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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from squishNjohn</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 01:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <title>A Hero's Welcome</title>
                    <description>Going through the security footage of the burglary that happened whilst I was still ibn Manila and found this . . . . . . It39s footage of Max and Rory39s reaction when I got home Wednesday Morning  a hero39s Welcome Dogs are simply the best   httpswww.youtube.comwatchvQzTJqConeM</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Glen-Iris/blog-777022.html</link>
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                    <title>Going Home</title>
                    <description>The balance of my stay was pretty uneventful. Back is still sore so on the last day went to Wensha Spa . . . . . last time I was here was BRILLIANT  this time not so much. The common areas ALL have TV39s blaring some on different channels and so the sound just becomes a mish mash. Even the 39quiet room39 where they do the foot massage now has TV screens on all seats and there was one wo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Metromanila/Makati/blog-770304.html</link>
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                    <title>Random pics and observations</title>
                    <description>Just some pics i thought were interesting  apologies if there39s some repeats in here</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/Malate/blog-770305.html</link>
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                    <title>Jan 23  26th</title>
                    <description>By this time I39ve had enough of Tagalog TV and not being able to go anywhere so it39s back to manila where i can at least go for a stroll along the beach or through the massive Robinsons Mall on Pedro gil watch a little TV in English cable channels and go to a pub at night and hopefully meet someone who speaks English. Given I didn39t have much to do here  i39ve taken some misc sh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/blog-770302.html</link>
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                    <title>It's More Fun In The Philippines part 3</title>
                    <description>AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY It39s an early start today. According to the advice of our sniveling Sycophant at PAL  I MUST go to the Australian Embassy in Makati. Whilst not that far away in terms of distance in Monday morning traffic it takes almost 2 hours to get there and we arrive shortly after 800am. Car is checked at the driveway by armed guards with mirrors to look under the chassis and the in</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/Malate/blog-770112.html</link>
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                    <title>It's More Fun In The Philippines part 2</title>
                    <description>So it39s Sunday morning and pretty much everything in the city is shut except for the bars of course so we head back to the airport to the Philippine Airlines PAL office to reticket. The guy behind the counter seems pleasant enough and asks how my day is it39s JUST after 900am. I tell him and explain why and he says Well let39s see if we can do anything to change that for you. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/Malate/blog-770107.html</link>
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                    <title>It's More Fun In The Philippines  or how Philippine Immigration invoked the RAMTA PYURAS clause</title>
                    <description>Well for starters Charlie  I hope I spelled it correctly this time. still prefer RAMITU PYURBUM. Secondly  some of you are already up to speed with this story  so you can simply skip this post. After several packing and repacking of suitcases I39m ready to go home. Miss my doggies and i39m having serious Vegemite withdrawals. After the now obligatory visit to MoA to indulge squish39</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/Malate/blog-770017.html</link>
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                    <title>Villa Escudero</title>
                    <description>The day after Pagsanjan falls I39m told were going to have lunch under another waterfall and that I39ll get wet like yesterday so i should take a change of clothes again. We all pile into the car and head off destination Villa Escudero. Villa Escudero was one of the original Spanish plantations in the area and was founded back in the 180039s. Back then the main crop was sugarcane but th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Laguna/Villa-Escudero/blog-770008.html</link>
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                    <title>Pagsanjan Falls </title>
                    <description>OK  our last outing was Taal on the 6th and it39s now the 17th it39s actually February when I39m writing this. The reason for the delay was not the pulled calf muscle from the Taal Trek  I got that tended to at Sonya39s Secret Pleasures the next day and within two days was 99 OK. Rather the delay was simply due to nothing having been planned so we sat around the house doing SFA</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Laguna/Pagsanjan/Magdapo-Falls/blog-769976.html</link>
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                    <title>Happy Birthday to Me</title>
                    <description>This blog will be out of sequence. Here I sit lonely hearted . . . . . . to coin a childhood poem. 7000 km from anyone I know with 6 people who can hardly string a complete sentence together in English between them. all but one have disappeared on their daily routines anyway. There39s no reliable internet 1 viewable TV channel and that39s in TAGALOG it39s raining so I can39t g</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Batangas/Taal/blog-767543.html</link>
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                    <title>Taal  the greatest con job</title>
                    <description>Taal  the great Filipino Con Job.  Jan 7 Given we39re staying on the side of Taal39s original volcano  I figured we should probably get a closer look at this icon so we loaded the car Nissan Urvan to capacity again and headed off up over the edge of the caldera and down to the lake. All of the kids were still knackered from the Pinatubo trek so we were to book only a single boat to th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Batangas/Taal/blog-765453.html</link>
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                    <title>8 Waves</title>
                    <description>8 Waves  January 6 Everyone is completely buggered after yesterday39s Pinatubo Trek so a quiet day. First item on the agenda was to visit Squish Dad39s grave. I thought this was going to be a relatively short rund trip so took my camera and nothing else. Turns out NOTHING is a short trip from our base in Apiad. 3hrs to get to and through Manila and then another hour the other side. After re</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/blog-765452.html</link>
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                    <title>Pinatubo  Jnauary 5th</title>
                    <description>The trip started with 4x4 drive to a base station. Not Mazda Tribute drive to Wheatsheaf but a bone jarring butter churning experience that nearly caused an eruption of my own which would not have been pleasant for anyone complete with sulphurous gases albeit hydrogen sulphide not sulphur dioxide as one might expect wth a volcanic eruption. I did get a sense though of what 4x4 enthusiasts get o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Pampanga/Clark/blog-765450.html</link>
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                    <title>On the Road Againpt 2</title>
                    <description>Next stop after Vigan was Baguio City 1500m above sea level and another cool micro climate 22deg C flalling to 14 overnight.The drive up here reminded me of driving through the Dandenong Ranges tree ferns and all .At one stage the fog was so thick we couldn39t see the side of the road then suddenly clear as a bell.Some of the views of Baguio City are like the poster shots of Portofino Ital</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Benguet/blog-764394.html</link>
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                    <title>On the Road Again</title>
                    <description>So..... yesterday after 7hrs and 7000 km on a plane followed by 7 days sitting around in a small room watching downloaded videos we39re on the move. Spent most of the day in the car travelng North along the MacArthur highway from Tagaytay to Illocos and a small historical town called Vigan. I thought it might be worth seeing after seeing a feature on in back home on a cooking show Island Fe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Ilocos/Vigan/blog-764273.html</link>
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                    <title>The start</title>
                    <description>Not much to say at this stage as we haven39t really done that much.39re staying in Apiad near Tagaytay City.My turn to cook last night so I did the old garlic honey ansd soy marinade for chicken wings and then played with some of the local produce. Made a salad of julienned green mango and white radish with rice vermicilli and a dressing of bagoong paste cocnut vinegar and kalamansi juice.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Batangas/Taal/blog-763451.html</link>
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                    <title>Entry 2 NYE</title>
                    <description>It seems bloggiong is going to be more difficult this tiome than last. Not a lot of Internet cafes where we are and the bloody ASUS tablet is hopeless running on 3G up here</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Batangas/Taal/blog-763676.html</link>
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                    <title>Your Chance to Opt out</title>
                    <description>You39re getting this because you39re in my email address book and we39re about to embark on another trip to the Philippines  a very short stay in manila then off to Tagaytay BATANGAS and then wherever Squish tells me to go.OK  if I bored the crp out of you last time  or if you39ve been added to this list and don39t want to be here  now39s your chance to opt out before we </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-759659.html</link>
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                    <title>The Reception</title>
                    <description>After the obligatory photos arriving at the reception centre we enter the room.Two things strike me  First of all in the middle of the room was an entire pig that had been roasted  struck me as being Bacchanalian.   Second  all the tables were fully set  food and allI looked across at Squish and the other couple and noticed that the other reGroom looked misty eyed and emotional. I found out</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Albay/Guinobatan/blog-559872.html</link>
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                    <title>The Simple Things</title>
                    <description>Ahhhh espresso coffee. Vegemite on toast. Some things simply can't be replaced.You've guessed it folks we're back home and the trip is over. It's been fun and it's been fun having you come along for the ride. Thought I'd leave you with this parting pic of street life in the Philippines.'Til next time  it good bye from me. . . . and it's good bye from him.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Glen-Iris/blog-561243.html</link>
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