We are in Florence - with the beautiful sights . Learn English - The parable of David and Goliath.

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2024-06-13 ・ English Addict with Mr Duncan


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We are in Florence - with the beautiful sights . Learn English - The parable of David and Goliath.

2,106 views ・ 2024-06-13

English Addict with Mr Duncan


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I can't believe that man has no clothes on hi  everybody this is Mr dunen not in England I am  
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still in Italy we have moved to another place now  another part of Italy I suppose you would describe  
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this place as very very famous for certain types  of art uh some of it some of it now you can see  
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behind me look there is some art over there some  sculptures and also some art just behind me with  
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the naked man we are in Florence at the moment  and you might say that Florence is famous for  
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many things most of all I would say that it is  often referred to as the place or the home or  
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the place where most of the work of Michelangelo  is kept and this you can see behind me is the area  
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where some of his work is displayed in fact I  will let you in on a secret some of the things  
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here are actually reproductions they are replicas  so over there we have Michael Angelo's David just  
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behind me talking of things that are beautiful and  pure as if they have been made from Marble we also  
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have this guy behind me now it's Mr Steve hello  Mr Steve hello Mr Duncan hello yes here we are in  
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lovely Florence um I must say our visit didn't get  off to the best start we came off the train and we  
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came into the first square and it was a bit of a  dump yes it's very straight our first impressions  
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of Florence were not very good I think we were  walking in the wrong direction we were going  
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towards the Not So Nice Part of Florence but now  we are in a lovely part of Florence a very famous  
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Square Mr Steve where is this where is the place  that we are standing in at the moment I was just  
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looking that up this is the Pat Uh s senoria p  senoria the pat senoria senor senoria senoria  
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I like the fact that Mr Steve has now become an  expert which means on Italian which means power  
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oh uh Power in the Renaissance the powerful family  was the medich family oh very good it's almost as  
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if Mr Steve was reading that no from Google so we  did have a very strange start in fact at one point  
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we were going to call off the whole thing and  just get back on the track train fortunately we  
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found this wonderful area look look as I turn  around look at this wonderful Square there is  
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all sorts of things going on behind me there  are people everywhere we've just had the most  
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amazing meal as well Mr Steve had a little bit of  my lasagna and I had some of his eggplant lasagna  
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it was absolutely amazing I know what you're  trying to do Mr Duncan you're trying to keep  
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me off the camera frame no I'm not I'm just  trying to let the lovely viewers see where we  
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are the wonderful expanse of this place you see  how beautiful everything is all of the buildings  
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except for that one behind me there can you see  over there that one is covered in scaffolding this  
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is one of the things I was annoyed about when  we went to Rome we did find that many of the  
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buildings in Rome were actually covered with but  that scaffolding that scaffolding there Mr Duncan  
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they have tried to make it look like the building  yes the covering around the uh the scaffolding  
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is trying to recreate the building itself which I  think is very clever but it is not very convincing  
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so if you look carefully over there you can see  that they've tried to make it look as if the  
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building is not having any renovation work when  clearly it is please excuse the crazy people with  
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their dogs it would appear that we can't get away  from dogs if we're in much windlock we have crazy  
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dogs all around us and here we are now hundreds  of miles away and still there are crazy dogs all  
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all around us I would like to say that uh um  can I give a little um mention to the lovely  
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restaurant that we just went to um we didn't we  just saw it it looked quite classy the Cafe Riv  
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uh here in the Pia is was absolutely wonderful  uh the best lasagna we've tasted so far and we  
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have tasted a lot of lasagnas we I can't believe  how many lasagnas we have eaten this is our third  
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lasagna in 24 hours yes we had two yesterday this  one is so far is the best the coffee was the best  
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the ice cream the gelato was the best yes let's  turn around and give it a little plug okay we we  
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will show behind so there it is just behind  me now M I like the way Mr Steve is standing  
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oh there it is so there that Cafe behind us there  that is where we were just and they have the most  
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amazing lasagna the most amazing coffee and the  most amazing ice cream as well shall we say hello  
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to Michael Angelo's David because I think of all  the things that have ever been created by mankind  
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one of the most talked about sculptures in the  world must be the rendition of David of course  
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you know the famous story David and Goliath he  is the young boy who slayed the giant called G  
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you might say that it is a type of parable when  we describe something as a parable we mean that  
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that thing is kind of giving a message it is  a story with a message or a moral for example  
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so right behind us now you can see Michelangelo's  David Michelangelo David this is not the original  
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though I think this is actually a copy of of  Michelangelo's David but you still get the  
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impression that it is an amazing work of art  I've lost Mr Steve where is he oh there's Mr  
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Steve back so we will be spending about another 3  hours here in Florence and then we will be going  
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back to our hotel a few miles from here we had  a lovely journey by the way can I just give a  
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big shout out to to the trains the Italian trains  they are absolutely incredible the trains here are  
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amazing I absolutely love the trains so beautiful  silent clean and very much on time as well so  
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thank you very much for the Italian train system  the railway system much better than ours in the UK  
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by the way we might be live on Sunday on  Sunday from 2 pm Italy time we might be  
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actually broadcasting live from the center of San  jimano so we will see what happens look out for  
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that I will let you know on Facebook with any  updates thank you very much for watching and I  
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think we will wrap it up here in Florence where  everything started off rather strangely but now  
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the sun has come out I don't know why you said  this didn't you Steve earlier you said maybe we  
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are waiting for the sun to come out isn't that  strange I just sneezed one thing I've noticed  
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is there's a lot of people sneezing yes I think  it's the hay fever but the strange thing is this  
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is actually our second attempt at recording this  and the first time we did it Mr Steve also sneezed  
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isn't that strange so we will be with you on  Sunday and hopefully we'll be live from San
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jimano that's a very long o at the end of that  word Mr Duncan well nice nice to be here nice to  
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uh record something for all you wonderful viewers  across the globe so watching Mr Duncan's channel  
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so it did start off a little bit strange but Steve  said this is the point I wanted to make Steve said  
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everything looks nicer or better when the sun is  out and the sun has now come out because when we  
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arrived it was horrible it was all gray and it  even rained a couple of times but now the sun  
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has come out and everything is looking rather  lovely so we will let you get on with your day  
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carry on with what you are doing and hopefully  we will be with you live on Sunday from 2:  
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p.m. Italy time and of course until the  next time we meet you know what's coming  
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next you know what's coming next don't  you Mr Steve unfortunately yes I will say  
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tar for now and Mr Steve will say AR for  now hopefully we will see you on Sunday
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