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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <title>Resting at Budsjord gard</title>
                    <description>13 and 14 JulyI took my second rest day at Budsjord gard another farm with a history stretching back centuries. I am glad that I changed my mind and stayed here  the alternative is way down in the valley below and it would have been a couule of hours and a steep climb to get here. Tomorrow I just walk 50m up the road and I am back on the path. Got a lift into Dombas today then spent the afterno</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Eastern-Norway/blog-730298.html</link>
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                    <title>Hvar to Otta</title>
                    <description>Today the path turned north again around a large bluff. There was enough room for the E6 and the railway on the river flats while pilgrims take a tortuous path along the lower slopes. It was tough going.Once heading north the path then went up to the valley heights  twice Both pretty strenuous climbs particularly when my glasses misted up in the rain and I had difficulty seeing the path let </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Eastern-Norway/blog-729690.html</link>
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                    <title>Veldre to Brottum</title>
                    <description>Too tired for much of an entry. Veldre to Brottum 39k 957m of climb in 8hrs 49 mins walking done over 11hrs 35mins. Brilliant views over Lake Mjosa from Moelv.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Eastern-Norway/blog-727765.html</link>
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                    <title>Konfirmantsalen</title>
                    <description>27At Konfirmantsalen Veldre and have the place to myself. I left Hamar too early to walk through the Glass Cathedral but had a quick look around the site before heading to that other place of worship  a shopping centre. Reached Furness kirke around lunchtime and Veldre kirke late afternoon.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Eastern-Norway/blog-727489.html</link>
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                    <title>Photos</title>
                    <description>I understand that people might want to see photos. I would love to but this is the first internet machine I have been able to access since Oslo That was now six days ago. It is a terminal not a PC with the ability to download photos.The short blog entries are being done by my daughter from SMS texts. There was one night where that wasn39t even possible but if I can send text that at least </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Eastern-Norway/Hamar/blog-727264.html</link>
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                    <title>Hamar  Home of the Glass Cathedral and other things I am sure</title>
                    <description>Left Bogbakken relatively early not quite knowing whether the Pilgrim Centre estimate of the distance was correct or my hosts more pessimistic view that it was a 30km walk. Within a 100m or so he was.Today was a three church day. The first after a couple of kilometres at Tangen the second at Stange and the third a mere glimpse in the distance of the Glass Cathedral a ruin that has been cover</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Eastern-Norway/Hamar/blog-727263.html</link>
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                    <title>BB at Bjorknes Finnsbraten  Bogbakken</title>
                    <description>BB at Bjorknes286Long urban stretch leaving Dal before some quite rural road farmland and another gully scramble to get to Eidsvoll kirke then the town. Long afternoon walk to Langest. Bjorknes about 6km off trail.Stats 30.5km 507m elevation gain 86km covered 113km walked. Finnsbraten296Short day to Finnsbraten. I got driven back to where I left the trail. One navigation error early 1.5k</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/blog-727077.html</link>
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                    <title>A Much Longer Day</title>
                    <description>Lets just say that this is not a day I ever want to repeat. My quick calculations before starting led me to the conclusion that I would need to walk 27 km today. A bit of a stretch after yesterday but still not too big a leap. That just didn39t happen. BreakfastThe difficulty with staying somewhere where there are no cooking facilities is that one cannot whip up a decent breakfast and so the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Eastern-Norway/Jessheim/blog-726456.html</link>
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                    <title>Arteid Vestre  A Stabburet turned into Pilgrim Lodging</title>
                    <description>Catching the BusSo I stayed in Oslo again last night following my walk to Olavsgaard intending to catch the bus back out to start walking from there again today. With my big pack ready I headed into the bus terminal on the tram which with a couple of false starts took about 40min and I was soon on the bus. About five minutes later we stopped outside the hotel to pick up passengers. Researched </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Eastern-Norway/blog-726255.html</link>
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                    <title>Staying Awake in Oslo</title>
                    <description>There39s little interest in reporting that nothing out of the ordinary happened when one is starting on an adventure but that39s pretty much how today was.I suppose there were the minor moments of adjusting to being in the northern hemisphere. One that always gets me sooner or later is the difficulty that sun is in the logically correct but otherwise unusual place for an Australian  the so</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Eastern-Norway/Oslo/blog-725779.html</link>
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                    <title>Cruising the Mediterranean</title>
                    <description>On our way againThis is the year of the big cruise.  We are joining the Dawn Princess in Dubai and cruising around the Mediterranean then up to le Havre ending the cruise in Dover.We are going to be a little on tenterhooks today with the Chilean ash cloud disrupting domestic flights to Melbourne.  While currently all appears okay we will need to decide whether to risk a flight to Melbourne or</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Australian-Capital-Territory/Canberra/blog-619374.html</link>
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                    <title>Now that it is over ... </title>
                    <description>I ended up walking about 900km over the 33 days on the Camino.  This was measured on a GPS but that does not mean this figure is accurate.  There are some common problems such as narrow old city streets and not getting a good fix in heavily wooded areas.  Also I didn't always carry my GPS when I was walking around in the evening.Photos and maps for each days walk have now been added to the indi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Galicia/Santiago-de-Compostela/blog-499223.html</link>
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                    <title>Going Home</title>
                    <description>Final DaysI have now spent nearly a fortnight in three different places.  Not only have they been different places but they have presented quite different learning and growing experiences.LondonMy son Daniel lives in the heart of London and I wanted to visit him but not really to have to stay in an already crowded inner city flat.  So I opted to stay with an old friend at Gerrards Cross where</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Paris/blog-497485.html</link>
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                    <title>Santiago de Compostela</title>
                    <description>FinToday started walking through eucalypts feeling a bit homesick.  They are grown as a plantation timber around Arca.  The tall straight trunks and the leaves and bark on the path made if feel very much like walking in bushland around Canberra.  There are plantings of different species almost all the way into Santiago itself along the Camino.It was hard to decide whether to push or just take i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Galicia/Santiago-de-Compostela/blog-495012.html</link>
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                    <title>Catching Up with Chris</title>
                    <description>Ribadiso AlbergueThe evening at Ribadiso turned into a bit of a nightmare.  The albergue seemed to have settled down around 10.30pm and all was quiet until a few well lubricated individuals returned to the dormitory just before 1.00am.  Unlike conventional buildings where it would have been possible to close and lock the door at the designated closing time this albergue is based on a collecti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Galicia/La-Coruna/blog-495008.html</link>
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                    <title>A Coruna</title>
                    <description>Leaving LugoToday I left Lugo and entered the last of the provincesregions through which the Camino Frances passes A Coruna.  There was another small change to the style of the signposts and markings such as the province name emblazoned on the concrete halfkilometre markings and more of the same style concrete posts appearing to mark different administrative boundaries.The trail today was most</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Galicia/La-Coruna/blog-494371.html</link>
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                    <title>Doing a Bit More to Escape the Crowd</title>
                    <description>The Trouble with Rolling HillsToday was spent in the rolling hills of Galacia.  There are some problems for the pilgrim with this.  While they look romantic on the postcards each rolling hill has an up side and a down side.  I suppose this should be obvious and in a figurative sense one might expect the down side of the hill to be its upside and vice versa.  This is not always the case and so</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Galicia/Lugo/blog-494308.html</link>
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                    <title>Sarria to Portomarin  Joined by the 100km Pilgrims</title>
                    <description>100 km PilgrimsTo be awarded the Compestella at Santiago one must complete at least 100km on foot.  To achieve that on the Camino Frances means starting out at Sarria.  So today we long distance pilgrims were joined by a mass of people who wanted to make the pilgrimage but chose to start here at Sarria.For much of the morning this didnt make a great deal of difference.  If one is away early </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Galicia/Lugo/blog-493865.html</link>
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                    <title>Getting Lost on the Way</title>
                    <description>Making Up the DistanceLast night I had stopped at La Faba about 5km short of my original target and if I wanted to stay on track needed to get to Triacastela tonight.  This didnt seem too much of a problem as the original stage to Triacastela was just over 20km so 25km wasnt going to be too hard even if it was warm.  Getting AwayThe albergue at La Faba provided breakfast which the hospi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Galicia/Lugo/blog-493337.html</link>
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                    <title>An Anzac Day in Spain</title>
                    <description>The Hills the Highway or the Really Long WayTo start with I had already discounted the third of these without too much consideration.  It would be the equivalent of over 40km to get from Villafranca to OCebreiro and I had neither the time nor the inclination.  So the choice was between going over the hill or around it.What I have noticed is that there is a hierarchy of land use and pilgrims</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Castile-Leon/Le-n/blog-493336.html</link>
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