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                    <title>Well that's a surprise</title>
                    <description>For those of you who have been asking where I'm at here's a rather belated post I wrote and never published ...I've just spent 2 days trying to cycle from Hurricane to Cedar City a disance of only 40 something miles and guess where I am  back in St George right where I started.  The first time I set off from Hurricane I gave up after about an hour and a half just 6 miles down the road at To</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Utah/St-George/blog-496114.html</link>
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                    <title>Heaven and Hell in Utah</title>
                    <description>I knew that the first two weeks were going to be hard and hurt like hell ... I just forgot how much hell hurt.God I'm unfit and I'm talking day one of Biggest Loser unfit.  This is going to be a little bit of a struggle methinks but then the scenery ... god this is a beautiful place I mean just take a look a some of my happy snaps.Anyway back to the beginning after a bit of a restless and ner</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Utah/Zion-National-Park/blog-495295.html</link>
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                    <title>Second Impressions</title>
                    <description>Whats happened to AmericaOne of my favourite sayings for years are that Americans are the friendliest people on the planet in thei rown country but from what Ive seen to date everyone seems to have lost their manners  plus theyve all had iPhones surgically implanted at the end of one arm.  OK I exaggerate slightly but at least 40 of the population seem to now have only one hand </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Utah/St-George/blog-494939.html</link>
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                    <title>Attack of the killer hedgehog</title>
                    <description>One of the fears at the back of your mind when you are camping is that of theft  Your bike being stolen at night your gear being pulled out from under the tent flaps our tent being so small that we couldn't acutally fit anything in it but ourselves basically waking up in the morning finding yourself with nothing left but the sleeping bag and sleeping mat you went to bed in.We decided to cycle</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/Faversham/blog-307839.html</link>
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                    <title>Sunshine and French Keyboards</title>
                    <description> Who would have thought that French keyboards would be so ridiculously hard to use  In reality they only have about six keys in the wrong place compared to the QWERTY keyboard but when the 'a' and 'q' and 'm' and 'n' and a few other keys in between switch places suddenly emails start rwedimg lioe thqs hence no blogs for quite a while.So here's the last few weeks in summary.  I think we left i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-307747.html</link>
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                    <title>No hair no more ...</title>
                    <description> So now we're sitting in the Kendal Library waiting for the train tonight.  Had a huge breakfast this moring at the YHA it was included in the price shopped a bit and basically lounged around at costa's of course.Big news for the day is that Christie is feeling a little better from her head cold.  Sorry that's not the big news the big news is that Christie spent more on getting a hair cut t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Kendal/blog-297495.html</link>
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                    <title>British Weather 1  John and Christie 0</title>
                    <description> After a bit of a discussion this morning we've decided that we'd had enough and needed a break from cycling and we needed some sunshine.  As Christie described it riding has just become a chore for her and although a big bit of me wanted to cycle to to London the idea of getting into the sunshine was pretty appealing.  We therefore packed our bags Christie battling with both a bad head cold</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Kendal/blog-297483.html</link>
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                    <title>Today's weather is miserable ...</title>
                    <description> If anything Christie was looking worse to me this morning but my attempts to convince her to stay another day in bed came to naught.  We were watching the morning show and the weather came on.  The summary of the weather for today was that it would be miserable  and that's not my words ... That's what the weather broadcaster said.  Even this wouldn't disuade Christie from heading out so we pa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/North-Pennines/blog-297481.html</link>
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                    <title>Bye bye scotland ...</title>
                    <description> The campground we were at described itself as having a private beach.  The truth was it backed out onto a mudbank.  I have to say I really understand why the English go crazy for Australian beaches.Anyway we headed off to Gretna in the morning with little fuss other than that Christie's sniffles had developed into a gale.  After our morning coffee we did a wee bit of shopping and then headed </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Carlisle/blog-297476.html</link>
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                    <title>Christe B.C.  A.C.</title>
                    <description> I discovered today that there are two Christie's.Christie B.C. Before Coffee is currently a morose unenergised tired and crabby person.  Christie A.C. After Coffee is a chatty happy speed demon ...  As much as I love the coffee we've been getting at Costa's the mugs come with two handles one either side because they're too big and heavy to lift with one hand I think the caffeine is hav</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Wigtownshire/Minnigaff/blog-297473.html</link>
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                    <title>and then the sun came out ...</title>
                    <description> We set off today with muted enthusiasm.  OK we were both pretty tuckered out.  First stop was a bike shop down the road where we picked up another new inner tube for Christie's bike then spent 30 minutes changing her tyre.We didn't get 2 miles down the road before I noticed Christie was already three or four hundred metres behind me.  I stopped and waited and her explanation was that her head j</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Wigtownshire/Minnigaff/blog-297466.html</link>
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                    <title>Hell  Part 2 Hell hath Wings</title>
                    <description>For a long time people have been trying to prove or disprove God's existence.  Well I've done it.  If God existed then scotish flies wouldn't because no benevolent allknowing and wise creator would EVER create those bloody things.  I've never been so close insanity.  I mean midges I can survive leaches nothing ... but those flies shiver ...We woke at our favourite campsite this morning t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Wigtownshire/Minnigaff/blog-297436.html</link>
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                    <title>Hell  Part 1 The Campsite</title>
                    <description> After seeing Baldrick off in the morning just we dithered until around 11am trying to decide where to go.  In the end deciding not to decide but to head to Ayr and then decide we set off into the gentle scottish wind read gale.  We navigated our way out of Glasgow with little difficulty but almost 2 hours after having set off were somewhat disheartened to still see the city looking very</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Ayrshire/Ayr/blog-297423.html</link>
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                    <title>Liquid rain liquid trails</title>
                    <description>  England.  No I didn't kneel down and kiss the shore as I landed but I almost wanted too.  In true British fashion we were an hour late arriving then we had to go through customs and convince them that we weren't here to stay.  They had two customs officers to process the entire ship so we snuck into the middle of a bunch of harley davidson riders and as they just pushed their way to the front</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Lanarkshire/Glasgow/blog-292466.html</link>
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                    <title>Tailwinds and the North Sea ...</title>
                    <description> Delft  Ijmuiden 80.85 Total 2617.4 Ride time 4'38   One thing we didn't really think to check when booking our ferry tickets yesterday was just how far it was to the ferry.  It turns out it was around 80kms when we did check so we decided on a very early start.Needless to say that Christie's legs weren't feeling the best the next morning but we soon got underway and did our usual dance </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-292456.html</link>
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                    <title>A quite day of relaxation</title>
                    <description> Delft and around 46.09 Total 2536.3 Ride time 3'03   First place female ... is she a legend or whatAS per so many other days we set off early to find the start of this halfmarathon and got lost.  Fortunately we found it and I hung around while Christie registered and then headed off for my day of chinese buffets internet and no riding.Unfortunately there was no internet in town</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/South-Holland/Delft/blog-292455.html</link>
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                    <title>Jack's Advice</title>
                    <description> Dordrecht  Delft 75.9kms Total 2490.3 Ride time 4'39  Having coffee with Jack and his wife the other day they both strongly suggested we stop at a little town called Delft.  With no other plans we thought this a grand idea so today we set off from Dordrecht with the plan of visiting Rotterdam but staying in Delft.I'd been waiting for this day for a very long time not because Rotterdam </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/South-Holland/Delft/blog-292444.html</link>
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                    <title>Nearing the end ...</title>
                    <description> Dreumal  Dordrecht 70.07kms Total 2414.3 Ride time 3'57  Today's ride time and distance doesn't reflect how much work we put into these headwinds.  Our tip at this moment if coming to Holland.  Head EAST.Still the day was pleasant if you had the right attitude.  The mornings ride took us to a little town where we stopped for coffee and cake had a look around a couple of shops before head</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/South-Holland/Dordrecht/blog-292431.html</link>
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                    <title>Where the cycleways are paved with gold ...</title>
                    <description> Millengen on the Rhein  Dreumal 79.3kms Total 2344.2 Ride time 4'40 Happy Birthday to Christie Happy Birthday to Christie ...What a place for a touring cyclist to wake up.  The Netherlands where the cycle tracks are made of gold the roads are flat motorists are considerate and the cycle route second to none in the world.  Yea right.My early morning attempt at singing Happy Birthday t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/Gelderland/Nijmegen/blog-292408.html</link>
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                    <title>Another day another Country ...</title>
                    <description> Duisberg  Millengen on the Rhein Netherlands 97.40kms Total 2264.8kms Ride time Unknown   I suspected that the day wasn't going to start so well when I asked the lady at reception to confirm that to get to the Orsoy Ferry I should just go out along the Industrial Park turn right and then follow highway 8.  No she said I should go left.  She then went and got an english speaking cyclist </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/Gelderland/Nijmegen/blog-292397.html</link>
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