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                    <title>A fantastic first day in Lisbon</title>
                    <description>The inspiration behind my trip to Lisbon was to visit one of our good friends from Mike39s lawschool class in London CTLS Maria who is from just outside of Lisbon. Not only was it a great opportunity to spend more time with her but it was great to see some of Portugal from a local39s perspective. We were staying with her family in their apartment that is just outside the main city of Li</description>
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                    <title>An Unexpected Trip to Prague and an Unexpected Friend</title>
                    <description>My trip to Romania was now over and I was heading from Bucharest to Lisbon by way of Prague. I had expected that today was going to be spent waiting in airports or on airplanes as I travelled to the opposite side of Europe to visit our friend Maria in Lisbon. I was excited to be leaving Bucharest and get on with this next part of the trip but Maria had emailed me last night and said that the Lisb</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-723801.html</link>
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                    <title>Continuing the exploration of Romania with a local family</title>
                    <description>Today we weren39t as lucky with the weather as we had been so it rained on and off and in between the clouds occupied the whole sky. After a typical European breakfast of cheese bread and sandwich meat we head on back up to Poistrana Brasov the mountain resort in the mountains above Brasov. The idea was that we would try again to take the gondola up to the top to see the views of the beauti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Brasov/Zarnesti/blog-722542.html</link>
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                    <title>Back to Brasov but this time from a local's perspective</title>
                    <description>Yesterday was more of a transit day for me as I had to go on my own from Brasov to Bucharest by train. I missed the morning train so I had to wait until 2 so I wandered around in the sunshine having lunch in the main square before I left. I spent the evening in Bucharest catching up on these blogs. I stayed at the Ibis hotel we stayed at on the first night so I didn39t have to get ripped o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Brasov/Brasov/blog-722517.html</link>
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                    <title>An Unexpected Turn of Events in Sighisoara A Medical System Experience</title>
                    <description>On my last day with the Singaporean boys we decided to head out of Brasov to the town of Sighisoara. We got a driver from the hostel and on our way out of town we had to drop off our hostel host at the local hospital I guess he was undergoing some tests. He told us some very interesting facts about the health care system in Romania. He was carrying his own plates utensils towels and food wh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Mures/blog-718324.html</link>
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                    <title>Touring the Castles of Transylvania Including "Dracula's Castle"</title>
                    <description>This morning we hostel hired a driver for us and we went off to explore different parts of Transylvania. Particularly he took us to three different castles First the Peles castle in Sinaia then Bran castle the Dracula castle and then to a ruined fort on a hill in Rasnov.Our driver for the day was Niko and he definitely gave us some comedy relief during our journey. He first took us to get b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Brasov/blog-721130.html</link>
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                    <title>Escaping to the Transylvanian town of Brasov</title>
                    <description>Well after the bit of a shaky start of our Romania trip we got on the train 1st class cabin and arrived in Brasov. Brasov is very different from Bucharest it felt safer people were friendlier and less likely to take your money and everything was green clean and picturesque. I guess this is why every Romanian I39ve spoken to has said DON39T GO TO BUCHARESTBrasov is located in the Tr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Brasov/blog-718329.html</link>
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                    <title>Bucharest Get in and get out</title>
                    <description>Our European travels have quickly come to an end. Mike headed back home a few days ago and I decided to have one last hurrah and spend a few weeks traveling before going back to Canada. The first stop on my trip was Romania. Fortunately I was joined at the last minute by Mike39s classmates Aloysious and Fuad which made traveling in this Global South a bit easier. We left London early as usu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Muntenia/Bucharest/blog-720792.html</link>
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                    <title>From Croatia to Bosnia to Croatia Reaching the beautiful city of Dubrovnik</title>
                    <description>Even though we had a long drive yesterday we got back into the car today with our friends Richmond Australian and Cristina Swiss for the 3.5 hour drive south to Dubrovnik. It was mostly the same drive as the day before except for the last part where the road turns off back to the coast and you have to cross the border into Bosnia  Herzegovina for 20 kilometres and then cross the border back</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Dubrovnik/blog-715994.html</link>
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                    <title> Parking on the wrong side of town in Mostar Bosnia</title>
                    <description>Today while many of our friends were writing an exam we took off with our friend Mary who39s husband was writing the exam back at the house and headed to Bosnia for the day. We left midway through the morning and thought that the drive would be two hours but we drove along the Croatian coastal route and it took closer to four and a half also we were behind a slow caravan part of the way.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/South/Mostar/blog-715992.html</link>
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                    <title>Hunt for the mysterious horn beach on the island of Brac</title>
                    <description>Today we decided with our American friends Matt and Mary to kick our laziness and head to the beach. But this wasn39t a trip to the beach across the street instead we caught the ferry from Split and headed to a special beach on the Croatian island of Brac pronounced Brotch. The ferry was only an hour and we could see this island from our house.The island is not very big but is one of the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Bol/blog-715987.html</link>
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                    <title>Split by Day... and Night </title>
                    <description>Today was a slow start to the morning for most of the group. Eventually we organized ourselves and 3 of our 4 rental cars went out to visit the city of Split. The problem with travelling with such a large group is that immediately everyone went their separate ways without thinking about where the drivers were. Fortunately neither of us need to worry about that because Mike39s a driver and Elysi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Split/blog-715989.html</link>
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                    <title>If we have to almost drown somewhere Krka National Park is the prettiest place to do so</title>
                    <description>It39s always a bit slower waiting for 20 people to get up and get going in the morning but the sun is always there to enjoy while you39re waiting It39s a bit different travelling with this many other people because we are usually go go go but it39s a nice change of pace. Once we got ourselves organized this morning the whole lot of us drove about an hour northwest of Split to </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Sibenik/blog-715983.html</link>
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                    <title>To the top of the Croatian mountains and back down and back up again</title>
                    <description>This morning Mike decided to do some work so Elysia went off with some of the Americans 6 in total for a hike around the town and into the surrounding mountains. We wanted to get up to the top where there39s a church and the old town of Podstrana but we didn39t know the way. So we just started walking up. We tried to find any little trail that we could that looked like it was heading up t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Podstrana/blog-715982.html</link>
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                    <title>It takes 20 people and the threat of exams to bring us all to Croatia</title>
                    <description>On Wednesday morning we left rainy and cool london to spend a week in warm and sunny croatia. This time at least we weren39t the only ones up so early. We organized this trip with 20 of Mike39s friends from CTLS for those who don39t know its the transnational legal program that he is studying with in London and we rented a big house by the beach so that they could study and in some </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Split/blog-715978.html</link>
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                    <title>Ryde the Catamaran in and Ryde the Hovercraft out Our Visit to the Isle of Wight</title>
                    <description>Today we took the train to Portsmouth and then hopped on the catamaran ferry to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. The journey was very nice but basically the same trip that we took to St Malo France because the ferry leaves from the same place and goes right past the Isle of Wight. When we got to the island we had hoped to rent bicycles for half of the day but by the time we got to the bi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Isle-of-Wight/Ryde/blog-716645.html</link>
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                    <title>Hiking through Sheep Fields and Sliding Down Mountain Sides in England's Peak District</title>
                    <description>This morning we woke up early to beautiful sunny skies and took some peanut butter and jam sandwiches with us on the hiking path it was too cold to sit still and eat. We decided that since we had scaled the mountains on the south side of the valley the day before that we would spend today hiking the mountains on the north side. As per usual the hike started by going through a series of shee</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Derbyshire/Edale/blog-716580.html</link>
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                    <title>Camping with the Sheep in the Peak District</title>
                    <description>This weekend we headed out of town early on Saturday with one of Mike39s friends from law school in Toronto and her fianc to the Peak District for some camping and hiking. It was a struggle to figure out where we should go the Peak District is a big hiking region in the English mountains three hours north of London near Manchester but our lovely Australian friends Jas and Stu had the gr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Derbyshire/Castleton/blog-716578.html</link>
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                    <title>A Hop Skip and a Jump to Paris</title>
                    <description>It took Elysia longer to get home from work on Thursday than it took us to travel from London to Paris Friday morning on the Eurostar. We left London39s St Pancras International train station at 0540 bright and early and were in Paris just after nine. While we had a scenic view of the English country side and a neat experience to take the chunnel you are actually only under the water for a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/Sarcelles/blog-713159.html</link>
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                    <title>A Weekend of Hiking and Shakespeare</title>
                    <description>This weekend we rented a car with two of Mike39s classmates from Singapore Fuad and Aloysius  the same two we met at the Giant39s Causeway and headed out on the wrong side of the road well technically it was the left side to a region of England just 1.5 hours outside of London called the Cotswolds. The region is a range of limestone hills which are dotted with picturesque villages </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Warwickshire/Stratford-upon-Avon/blog-706273.html</link>
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