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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Charmita and Olarse</description>
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                    <title>February 2013</title>
                    <description>Here are some pictures from February</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Surrey/Thames-Ditton/blog-778303.html</link>
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                    <title>Malaga and Melilla</title>
                    <description>N Is the age of European imperialism in Africa dead Almost but not quite. Melilla a Spanish territory nestling uneasily along the Moroccan Mediterranean coast is one of the last two European territories on the African continent. Home to some 70000 people of Spanish Arab and Berber descent it is a thriving port city marked by beautiful Spanish modernist architecture. Seized in the late fi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Ceuta-Melilla/Melilla/blog-743724.html</link>
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                    <title>September 2012</title>
                    <description>Here are our favourite photos from the month of September</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Surrey/Thames-Ditton/blog-755127.html</link>
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                    <title>Barbados</title>
                    <description>P Known as the Brightest Jewel in the English Crown Barbados was the first Caribbean island to be settled by the British in 1627 and it was the first colony to produce sugar  which it still does today although tourism brings in more cash. It was always protected from invasion by easterly winds and the fact that it is more than 100 miles from the rest of the Lesser Antilles.The east coast is</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Barbados/Saint-Peter-/blog-585574.html</link>
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                    <title>Isle of Islay</title>
                    <description>For Steves stag weekend we went to the Hebridean island of Islay off the west coast of Scotland. I met up with Allan in Glasgow and after a lager on Thursday evening we flew early Friday morning on a Saab turbojet. On this dull morning the water droplets on the plane windows were dispersed as soon as the propellers were switched on and to reinforce the small scale of the operation the chi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Argyll/Isle-of-Islay/blog-532043.html</link>
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                    <title>60. Home Sweet Home</title>
                    <description>P Getting on the plane to head back to Blighty proved to be quite a kerfuffle. We had posted some stuff home but as it turned out not nearly enough We both had laptop bags mine contained a laptop and plenty of papers perhaps passable as reading material for a very fast reader. Nick's laptop bag contained a multiregion DVD player and a carrywallet stuffed with CDs.  He also wore a tshirt</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-451361.html</link>
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                    <title>59. Rarotonga</title>
                    <description>NAugust got off to a great start for us my team at work won a competition that took us on holiday for a week to the Pacific island of Rarotonga Its probably the best prize I ever won. The brochures describe Rarotonga as a perfect circle of rock whose centre is a volcanic peak draped in dense green jungle which runs down to a beach of white sand lapped by blue sea. Such is the positi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Cook-Islands/Rarotonga/blog-438591.html</link>
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                    <title>58. Au revoir Aotearoa</title>
                    <description>P As we left Stewart Island the furthest south that we would travel we realised that our grand tour was coming to an end.We caught the Stray bus to Queenstown where we had previously spent a little time back in March but now this time we allowed ourselves several days to soak up this town fit for a Queen and also to allow us to have Nicks birthday present in of a days snowboarding</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Taupo/blog-439109.html</link>
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                    <title>57. What life is this if full of care we have no time to stand and stare</title>
                    <description>N By the start of July we had both stopped working as our visas had expired. We spent the first day of the month cleaning and packing up the flat into boxes throwing some warm clothes into a couple of smaller cases because the next morning was my birthday and we were flying down to Christchurch to start on the 2nd part of our South Island trip.You know youre getting old whenthe first bi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Stewart-Island/blog-438191.html</link>
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                    <title>56. Independence in Whangamomona plus snow on the volcano mud baths bungyjumping  shark diving</title>
                    <description>N Just as should happen in the UK there is a public holiday in New Zealand to celebrate our Queens Birthday. To make the most of this extra day of freedom we decided to travel the approx 300km down the western side of the North Island to New Plymouth the nearest town to the volcano named Mount Taranaki. It was not just the volcano that interested us but also the nearby micronation of Whan</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/blog-432652.html</link>
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                    <title>55. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign RL Stevenson</title>
                    <description>N One weekend in May we went for a drive around the south of Auckland firstly stopping at Otara Market which is billed as a real mix of Pacific Island Maori Asian and Pakeha European descent stallholders each Saturday creating a uniquely New Zealand multicultural experience where Pacific Island elders sell traditional cloth next to their younger counterparts selling satirical tshirts </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-423916.html</link>
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                    <title>54. Easter Holidays up North</title>
                    <description>POn Good Friday we went to St. Patricks Cathedral in the centre of Auckland to witness the procession around the city enter the Church led by volunteers carrying a full size cross.Around midday we picked up our old college friend Andrew from the airport and headed further up north from Auckland predictably called Northland and as we had recently turned back our clocks it was not until ju</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/blog-414631.html</link>
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                    <title>53. Feeling sheepish</title>
                    <description>N Travelling southwards from Auckland through the middle of the north island is to pass through King Country  nothing to do with the UK it was named after the King Movement set up by various Maori tribes in the middle of the 19th century when they elected a king and formed a group to defend themselves against increasing European pressure to sell land for settlement. The heart of their </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Raglan/blog-412975.html</link>
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                    <title>52d. Tiki Tour  Part Four and back in Auckland</title>
                    <description>In March we headed off on a 2week holiday of NZs South Island. We used a 'hop on hop off' bus service called  Stray Backpacker Bus NZ to get around and our big highlights were swimming with dolphins catching our own fish for dinner and climbing a glacier.Stops 7 and 8 Lakes and Lakes reallyP We had an overnight stop in Makarora population 40 a tranquil setting nestled among the maje</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-395797.html</link>
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                    <title>55a. Bungy from Auckland Harbour Bridge</title>
                    <description>Bungy as we know it today started with a small group of individuals who have been throwing themselves from huge towers for centuries with nothing more than a few vines tied to their feet   the people of Vanuatu in the Pacific says the blurb on the AJ Hackett website the company that has replaced vines with thousands of pieces of thin white elastic all meshed together. The principle is still t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-410271.html</link>
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                    <title>Nick's skydive in Lake Wanaka</title>
                    <description>See my jump hereOn arrival at Skydive Lake Wanaka I had to decide if I would jump at 12000 15 seconds of freefall or 15000 feet 60 seconds of freefall. In for a penny in for a pound I thought and chose the higher option. After signing my life away I put on the clown suit that all 'jumpers' were wearing got strapped into a harness and met my 'instructor' Olly from Poland. I was keen t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Wanaka/blog-405156.html</link>
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                    <title>52c. Tiki Tour  Part Three</title>
                    <description>In March we headed off on a 2week holiday of NZs South Island. We used a 'hop on hop off' bus service called  Stray Backpacker Bus NZ to get around and our big highlights were swimming with dolphins catching our own fish for dinner and climbing a glacier.Stops 4 to 6  West Coast of the South IslandBrewery and glacier nature and nurtureN The west coast of New Zealand is known for its ra</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Makarora/blog-395795.html</link>
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                    <title>52b. Tiki Tour  Part Two</title>
                    <description>In March we headed off on a 2week holiday of NZs South Island. We used a 'hop on hop off' bus service called  Stray Backpacker Bus NZ to get around and our big highlights were swimming with dolphins catching our own fish for dinner and climbing a glacier.Stop 2 BlenheimWineland. Hic.N We left Kaikoura the following morning stopping at Ohau Stream to take a short walk to a small waterfal</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Abel-Tasman-National-Park/Marahau/blog-395792.html</link>
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                    <title>52a. Tiki Tour  Part One</title>
                    <description>In March we headed off on a 2week holiday of NZs South Island. We used a 'hop on hop off' bus service called  Stray Backpacker Bus NZ to get around and our big highlights were swimming with dolphins catching our own fish for dinner and climbing a glacier.Stop 1 KaikouraDolphins fish and selfsufficiencyP We whistled through Christchurch before heading northwards by bus with Stray Travel</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Kaikoura/blog-393891.html</link>
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                    <title>Received One Gannet Morus Serator</title>
                    <description>Last weekend Paula and I took receipt of one gannet. It was selfbilled as Little Gannet but there was not much 'little' on display. However we did not conduct a full anatomical investigation and so may have missed the odd feature.In preparation for the visit of the gannet we went to visit a real life gannet colony approximately one hour from central Auckland. We found them in high spirits</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-390531.html</link>
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