He shrugs, slightly apologetic - as he doesn't recognize it, no. "I'd been to New Jersey a lot as a kid though," he says, and begins walking, surreptitiously making sure he's not wandering around somewhere she can't. "For most of my stint as an American, I was in New York."

Ah, yee olden days of running away from home to explore or avoid or plain old escape; his first glimpses of independence were out there in those coastal states.