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<title>Travel Blog | John from Totnes</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from John from Totnes</description>
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                    <title>Winding down in Khao Lak Thailand</title>
                    <description>We have spent the last week of our trip relaxing at the Ramada Hotel in Khao Lak and tomorrow we set off for the long trip home. This past week has been free of temples palaces and river trips and in their place we have had plenty of sea sand and Singha beer. As such there is not much to write home about although there are a few snippets you might be interested in. The West Europeans excludin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Khao-Lak/blog-770053.html</link>
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                    <title>A tour round Central Thailand</title>
                    <description>Arrived back in Thailand after our family get together in Perth and started our trip around Central Thailand. Our first stop was in the garden province of Samut Songhkhram which included visits to a unique country market along the railway tracks several floating markets a paddleboat journey through the canals and of course a Buddhist temple. The next stop was in the district of Kanchanaburi and </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Ayutthaya/blog-768773.html</link>
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                    <title>Perth  A Family Celebration</title>
                    <description>We travelled to Perth from Thailand to be at Thomas and Angie39s wedding which was a great success and a most enjoyable occasion. Thomas is my brother Brian and his wife Cherryll39s son and last Saturday he married Angie who was a model bride. The marriage service was at the chapel of Santa Maria College in Attadale close to where Brian and Cherryll live. Later in the day the reception was</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-767601.html</link>
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                    <title>Koh Samet Thailand  an ideal place for RR</title>
                    <description>Lynne and I are on the way to Perth WA for the wedding of my nephew Thomas. It is such a lengthy flight to Perth from London and so we decided to stop off for 6 days on the island known as Koh Samet in Thailand which is a two and half hour drive from Bangkok before the short ferry ride over to the island. We are staying at this wonderful resort known as the Paradee and it is an ideal retreat fo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Ko-Samet/blog-766228.html</link>
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                    <title>Seville  City of Reunion and Celebration</title>
                    <description>Seville was to be our city of reunion and celebration. On the reunion front we last saw George and Emma in July when they left Totnes in their camper van bound for Denmark and the start of their trip around Europe. It was planned that we would meet up with them in Southern Spain after they had travelled down through Europe from Denmark and Sweden. Seville was to be our point of reunion. We flew fr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-762589.html</link>
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                    <title>Atacama Desert</title>
                    <description>Travelled from the snowy mountains of Southern Patagonia to the dust and warmth of the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile via Santiago. Our base was San Pedro de Atacama a small oasis village of claycoloured adobe houses and dirt streets and here we stayed for 3 days exploring the area. San Pedro is 2436 metres above sea level and every now and again altitude sickness kicked in and to help ove</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Atacama/blog-756769.html</link>
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                    <title>Torres Del Paine</title>
                    <description>Torres Del Paine is one of the world39s greatest national parks. It has been emptied of all economic activity with the exception of tourists but there are no shops restaurants or other material attractions. Just the occasional discrete hotel which blends in with the surroundings. We spent a day visiting lagoons waterfalls glaciersand mountains by the unpaved roads that run throughout the pa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Magallanes/Torres-del-Paine/blog-755845.html</link>
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                    <title>Southern Patagonia</title>
                    <description>From The Lake District we flew further south to Southern Patagonia into Punta Arenas which is not only 3000 miles couth of Santiago but the furthest town south on the mainland of South America. After a visit to a penguin colony we headed for Puerto Natales being one of the gateways into the National Park of Bernardo O39Higgins. After a nights rest we boarded a boat that was to take us on a 4 ho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Magallanes/Torres-del-Paine/blog-755815.html</link>
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                    <title>Chile's Lake District</title>
                    <description>We flew south from Santiago to Chile39s Lake District being a distance of 1000km. Our destination was Puerto Varas on Lake Llanquihue which is the third largest natural lake in South America. It is spring time in Chile and the Lake District is lush and green. They tell us that it normally rains on average 250 days a year. All the spring flowers one sees in the UK are to be seen here and it is</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Termas-El-Amarillo/blog-754965.html</link>
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                    <title>Santiago and Valpariso</title>
                    <description>Arrived in Santiago after a 13 hour flight from Madrid on Iberian Air. It must rank at the lower end of the world airlines with its poor quality food and service. BA having taken it over have got their work cut out if they want to improve its image. Managed to get a few hours of sightseeing in following our arrival including a visit to main square in the centre known as the Plaza de Armas which</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-754808.html</link>
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                    <title>The Lake District  Autumn Gold</title>
                    <description>They say that one of the best times to visit the Lake District is in the Autumn and they are so right especially when the weather is fine and the sun shows its face every now and again. We stayed in a converted coach house to the old vicarage near to Wray Castle on the banks of Lake Windermere. On our our first full day we stepped out of the coach house and were soon on the path along the lake tha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Ambleside/blog-752234.html</link>
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                    <title>Liverpool  Waterlilies Sunsets and Sergeant Pepper</title>
                    <description>We had a holiday booked in The Lake District and decided to break our journey up the M6 by stopping off in Liverpool for a few days. There is so much to do and see and we had a job to fill it all in during our 3 days. We started by visiting the Walker Art Gallery near to our hotel and what a collection they have. Pictures from 17th century right through to the 21st century including Rembrant Mone</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Merseyside/blog-751487.html</link>
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                    <title>Crete   two weeks of rest and relaxation</title>
                    <description>The main purpose of our stay was for rest and relaxation. We stayed at a lovely villa at Panos Stalos with terrific views out towards Chania the sea and the mountains. It was a wonderful place to relax and unwind but by the second week we started to stir our stumps.On some mornings we drove to nearby Chania and had a leisurely coffee at a harbourside cafe followed by a stroll around the town. Cha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Crete/Chania/blog-745263.html</link>
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                    <title>Istanbul  West meets East</title>
                    <description>Istanbul is a city of many delights and our four days of exploring was just about sufficient to do justice to the city39s famous and popular attractions which included the followingA boat trip along the Bosphorus  a wonderful way of viewing the sights and being between the two continents of Europe and AsiaThe Suleymaniye Mosque  probably Istanbul39s most important mosque and built between</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-720928.html</link>
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                    <title>Anzac Cove and The Gallipoli Peninsula</title>
                    <description>This was a special day for the Aussies on the trip. We cross The Dardanelles to The Gallipoli Peninsula for a visit to Anzac Cove the surrounding WW1 battlefields and the war cemeteries.The area was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles during WW1 with the loss of of over 50000 Brits Aussies Kiwis French and Indians. The Turks lost over 80000. The invasion by the Allied troops commenced </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Canakkale/blog-720434.html</link>
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                    <title>From Izmir to Canakkale</title>
                    <description>We started the day by travelling to Pergamon which in 133BC became the capital of the Roman Province of Asia. There we visited the remains of possibly the first medical centre in the world known as the Asclepieum. Pearched on the surrounding hillside is the acropolis of ancient Pergamon where in the 8th century BC the city was ruled for a time by one of Alexander the Great39s generals.Our journ</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Izmir/blog-719756.html</link>
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                    <title>Pamukkale to Izmir</title>
                    <description>We journey to Ephesus which has the reputation as one of the greatest ruined cities in the western world. It started its existence as a Greek city in 1000BC and in its later history became the Romans39 main port on the Aegean. The city played an important role in the spread of Christianity with Paul being a visitor and it is said that the Virgin Mary spent her last days nearby.The highlights o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Izmir/blog-719515.html</link>
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                    <title>Bursa to Pamukkale</title>
                    <description>Lengthy 400km drive south stopping off at the ancient Roman town of Sardis which prior to the Roman occupation was capital of the Lydian empire. We crawled over the ruins and remains of the Temple of Artemis a Roman synagogue bath gymnasium and library. All very atsmospheric. Then on to Pamukkale which is famous for itscotton castle being a dazzling white array of shaped travertine terrace</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Bursa/blog-719273.html</link>
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                    <title>Instanbul to Bursa</title>
                    <description>After arriving in Istanbul the day before we depart early in the morning for Bursa but unfortunately catch the early morning rush hour. Istanbul a city of over 10 million is on its way to work and we are caught up in the rush hour scramble. We leave Europe for Asia over the Bosphorus Suspension Bridge which was designed and built by the Brits and opened in 1973 to celebrate the 50th anniversary</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Bursa/blog-719259.html</link>
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                    <title>Relaxing at Marari Beach</title>
                    <description>We retreated from the chilly hills of the Western Ghats to the warmth of the coast at a spot called Marari Beach where we are storing up the warmth before we come home to the wintery conditions in the UK. We have spent the last few days of our holiday resting reading and relaxing and I will leave the photographs to set the scene.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/Alleppey/blog-684625.html</link>
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