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                    <title>Kilimanjaro for 2 7day Lemosho Route</title>
                    <description>After much cajoling I finally succeeded in persuading Tarryn that a climb up Kilimanjaro would be a onceinalifetime ok well not too much persuading needed there inspiring and magical thing to do to cap off our trip to Africa. I have to say I almost had second thoughts too when I started getting price quotes from various UKbased and local trekking companies. This was not going to be cheap </description>
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                    <title>Idaho and Montana 2010</title>
                    <description>Happy New YearOk but this entry is from 5 months ago so need to rewind my memory a bit.August saw me off to the California for another interminable week of meetings with work. This time evenings if not the meetings themselves was perked up somewhat by the inclusion of our favourite Geordie Barry see pic into the fold. Our hotel seemed even more stale than the last. My room view fine excep</description>
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                    <title>A few more miscellaneous pics from the last year or two</title>
                    <description>No story on these photos sorry... Gonna put a write up of my recent trip to the US soon</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-520525.html</link>
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                    <title> Easter Cycle Tour 2009  Day 4 Arrochar to Glasgow via Helensburgh</title>
                    <description>Route Map httpwww.bikemap.netroute586153Easter Monday was upon us already and that meant just one thing work the next day and therefore the homeward leg of the trip ok that was 2 things but one was a natural consequence of the other. We woke to find we'd actually pitched the tent under a rather precarious looking snapped tree  better not to think about what might have happened The roa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Lanarkshire/Glasgow/blog-519636.html</link>
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                    <title> Easter Cycle Tour 2009  Day 3 Crinan Ferry to Arrochar via Kilmartin Loch Awe and Inverary</title>
                    <description>Route maphttpwww.bikemap.netroute586134Day 3 started with an amazing dawn looking over towards the low hills on the south of the Crinan Canal steeped in some eery low clouds. 3rd day fatigue was setting in especially as clean clothes were wearing thin but onwards we rode. Our first destination was out north along the flat flood plain to Kilmartin. There we breakfasted proper did we have </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Argyll/Inveraray/blog-518977.html</link>
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                    <title>Easter Cycle Tour 2009  Day 2 Balliemore to Crinan Ferry via PortavadieTarbert Ferry and Kilberry</title>
                    <description>Route map httpwww.bikemap.netroute586047Morning Day 2 we woke to find a perfect sunny sky and an even more dramatic view of the valley and sealoch perched as we were up on our rocky escarpment. I'm not sure why Mike was grinning in the photo but I remember clearly that his grin was gone a little further down the road when we hit the first two big climbs of the tour only 200m but still on </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Argyll/Tarbert/blog-513772.html</link>
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                    <title>Easter Cycle Tour 2009  Day 1 Glasgow to Balliemore via GourockDunoon Ferry</title>
                    <description>Thought I'd write up last year's trip before it fades away. Route map Route map httpwww.bikemap.netroute586038Day 1 saw me and Mike get an earlyish 10am train from Edinburgh to Glasgow. On arrival at Queen Street we headed due south to hit the River Clyde from where I could sort of get my bearings. We hoped to track down national cycle route 75 which would take us all the way south of t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Argyll/Dunoon/blog-513730.html</link>
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                    <title>Week of Snowboarding in Scotland</title>
                    <description>I thought I'd chronicle a few days of snowboarding here in Bonnie Scotland for posterity in years to come. It's not every year we get snow like we just had in the last few weeks and who knows what the following years will bring the demise of skiing in scotland or a shift in gulf stream and a new beginningSo we had about a foot of snow just at the back of Edinburgh in the Pentland hills usu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Midlothian/Edinburgh/blog-466877.html</link>
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                    <title>Selection of photos from my trips</title>
                    <description>No I've not started another trip it's ok. Am still mired in a new job.I recently discovered that Travelblog is very good for getting pictures picked up by Google. So here goes the best pics I've got to offer. For any random people out there who surf on down these pictures please leave a nice comment and some money in the coffers if you want to buy anyPics vary from approx 5M7Mpixels. Sorry </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Midlothian/Edinburgh/blog-336650.html</link>
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                    <title>The train from Narvik to Stockholm and then home</title>
                    <description>Well the trip is now over. I'm back in Dundee and procastinating over preparations for a move to Edinburgh and the start of a new job on monday.My trip back home with coach train and plane was incredibly hitchfree. I woke up on time from my hostel in Kabelvag hard not to with my alarm set to Fight for Your Right to Party by Beastie Boys  it gives me heart palpitations when it goes off. I didn</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Stockholm-County/Stockholm/blog-298121.html</link>
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                    <title>Oh oh Lofoten</title>
                    <description>Photos from the previous blog are up.I've made it to my end destination... well I'm at the hostel tonight 5km from Svolvr where I neet to be at 9.30am tomorrow to catch my bus to Narvik.Lofoten has of course been amazing despite a cruel northerly wind. Full report to come here's some photos...Right here goesSo I eventually got to Lofoten from Bodo at 6am after the 1.45am ferry was delayed and </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Northern-Norway/Lofoten-Islands/blog-296585.html</link>
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                    <title>Ferrying it up Highway 17 to Bod</title>
                    <description>Well okay I'm not quite in Bod just yet. Got about 120km to go  so I'll be there tonight. From there it's a 4 hour ferry to Moskenes in Lofoten and conveniently there are ferries leaving at midnight so I'll catch the overnighter except of course there is no night up here as I've already crossed the Arctic Circle and have my last two days cycling on Lofoten. I've already worked out that if I </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Northern-Norway/Bodo/blog-295567.html</link>
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                    <title>A long drag to Trondheim and a 100 mile day ug</title>
                    <description>I pushed on from Trollstigen via Andalsnes. There I got my wheel fixed 170 kroner and had the good or bad luck to notice a slow puncture at the shop. We found the culprit a little thorn stuck in the tyre. Lucky I guess that we had the wheel apart anyway  but now I've lost my no puncture record. I think I made about 2000 miles puncturefree though  must be some kind of recordThat night I pu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Trondelag/Trondheim/blog-292772.html</link>
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                    <title>Geiranger and Trollstigen... keep 'em coming</title>
                    <description>Onto Geiranger and I had no idea from my map that I'd be making another snowbound climb up to just over 1000m from about 500m this time. The previous night I had a lovely campsite next to Pollfoss a huge gushing section of rapids in a nice fir tree forest my last midgefree night but more on that later...The road up and over to Geiranger was really spectacular with an amazing first view st</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Trondelag/Trondheim/blog-292763.html</link>
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                    <title>Jotunheimen pass... the biggie</title>
                    <description>Jotunheimen is the national park that contains all of Norway's high mountains over 2400m and highway 5 runs right by to 1434m over 20km from sea level an obvious attraction for me on my panniered up bike.I was lucky. I started the climb late in the day queue 3rd spoke breakage so there was no way I was going to make the top. It wouldn't have been practical to camp up there in any case. After</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Trondelag/Trondheim/blog-292760.html</link>
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                    <title>Flying the fjords</title>
                    <description>I've arrived safe but roadweary in Trondheim. I'm going to have a rest day here tomorrow so I can watch the football final and then we'll see. I'm thinking about taking a train just a bit to catch up on a couple of lost days. In that way I can enjoy the end more rather than having to race to get there. I should say I have now got a flight booked back home from Stockholm to Edinburgh May </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Trondelag/Trondheim/blog-292759.html</link>
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                    <title>Disaster strikes... in Voss</title>
                    <description>Yesterday disaster struck. I'd just descended off my first big pass 650m up to the snow line just in the freezing rain and wind  no probs. I didn't even take a break going up. On the way down my hands got so numb I could barely brake but I got down to the comparatively flat lake at the bottom just a few km from Voss when I somehow managed to crash in most bizarre fashion.I remember a car coming</description>
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                    <title>Brrrrr... cold and wet Bergen</title>
                    <description>I arrived in Bergen last night after 2 and half days of cycling from Stavanger in a huge downpour. The final 10km or so into the city was all downhill and more like riding down a river. A kindly norwegian helped me to the central hostel as she saw me struggling with my map that was fast turning into liquid and straight into a warm shower I made some friends in the hostel and ventured out later to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Western-Norway/Bergen/blog-289202.html</link>
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                    <title>Unbelievable Preikestolen</title>
                    <description>I'm just back from Preikestolen. This is Norway's number 1 tourist draw. An amazing bit of rock that sticks out above the Lysefjorden just over an hour cycle plus 20 mins on a ferry from Stavanger. Yesterday after a lazy morning and the first rain whilst cycling since Germany I waited it out in a bus shelter which there are loads of I hoicked myself up the 300m climb to the end of the road </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Western-Norway/Stavanger/blog-287997.html</link>
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                    <title>Oh cruel cruel but amazing too Norway but I made it to Stavanger and a cycle race</title>
                    <description>I made it to Stavanger The cycling in Norway has been tough to say the very least Looking at the map I figured that the south would be the easy part seeing as the terrain wasn't even barely hitting the first contour at 300m. Well it turns out that the south of Norway is a huge mass of 299m mountains and I yoyoed my way for 4 hard days to Stavanger when the direct motorway route is only 250km.T</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Western-Norway/Stavanger/blog-287984.html</link>
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