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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Albertson</description>
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                    <title>Farewell Europe</title>
                    <description>Our last 4 days were spent in Madrid after we dropped our car off.  We were relieved that the temperature finally dropped to manageable levels but demonstrations against the government which became heated and on one evening violent meant that we couldn39t go out safely in the evening.  We still managed to see all the sights we intended but had to split the museum visits over several evenings</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Castile-Leon/blog-747466.html</link>
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                    <title>Seville</title>
                    <description>We spent 3 days in Seville and Carol needed that long to recover from driving through the narrow streets to our apartment  It was still very hot but we managed to see the Cathedral the Alcazar and the Plaza Espana.  Greg also went to a bullfight one evening.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-745928.html</link>
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                    <title>Ronda and Gibraltor</title>
                    <description>On Tuesday we left Grenada and travelled to Ronda famous for the origins of bullfighting and for its new bridge which crosses an amazing chasm. Then we stayed in Algeciras across the border from Gibraltor where we spent an enjoyable afternoon speaking and hearing English and visiting the barbary apes on the rock.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-745580.html</link>
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                    <title>Andalusia</title>
                    <description>On Friday after leaving Toledo we headed further south to Andalucia first stopping at Consuegra to see the windmills which according to the legend of Don Quixote he fought thinking they were giants. We then spent 2 days in Cordoba in sweltering heat 36 C in the shade checking out the Cathedral Alcazar and mediaeval town. Then it was 2 days in Grenada still very hot with a rest day and a d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/blog-744917.html</link>
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                    <title>Spain</title>
                    <description>We started our Spanish leg of our holiday in Bilbao where we left the ferry at 7am on Tuesday morning. The first day we drove to Burgos with a short stop in Vittoria. The bridge there was the site of a battle in 1813. On Wednesday our first stop was Segovia where a huge aqueduct goes straight through the centre of the town and then on to Avila famous for its almost complete mediaeval city wall. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-744801.html</link>
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                    <title>Farewell England</title>
                    <description>At the end of our week in the Cotswolds we travelled back to London and spent the day at London zoo before meeting Greg at a hotel near the airport.  London Zoo is now famous for its reptile house which was in Harry Potter but also has a penguin beach where emma would have spent the whole day if we had let herOn Sunday we went back into the city to visit Buckingham Palace which wasn39t open t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-744797.html</link>
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                    <title>Side trip to Russia</title>
                    <description>The purpose of Greg39s trip to Moscow with his friends Scott and Sam  was for the 200th anniversary of the battle of Borodino 150 km west of Moscow against Napoleon in 1812.  They journeyed to the battlefield on the day and also saw a large scale  reenactment with 3000 people  and 200 000 spectators.   As part of the celebration they went to a military tattoo in Red Square which finished w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/blog-744555.html</link>
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                    <title>The Cotswolds</title>
                    <description>There was a bit of a Harry Potter theme for the female Albertsons this week. We Stayed at a cottage for the week with day trips to Oxford Gloucester Cheltenham Warner Bros Harry Potter Studio tour and a longer trip north to meet up with some of Carol39s rels.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-742221.html</link>
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                    <title>Museum day</title>
                    <description>On returning to England we had just over a day in London to see lots of museums.  We met up with Greg39s friend Scott and the guys started with the Imperial War Museum and the National Army Museum while the girls opted for a later start and a visit to some of the London Harry Potter filming sites.  After meeting up we all went to the Victoria and Albert Museum Natural History Museum and Scienc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-742219.html</link>
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                    <title>Chartres and Monet</title>
                    <description>With time in France running out we had a quick stop in Chartres to see the Cathedral before moving on to Giverny for our last night. Giverny is most famous for the Monet House and Gardens which we visited with hordes of other tourists Afterwards our car39s GPS had its most crazy mistake so far asking us to go down a road and over a bridge. The road was a field and the river just there has nev</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Lower-Normandy/blog-740210.html</link>
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                    <title>Loire Valley</title>
                    <description>Next we spent a few days visiting chateaus in the Loire Valley because we always felt we didn39t have enough time last time we were in France. We visited 3 chateaux this time Chambord Ussy and Villandry. Each have different selling points Chambord is the roof and the coolest staircase a double spiral where the 2 spirals never meet and designed by Leonardo da vinci. Ussy is said to have ins</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Pays-de-la-Loire/blog-739719.html</link>
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                    <title>Back to France</title>
                    <description>First night back in France we stayed in Metz then visited the WWI battlefields near Verdun before driving around Paris to Bois d39Arcy near Versailles. We then spent a day in the gardens of Versailles where they only have the fountains going for 2 hours and only at weekends We managed to see all but one in the time not bad going in 30 deg heat Some were much more impressive than others.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-739712.html</link>
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                    <title>Breakfast in Belgium lunch in Luxembourg dinner in Deutschland</title>
                    <description>From the title you can see that we had a travelling day after leaving Bruges Over the next couple of days we saw the oldest city in Germany Trier the second oldest Augsburg the tallest spire in the world Ulm and Dachau Concentration Camp.  Lots of travelling and staying in lovely small German hotels.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Rhineland-Palatinate/blog-739240.html</link>
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                    <title>Off to the Continent</title>
                    <description>After one more night in England we drove on to a ferry in Dover in extremely foggy conditions crossing the Channel to Dunkirk. We then had 2 nights in a caravan at a campground near Bruges in Belgium. Bruges or Brugge is probably the most tourist orientated place we have ever been At any one time on a small stretch of the narrow river you can see up to 4 tourist boats and rarely none and the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/West-Flanders/blog-739090.html</link>
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                    <title>York and Sherwood Forest</title>
                    <description>Afterleaving Scotland we spent a few days travelling down the eastern side of England before visiting Carol39s Northampton relatives.First day we got as far as York it was raining on and off but still warm.  While there we went to the National Railway Museum and visited York Minster and The Shambles a very old and narrow street of shops.On Saturday we went to the Robin Hood Festival in the S</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-738316.html</link>
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                    <title>Edinburgh</title>
                    <description>We spent 3 days in and around Edinburgh.  The highlight was the Military Tattoo on an evening with beautiful warm weather and very little wind.  Our seats were great just under the NZ flag and we loved the whole thingOur whole time in Scotland we had great weather with the exception of our visit to Stirling where we toured the castle during a violent thunderstorm and also visited the site ot th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/blog-737925.html</link>
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                    <title>Braveheart</title>
                    <description>On Saturday we went north of Inverness again to Fort George and a reenaction called Celebration of the Centuries  This involved groups from times throughout history with the highlight being an aerial display by 2 WWII planes. Our last day in the Highlands we went to Urquhart Caste on the shore of Loch Ness close to where we were staying.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/blog-737807.html</link>
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                    <title>Harry Potter and the Scottish Monster</title>
                    <description>We love ScotlandThe first day we stopped at Loch Lomond on the way to Loch Ness the weather was great all day. Emma and Laura went Nessie hunting and found a baby one that is coming home with us and will probably pop up in a few photos from now on On Thursday we went to a Highland Games just north of Inverness at Tain. There was cycling track and field heavy events eg tossing the caber h</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/blog-737603.html</link>
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                    <title>Beatrix Potter and Romans</title>
                    <description>Internet in the Highlands is patchy at best but now we are back It was very fitting that our hotel in the Lake District known for its connection with Beatrix Potter was surrounded with rabbits and birds in the evening. We did the tourist trail during the day but decided against queueing for 2 hours to see Beatrix Potter39s house and they are quiet at the moment because of the Olympics It i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-735660.html</link>
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                    <title>Heading North</title>
                    <description>On Friday we left our cottage and headed north. We spent the day at Warwick Castle where they have lots of amazing demonstrations including jousting and sending flaming missiles by trebuchet a big catapult We travelled on to Coventry and then on Saturday went to Greg39s brother39s place via the RAF museum at Cosford. We left Tim and Adele Sunday afternoon getting to our 2 night stay in th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-735656.html</link>
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