My own photos of the eclipse are eclipsed by those from other people. The eclipse in August 2026 started conveniently early evening in the UK and Europe.
We were warned not to look at it directly because it can damage your eyes. Instead look through special glasses.
Or see the reflection in a bowl of water
Or create a reflection by creating a pinhole camera by making holes in two pieces of white paper, one held in front of the other. You stand with your back to the eclipse and the sunlight should shine through the pinhole in the nearest piece of paper. Creating a picture on the further piece.
I plan to check Wikipedia and Wikihow on creating a pinhole camera ready for next time.
My whatsapp and Next Door apps were full of messages from people asking where to buy glasses enabling you to see the eclipse safely.
I am awash with eclipse photos from family and friends, in the UK and overseas, from all the people on a conference, everyone in my street whatsapp group. Including photos from my extended family from a cruise ship near Spain.
If you attend an event at a hotel or restaurant or cruise ship you are likely to have access to distributed free or on sale items. Or enough people for one of them to share instructions. Or to let you look through their glasses for a moment or two.
Alternatively, you can prepare for next time.
The next one seen in the UK will be in August 2027.
You can get a list of future eclipses seen around the world from websites such as time and date.
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|The Wikipedia article goes into detail about fake eclipse glasses, some reassurance about Amazon, how to identify a fake, and links to sources of information.
Is it worthwhile ordering glasses for the next eclipse so as to allow time for rearch and delivery, and not miss out, and to have them with you even if you are away on holiday where you cannot be sure of delivery?
Only if you can remember where you stored them. Possible solutions. Tape a packing list behind your wardrobe door. List on that the location of vital items such as passports , first aid kits, insect repellent, sting relief, and eclipse sunglasses. Email yourself a note. Keep one top or bottom drawer for foreign coins, passports, eclipse sunglasses. Keep one suitcase clearly marked and labelled, with labels which won't fall off, the contents, written large in felt tip pen.
Check on the location of this suitcase the first or last weekend of every month, in case somebody else decides to put the suitcase in a top cupboard, to empty for a trip, store in in the attic, garden shed, garage, top cupboard, under the bed, behind gloshte s in a wardrobe, or in a store room.
The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire, England, UK.
Writers' Summer School takes place every year in August at the Hayes Conference Centre, in Swanwick Derbyshire. It starts at tea-time on Saturday and continues until breakfast on the following Friday. This year it was August 13 to 19th. I drove from London up the M1 motorway towards the exit 28 after Derby, my car with a suitcase packed, crammed, with 7 daytime and 7 evening outfits, fancy dress, a glamorous outfit for the last night party, and several of my books to sell in the bookroom. I was anxiously watching my speed, and the distances, hoping to reach the Hayes in time for tea, when they serve cakes. Coffee and hot chocolate and drinking water are available all day, free, from machines. I made it in time for tea and enjoyed lemon drizzle cake.
Splendid Saturday - Meeting Other Authors
Book Room Sales
I placed my books in the book room, using a small stand to raise a couple of the books. I was very pleased to sell two books, and sign one of them, Quick Quotations for a new friend, Steve, who bought my book on quotations because he collects books of quotations.
My friend, Carolyn Street, who I know from Toastmasters International in Singapore, had displayed six of her books. She sold them all, and I had written chapters in two of the books. I had a chapter on Authentic Writing For Your Audience in Authenticity & Us, and a chapter called How To Unblock Writer's Block in Fear & Us.
Ambassadors
At the first night's dinner ,Carolyn was with the newcomers on a table with a couple of the old timers who volunteered to be Ambassadors. Next year I shall be an ambassador. One thing I discovered for Carolyn was that the Lakeside bedroom block has a guest laundry room with washing machines and dryers.
Who Was Our Opening Speaker - and What was her best-seller book title?
Our after dinner speaker was the author, Erin Kelly, author of a crime novel, The Poison Tree. I had looked that up earlier and found she had cleverly copied the oxymoron title from a chilling, short poem by William Blake.
Which Books Pay Most?
She entertained us, telling us how her book, the Crime Novel, The Poisoned Tree resulted from her being told by her agent that crime books sell most and pay most to the author. She got a laugh with the contrast of how she had no interest in writing crime novels, but when told how well they paid, declared she had always wanted to write a crime novel.
Another interesting fact she told us was that she took two years to write a book. I aim to write a book a year in order to have something new on the table in the Swanwick book room each year.
Romance Writers
After a brief refreshment and bathroom break, I joined the Get to know you group session. I sat at the romance writers' table for a photo. But ended up with the short story writers.
Angela Lansbury at the table for writers of Romance at Writers' Summer School, Swanwick. Photo by Angela Lasnbury.
Next year's Writers' Summer School will be in August 2023.
Next year, Saturday 5th - Friday 11th August 2023.
Amateurs and Professionals welcome. The bookings will be available from November.
Angela Lansbury has blogs on travel, dress, speeches and more.
Books by Angela Lansbury and Carolyn Street are on Amazon.
The Singapore flag. I have chosen a version with a black border so that you can see it against a white background.
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Some people are picnicking by the riverside. They are wearing red shirts and white shorts, or red shorts.
Shorts? Yes, it is hot. Singapore is in theory the same temperature all year.
Singapore has the same time all year for sunset. It gets dark around 7 to 7.30 all year. When it starts getting dark I know it is time for my online Toastmasters speakers' club meetings.
The organized displays included the National Day Parade, and a descent of parachutes, plus a display of defense by the armed services.
WhatsApp is awash with messages and images and videos of singing of the national anthem and inspirational songs.
Our friend has asked for advice on where to visit in France, by train, majoring on two locations. Her first thought was Paris and Alsace. She wants to be somewhere warm. On second thoughts she has struck off Paris and Alsace and because she like wine, she is heading south to Burgundy and Bordeaux.
My family replied:
Yes, avoid Paris in August. Why? Because the restaurant owners and people head off to the cooler coast and the beaches when it is stifling hot in the city of Paris in August.
However, do consider Alsace. It has beautiful scenery and architecture. It is also a renowned wine centre.
France is a huge country. Bordeaux on the west coast is a long way from Burgundy in the east. Bordeaux has vineyards spaces out along the banks of the river, all rather separate. You would want a whole week to do justice to Bordeaux. You cannot do the whole thing in half a day. The famous places are hard to visit unless you are on a guided tour, or guide yourself in a hire car.
Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 The Author of several books including Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.
Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President
Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time
Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;
Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;
Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.
More details from Toastmasters International find a club.
Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.
Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.
Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.
Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.
Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.
Language and speech workshops in Singapore.
Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.
Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.
Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.
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Books by Angela Lansbury How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.) Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.) Unforgettable British Weekends. Poetry Workshop Workbook. The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.) Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.) Writing Poetry for fun.
Flag of Malaysia - looks like the flag of the USA.
Flag of Indonesia. The language is almost the same with some different vocabulary, like American English and British English.
The Singapore flag (with a predominantly ethnic Chinese and Mandarin speaking population) has a similar flag but the symbolic crescent is a hark back to the days when Singapore was part of muslim Malaysia.
In the mailboxes of households in Singapore is notice of the distribution of oxygen meters. One per household.
As usual in Singapore, leaflets are printed in English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil.
This provides me with a chance to see the English alongside the Chinese and Malay. The Chinese is harder for me to identify. the Malay uses the same alphabet. Some of the sentence structure is similar.
.Malay (alphabetically)-English
anda you/your
atau or (i think of the English word alternative with the letter a and t at the start, another letter a in the middle and U or V at the end)
baharu new (as in the city of Johor Bahru across the straits from Singapore)
boleh able (I think of able-bodied, able is boleh, boleh is able)
cara how
dan and (The same three letters in a different order)
Angela Lansbury is Vice President Public Relations of Braddell Heights Advanced, and Tampines Changkat Advanced, speakers training club which are part of Toastmasters International. The USA has several Spanish speaking as well as the English speaking clubs. You can pick up Spanish from buying or reading online their Spanish clubs welcome pages and manuals.
In The USA, UK, Singapore and worldwide, there are many clubs which are English speaking, as well as Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Tamil, Malay.
The inauguration of Tampines Changkat Advanced was Tuesday 29 2021, online on zoom. Their meetings are on the fourth Tuesday evening of the month. They hope to hold meetings with a few people meeting physically, the others online, as soon as the Covid-19 conditions allow.
You can find the club through their facebook page as well as through Toastmasters International find a club.
The meetings are free for visitors. Visitors can watch, and join in speaking by introducing themselves and volunteering to do a 2 minutes impromptu speech in table topics.
If you wish to join for a year, it costs about 190 US dollars, to have monthly meetings online, a mentor, a magazine, and one of the 11 Pathways, consisting of 14 projects. Each project starts with 3 speeches of your choice of subject, lasting 4 to 6 minutes, then 5 to 7 minutes. The Pathways include the most popular Presentation Mastery. I chose humorous speaking as my second Pathway, costing 20 dollars. Then my third was a leadership course. Come and see for free.
The club also has meetings in person in Singapore
You can also contact my other club, smaller Braddell Heights Advanced, which is a cosy little club with more chances to speak.
Login through bha.learncool.sg/meet/bha
That will link you through to Zoom or googlemeet. 2 pm to 5 pm.
BHA meets the first Wednesday evening each month, starting at 7 pm Singapore time.
Then an extra meeting on the 3rd Saturday afternoon, starting at 2 pm Singapore time.
Singapore's National Day is August 9th but a Singaporean told me that the flags and banners are up until the end of the month. That is good news, for fun and photography. So you can enjoy all the flags and banners throughout August, this year, next year, every year. Many people visit Singapore in August, which is peak travel time because in the UK, Europe and worldwide it is summer holiday from schools and colleges and universities. Singapore is a popular stopover between the UK and Australia and New Zealand and the reverse direction.
I left Singapore for England the day before National Day, but the flags had been on sale and I bought some in Daeso, the Japanese shop where everything costs only two dollars, for the meeting of my Toastmasters club, Braddell Heights Advanced speakers' club, where I am the President.
Here are some of my favourite photos:
Flags galore from a housing estate (HDB - Housing Development Board), opposite Redhill MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) station.
Rows of flags on bunting.
The white crescent and five white stars.
The Merlion, head of a lion, a symbol of Singapore. The name Singapore is derived from Singa pura, lion city. Lion or tiger? But there are no longer any lions. The last lion, or tiger, the story goes, was shot under the table in Raffles Hotel.
I saw more flags in a private condo, Cashew Heights, where residents own or rent apartments around a central swimming pool. The main clubhouse building has flags on both sides of the balconies.
Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
Around the condo pool, even the little barbecue buildings are decorated. Each one has its own flag.
BBQ with Singapore flag in August after National Day.
What you will see on the internet or next time you visit:
1 The parade past the padang (central grassy area, like the city's bigger version of the old village green). Patriotic residents waving flags and children and adults with their faces painted with the flag.
2 Fly-past of aircraft creating red and white of the Singapore flag in the sky. Watch the Mexican wave - in Singapore known as the Padang wave, created by each line of people standing and sitting down in turn creating a visual wave effect.
3 Speeches by VIPs.
4 Fireworks displays.
Singapore Flag On A Car, for National Day, August 9 and all August. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
All August
You will see the flags flying, fluttering in the breeze, on public and private buildings. If you take a bus you will pass huge signs on the huge community housing estates.
Even the cars are flying flags from the wing mirrors. The flags can be attached to the window or wing mirror.
Buy Singapore flags from Daeso.
Or online from Ebay.
My Singapore hat was bought from the YWCA for only five Singapore dollars.
The programme is published on line.
Who will be there? The usual favourites including Della Galton, on writing a novel, a change from her usual area of expertise, short stories. Alison Chisholm as usual will be encouraging novice and seasoned poets, with her soothing voice.
Why book now. Why early? Why not wait? Because by booking now you are sure of getting a place if they are fully booked. Because you can choose the cheaper accommodation before it sells out. Because rooms are allocated when you book so you have a greater chance of getting the building you prefer, the level - ground or above, and the price your prefer - the cheaper rooms, or the dearer ones in prime position. One year we went on from the Writers' Summer School to the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland which is also in August.. We drove north from Swanwick across the border and took in several sights including a puppet theatre and the cave where Bruce reputedly saw the spider. (Several caves claim to be the one. I puzzled over this for several hours on the journey, as we passed motels. Eventually, after comparing the dates of the claims, I realised Bruce hopped around caves, over the years, between battles, like a modern man on the run would hop from motel to motel, evading pursuers.)
So go north from London to Scotland, by train or coach or car, or drive on from Swanwick. That's August. At a big conference centre. Accommodation prices vary at the Hayes Conference Centre which has several buildings.
Writers' Holiday
Friday 15 to Sunday 17 Feb. Stay a day longer before or after and make sure you see the tapestry of the invasion of Fishguard by the French - and their capture by a group of women - displayed next to the library in the town hall.
Plenty to think about, talk about and write about, at your destination and surroundings at either of these holidays or both. Visitors travel from far away: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, the USA. So do the speakers and course leaders.
Swanwick 10-16 August 2019.
I tried to find my previous posts in this blog and could not - but a google search brought them up!
Problem
I've seen pictures of the hoardings, barriers, erected alongside houses in the Nottinghill Gate area. The Carnival starts with family day. After that comes the risque costumes and dancing.
So far, despite the predictions of over a million people attending, not one photographer has put up a picture on Wikipedia. I must go next year.
If you have a photo of this year's or any carnival which you are willing to share, please send it to me here or on Facebok.
Problem
Shakesepeare's birthday is celebrated on April 23rd. We can't be sure of the exact day, but he was baptised on April 26th and it was usual in those days to be baptised the third day after birth. Since he also died on April 23rd, that seems a suitable date. St George's Day is also April 23rd, so a good day to celebrate Shakespeare and England and the English language.
1 Shakespeare said so many things we quote. How can I remember them?
2 Where can I go to learn more about Shakespeare?
Answers
QUOTATIONS
Wikiquote will sort you out. Not just the quotations but exactly which play and where the words come from and who spoke the words. These are my favourites, short and easy to remember:
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
The Stratford Festival is an internationally recognized annual repertory theatre festival running annually from April to October in the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
UK
Your obvious first choice is the UK, starting with Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford upon Avon. But if you are just in London, you can visit the reproduction round theatre, as well as a monument to Shakespeare in a church, and see his bust on the front of the Guildhall building.
UK
Reproduction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England
Reproduction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England. Photo by Another Believer in Wikipedia. See Wikipedia for copyright terms.
Stratford upon Avon:
Shakespeare's Birthplace
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Theatre
Shakespeare's Grave in Holy Trinity Church
Shakespeare's grave in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, UK. Photo from Wikipedia, originally in Flickr by David Jones.
London, England
Theatre
Reprodcution of the circular Shakeapsear's theatre in the round.
About ten minutes walk from London Bridge underground station. On the banks of the Thames, near the Tate Modern art gallery and the bridge over the Thames river.
The Globe
21 New Globe Walk
Bankside
London SE1 9DT.
Great website with clear directions on how to get there and an aerial video of the theatre.
Church
Bust on Guildhall
Shakespeare bust on outside wall of Guildhall, London, England. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
If you want your own Shakespeare bust, for your home or a museum or celebration of play, it will cost you about £66 plus delivery. A bust suitable for indoors might not be suitable for the garden, but one suitable for the garden might do for indoors. However, it depends whther you want a smooth surface or something more robust and weather-proof. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ceramic-William-Shakespeare-Bust-Statue/dp/B007R61UO0
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To celebrate the Lucerne festival's anniversary, they play Happy Birthday To You in half a dozen styles. (Click on the centre of the left video.) The right video shows another comedy with two musicians fighting for attention.
Map of Switzerland from Wikitravel
Let's look at Switzerland. It may be landlocked, far from the sea, but it has cities on rivers and lakes. Lake Geneva looks like an arch on the left of the map. I remember its giant fountain by the waterside.
The West side has a border with France and if you speak French you'll be able to read the French signs. However, Swiss French sounds strange. I kept getting baffled by bilingual signs showing unfamiliar words, which were not French, German or Italian but their other, fourth language Romansch (which is not one language but several dialects).
On one of my trips I flew into Zurich. From there we caught a very clean modern train to Lucerne.
LUCERNE FESTIVAL & COVERED BRIDGE
Why Visit The Lucerne Music Festival? We didn't go for the festival, although I later learned Lucerne won an award in 2017 for its festival.
Lucerne is also one of the most attractive little riverside towns. It has two antique bridges with paintings on the inside. We stayed in a boutique hotel and whilst my husband was working I spent a day walking along to the covered bridge, over to the old town and back.
The bridge has paintings all the way along with captions underneath. If you want to read, and line up behind others, take photos of it and yourself with it and then help somebody else take a photo, you can easily lose an hour. When I was there it was a busy time, coach groups with guides in three languages stopping for a description of every painting. to cut the crush, the bridge was made one way, so I had to wait until it was one way in my direction.
Then it's a walk along the river bank to the next covered bridge which has gruesome pictures which reminded me of paintings by Breugels of people suffering from the plaque and haunted by skeletal or devilish figures. I also walked up and down the sloping cobbled narrow streets of the old shops, window-shopping.
Our last sightseeing stop was driving around endlessly looking for a way to the lion low down on a wall. We finally found it, then hunted for a nearby parking place so I could jump out and take a photo. Not so special, but I was glad to have done it.
Problem
Lucerne has several festivals. The world has several music festivals. I am not into classical music concerts. I can get quite bored. However, I found this wonderful video on Youtube of the comic duo, Igudesman and Joo.
Is it worth visiting if you don't want to participate in the conerts? Why would it make you put Lucerne on a shortlist of places to visit?
Let's start with Switzerland as a whole.
Zurich's Art Gallery and Monet
We flew into Zurich and had a weekend there. The first day we saw the art gallery housing a giant Monet painting of the flowers under the bridge at his house in France. the pinning was on the far wall of an almost empty room. The art gallery guide told us that standing up close, which tried at first, you just see globs of different coloured paint. As you retreat the painting gradually comes into focus.
I also saw a Chagall or two, much smaller pantings, after the giant Monet. See the Chagall's first, the Monet last.
The next day we went to see the Chagall windows in the chapel of the cathedral. Chagall had retired. he went to the cathedral, just to take a look. Once he saw the chapel, so tall, he immediately imagined the three windows, each one in different colours. That is his style.
If you sit and look at them for a long time, it's like meditating. At first I thought, 'Oh yes. Very nice, but why such a fuss about how wonderful they are? Just tall bits of glass.'
But eventually a feeling of peace crept over me and relaxed me.
The station
We went early to the station. The street was one way and we ended walking part of the distance from our hotel, dragging our suitcases. Fortunately we knew the trains run on time, like Swiss watches. So we were still early. A ukulele band was performing in the station.
The Modern Train
Then we took the ultra-modern train. The seats folded in two directions so you could face either way. The carriage had a rack with hangers, so you could take off your coat or jacket and hang it up as if you were in a theatre.
Switzerland's major tourist cities are: Geneva - on Lake Geneva. on the West near France. going clockwise around the lake you come to Lausanne, Switzerland's wine country. Lucerne - (Luzern in German, Lucerna in Italian)
on the mouth of the river and lake with two covered bridges leading from the new city to the old city.
Lucerne Events Dates:
Lozärner Fasnacht.
Zurich:
Switzerland's largest city has 50 museums. Chagall windows are in the church. Modern Art Museum.
Huge, wide Monet in art gallery.
Airport, with connections on Swiss airline (Star Alliance member, handy for us as we collect loyalty points, airmails from Singapore Airlines); plus train links to Lucerne.
Shopping and Riverside Restaurants
We walked along the riverside street which is on the cliffside offering views from the buildings on the bank side. Restaurants on the riverside were the most expensive.
Wh is fondue so expensive. It's only cheese melting with bits of bread? To ams a proper fondue you need two or three types of cheese, maybe emmentaler, gruyère and reblochon, plus garlic, white wine or kirsch.
Fondue and Cheese
We were looking for a place serving cheese fondue. Failing that, a boutique selling Emmentaler. We saw windows with cheese and Swiss cow bells.
What do you cut the cheese with if the restaurants are too expensive or closed or full? You have to buy a Swiss army knife. We popped into a shop which had a display and captions like a small museum. I didn't want the genuine army style knives with covers in camouflage grey. Besides, they did not have the vital corkscrew because the army on duty is not supposed to be drinking. I fancied the jolly red ones with the white cross - and the helpful corkscrew.
Story
On another business trip we took the train down to Milan in Northern Italy and watched ate evening's opera at La Scala opera house. We had booked the theatre tickets on line. Then we had a late night snack. Finally we caught the train back gone midnight.
Trains From Switzerland To Italy
Getting the right ticket for our train and the time and price we were travelling was more complicated. There was a long queue. We needed change in another currency. Did we get one through ticket? No the tickets went half way. You had to buy the second half separately. From a different machines.
When we got on the train it was dark and we wanted to sleep. But we needed to show the ticket to two sets of border controls each way, ticket inspectors who walked down the train, speaking two different languages.
After one ticket inspector passed, we curled up to go to sleep. We were woken by another man, and could not understand the problem, until another passenger helped. The ticket inspector said in Romansch that he wanted the ticket for his half of the journey. The passenger explained that, by translating what the ticket inspector's said in Italian or to his girl friend. She explained it to me in French. I explained it to my husband in English. My husband asked if we had the right tickets. Off we all went again with our impromptu united nations translation service.
On that trip we went to A l p r o s e, the Swiss chocolate factory, with a museum, free tastes and lots of different kings of chocolate to buy. The milk which is turned into cheese is also an ingredient of chocolate. We posed outside the factory for a selfie beside a statue of a cow.
Zurich Events Dates: August Zurich street parade - which attracts a million visitors.
August Theatre Festival - Zürcher Theatre Spektakel. Bern
The capital city has an old town with arcades. Basel
This medieval city on the Rhine has an art fair; and the February Carnival, Basler Fasnacht. Swiss Cheese in the USA If you can't get to the Swiss festivals in Switzerland, you might catch one in the USA:
Sponsored by the Ohio Swiss Cheese Association, Sugarcreek Business Association, and the Village of Sugarcreek, The Swiss Festival is held the 4th weekend after labor day each year. (2017: It was September 29-30) 2018 ...
If you pass a Swiss hotel in New York, consider eating at their restaurant, or booking a hotel room. You might be offered a little piece of wrapped Swiss chocolate.
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