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                    <title>THE CALL OF THE MILD  the conclusion of The Grand Tour</title>
                    <description>When does the lure of the mundane become more compelling than the lure of adventureAt around eight and a half months by our reckoning so this is the end of our travels homeward bound via Bangkok and Sydney.Its definitely been an adventure  The Grand Tour  not a holiday. We dont seem capable of doing holidays  thats what were coming back to Matarangi for  theres nothin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-757215.html</link>
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                    <title>ITALY and ROME are two separate things</title>
                    <description>Italy who knew Well the thousands of tourists who go there every year but the gobsmacking beauty of the place caught us by surprise. We knew about the Alps of course but there are huge craggy mountains everywhere and we drove through many on the way to our first stop the Cinque Terre through tunnel after tunnel and over viaduct after viaduct with steep valleys plunging below sprinkled wi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/blog-754495.html</link>
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                    <title>Around France with Family and Friends</title>
                    <description>France will be remembered for relatives and friends.After arriving in Paris by Eurostar which didnt quite live up to its promise of luxury travel we did four days solid walking around the City of Light. Central Paris is beautiful designed in the late 19th C by M. Haussemann so all buildings are the same colour style and height with a grid and diagonal street design. BUT this does get confus</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-750433.html</link>
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                    <title>ODE TO LONDON</title>
                    <description>I guess being born 20 miles from a city makes you a little partisan but I would like to assert that London is the best city in the world. Yes its noisy and crowded and dirtyisnt this part of what makes a great city But its also exciting surprising fun and beautiful. In the style of all good travel websites I would like to propose my Top 10 best of London based on our last week the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-743809.html</link>
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                    <title>You can take the girl out of England...</title>
                    <description>This trip is a love affair with the UK.Rhys is a complete Anglophile he only married me so he can enter British territory whenever he likes and I am the typical immigrant  born here but brought up in New Zealand  a citizen of both but belonging to neither.He has fantasised about retiring here but a complete lack of summer has cured him of that. I always feel like Im visiting as a foreign</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-738137.html</link>
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                    <title>THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED BY ANTIPODEANS</title>
                    <description>DISCLAIMER Dont expect the photos to match up with the words  the website can39t do exact placement and I either write too much or have too many pics or both  so Im starting the photos from the most recent and they may match up somewhere in the middle NB  if I wrote more regularly to keep up with the number of pics I take youd all be bored witless p Lets go to Lincoln</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/blog-731652.html</link>
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                    <title>UK is like NZ. Discuss</title>
                    <description>I dont think you could find two countries so different yet so similar. Britain is as far away from New Zealand as you can get before you start going back again but sometimes they feel like the same place superimposed on one another as if weve fallen through an Alicein Wonderland wormhole in the timespace continuum. Or maybe its because my first 12 years were spent in England and I som</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Pembrokeshire/blog-722587.html</link>
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                    <title>Recession What Recession</title>
                    <description>We got talking with two Austrian girls in a restaurant in Lisbon we were the only diners and yes people think they are Australian and ask them if they have kangaroos in their garden. They made an interesting comment about their countrys approach to the recession  that Austrians moreorless expect bad things to happen and had accepted life would be grim for a while. They also said people</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Suffolk/blog-716770.html</link>
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                    <title>Between a Rock and a Hard Place</title>
                    <description>Gibraltar is an anomaly. Geographically its in Spain and theyd really like it back but for now its British  from the pics you can see even the weather is British  I imagine an isolated cold front hovering over it permanently while the sun blazes over the rest of Spain. We went there with Pat and Ann who you met in the last blog thanks again for the tour guys and who relished be</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/blog-712227.html</link>
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                    <title>Several kinds of Spain</title>
                    <description>We walked out of the train station in Valencia right into the middle of Las Fallas  the biggest fiesta in the region  which from the four hours we were there seemed to be about eating mainly paella and chocolate coated churros drinking spontaneous loud and fast brass band music on street corners very loud fireworks and huge cartoonlike satirical sculptures on every available plaza. I39</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/M-laga/Mijas/blog-702526.html</link>
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                    <title>Europe Calling</title>
                    <description>Kiwis have to fly. And a long way if we want to get to exciting and exotic places. So our Europe Odyssey begins in Dubai about halfway to halfway round the world in an attempt to stave off jet lag and jet legs. We also hoped that flying Emirates would ease the pain...and it was a great travel experience  friendly staff delicious food resolutions not to eat too much went out the window befor</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/Barcelona/blog-699615.html</link>
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                    <title>A Stationary Travel Blog</title>
                    <description>This is a stationary travel blog to let everyone on both sides of the Tasman know what weve been up to since we came back from Oz at the end of last year but mostly its to show off wedding photos from Torins marriage to Andrea here in Matarangi.The blog was a monthly addiction for two and half years while we were in Oz. Now settled back in the Shaky Isles Im amazed that half a year ha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Coromandel-Peninsula/blog-624980.html</link>
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                    <title>SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH</title>
                    <description>It's a weird thing to do  load your belongings into a large tin container and drag it behind you as you drive around another country.But when the country is as big as Australia its the best way of seeing it as a traveler rather than a tourist. Over the last two and a half years weve tried to avoid being tourists. We wanted to see Australia and meet Australians rather than be herded around</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Caloundra/blog-548905.html</link>
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                    <title>Craters Cassowaries and the Cretaceous Period</title>
                    <description>If anywhere in Australia has reminded us of New Zealand and the Waikato its the Atherton Tablelands.  With rolling hills volcanic origins pockets of rainforest dairying waterfalls and rivers that run all year round it also doesnt have the humidity of Cairns 70km the other side of the coastal ranges.With only slight protestations from Rhys we did the waterfall circuit taking delightf</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Sapphire/blog-534367.html</link>
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                    <title>The Very Wet Tropics</title>
                    <description>Cairns is a well known holiday destination for Kiwis many make it their permanent home on retirement.Weve been here three times before and each trip was a week of clear blue skies and warm tropical weather. So we arrived in the middle of June keenly anticipating a couple of months sunny RR after our busy schedule making sure we see as much of the West Island as possible. Days lazing by the po</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/blog-527579.html</link>
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                    <title>Travel distorts the mind</title>
                    <description>Living in another country does strange things to your head. When we were making regular trips to Britain for work and pleasure I kept saying Back in England... instead of Back in New Zealand... because I lived in England for my first 12 years.I sometimes do the same here In England we...um...I mean in NZ...where are we...who am IFlying back to Cairns after two weeks NZ to s</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/blog-515871.html</link>
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                    <title>Going Troppo Again</title>
                    <description>MMMmmmmmm  fresh pineapple Nothing like a warm astringent mouthful to let you know youre in the tropics.In the Mackay markets we buy fresh local pineapple ginger and ocean barramundi to taste the tropical coast again.After five weeks going up through central NSW and into Queensland with warm days but very chilly nights and mornings its glorious to sit outside without jackets and beanie</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Mackay/blog-500801.html</link>
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                    <title>Onwards and Upwards</title>
                    <description>When we started our Oz odyssey the country was in the grip of a 10year drought dry rivers water restrictions empty dams. But the drought has broken in many of the worst hit areas.On our way north through Victoria at the same time as last year we could be in a different country. Fields trees hills and hedges flash past in various shades of green where last year all was a lifeless listless d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Forbes/blog-491619.html</link>
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                    <title>Bound  for South Australia</title>
                    <description>BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIAAt the risk of boring you all rigid this blog contains yet more photos of impossibly beautiful beaches with white sand turquoise sea and stunning coastal backdrops. The southern edge of Western Australia is crammed with beauty spots to make up for the huge expanse of desert on the inside.Our last entry had us scaling granite outcrops in the Porongurup Range. Impressed wi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Whyalla/blog-482512.html</link>
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                    <title>South West  walks wine waves  trees</title>
                    <description>Who would have thought the ABSENCE of creepy crawlies could give us such grief Busselton gateway to the lush Margaret River region of south west WA is etched in our minds as an annoying buzzing flyinfested place  probably a little unfair as its bordered by the lovely calm beaches of Geographe Bay where the sea is turquoise the sun always shines and the waves are never more than playful </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Albany/blog-470826.html</link>
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