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                    <title>A TRIP BACK TO AUCKLAND  OUR FINAL BOW</title>
                    <description>This is it the final blog for Matt and Narelles Grand Tour 2012. All good things have to come to an end and our tour finished just after 5pm on Monday 17thDecember as our taxi dropped us off outside our Melbourne apartment. It seems amazing to think that we have flown well in excess of 50000km and driven some 15000km since we left Auckland Airport in March. We have lived and experienced the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/CBD/blog-763449.html</link>
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                    <title>DESTINATION MELBOURNE</title>
                    <description>It feels a lifetime ago since we sat at Waiheke planning our Grand Tour and decided that to cross Australia we would complete the famous Ghan trip from Darwin to Adelaide. Despite our best efforts it did not work out so we took the shorter option  the Overland train trip from Adelaide to Melbourne. This is an 11 hour 828km journey through the most spectacular of scenery and after comple</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/CBD/blog-756622.html</link>
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                    <title>UP THE MURRAY OFF TO MT. GAMBIER  LAST DAYS IN ADELAIDE</title>
                    <description>Following in the oar marks of Captain Sturt who rowed the Murray River in 1830 we spent five very pleasant days on the water and amongst the wildlife of one of the worlds great waterways. The Murray may have been known to man for well over 30000 years but during the last century houseboats paddle steamers and ferries have become more prevalent and plied their trade up and down the river man</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/CBD/blog-756411.html</link>
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                    <title>HONG KONG SINGAPORE ADELAIDE AND A DASH HOME TO NZ</title>
                    <description>I am not sure a feeling of complete relaxation will abound from my next few paragraphs. It seems a long while ago that I penned the last of my updates and a lot has happened in that time not only have the tans faded due to less pool time but I am in Adelaide as I write this after a week at home in Auckland to see Dad after he became very sick with pneumonia. Thankfully he responded well to the me</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-751770.html</link>
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                    <title>SUN  SAND IN DUBAI</title>
                    <description>Arriving in a country that lays claim to 360 sunny days a year makes it hard to arrive on a cool day. Our arrival into Dubai was no exception and even at 0700 as our flight touched down we were told that it was already 30 heading for 40 later in the afternoon  it felt a long way from Prague and the chilly 12 of a few days before. If our visit to Las Vegas in April was a leap from r</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-747843.html</link>
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                    <title>PRAGUE TAKE 2</title>
                    <description>Ten years ago we attempted to visit Prague. It had been on Narelles wish list for years and although we arrived at Prague Airport we read Narelle never got past Immigration. For some reason that only politicians could explain and still equally oblivious to us New Zealanders did not need a Visa but Australians did you can see the developing predicament we were faced with. Basically we were d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/blog-746536.html</link>
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                    <title>BUDAPEST</title>
                    <description>Our first taste of Hungarian life was sitting at the back of a shuttle bus enduring quite a trip into the city centre. It was not the shortest of journeys as unbeknownst to us we were the last drop off due to being the furthest away. Our hotel was on the Buda side of the city and after being up and down most of the streets on the Pest side we felt somewhat relieved when we crossed the Danube D</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Central-Hungary/Budapest/Buda/blog-746290.html</link>
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                    <title>LONDON 2012</title>
                    <description>There can be no better arrival into London than being sat in a Black Cab your Cockney Cab driver regaling you with stories of the Olympics to the point that I was wondering when he was going to give the famous line youll never guess who I had in the cab last week when he actually said youll never guess who I had in the cab last week. Turns out our cabbie was a pessimist when i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-745040.html</link>
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                    <title>BARCELONA AND MENORCA</title>
                    <description>BarcelonaSuch a beautiful horizonBarcelonaLike a jewel in the sun Freddie Mercury got it right though the written words do not have the famous Barrrrrrrcelonaaaaaaaa accompaniment. Landing in Barcelona and experiencing the heat the sun the blue sky and the skyline is truly spectacular. I had a few memories from my previous trip to Barcelona in 1990 but I had many more from watching</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Minorca/blog-743395.html</link>
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                    <title>PARIS</title>
                    <description>For the first time in four months we awoke to the fact that we did not have a car. I have no idea what happened to our 308 after we left it at Orly Airport but can only guess that it has gone to join a paddock full of secondhand Peugeots. I am sure that in the next few weeks it will be on a car lot somewhere in France with a good price on the window and a salesman explaining that it has had one c</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/blog-742250.html</link>
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                    <title>LEAVING VILLENEUVELEMBRON BUT NOT THE AUVERGNE</title>
                    <description>The last two weeks have been brilliant. There has been a different feel to the days and we have certainly recharged the batteries. Relaxing seems to have been the key factor and we have enjoyed experiencing new parts of France. Our time in VillenueveLembron seemed to go all too quickly but we left with many memories and a real desire to head back there one day in the future. The southern Auvergne</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Boulogne-Billancourt/blog-740775.html</link>
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                    <title>VISITING VILLENEUVE LEMBRON</title>
                    <description>As I write this we are just on 500km away from Vary in the Auvergne region in a village called Villeneuve Lembron. It is situated some 12km from the city of Issoire. It was a four hour drive from the Chateau but we were very lucky with the traffic as it was another Saturday red day with Paris traffic heading north and south. Thankfully on the AutoRoute we were following it was the traffic no</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Auvergne/blog-738810.html</link>
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                    <title>A TRIP TO THE SEASIDE  FAREWELL TO VARY</title>
                    <description>On our US coach tour with Trafalgar Tours earlier in the year we were treated to what the Tour Guide called Hidden Gems. These were places or sites that we were taken to but were not on the original itinerary. It meant we got to see Stanford University near Silicon Valley a Dutch settlement outside Santa Barbara and scarily the inside of a Walmart. I think part of what we have experience</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Auvergne/blog-738806.html</link>
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                    <title>VARY WEEK DEUX THE RETURN OF THE DAVE</title>
                    <description>We cannot help feeling we are being spoilt at the Chateau. We seemed to quickly fall into routines and Paul and Bndicte have made us feel most welcome. Much the same as last week the lower level of the Chateau became a meeting point for many and the euro kitty just rolled over. Its a simple process which in all honesty probably rivals the Greek banking system in that we put a large amount </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Pays-de-la-Loire/blog-737865.html</link>
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                    <title>FROM 'BURGS' TO THE LOIRE</title>
                    <description>Our last few days in Burgundy were just as good as the previous ten. We had time for one last leisurely lunch at Le relais dOzenay www.lerelaisdozenay.com where we sat outside on the terrace under shade cloths as the sun beat down  it was touching 34 at one point. After the summer that we have experienced it was nice to be under umbrellas for something other than rain. The service at the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Pays-de-la-Loire/blog-735293.html</link>
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                    <title>'BURGS' PART DEUX</title>
                    <description>It has finally happened I did not jinx Bradley Wiggins with my comments and he has become the first British winner of the Tour de France. It was an emotional afternoon as the Union Jacks flags fluttered and the French joined with the British supporters to will on Wiggo as he completed the final circuits of the ChampsElyses in brilliantly fine weather wearing the famous ltem stylemso</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Burgundy/Cluny/blog-732890.html</link>
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                    <title>THROUGH THE CHUNNEL TO BURGS</title>
                    <description>The Eurotunnel never ceases to amaze me. It is a wonderful feat of engineering and a standard bearer for how two countries can work together and achieve something special. I remember watching a live television broadcast in 1990 when the two tunnels finally met in the middle and the engineers could breathe a sigh of relief that all their planning had worked. One of the huge cutters that sliced its </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Burgundy/Cluny/blog-731149.html</link>
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                    <title>A BIRTHDAY A WEDDING AND OFF TO FRANCE</title>
                    <description>I have mentioned Philip and Pat numerous times since we arrived back in Ellesmere and most of the comments seem to revolve around food or drink. Next week we will join them in Burgundy for a two week holiday near Cluny where I am only too aware that we will enjoy many a glass of the local wine and fare. This week it was birthday time for Philip and to toast the occasion we travelled up to Didsbur</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/Faversham/blog-729977.html</link>
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                    <title>END OF TERM AT ELLESMERE</title>
                    <description>The school year at Ellesmere has come to an end and we are thrilled to have experienced all of the festivities that go with it. June 30th was the last day of the Summer Term a term that was even shorter than normal this year due the repositioning of Half Term to accommodate Queen Elizabeths Diamond Jubilee. We always enjoyed this time of year while we lived at the College and this year has bee</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Shropshire/Ellesmere/blog-728784.html</link>
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                    <title>HARRY POTTER NORTH WALES  BACK TO ELLESMERE</title>
                    <description>I am not the biggest Harry Potter fan in fact I have not finished reading the series of books I think I am up to Number 5 but I have seen all of the movies. However Narelle is a major fan and has read the books more than once and watched the movies on multiple occasions. So when she bought us tickets to the ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtltem stylemsobidifontstyle </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Shropshire/Ellesmere/blog-726893.html</link>
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