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                    <title>Homeward bound</title>
                    <description>After 11 months and 14 countries we are about to board our 16th flight of the trip  back to the UK.We began our journey sleeping in a tent in Africa and have ended it staying in luxury at the Park Plaza in Bangkok one upside to the protests is there are some great hotel deals to be had. We have been shopping up a storm these past four days leather bags are soooo cheap and also ventured up the</description>
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                    <title>Red shirt protests Barbed wire barricades and singing soldiers</title>
                    <description>April 26  April 30It's most disconcerting to travel around a city and encounter armed military at every turn. This is the second time we have been in Bangkok during the red shirt protests and the mood is very different now to what it was over the Songkran festival when we were last in the city. Silom Road which was the scene of the great water fight to celebrate Thai new year is now under siege a</description>
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                    <title>Another week another beach... Sawadee Ka Samui</title>
                    <description>April 19  April 26With the end of our travels unfortunately in sight we decided to kiss goodbye to our daily budgeting and booked ourselves into a boutique hotel on Samui for a week. It was a bit of a splurge but after months of accounting for every penny in Simons case in the form of a spreadsheet we thought wed put the credit card to use and treat ourselves.Weve enjoyed a wonderfull</description>
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                    <title>Let's get wet</title>
                    <description>April 13  April 19We all know Bangkok is bonkers but the craziness enters a whole new level when Songkran comes around. This is Thai new year and is celebrated with a mass water fight that basically involves getting completely drenched.It was totally insane and one of the most surreal and fun experiences of our travels. Armed with a cheap water pistol from the 711 we headed out along Sukhumvit w</description>
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                    <title>Topping up the tan on the Thai islands</title>
                    <description>April 2  April 12Sadly our time travelling is coming to an end and it is hard to believe we are in our final month. We fly home on May 1st and as excited as we are to catch up with family and friends it is going to be hard to adjust to normal life after 11 months of amazing experiences. But we still have this last month and plan to spend it getting as brown as possible on the Thai islandsWe spen</description>
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                    <title>On our bikes in Hoi An</title>
                    <description>Hoi An March 26  March 29Nha Trang March 29  April 2Hoi An is a quaint little city famous for its old town a Unesco World Heritage Site no less and the numerous tailor shops that line every street. We arrived just after midnight following 10 hours on a train and an hour long taxi ride and felt a bit guilty about waking up the hotel staff who were asleep under mozzie nets in the lobby. Then w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Quang-Nam/Hoi-An/blog-493016.html</link>
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                    <title>When jellyfish attack and Simon's birthday</title>
                    <description>March 21st  March 26thIm not sure how other western travellers get about in Cambodia and Vietnam but we only came across a handful while travelling on the buses and trains. Maybe they all fly Anyway we were something of a novelty on the train from Saigon to Nha Trang and were openly stared at for most of the journey by a woman who looked to be about 107 years old. The people are all friendly </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Khanh-Hoa/Nha-Trang/blog-489308.html</link>
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                    <title>Good morning Vietnam Please don't let us die crossing the road...</title>
                    <description>March 18th  21st Arriving in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City as it is called now we were agog at how western it all is. Driving through the sprawling metropolis we saw department stores proper shops car showrooms and restaurants that wouldnt look out of place in London. Not to mention traffic lights and roundabouts It even has a Vietnamese version of Starbucks Highlands Coffee which serv</description>
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                    <title>Being beach bums</title>
                    <description>March 10th  March 16thAny journey in South East Asia always seems to take much longer than we are led to believe. We now know to add at least two hours to any estimate given to us. The delays are usually due to the roads being so bad that anything over 40mph is impossible and the frequent stops to pick up extra fares. Not to mention slowing down to let cows cross or to dodge the many dogs that ro</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Sihanoukville/blog-489122.html</link>
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                    <title>The Killing Fields</title>
                    <description>March 8th  March 10thDuring the three years eight months and 21 days of the Khmer Rouge regime soldiers committed many atrocities but the most depraved in my mind is taking babies by the legs and smashing their tiny heads against a tree before throwing the bodies into a mass grave. The tree still stands in the Choeung Ek Killing Fields and is no longer stained with blood just as the graves whe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-487302.html</link>
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                    <title>The temples of Angkor </title>
                    <description>March 4th  March 7thJust when I thought I was getting better I threw up in Simons face. Not my proudest moment I have to say. We were walking back to our delightful guesthouse when I came over all funny and felt like I was going to be sick. As Im English and we dont spew in the streets unless its at the end of a night on the booze I was reluctant to do this in public so put my han</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-486731.html</link>
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                    <title>Feeling lousy in Laos</title>
                    <description>Vang Vieng Feb 26th  Feb 28th Vientiane March 1st  March 3rdAs we were still a bit traumatised by the overcrowded pukefilled overnight bus trip we opted to get to Vang Vieng by minibus. It seemed most of the other people who were on that bus trip did as well as we saw a lot of them piling out of minibuses at the various rest stops along the way.Unfortunately Simon was a bit ill strangel</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Vientiane/blog-486723.html</link>
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                    <title>From a barmy bus ride to swimming with elephants</title>
                    <description>Feb 21st  Feb 25thOur first glimpse of Laos was from the boat on the short hop across from Thailand. It didnt look much different from Thailand with the same big mountains and lush greenery. We arrived at the immigration booth in Huay Xia basically a wooden shack and got another stamp in the passport. The next evening we headed out of town on a nightmarish 14 hour overnight VIP bus to </description>
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                    <title>Whipping up a tasty Thai feast</title>
                    <description>Feb 18th  Feb 20thSleeper trains are definitely the best way to travel. We caught the 12hr overnight service from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and were all giddy with the excitement at having a proper bed on public transport. It's the little things...We were in the second class air con carriage and the journey started like any other train journey with us all on proper seats. Train travel in Thailand see</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-478252.html</link>
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                    <title>Bonkers Bangkok</title>
                    <description>Feb 9th  Feb 17thWe arrived in Bangkok in the early hours of the morning after a great flight with Qantas that saw us take advantage of every drink on offer including Jacobs Creek fizz which is my fave and catch up on the latest releases with the inflight entertainment. If you get chance definitely watch The Hurt Locker  it is amazing but give Law Abiding Citizen a miss because it is utterly </description>
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                    <title>Snorkelling with sharks on the Great Barrier Reef</title>
                    <description>Feb 2nd  Feb 5thWe couldn't really leave Australia without coming face to face with a shark and finally got to do this on our snorkelling trip out to the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns. It was pretty scary yet strangely serene to watch a real live shark glide past. To be fair it was only a black tip reef shark not a maneating great white but it was still a SHARK During our morning snorkel the w</description>
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                    <title>Bedding down in the rainforest</title>
                    <description>Townsville  Dullsville Jan 26th  Jan 28thNow to be fair to Townsville it may be a completely different place when it isn't in the midst of a torrential downpour but we found it to be deserted tired and rundown looking with a lot of empty shops and a large population of drunks on the street. Our stay coincided with the rains from Cyclone Olga. This was rain unlike we had seen before. It was comi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Mission-Beach/blog-473789.html</link>
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                    <title>Whitsunday sailing and Simon's shark 'attack'</title>
                    <description>Jan 21st  Jan 25thFirstly let's get this nonsense of what Simon claims to be a shark attack out of the way. We were kitted out in our very fetching wetsuits to protect us from stingers and paddling  yes that's right paddling  in ankle deep water off Whitehaven Beach watching the juvenile stingrays and sharks swimming about when Simon starts screeching and jumping up and down. 'It bit me it </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-473765.html</link>
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                    <title>Sand sand and more sand on Fraser Island</title>
                    <description>Rainbow Beach and Fraser IslandJan 16th  Jan 19th We chose to depart for Fraser Island from Rainbow Beach instead of the more popular starting point of Hervey Bay. The last time I backpacked Australia I left for Fraser from Hervey Bay so thought it would be good to see somewhere different. It turned out to be a good decision as Rainbow Beach is magical. It is hands down our favourite beach so far</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Rainbow-Beach/blog-470275.html</link>
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                    <title>Sweating it out on the beaches</title>
                    <description>Coffs Harbour  Byron Bay  Noosa Jan 7th  Jan 16thThe east coast of Australia is backpacker heaven as crowds of young travellers head up to Cairns from Sydney stopping off along the way to get very drunk laze about on beaches and do Fraser Island the Whitsundays and each other. We joined the herds waiting for the overnight Greyhound out of Sydney  overnight buses mean you save on accomm</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Byron-Bay/blog-470268.html</link>
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