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                    <title>India Incredible just as advertised</title>
                    <description>Can you believe it I39m finally in India It took so long to get here and yet now that I39m here I feel like I39ve been here forever. My sister and I landed in Delhi at 5 AM and immediately were confronted with everything India is known for noise people smells smog and sheer intensity. And it was only 5 AM It was a whirlwind  we land we get into our first mode of transport and a</description>
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                    <title>Third Time's A Charm</title>
                    <description>Most people who know me know that Rome is my favorite place in the world. Rome and I started our love affair three years ago which may or may not have something to do with the fact that about the same time that Keith and I really started ours. So it comes as no surprise that on this third trip to Rome Keith and I got engagedWe arrived in Rome completely ecstatic. Our night train from Munich was</description>
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                    <title>Mad King Ludwig's Fairy Tale House</title>
                    <description>For our last day in Germany Keith and I decided to head down to Fssen where the beloved King Ludwig II Mad King Ludwig built his fairy tale castle Schlo Neuschwanstein.Ludwig may or may not have been the nutcase everyone made him out to be but he definitely had a vision when he started out to build Neuschwanstein. It was a pretty fancy place. I can't imagine being the kind of person that</description>
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                    <title>Germany's Rooftop</title>
                    <description>Woohoo  We're at the top of Germany Today our little group decided to visit the very south of Germany which also happens to be the tallest part of Germany That's right  we went skiing on the Zugspitze in GarmischPartenkirchen. That has a nice ring to it. At least it would if you skied. I did not. Instead I rented skiis walked out the door looked down the slope and walked right back in</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Garmisch-Partenkirchen/Zugspitze/blog-559567.html</link>
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                    <title>Beer Proof God Wants Us To Be Happy</title>
                    <description>Happy New Year to All We've been having a great time in Germany so far. Since we got into Munich we've been busy walking the town seeing the sights and more importantly sampling the local brew. Needless to say Munich rocks. Aside from the cold and the persistent grey skies I can really see why Munich is often placed atop the list of places to live in Germany. It's clean it's efficient i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Munich/blog-559537.html</link>
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                    <title>Quick stop in Kufstein</title>
                    <description>I really love traveling in Europe in the winter. For the past few December  January excursions across the pond I've enjoyed the ability to see Europe with nominal crowds and at a lower cost. I can't imagine being herded from site to site during the high tourist season that so many places we've been would bring. Yet I have to admit often times I wish for summer weather while in Europe. Today w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/Kufstein/blog-565594.html</link>
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                    <title>Tirol's Tiny Town</title>
                    <description>In our quest to visit both wellknown cities and small towns of Austria we decided to stay the night in Rattenberg... Austria's smallest town. At first I thought Rattenberg would be off the beaten track. And to stay there the night probably was. However Rattenberg's holding its own... mostly thanks to its glass production. The whole region of Tirol is known for its salt and glass. In Rattenber</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/Rattenberg-/blog-565577.html</link>
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                    <title>The Quaint Hall in Tirol</title>
                    <description>So to escape the hustle and bustle of mega metropolis Innsbruck ha we took a half day trip to Hall in Tirol. When researching the Tirol country side I kept stumbling upon nice reviews of this little suburb 10 minutes away from Innsbruck. It's not a particularly historic town nor a unique one by any means but it looked like a good place to spread out for a few hours. Especially since I want</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/Hall-in-Tirol/blog-565570.html</link>
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                    <title>We're in Innsbruck </title>
                    <description>I'd like to say that we arrived in Innsbruck sans problem. Instead we arrived sans luggage. At least I did. And yet I couldn't be more excited Keith and I are back in EuropeThis is our first time in Austria. Having decided to spend New Years in Munich we picked Innsbruck based off the fact that it was actually cheaper to get from Frankfurt to Munich via Innsbruck than to go directly. It just </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/Innsbruck/blog-565502.html</link>
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                    <title>Coffee Rica</title>
                    <description>Costa Rica is synonymous with coffee. Think Costa Rica and you'll think coffee. You can't go anywhere in the country without passing by the bushy coffee plants growing on the sides of mountains and volcanoes. For our last full day in Costa Rica we decided to embark on a coffee tour at Cafe Britt just north of San Jose in Heredia. We couldn't visit one of the top exporters of the delicious bean a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Heredia/Heredia/blog-527226.html</link>
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                    <title>Where The Streets Have No Name The Order and Structure of an Unruly City</title>
                    <description>Well we're back in San Jose...at least I think we are... it's hard to tell since nothing is labeled and there is no order to anything. See I'm from Chicago. That place is a huge a grid with a clear mathematical layout that would make any American proud look we're so organized and easy to maneuver So of course I'm inclined think that a city in Central America is a bit disorganized city p</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/San-Jose/San-Jose/blog-525737.html</link>
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                    <title>La Tortuga Feliz Part II Or Who Doesn't Think Baby Turtles Aren't Cute</title>
                    <description>La Tortuga Feliz Part II baby turtles Or as we learned to call them tortugitasAside from our beach patrol responsibilities our other duty was to man the hatchery. That meant working 4hour shifts to keep it guarded 24 hours a day 7 days a week as well as building the correct nests for incoming eggs at night. Even though I didn't have a lot of turtles that I saw on patrol I had a lot to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Limon/La-Tortuga-Feliz/blog-523903.html</link>
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                    <title>La Tortuga Feliz Part I Or How I Walked a Marathon to Protect Sea Turtles</title>
                    <description>How'd you like to spend a week on a secluded island laying in a hammock eating authentic Costa Rican fare all day long listening to the Caribbean Sea and playing with sea turtles every afternoon Not too shabby you say Volunteer at La Tortuga FelizAs I mentioned previously the point of our trip to Costa Rica was to do some volunteer work before each of my sisters and I started our new lives</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Limon/La-Tortuga-Feliz/blog-523893.html</link>
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                    <title>Bus Stop in Bataan</title>
                    <description>The next stop on our Costa Rican adventure was the inspiration for our trip in the first place volunteering at La Tortuga Feliz. A while back I had talked to my youngest sister Hannah about volunteering some place where she could begin to use the Spanish she had learned. I thought it'd be a great way to show her life outside of the United States and hopefully encourage her to pursue further ed</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Limon/blog-523707.html</link>
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                    <title>Costa Rica searching for Pura Vida</title>
                    <description>Woo... Central America We're at the lush green Manual Antonio Park in Costa Rica. It's gorgeous First how we got here Last night we arrived in Quepos after a long day of traveling. We had our 530 AM flight from Chicago arrived in San Jose at 1 PM. From there we found a bus to take us down to Manuel Antonio  Quepos at 4 pm. Five hours later we arrived in Quepos tired in the dark and with</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Manuel-Antonio/blog-523370.html</link>
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                    <title>The Curious Connection Between Ireland and Home</title>
                    <description>Before Keith and I left for our trip my grandmother told me that Ireland was her favorite place she had ever visited. She said being in Ireland felt like coming home. I believed her to an extent because the Irish are known for their hospitality. But I didn't know exactly how true what she said would be. Aside from the fact that coming home was significant since Dublin is the last stop befo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/Dublin/blog-489418.html</link>
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                    <title>My Heart is in Roma</title>
                    <description>Rome is by far my favorite city in the world. The city is full of elegance grace and an air that is like no other. Rome knows who she is and where she has been her history is second to none. Rome is where I fell in love and where I'll always return. Rome in short is home and home is where the heart is. Initially when planning our trip I had a few misgivings about returning to Rome. It's no</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-481505.html</link>
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                    <title>Piece of Pisa</title>
                    <description>We're glad to be back in Europe and Italy But all I can think about is returning to my adopted home Rome. Perhaps I'm anxious about arriving in the city that I fell in love with two years ago perhaps I was grumpy because of all my Moroccan things I had to lug around but I felt soso about Pisa. All we really did after we landed was go to the tower snap a few fun photos and trudge painfully </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Pisa/blog-477382.html</link>
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                    <title>Marrakech  A shopper's paradise... if you can haggle</title>
                    <description>Our last three days in Morocco were spent in Marrakech which I have found is a delightful corner of the world. The city like the rest of the country that I have explored is welcoming and bustling. The city pulsates with people smells and especially the noises at nearly all hours of the day.  Into the Belly of the Beast My favorite part of Marrakech was by far the shopping experience in the so</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Marrakech/blog-476686.html</link>
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                    <title>In the Sand A Million Miles from Inhabited Land</title>
                    <description>Le premier soir je me suis donc endormi sur la sable a mille milles de toute terre habite.  Le Petit Prince Antoine de SaintExupry Of all the places that I've slept the Sahara Desert will go down as one of the surreal most memorable most brilliant and loudest places that I've ever slept. It was fantastic we made our way out from Merzouga on our camels for about an hour until we rea</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Mekn-s-Tafilalet/Merzouga/blog-476650.html</link>
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