It's hard not to picture Canaris in a good mood, walking into an early fog that the sun would chase away by breakfast time.

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As I walked around the restaurant at Australia's plush hotel in west London to meet the players during breakfast, Darren Lockyer popped out for an early-morning run around the block in his full-length lycras before re-emerging with a newspaper.

BBC: Closing the gap?

Put on your walking shoes and start out early on the Upper West Side with a take-out breakfast from Zabar's, an old-world delicatessen that's a NYC institution.

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Lying in your tent, listening to the rustles and chirps of the forest, you can almost hear an old bull elephants whishing his way between the moss-covered trunks and the woodcutters rising early for a campfire breakfast of sweet potatoes and coffee.

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