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                    <title>Hurghada  the Red Sea</title>
                    <description>13th Jan Day 104  Hurghada  Red SeaUp at 7am for an 815am pick up to go snorkelling in the Red Sea one of the highlights weve been looking forward to. Our taxi arrived and we took a crazy winding route to the marina it took at least 15 mins. Because of the layout of the streets you cant always turn left so we had to make this huge detour just to get a couple of blocks down the roa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Red-Sea/Hurghada/blog-560842.html</link>
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                    <title>Luxor to Hurghada</title>
                    <description>12th JanDay 103  Luxor Karnak  Luxor Temples to HurghadaNot too early a start this morning our guide was there at 730am to pick us up. Breakfast was just leftovers stewsoup or cereal and some really yummy bananas. We all had to check out of our rooms though and pack the truck with our gear as we wouldnt be coming back here the truck would meet us in town for lunch. Packed and good </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Red-Sea/Hurghada/blog-560835.html</link>
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                    <title>Luxor</title>
                    <description>11th Jan  Day 102  Luxor With the breaking of dawn 6 of us were set to go ballooning 3 of the 6 had been up all night sick but couldnt get a refund so decided to go anyways neither of us. We took a minibus downtown then a motorboat to the West bank while they explained the safety rules and plan for the morning. Once on the West bank we caught another minibus to the airfield where w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Luxor/blog-560818.html</link>
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                    <title>Kom Ombo Edfu  Luxor</title>
                    <description>10th Jan  Day 101 The plan was for a 6am start we would sail across to the other bank where we would have brekky and Stu would pick us up in the truck the plan to get away by 730am. We got up and to the other side not much wind to help with that though we packed up our gear and Stu found us so we loaded the truck and then once the other feluccas arrived we all had brekky on one boat and wer</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Luxor/blog-560811.html</link>
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                    <title>Feluccas</title>
                    <description>8th  9th Jan  Days 99  100  FeluccasFelucca along the Nile River. Something you dont get to do everyday and we got to spend 2 nights on it. Today we left Aswan but we did get a nice sleepin. We checked out of our hotel at 1030am ready to get on the feluccas at 11am. We actually had to get on another water taxi to where we jumped on the camels the previous night as Ashraf </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-560648.html</link>
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                    <title>Aswan  Abu Simbel  Nubian Dinner</title>
                    <description>7th Jan  Day 98  Aswan255am still half asleep we dragged ourselves downstairs collected our breakfast boxes and piled back onto the same coach as yesterday. The Egyptian government believe it is safer for the tourists to travel in convoys when travelling long distance so tours groups are allocated a time slot when they must meet the convoys so this is why we had to get up at such a ridi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-560639.html</link>
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                    <title>Aswan  Dams  Philae Temple</title>
                    <description>6th Jan  Day 97  AswanLate start finally we made the most of it. Slept in and missed breakfast but were able to make our way along the Nile to Maccas where the breakfast menu was available until 11am. Yay We werent the only ones from our group to make the short journey up the street After brekky we walked back one block from the water to the souk. A bustling and quite lengthy stre</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-560320.html</link>
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                    <title>The Western Desert</title>
                    <description>Day 93 cont  The Western Desert Black DesertIt was only 3  3  hour drive until sundown we were now in the Black Desert part of the Western Desert. We continued on for a little bit longer until Nick spotted the turnoff that leads to a bush camp hes used before. We found a flat spot to park the truck and then set up camp. Nick recommended sleeping under the stars cos how often</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Western-Desert/blog-559753.html</link>
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                    <title>Ancient Egypt at last...</title>
                    <description>Saturday 1st January  Day 92  CairoSo after 4 hours of flying we finally arrived in Cairo at 4pm local time. We had booked a transfer to our hotel so were always looking for our names on boards as we walked through the airport. The instructions said that they would meet before we got our visas but not to be so we bought our entry visas and changed some money went through passport control</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-558667.html</link>
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                    <title>HAPPY NEW YEAR in Zurich</title>
                    <description>Friday 31st December  Day 91Our flight from LA to Zurich was 11 hours and we touched down on time at 345pm. We found out when we checked in our bags that we wouldnt see them again until Cairo so it was just us the clothes we were wearing our day bags and our sleeping bags allowed as carryon. Back into German as well so we found the train station and headed into the city as that's app</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-East/Z-rich/Zurich/blog-558278.html</link>
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                    <title>Hollywood Heights</title>
                    <description>Thursday 30th December  Day 90We stayed in bed until Mish had to go move the car then that was late enough to be able to put it back in the Maccas car park as we were going there for breakfast. After brekky we had to figure out the hotels business centre technology to allow us to print our new tour and hotel vouchers for Egypt and our Swiss Air boarding passes this did take longer than exp</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Hollywood/blog-558077.html</link>
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                    <title>California Central Coast</title>
                    <description>Tuesday 28th December  Day 88We were up as early as we could be this morning but in no hurry. We packed checked out and then caught a cab to the car rental depot in downtown San Francisco. So glad that we took the cab as there was no way that we would have made the hike with our packs on the cab driver took us over some of the steepest hills we had yet seen in the city. Picking up cars is us</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Simeon/blog-558071.html</link>
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                    <title>SanFranCisco </title>
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                    <title>The City that never sleeps Las Vegas</title>
                    <description>Thursday 24th December  Day 83Mish flicked throught the TV channels and surfed the net yay for free WiFi while Jess drifted in and out of sleep definitely not deep though until about 500am when the hunger got to us almost 30 hours since our last proper meal. We got up and got ready and went foraging for food about 630am... only to find that the majority of buffets and restaurants didn</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-556717.html</link>
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                    <title>Drama drama drama...</title>
                    <description>Oh what a night...Wednesday 22nd December  Day 82We woke up at 545am this morning to check on our flight leaving Heathrow. Many flights had been cancelled or really delayed over the past week with the bad weather across England. Heathrow had been closed up until yesterday afternoon. The funny thing is that there is only 5cm of snow out there they just don't have the resources to clear it O</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-555857.html</link>
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                    <title>Last stop in London</title>
                    <description>Hi everyone sorry it's been a while we have had many adventurous days over the past week but it is all part of the experience...Tuesday 21st December  Day 81Today we definitely were on a mission. Breakfast was included this morning so we had the usual cereal toast and juice. We had to finish the Monopoly photos from our last stay here but we also had passes for the London Eye and the Tower o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Bayswater/blog-555819.html</link>
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                    <title>A week in a ski resort....</title>
                    <description>Day 74  Travelling to Lech AustriaToday was our last day in Italy. This morning was a really early start and a nice long walk. We had to make our train at 620am and we had 1.5kms to walk through the streets of Venice so we got up at 5am and got there with 10mins to spare. On the train we again enjoyed 1st class comfort and amazing scenery. It was a 1hr to Verona then at 9am we jumped </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vorarlberg/Lech-am-Arlberg/blog-555419.html</link>
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                    <title>The city of Canals....Venice</title>
                    <description>Days 72  73 Venice 12th  13th DecemberToday we were supposed to get up early for breakfast at 730am and then go explore Florence but when the alarm went off Jess just couldnt wake up enough All this walking and travelling is tiring business you know So we slept in for a little then got up packed our bags downloaded an audio guide for Venice had some brekky and were on our way. The</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-553199.html</link>
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                    <title>The Leaning Tower of Pisa</title>
                    <description>Just a short one for you with our day in Pisa...Day 71Saturday 11th DecemberToday we caught the train from Rome to Florence unfortunately our camera hadnt arrived before we left so we will have to make it catch up to us in Austria. The staff at the Hotel Aberdeen were really really helpful with everything so no worries about it getting lostWe arrived into Florence at 12.50pm and walked t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-552818.html</link>
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                    <title>When in Rome...</title>
                    <description>When in Rome do as the Romans do So we did....21st Century style8th December a Wednesday all around the world....and we were in Rome by 930am Gotta love overnight trains. We made our way with our backpacks to our hotel by foot it was A LOT hotter than Paris we were dressed for snow so by the time we got to our hotel we were sweating  smelly. Luckily our room was available by the t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-552439.html</link>
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