It was a pitch-perfect sky blue day when the driver arrived to chauffeur me around town in the 2012 Bentley Mulsanne for a full day of New York business on a Monday in August.

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It was that bright, blue-skied, perfect day.

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The climate resembles a perfect English summer's day: skies are blue and the valleys are lush.

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