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<title>Travel Blog | Aphrodite</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Aphrodite</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <title>Home coming</title>
                    <description>Last sleep in Gttingen before catching early train to Frankfurt airport. My suitcase is used to being hauled up escalators and onto buses great way to keep those muscles toned. The crowded train stations and airport waiting areas are no longer unfamiliar and at least I can navigate my way through.Two very long flights later I arrive in Brisbanestraight into the armsand of my loving and very pa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/blog-723481.html</link>
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                    <title>Last day in Gttingen</title>
                    <description>Dan and I began my last day here with our now standard breakfast fare of flaky croissants and muesli doused in the creamy local yoghurt. Negotiating the washing machine in the dark depths of the apartment basement I went about my laundry tasks which meant having to phone Dan to even get the lid of the washing machine open....Soon I was free to catch the nearby local bus down to the old city maki</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/blog-723195.html</link>
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                    <title>Day out in Gttingen</title>
                    <description>Today we feasted on the delicious large croissants from the local 39Kster39 bakery before Dan headed to work and I began my leisurely day as a tourist. The skies were overcast and the air chilly although the birds continued with their spring time songs regardless. Catching the local bus was no easy feat considering my German is nonexistent luckily the driver could understand sign langu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/blog-722930.html</link>
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                    <title>Botanischer Garten</title>
                    <description>After a late breakfast of flaky local croissants we set out for the local beauty spot the botannical gardens. This beautiful area is well maintained several greenhouses devoted to special plants such as cactii and natural outdoor areas that are cultivated to be as close to their natural settings as possible. Imagine my surprise when we stumbled across a couple of mature grass trees..... Several</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/blog-722680.html</link>
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                    <title>Return to Gttingen</title>
                    <description>Time to return briefly to the land of my ancestors and spend a last fee precious days with Dan. Making the most of free time before catching my train it was time for another catch up chat with my much missed partner.... It was lucky that I even made it to the train station with the traffic being so congested and my taxi driver uttering all the French expletives he could and using time spent waiti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-722495.html</link>
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                    <title>Montmartre</title>
                    <description>Today the quaint and picturesque streets of Montmartre beckoned for a final and very French 39au revoir39. I joined a small walking tour Sandemans and soon we had covered lots of ground starting outside the Moulin Rouge and finishing at a coffee shop near Sacre Coeur.  I was fascinated by the bronze bust of Yolanda Gigliotti Dalida her bust was worn smooth by many hands pressing there</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-722387.html</link>
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                    <title>More Paris love affair</title>
                    <description>More photos from today the images say it all...</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-722209.html</link>
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                    <title>My love affair with Paris</title>
                    <description>Determined to make the most of my stay in this fascinating and culturally diverse place I set off after a fashionably late and low calorie breakfast of crispy croissant and filter coffee. Backpack suitably filled with maps travel pass umbrella fruit sunscreen and a novel to pass any spare time I was prepared for a big day. First stop was Notre Dame. Most sights are easy to spot by the large </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-722205.html</link>
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                    <title>More Louvre</title>
                    <description>Just had to add some photos of this fantastic place.....</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-721988.html</link>
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                    <title>Art lover in Paris</title>
                    <description>After a suitably late French breakfast of croissant au chocolat and a cup of good coffee produced by my hotel room drip filter coffee machine it was off  to do the tourist circuit of downtown Paris. Boarding a topless double decker red bus I made for the Grand Palais where a confronting photography exhibition by Helmut Newton was top billing. After passing my back pack through an xray machine </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-721980.html</link>
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                    <title>Loire Valley trip</title>
                    <description>Early start today as I joined a tour of the gorgeous Loire Valley famous for castles and wineries..... Morning tea was an excellent chocolate croissant along the way to Chambord a sixteenth century castle built as a very fancy hunting lodge. Amazing architecture and huge rooms it was impossible to keep warm despite the hundreds of fire places. Lunch was at a boutique winery we were served a ho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-721726.html</link>
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                    <title>More Saint Maurice</title>
                    <description>My hotel district is a wonderland of local French culture.... how I enjoy joining the crowds on the footpath shopping for a few groceries listening to the tangle of French language that ensues from every corner the liliting names of the metro stations as I slowly reach my destination.....</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-721466.html</link>
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                    <title>Montmartre</title>
                    <description>Rising late and just in time to catch a very average breakfast at my hotel it was time to venture into the complicated but efficient metro system and make my way to the wonderful arty totally Parisian Montmartre. I was deposited first back at the Moulin Rouge area and discovered an array of adult and lingerie shops something for everyone as they say.... And so on to Sacre Coeur the beautiful </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-721464.html</link>
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                    <title>More paris</title>
                    <description>More photos of my favourite city....</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-721306.html</link>
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                    <title>Walking tour</title>
                    <description>Today I joined a walking tour of the main sights of central Paris. Not the most ideal morning as it was rainy windy and cool. However all we ladies needed was the adddition of a hastily purchased umbrella and a french scarf Our tour guide from Sandemans was called Adam he was an enthusiastic young man with a major in French history and has a selfconfessed obsession with the gory details of Pa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-721198.html</link>
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                    <title>First day in Paris</title>
                    <description>Woke unbearably early 6.30am to catch my half day tour to the Palace of Versailles. Late night internet habits do have their drawback..... After a forgettable hotel breakfast of cornflakes unappetising pastries and machine made coffee ugh it was off in a mini bus to join the rest of the world at Versailles. Amazing to see the crowds over 3000 people a day pour through to wonder at the overly</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-721000.html</link>
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                    <title>Paris</title>
                    <description>Today Dan and I parted company as it was time for me to head for Paris. Our Youth Hostel was again surprisingly comfortable for the overnight stay in Lausanne Dan made the most of a late breakfast date to swim in Lake Geneva. My early morning exercise was a strenous repack of my suitcase. Boarding the train for Paris I was happy to be in a small 8 seat compartment along with some beautiful and </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-720807.html</link>
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                    <title>Evening in Lausanne</title>
                    <description>Today we woke up to mountain views at our Swiss Hostel and after a late breakfast hauled our luggage down to the local train station. To pass an idle hour we decided to sample rosti and local sausage while taking in our last look at the majesty of the mountains. We then set off to catch the first of three trains for Lausanne. Finding the seats very comfortable I again settled into a deep sleep t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/blog-720536.html</link>
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                    <title>Cathedral</title>
                    <description>Spent a very pleasant hour looking around this magnificent cathedral in central Lausanne.. Lots of impressive gothic architecture narrow alleyways and plenty of outdoor diners enoying the mild evening.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/blog-720664.html</link>
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                    <title>More Grindelwald</title>
                    <description>Just thought we would add some more photos and put in a plug for the fantastic youth hostel here  it is the only one in Grindelwald. Breakfast is a buffet and consists of muesli yoghhurt fruit cold meat and cheese crusty bread. We both slept well in our sound proof rooms pulling back the curtains to reveal the majesty of the nearby mountains</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/blog-720395.html</link>
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