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<title>Travel Blog | Aley and Ron</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Aley and Ron</description>
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                    <title>Hawaii Waikiki</title>
                    <description>Our last stop on the way home three nights in Waikiki Honolulu. Ron had suggested staying at the Moana Surfrider as it was a beautiful historic hotel located right on the beach at Waikiki. Established in 1901 the hotel is often referred to as the First Lady of Waikiki. We were pleased we had booked the Ocean View rooms as not only could we see and hear the surf from our room we also had a fant</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Hawaii/Oahu/Waikiki/blog-714362.html</link>
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                    <title>Houston and Portland</title>
                    <description>After a three hour delay in Costa Rica finally arriving in Houston close to midnight we were very happy to find Colin waiting at the airport for us. Our last week in Houston was spent enjoying catching up with Louise Colin James and Lachlan. We were lucky to be able to go James39s Baseball games James is a talented player and not only fielded well but also hit some home runs. We also were a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Portland/blog-712755.html</link>
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                    <title>Costa Rica Arenal and Jaco</title>
                    <description>We were sad to leave the Peace Lodge as it had been a restful place to stay after our busy tour of Guatemala but we were also looking forward to our next stop at the base of the Arenal volcano. It was a fairly easy 2 and a half hour drive to Arenal we were very pleased to check in to our hotel and find it exceed our expectations. The Royal Corin has a number of hot spas and pools all feed by hot </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Alajuela/Arenal/blog-710606.html</link>
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                    <title>Costa Rica Waterfall Gardens</title>
                    <description>We arrived in Costa Rica early in the morning and had arranged with our driver to stop at the Plaza de la Cultura in San Jose before transfering to our hotel. We were disspaointed to find the National Theatre closed on Mondays but we were able to visit the Pre Columbian Gold Museum. The museum has thousands of different examples of PreColombian gold artifacts. The pieces in the collection date fr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/blog-704468.html</link>
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                    <title>Guatemala Flores</title>
                    <description>The 4am wakeup call to catch our flight to Flores came around much too soon. It didn39t help that we had stayed up dancing to a live salsa band the night before at our hotel the Westin Guatemala. Luckily the flight to Flores was under an hour and we were picked up from the airport by 9am. We were soon on our way to Tikal one of the most important archaeological sites of the Mayan World Tikal </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Peten-Region/Flores/blog-708839.html</link>
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                    <title>Guatemala Antigua and Lake Atitlan </title>
                    <description>Day 1 of our tour organised through Guatemalan Adventure. After a three hour flight from Houston we arrived to the Guatemala City airport. The airport is only 4 years old and not too busy before we knew it we were heading to Antigua for 3 nights. We were very happy with our hotel when we arrived it was well designed with courtyards fountains and lovely areas to sit and relax.Day 2 We met our gu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/blog-704467.html</link>
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                    <title>Houston and San Antonio</title>
                    <description>We arrived in Houston on Monday to a warm welcome at the airport. Both Lachlan and James had grown so much since we last saw them over 15 months ago. It was a lovely to have the boys help us with our luggage we were surprised to see 8 year old James hoisting the cases off the luggage carousel.We enjoyed being part of Louise Colin Lachlan and James39s family life. With the boys we walked the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Houston/blog-704212.html</link>
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                    <title>Vancouver Vancouver Island and Seattle</title>
                    <description>After a short 5 hour flight from Maui we arrived late evening in Vancouver. Our hotel the St Regis was only a short ride from the airport and is located in downtown Vancouver. We were very pleased to be told at check in that free international calls were included in our rate which allowed us to spend the evening chating with family.Our second day in Canada started with a hearty Canadian breakfast </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-702304.html</link>
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                    <title>First Stop Hawaii</title>
                    <description>After a long 20 hours of travelling we arrived at our Hotel in Maui the Plantation Inn. We Sunday afternoon and arrived Sunday afternoon due to crossing the dateline. After checking out our lovely rooms in the we walked the short distance to the front street of Lahaina which dates back to the 1820s. The street runs along the waterfront and is filled with lovely historic buildings housing restauran</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Hawaii/Maui/Lahaina/blog-701534.html</link>
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                    <title>Southampton to Heathrow via Lacock</title>
                    <description>Ron was very sad to have to disembark mid morning at Southampton I think he would have liked to keep sailing back to Australia instead of flying.  After picking up our hire car we decided to travel to Heathrow via Lacock which we had heard was a pictureque village and somewhere we could stop for lunch.  Lacock Village dates back to the 13thcentury it has remained largely unchanged over the cen</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Southampton/blog-537436.html</link>
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                    <title>Three days at sea</title>
                    <description>Day 111213   Three days at sea sailing back to Southampton.The movie shows Divo a cute well behaved whippet who was onboard with his owner Caroline another Australian traveller.  As an assistance dog his job was to give Caroline warning well in advance of an impending hypoglycaemic episode allowing for prompt treatment to avert the episode from happening. We had never seen such a well behave</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/blog-542645.html</link>
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                    <title>Madeira Portugal</title>
                    <description>Madeira  Day 10  We quickly disembarked so we catch the cable car to Monte before the tour buses arrived and as we rode up in the first chairlift of the day it started to drizzle at this stage we had no idea of what was to follow.  We made our first mistake when we reached Monte we decided to stop and admire the great views over a coffee.  The tour groups over took us and we ended up in a huge</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Madeira/Madeira/blog-537435.html</link>
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                    <title>La Palma</title>
                    <description>Day 9  La PalmaAfter two tours in a row we decide to take it easy and just do our own walking tour around La Palma.  The town was very close to the port and we were able to walk in within a few minutes.  We seemed to be lucky to arrive on a market day we were able stroll the cobbled streets which were closed to traffic and full of interesting stalls.  We enjoyed walking past all the old buildin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-537434.html</link>
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                    <title>Tenerife Canary Islands</title>
                    <description>Day 8 TenerifeWe joined a Cunard full day tour Beauty of Mount Teide we began by driving through the Esperanza Forest stopping at Ortuna viewpoint for views over the north coast.  The higher we climbed the more dramatic the landscape became finally turning to lava with Mount Teide rising to 12300 feet.  Mount Teide has been dormant since 1909 and is in the centre of a crater over 29 miles </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-537433.html</link>
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                    <title>Gran Canaria</title>
                    <description>Day 6 at seaRest day after having 3 ports in a row time to enjoy the ship.   In the morning David Frost gave a great talk called interviews I shall never forget.  David has interviewed the last 7 presidents of the United States and the last 7 prime ministers of the United Kingdom plus many other interesting people he was able to give great insights and share fascinating antidotes of some </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Canary-Islands/Gran-Canaria/blog-537432.html</link>
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                    <title>Cadiz Spain</title>
                    <description>Day 5  Cadiz is Europes oldest city compact and surrounded by sea.  Instead of taking a tour we decided to spend our day ashore exploring on foot. We thought we start by taking a short walk to the nearby cathedral before returning to the ship for morning tea.  After taking a wrong turn we ended up walking for 3 hours a little more than we expected especially as Alex was in uncomfortable shoes</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/C-diz/blog-537429.html</link>
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                    <title>Lisbon Portugal</title>
                    <description>Day 4 LisbonWith our friends we had arranged a private 4 hour mini bus tour with Inside Lisbon Tours.  Our tour guide Hugo picked us up from the quayside as we only had a small van we were able to see the best of Lisbon and get to the places the bigger coaches could not reach.  Hugo told us of the history of Portugal and the significance of each site painting not only a picture of Lisbon but gi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Lisbon-and-Tagus-Valley/blog-537426.html</link>
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                    <title>Vigo Spain</title>
                    <description>Day 1 Boarding Queen Elizabeth for her Maiden Cruise.It turned out to be a good idea to relax at the nearby Hotel with a coffee until close to sailing time.   As we were one of the last to turn up we avoided the queues and were whisked straight on board by they friendly greeters Alex was getting a little concerned about arriving so close to boarding time within 5 minutes Ron of course was uncon</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Galicia/Vigo/blog-537427.html</link>
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                    <title>devizes</title>
                    <description>We stayed in Rowde overnight on the way to the ship Rowde should have been a short drive from Heathrow but we stopped to look at a number of locks along the way.  We chose the to stay at the George and Dragon based on internet reviews it proved to an a very good choice.  The Inn was built in the 15th century it has lots of character and the rooms have been tastefully fitted out.  Our bedroom ha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-529099.html</link>
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                    <title>Providenciales provo</title>
                    <description>Big thanks to Colin for taking us at 5am to catch our early morning flight from Dallas via Maimi to Providenciales.  We arrived in Provo Providenciales late afternoon the first thing that seemed a little strange was the short drive to our hotel the Caribbean Paradise Inn the taxi drove on the left with the steering wheel also on the left.   After being in Texas where they drive on the right w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Turks-and-Caicos/Providenciales/blog-529096.html</link>
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