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The Village of Paddington Bear
"I arrived a little bit like Paddington Bear, arriving to the room," he says. "The family were amazingly welcoming and put me up and looked after me for a whole year." The village was about 250 people with no road, running water or electricity. They largely grew the rent food, selling a few things in the local town. Almost all that sort of stuff could get quite serious - there had been a murder at one point.