After meeting bigwigs including International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, who said "Lord Bates is setting a fine example of what it means to live by the Olympic values every day, " and Pope Benedict XVI, who welcomed him with the observation "You've walked a long way, " Lord Bates is on the home stretch.

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The 3-hour multi-course fine dining experience is not something you can do every day, but I have done it a lot, and my dinner at Le Cinq was the most memorable such meal I had in 2011.

FORBES: Le Cinq, Paris, France