I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather. (Peter Mayle)

I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.

Peter Mayle

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