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                    <title>Iced Coffee and a Slice of Paradise</title>
                    <description> As the palm fronds swayed in the gentle breeze at times allowing the bright sun to momentarily pierce my closed eyelids as though they were little more than tissue paper the sounds of African Grace filtered through the earphones of my ipod accompanied by the background percussion of ocean  a twofold tone of waves breaking followed by the gentle hiss of seawater rushing over sand</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Terengganu/Perhentian-Kecil/blog-719439.html</link>
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                    <title>ANZAC Day 2012  Dawn Service</title>
                    <description>The crowd awaits silent and respectful in the predawn stillness. Minutes later a distant rythmic tapping sound gradually gains momentum and is joined by the sharp call which commands the marching veterans. Applause starts to ripple out through the crowd as the veterans approach then march proudly up the steps leading to their place on the Court of Honour. Poignant moving...the single bugler sou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-712398.html</link>
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                    <title>To KL for a party  Celebrating 10 years of TravelBlog</title>
                    <description>Meeting up with fellow 39TravelBlog39ers can be a 39hit and miss39 game at the best of times. You may make plans to be in the home city of a TBer only to find out that they themselves will be on the road when you pass through. Or flight schedules may hint at gifting you a random airport catchup only for cancellations or delays to interfere. On an almost daily basis TBers would undert</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-711531.html</link>
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                    <title>A Beginner's Guide To Surviving The International Rugby Sevens</title>
                    <description>The sevenplayer form of the sport rugby union is helpfully also known simply as 397s39. National teams compete in a globetrotting tournament series which stops in nine countries and six continents.With less than half the number of players that run onto the field in the traditional format of the game yet still played in the same sized arena the pace is hectic.It39s no surprise then tha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-684902.html</link>
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                    <title>A belated  "Happy New Year"  from Sydney </title>
                    <description>Given that there39s now around 7 tonne of dynamite strapped to the bridge did you still want me to drive over it asked my brotherinlaw as he gave us a ride into town. 39The bridge39 was the Sydney Harbour bridge and my sister and I had tickets for an event on my bucket list  a pole position view of the New Year39s Eve fireworks display with an afterparty of course. Unfortunate</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-676040.html</link>
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                    <title>Rugby World Cup 2011 All Blacks' Return to Rugby Heaven</title>
                    <description>On the night of 23 October 2011 All Black captain Richie McCaw held aloft yet another trophy that the All Blacks had just secured. But this time was different. The lifting of the Webb Ellis Cup by an All Black captain was something the nation had been waiting 24 long years to see for a second time.To understand what this moment meant to All Blacks fans consider the following the sport has in New</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-663061.html</link>
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                    <title>Rugby World Cup 2011 More Colour Passion and Opportunity</title>
                    <description>48 games of rugby were played throughout New Zealand during Rugby World Cup 2011. 48 games played by 20 of the best teams in the world providing some exciting entertainment and the occasional upset result.But players on the field werent the only crowdpullers.Although some followers took game results more seriously than others many were here for the atmosphere that can only really be experien</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-660923.html</link>
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                    <title>Rugby World Cup 2011 Colour Passion and Opportunity</title>
                    <description>You39d need to have had your head buried deep in the sand for the last six years to not know what was about to happen that evening. But taking a wander through the Auckland CBD on the afternoon of 9th September you39d have soon worked out that it was a bit more than just an early NYE party.And if somehow you only knew that the event was on around about this time given the way fans were c</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-659795.html</link>
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                    <title>Melting Pot Parade</title>
                    <description>There was plenty of colour just as there used to be. The main event took place on a long wide strip of grass just as it used to. But this time instead of riding around Ellerslie Racecourse I was a spectator to the smells sounds and colour of the inaugural Auckland International Carnival.Getting there ahead of the opening ceremony almost felt as though I had arrived too early. Then more people</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-547411.html</link>
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                    <title>Mile High Destination Unknown</title>
                    <description>As the wavering red glow shrunk and then disappeared into the stilldark sky the decision was made  there was going to be no launch from the centre of town and we went in search of calmer skies to cast away into. Not too much later just as the sun was rising another helium filled balloon was released to assess the winds and the launch site for our hot air balloon adventure was decided. This </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Methven/blog-518295.html</link>
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                    <title>You're Only Ever As Good As Your Support Crew  Oxfam Trailwalker 2010</title>
                    <description>You're exhausted. The legs ache and you keep stumbling on tree roots because your feet no longer lift themselves high enough to step over. It's only just above 0 degrees celsius but you would happily lie right there on the damp ground just to get some sleep. Behind you are a geothermal field forests and That Hill yet you're still not even at the halfway mark. Now you're thinking the 2 km aw</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Taupo/blog-489747.html</link>
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                    <title>ANZAC Day 2010  Auckland Dawn Service</title>
                    <description>ANZAC Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Day on 25th April remembers not only those who fought at Gallipoli Turkey during World War 1 but also men and women who have served in other wars. 95 years ago 2271 New Zealanders lost their lives in the battle at what is now known as Anzac Cove.The red poppies are a symbol of remembrance for New Zealanders who died in service during wars and are u</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-492851.html</link>
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                    <title>50 kms of Overnight Craziness</title>
                    <description>When should you intentionally deprive yourself of sleep to the point where the jokes you're all telling are ones you would normally cringe at When is it a good idea to put yourself through weariness and pain just for the privilege of being able to say you had done so The answer when you're planning on doing something just as crazy and for twice as long in little more than a month later. Sho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-480797.html</link>
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                    <title>Gelukkig Nieuwjaar Happy New Year from Amsterdam</title>
                    <description> Happy New YearJust an interim 'postcard' entry to wish you all the best for the new year. I saw out 2009 at a free outdoor concert at the Museumplein in Amsterdam from which I considered going home early because it was so cold it started snowing lightly a few minutes before midnight   but which I'm really glad I stayed for. Not to mention the gluhwein olibollen and waffles...... The fir</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-464051.html</link>
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                    <title>Oh yeah there was a baseball game going on too...</title>
                    <description>Who would've thought that getting on a boat to go explore Phang Nga Thailand a year ago would help me score tickets to a sellout baseball game in Japan Well it did. On that trip I befriended a Japanese family one of whom went to fair lengths to get hold of a couple of tickets to a Hanshin Tigers v Yomiuri Giants game at Koshien Stadium the Tigers home ground during the Golden Week holidays. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Kobe/blog-400769.html</link>
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                    <title>Journey to the Twilight Zone</title>
                    <description>Time was running out.To be more precise the snow was melting    a month earlier than usual. As it turned out  the three weeks I was enjoying summer back home turned out to be ideal snowboarding time thanks to heavy snowfalls.The problem was there was still something I wanted to try doing  I still hadnt been snowboarding at night.So thats how we came to be travelling down highway 9 in S</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Shimane/blog-418089.html</link>
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                    <title>Cherry blossoms in Shimane    </title>
                    <description>The blog backlog is still on the backburner  in the meanwhile here's some cherry blossom photos Private Message</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Shimane/blog-389584.html</link>
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                    <title>Sand today tomorrow snow</title>
                    <description>This wasn't the way it was supposed to start. Actually I could have done without the cold at any stage. But jumping from winter to summer seemed to do it and the first few days of my visit back home were spent swallowing pills and trying to sleep it off  in between getting the Christmas shopping done that is. I'd been too busy to get it done before the trip over. Actually that's not entirely t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-363593.html</link>
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                    <title>Using Japanese drums to bury French demons</title>
                    <description>Last time I came to France I ran away. Literally. At least from the luggage dropoff point to the departure gate at Charles de Gaulle Airport not even stopping to retie the shoelaces flapping in all directions.Two days earlier I had arrived back at the hotel to find my passports and wallet hadn't. The next day was spent doing the rounds of embassypolicelost and found or as in my case lost and </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-349978.html</link>
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                    <title>Diving for sunglasses</title>
                    <description>Was bus that just pulled out quick gasp for air going to Shichirui and another I asked the group of 3 that were waiting at the Sakaiminato bus station.No in English one of them says  That one leaves from over there in Japanese.I had pulled up in the carpark on the wharf side and thinking the bus was due to leave at 8am I ran only to see a blue and white bus the bus you need to g</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Shimane/Oki-Islands/blog-328487.html</link>
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