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                    <title>Polish Festival 2006</title>
                    <description>Czesc we heard on the telly this morning of a Polish Festival in Roseville with camera in hand and drooling at the mouth at the thought of grilled Kielbasa with Kapusta Perogies Paczki Placki Kartoflane and Okocim Polish Beer we headed straight for Roseville and the 17th Annual Greater Sacramento Polish Festival. Now we have yet to visit Poland our planned visit to Poland Czech Republic a</description>
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                    <title>Oceanside  Lake Summit Lodge</title>
                    <description>After spending a few days relaxing and using Lake Summit Lodge as our home base we headed out to Oceanside to spend a weekend of sailing. This may very well have been the best and most relaxed weekend we've had in a long time.We spent two nights and three days on Hugh Hollys brother and Nickis new 42 foot Catalina sailboat Island Girl. Hugh and Nicki are our inlaws and devout Jimmy Buffet</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/Oceanside/blog-86547.html</link>
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                    <title>Laguna Beach Southern California</title>
                    <description>On this day we visited the seaside City of Laguna Beach it also happen to be Donnas' Birthday so after spending the day taking in the sights around Laguna Beach we celebrated Donnas' Birthday at Las Brisas Foods of Mexico Restaurant overlooking the Pacific on Cliff Drive. The food was excellent and the Mariache Band played Happy Birthday to their Birthday Guest we had a wonderful time.Laguna </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-84206.html</link>
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                    <title>Fountain Valley Southern California</title>
                    <description>After arriving at Long Beach Airport we headed to Costa Mesa to visit and spend a day with Donna and Larry Donna being Holly's long time friend and we all decided to spend the day taking a look around Fountain Valley Costa Mesa Balboa Island Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. We lived in Costa Mesa till the Autumn of 1993 before moving north to Cool and the Sacramento area many things have </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-84006.html</link>
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                    <title>We're Off to Europe </title>
                    <description>This whirlwind tour of Europe 8 weeks 8 countries is a gift to Stacy our daugther for graduating from high school Class of 2003.Here we are at San Francisco Airport waiting to board our British Airways Jumbo jet.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-4696.html</link>
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                    <title>Ettington UK</title>
                    <description>After an eleven hour flight from San Francisco we landed in London Heathrow Airport  took a bus to Victoria Station in central London to pickup our car rental for a two hour drive to Ettington in Warwickshire.We stayed at The Leys BB our hosts were Brenda  Bob the nicest people you will ever meet. Brenda is a very good looking petit blond with a wealth of knowledge about the local area in </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Warwickshire/Ettington/blog-7337.html</link>
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                    <title>Friends from Wilhelmshaven Germany</title>
                    <description>Holly and I hosted Dr. Harald Marencic and his wife Angelika for three nights at our home in Cool. We met through The Hospitality Club at www.hospitalityclub.org prior to their Northern California Gold Country visit. Harald is a wildlife biologist and Deputy Secretary with the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat in Wilhelmshaven Northern Germany.Angelika a german school teacher with a very british acc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Cool/blog-15492.html</link>
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                    <title>Friends from Portugal  Wild Women of the Old West</title>
                    <description>We hosted another fine couple Art and Kira at our home in Cool California USA. They are from Portugals' west coast town of Cascais just west of Lisboa on the Atlantic coast.Art works as a graphic designer and part time movie maker with several short comic movie clips and one major film to his credit Bad to the Bone  a slapstick comedy about a wanna be rock  roll star and social misfit w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Cool/blog-52388.html</link>
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                    <title>Russian Gulch Van  Damme and MacKerricher State Parks</title>
                    <description>Hello again family friends and everyone We spent our 4th of July weekend in the Mendocino  Fort Bragg area on Californias Northern Coast. We stayed at Grandma Ednas home in Willits CA as she was vacationing in Edmonton Canada visiting Irwin and other family members. Holly and I had the place to ourselves thanks for the free lodging Edna we watered the plants and left the place in goo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Fort-Bragg/blog-71888.html</link>
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                    <title>The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew</title>
                    <description>The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew London England were laid out in 1759 and extended in 1772 when Sir Joseph Banks returned from his voyage around the world with Captain Cook and became the unofficial director. Under his guidance collections of plants from many parts of the world were carefully built up and by the time of his death in 1820 the garden had become internationally famous.With its est</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Surrey/blog-9463.html</link>
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                    <title>Bonjour Je m'appelle Monti</title>
                    <description>My human captors Al Holly and Stacy are gone this will have to be short as they will be back soon.Allow me to introduce myself my full name is Monticello Gato Grande  you can just call me Monti for short. I sometimes study French as a Second Language.My stats are I39m an 18 month old Ragdoll approx. 42 inches in length and weigh 21.5 lbs. I39m still growing and can weigh as much as </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Cool/blog-27428.html</link>
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                    <title>Luxembourg City  'Gibraltar of the North'</title>
                    <description>It was raining the day we arrived in Luxembourg City and as any semiprofessional world traveler would do tongueincheek of course we had our rain gear and made ready use of it.The citys history dates back to the year 963 when Siegfried Count of the Ardennes had a castle named Lucilinburhuc built on a rock overlooking the River Alzette. It was the famous French fortress builder Vauba</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Luxembourg/Luxembourg-City/blog-10034.html</link>
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                    <title>Streets of London Pub Folsom California USA</title>
                    <description>Well it being St. Patrick's Day here in the States Holly and I decided we would go out for some good ol' Corned Beef and Cabbage for dinner.There being two Streets of London Public Houses not Irish we know but close enough within a short drive from our home we went to check out the St. Patrick's Day party action at the Folsom location there is also a SOLP in midtown Sacramento.For all die</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Folsom/blog-47162.html</link>
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                    <title>Medieval Village of Pals Spain</title>
                    <description>Amid the marshy zone where the Ter flows into the sea is the medieval village of Pals. The old quarter known as El Pedro contains many historic buildings walls with towers an old castle or Torre de les Hores a Gothic church and a monumental cross commanding a fine panorama.As well as views of the coastline and mountains Pals has cobbled streets and ancient village walls and archways. Strol</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Pals/blog-4845.html</link>
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                    <title>Tourist London</title>
                    <description>Bring plenty of British Pounds. So much to see and do in London we'll have to come back We had great fish  chips at St. Georges' Tavern near the Victoria train station.Saw Big Ben London Eyewent for a ride Tower of London Westminster Abbey Trafalger Square Buckingham Palace Changing of the Guard The Royal Mews St. Paul's Cathedral and the final flight of the Concorde just to name a few</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-4799.html</link>
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                    <title>Birthday Girls Yee Haw</title>
                    <description>On this particular occasion it was Stacys' 21st Birthday Monday and Hollys' birthday the very next Wednesday. It all started a couple weeks before when the phone rang. It was Hugh Hollys brother.Hugh thought it would be a good idea if we could get together as one big happy family and celebrate Stacys 21st and Hollys birthdays at Luigi's  a good local Italian restaurant which we both had visit</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Auburn/blog-49803.html</link>
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                    <title>Lower  Upper Slaughter</title>
                    <description>The two villages of Lower and Upper Slaughter are two of the most picturesque villages in England.These villages are only just over a mile from BourtonontheWater they are very secluded and quiet no shops restaurants or attractions.The name of Slaughter has no connection with blood but is derived from the old English word Slohtre meaning a wet land or 'slough'.Spend 30 minutes there and you wi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Gloucestershire/Upper-Slaughter/blog-8915.html</link>
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                    <title>York Minster Yorkshire UK</title>
                    <description>After checking into our BB The Alcuin Lodge just a five minute walk from the York city walls we took a walk through 1900 years of history on York's city walls. Built in Roman times these three and one half miles of Roman fortifications let you see York from a different and very beautiful perspective. They've been added to and rebuilt over time and now have parts from across the centuries.York </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/York/blog-9115.html</link>
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                    <title>Biking through Holland's Tulip Fields</title>
                    <description>Today we'll take a bike ride through the Tulip Fields of Holland just a few miles from the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam. This trip was organized by Frederik from Let's Go Bike Tours.We experienced the magnificent flowering bulb fields with thousands of hyacinths narcissus and tulips in countless colors on a bike very exhilerating and picturesqueThe scenery is beautiful and very Dutch. The b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-10481.html</link>
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                    <title>Come along let's hike The South Yuba Independence Trail</title>
                    <description>Today we hiked the West side of the South Yuba Independence Trail just North of Nevada City off of Highway 49. The Independence Trail is built on the original water course of the 1856 Excelsior Ditch. This canal carried water from the South Yuba River to the hydraulic gold mines in Smartville about 25 miles away. The Excelsior Ditch is an ingeniously designed and constructed facility made up of a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Nevada-City/blog-40833.html</link>
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