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A TALE OF TWO TOURS

By Jeff Bradley

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Bangers and mash await knife and fork. "Another pint, John?" a young man asks the burly fellow about to eat a plateful of sausages, mashed potatoes and gravy in the bar at the Berystede Hotel, 45 minutes outside of London. "Thanks, mate," John Bickerton says, polishing off his Guinness and swabbing the foam off his upper lip with the back of his hand. Everyone in the bar seems to know John, and vice versa. The 38-year-old Englishman, once a welder in his father's sheet-metal shop, has pl ...

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