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                    <title>Cortina dAmpezzo to Fussen</title>
                    <description>Friday 25 June 2010Km so far 3909Awoken at 5 am by the hotel fire alarm.  Very cold no heating in the room so we decided more sleep was not going to happen and packed up to begin the journey across the Alps to Bavaria.Leaving town at 7 am was ideal a crisp clear summer morning.  We took the road heading west from Cortina through a mountain pass and it was a thoroughly enjoyable drive with very</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/blog-509751.html</link>
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                    <title>Rovinj to Cortina dAmpezzo via Slovenia</title>
                    <description>Friday 25 June 2010Km so far 3619Stayed in Rovinj until 130 and decided it is one of our favourite places.  The sea front is lined with buildings all painted in different pastel shades and the fishing boats that Id watched leaving harbour at around 515 came back in with their various catches.  The other striking thing about Rovnj is that it feels Italian and both the Italian and Croatian </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-509746.html</link>
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                    <title>Zadar to Rovinj via Pula</title>
                    <description>Thursday 24 June 2010Km so far 3280Spent a few hours exploring Zadar confirming our first impression that it is a very attractive town great street cafes wonderful waterfront interesting buildings of various vintages.  Drove up the motorway half way to Rijeka then cut back through the mountains to the coast again.  The motorway was brilliant with extremely impressive tunnels and viaducts thr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/blog-509744.html</link>
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                    <title>Trogir to Zadar via Sibenik and Krka</title>
                    <description>Wednesday 23 June 2010Km so far 2872Left Trogir in the sunshine and drove up the coast heading north initially to visit Sibenik where there is the famous cathedral of St James.  The coastal drive was as scenic as ever and there seems to be no end to the number of islands that lie off the Dalmatian coast.  It must be a brilliant place for sailing.Sibenik has a maritime flavour to it with lots </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/blog-509740.html</link>
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                    <title>Trogir</title>
                    <description>Tuesday 22 June 2010Km so far 2680Still intermittently wet and Trogir has the feel of an English seaside resort with the optimism of being on holiday and the reality if it being a bit cold and wet.  Drove into Split for the morning which was a mistake we could have gone by boat or bus and it is the sort of city where driving is difficult congested narrow streets very little in the way of use</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Trogir/blog-509739.html</link>
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                    <title>Dubrovnik to Trogir</title>
                    <description>Monday 21 June 2010Km so far 2612The promised showers materialised today.  Checked out of the hotel and had a quick last minute dash around Dubrovnik Old Town for a cappuccino before heading north for Trogir.Stayed on the coast road rather than taking motorway rewarded with stunning scenery of cliffs seaside villages and the archipelago that runs along most of the Dalmatian coast.  Stopped for</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/blog-508589.html</link>
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                    <title>Dubrovnik</title>
                    <description>Sunday 20 June 2010Km so far 2379For the first time this trip the weather was less than perfect today with a wind blowing and the expectation of heavy showers.  Our plan to go sea kayaking around the Old City Walls was abandoned as the seas were too high so we  headed back into the Old City to explore the insides of some of the notable buildings.Had dinner in one of the numerous side street ca</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/blog-508588.html</link>
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                    <title>Dubrovnik</title>
                    <description>Saturday 19 June 20100620Km so far 2379Slow start to the day before exploring Dubrovnik Old Town.  Dubrovnik is a staggeringly attractive old city and although it resisted becoming part of the Venetian empire its architecture is very similar to that seen in Kotor and other ancient Venetian settlements.  Placa the main street is the only reasonably wide thoroughfare and it is dominated by c</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/blog-507727.html</link>
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                    <title>Dobrota to Dubrovnik</title>
                    <description>Friday 18 June 2010Km so far 2379Another kayak trip in the morning this time with a 2man kayak which we both preferred as you can go faster with less effort and it is more sociable.  Had a swim in the lake to cool off afterwards then finished packing and left the Palatta Radomiri initially to visit Kotor before turning north for Dubrovnik.Kotor is another of those charming walled Venetian cit</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/blog-507723.html</link>
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                    <title>Dobrota</title>
                    <description>Thursday 17 June 2010Km so far 2265Easy day today.  Went kayaking for an hour on the lake then swimming.  The water is lovely quite salty and the perfect temperature.  Drove 10km up the lake to Perast for lunch and to see the small Venetian town.  Late afternoon and early evening reading swimming enjoying this fantastic location.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Montenegro/blog-507722.html</link>
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                    <title>Mostar to Dobrota Kotor Montenegro</title>
                    <description>Wednesday 16 June 2010Km so far 2243Explored Mostar doing a circuit of the town centre in 33 degrees.  It is a place of contrasts.  The area around the Old Bridge is very beautiful but dominated by stalls selling very similar souvenirs but there are also lovely shady cafes including a really trendy place in a cave on the east side of the river that we had completely failed to explore the previou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Montenegro/blog-507721.html</link>
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                    <title>Sarajevo to Mostar</title>
                    <description>Tuesday 15 June 20100616 Km so far 1884 correctedWalked around Sarajevo which confirmed the impression of a busy cosmopolitan city with loads of street cafes and a river flowing languidly through the centre of town with hundreds of trout battling their way upstream.  Lovely old trams every couple of minutes and back into Cyrillic script for street signs also in latin one aspect of the fee</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/blog-507712.html</link>
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                    <title>Kolasin to Sarajevo</title>
                    <description>Monday14 June 10Km so far 1884Left Kolasin this morning and headed northwest into the Tara Gorge National Park.  We drove parallel to the beautiful Tara River before we entered the park but then as we ascended the scenery became more and more spectacular.  As we rounded a bend the Tara Gorge bridge came into view an elegant concrete structure spanning the 1300 metre deep gorge the deepest in E</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Montenegro/blog-507710.html</link>
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                    <title>Skopje to Kosalin via Kosovo</title>
                    <description>13 Jun 10Km so far 2035Left Skopje with 2.5 litres of Rakija home made and a bottle of Macedonian red gifts from our incredibly generous hosts in the Villa Vorda.  Short drive to the Kosovan border.  Once again had to buy local car insurance 35 but no snags and took less than 20 minutes to cross.Some signs of recent conflict with the KFOR presence but overall the impression as we drove no</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Kosovo/blog-506394.html</link>
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                    <title>Thessaloniki to Skopje via Ohrid</title>
                    <description>Saturday 12th June 2010Km so far 1701Left Thessaloniki and headed west towards Edessa and Florina.  More green countryside and we chanced upon a lovely lakeside caf where we stopped for a coffee break.  Refuelled in Florina and we were expecting fuel to be more expensive in Macedonia.Found our way to the border without to much difficulty but the compass was proving essential to navigation as s</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Macedonia/blog-506392.html</link>
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                    <title>Meteora to Thessaloniki via Lake Polyfito</title>
                    <description>Friday 11 June 2010Km so far 637Left the Hotel Adrachti for the last time and decided to visit the St Stephanos monastery as it had been closed the previous day.  It is inhabited by nuns and we came across a few serving in the shop selling entry tickets 2 and at prayer in the chapel.  It is a beautiful and peaceful place.  Came across a new looking road heading north the general directi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-506391.html</link>
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                    <title>Meteora</title>
                    <description>Thursday 10 June 2010Km so far 597Spent the day driving around the extraordinary countryside of Meteora and visiting the various monasteries perched precariously at the tops of the rock columns.  Lots of steps involved to actually reach the monasteries and not for the faint hearted or immodestly dressed as these are living religious communities.  Visited the Great Meteora Monastery for a couple o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-505217.html</link>
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                    <title>Athens  Delphi Thermopylae  Meteora</title>
                    <description>Left Athens around 0800and battled through the rushhour traffic to the motorway high quality 120kph limit in places.  Came off just north of Thiva and cross country to Delphi.  Very entertaining drive into serious mountains with some spectacular scenery.  Went through Parnassos a ski resort in winter and eventually arrived at Delphi.An extraordinary place with ruins spread out over a wide ar</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-504944.html</link>
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                    <title>Athens</title>
                    <description>8 Jun 10Km so far12.5.Went down to Plaka the bohemian area next to the Acropolis and enjoyed some Athenian cafe culture before tackling the Acropolis.  Lots of people around including a few coach parties but we had left it until midday and the best advice seems to be to go first thing before the sun and the crowds become oppressive.It's a steep climb up the hill but well worth it.  Although th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-504936.html</link>
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                    <title>Limassol  Piraeus Athens</title>
                    <description>7 June 2010 Km 0 First leg of journey from Cyprus to UK. The car has been shipped from Limassol to Piraeus by Salamis Shipping. Good job done apart from some oily marks on the drivers seat but these came off easily with some leather cleaner. A bit tricky working out the road signs mostly in Cyrillic script but enough in normal writing for me to get on the road to Athens. Traffic in Athens some</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-504922.html</link>
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