon we had
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some lunch with some of celine's friends
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and then we went back to our house and
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we sat on the bed all afternoon and just
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mattered and had cups of tea and it was
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very lovely now we're on our way out
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we're going over to pizza and we're
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it's getting dark now uh we're in the
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little village of vico pizano and um i
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think we're going to come back here on
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saturday and do a little tour because
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it's a beautiful little village and our
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friend marie lives here
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and she's quite eager to take us around
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so i think we'll do that on saturday
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with some daylight might make no sense
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and today we are having a wander around
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luca we're taking holly
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i think mine's a bit larger than holly
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we're taking patta for a walk just
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around luca and we're going to show you
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lucca is a walled city
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as you can see there is a huge wall that
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surrounds the whole main city
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and it is so big that you can walk all
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the way around on top of the wall
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there's a big wide walkway with trees
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and everything it's lovely people do
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their exercise up there every day we're
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gonna go into the city now
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this is the piazza napoleona and this is
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where they have the lucas summer
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all sorts of music concerts happen here
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in fact a few years ago celine went to a
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rolling stones concert here and filmed
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it for me yeah as some of the artists
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that will be playing here in
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one time when we drove to england we
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stopped in lucca for one of our
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stop-offs we usually do seven hours
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seven hours and seven hours so this was
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our first stop one year and just before
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christmas there was the most amazing
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christmas market here it was absolutely
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wonderful nothing like that where we
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and if you stand at a certain point over
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there there's a diamond on the cross but
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you can only see it from one point
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maybe you can only see this diamond at
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now because positano is very small and
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most of the shops are geared towards the
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and because i don't very often come to a
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seeing all these shops here i want to go
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in all of them and i am restraining
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myself from going in any of them because
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we haven't got time today
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i do miss wandering around the city
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wandering around the shop so have you
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and we are now going to walk up onto the
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wall and back to the car
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no the car's not on top
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we are now going to walk up on the wall
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and this is how we get up there
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and this is what it looks up here it's
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surprisingly wide perfect for jogging
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walking walking dog and cycling
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if you're wondering where the drone
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shots are i have never even attempted to
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fly carlos drone i don't want anything
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to do with it i'm not coordinated enough
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i would crash it straight away
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and there's not going to be any drone
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it's pretty little house here a little
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walled garden behind it
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and a view over the top of the walls
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patto is celine's dog he is 12 years old
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and he comes from brazil i found patel
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when i was living in brazil
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um and when i decided to leave brazil
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which is sort of like three years after
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i had him i couldn't leave him so i
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brought him with me but because there
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was quarantine for animals coming in
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from third world countries i.e brazil i
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couldn't do that to him because he'd
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been free running around the beach so i
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thought okay i'll go to italy
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set out the quarantine in italy for six
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months um get him a passport and then go
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home and that was basically ten years
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and i picked them up at the airport in
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and um we had to get pata and before we
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got in the car we had to hose him down
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because he'd been shut up in a crate for
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quite a long time wasn't it about ten
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had weed himself and something so we had
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to give him a big wash down
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and yes peter is now a brazilian italian
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dog who also speaks english
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we've had a quick walk around luca now
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and we are going out for sushi tonight
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which i'm really excited about because
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the sushi restaurants here
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do all you can eat for like 23 euros
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something so i'm very very excited and
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i'm gonna eat as much as i can
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that's just the beginning oh there's
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more there i didn't even see that
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day number two in lucca and we're off to
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not the center not the leaning tower
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going to a little village nearby
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just decided to stop and get ice cream
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apparently this is the place to be
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starting to look very dark and stormy
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over there there are thunderstorms
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forecast for the next day or so
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let's hope so this is marie marie lives
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vico pizzano recall pizzeria and her
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instagram account is called authentic
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tuscany and she rents some beautiful
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apartments and some villas yeah and
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we're going to have a walk around vika
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pizano and just show you a few things
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around town now maria has been living in
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italy for the same amount of years as me
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so we both came here in 1999 99 yeah and
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we're both from this area in fact marie
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in the gym that i used to be a member of
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which is rather freaky and there's a lot
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of other coincidences like that as well
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but we're going to show you around
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it is starting to rain
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so we're going to duck into a little
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marie just does something very
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interesting in the province of pisa if
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you want an umbrella outside your bar
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it has to be dark red you're not allowed
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what the coffee yeah
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the fat just arrived we couldn't even
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it's like a deconstructed cheesecake
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that is delicious actually isn't it very
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it has stopped raining um this place
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that we just went to it's very near
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marie's house it's called trent metric
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which means 30 meters squared it's quite
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new um but it's got really great food
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and that was one of the best desserts
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i've ever had very unexpected but very
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and deconstructed cheesecake very very
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healthy lunch today
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it's a very pretty little town
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smaller than positano
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this is giovanni he's a he's the keeper
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unfortunately we haven't had as much
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time as we wanted to spend with marie
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and explore vicor pizana especially with
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that rainstorm because that wiped out
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about an hour of our time
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um but hopefully we will be able to come
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back me and carla want to come back one
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later on before christmas so hopefully
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we will do that and we will stay at
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marie's because she's got casa colombo
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which is a beautiful little airbnb in an
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old medieval tower and we've got to go
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back to slings now because we've got
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some very unexpected guests
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arriving this afternoon
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and uh you might be quite surprised
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in the 15th century
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so shortly after he finished the dome in
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florence he built this wall the rescue
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and you can walk up it yeah you can now
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this where we're standing now was the
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riverano okay the river that flows from
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florence and goes down to the sea and
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this was the harbour of the pizano and
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just in case the enemy attacked this
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wall and this tower was designed so that
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you could escape the enemy all of these
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people are waiting to climb all waiting
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because they've only opened it for
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this weekend okay so you're going
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through that doorway and you walk up
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we went up recently because they've had
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and vicopizzana also has this beautiful
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little tree tunnel which i've seen so
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many times on marie's instagram and now
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i get to walk through it myself
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a lot of people in italy prefer to
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collect their water from a local
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fountain and um we have one in montanusa
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which i've shown you before celine is
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now filling up her bottles from her
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local fountain which i must say runs
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much faster and stronger than our one it
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takes us about seven minutes to fill a
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yeah it's really slow r1 it's just a
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and you put all your bottles in your car
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and when you remember you stop at the
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fountain and fill them up and you've got
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lovely fresh spring water
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probably coming from this spring here
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we have come out for pizzas tonight
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because we can't be able to cook i have
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got a rustica this is with potatoes
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rosemary gorgonzola and zucchini
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you got your rosemary yes
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the reason that they're here is because
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they saw my instagram story and saw that
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i was in tuscany and they happened to be
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coming to tuscany and we decided to all
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meet up we're very sorry that carlo's
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but um are you doing anything exciting
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we're going tomorrow we'll be doing uh
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of a photo shoot uh shooting
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for uh like kind of wedding uh style for
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germany yeah i would say the test for
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and just in case you might have missed
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the video sarah and luca have some very
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exciting news for us which is
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baby leave everything a wonder
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max you can't see anything
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not yet not yet i'm 15 weeks pregnant
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and we're super excited guys
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a little a little baby traveller yeah
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very exciting so we were just
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thinking about luigi that maybe which
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will be too small for the next adventure
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a bigger vehicle yes
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there might be a bigger vehicle coming
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and a smaller human coming as well
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okay well we're all going different
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directions now i'm going with celine to
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kyani which is a different part of
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tuscany and you're heading a bit further
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but we are not on the coast we are in
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the countryside make sure you follow
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both of us to see what we're doing in
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our next adventures
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luca is a walled city as you can see
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do it again you can add that to it
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and we're going to meet somebody
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and he comes from brazil
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