Certainly it was with my daily breakfast on the verandah of the Chittagong Club.

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Mayor MORAN: Oh very important, we spend all our time down here on the verandah, you know.

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"The people and their problems will always be with us, " says Don Pedro, the family patriarch, as we sit on the verandah of the hacienda clubhouse.

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Yesterday afternoon, a few hours before we set sail from Bangkok, I asked Sebastian to bring vodka martinis and caviar for a little departure party I was having on the verandah. (Cabins on the Penthouse Deck and on decks nine, eight, and some on seven have them.) Around six, when we were slated to push off from the dock.

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