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                    <title>The Last Post</title>
                    <description>For a small island Mauritius punches well above its weight for two things  long slow queues at the airport immigration counter and beautiful red Indian Ocean sunsets. Actually Mauritius no doubt has many other beautiful and worthwhile attractions but having come to the end of our Africa visit we decided to just enjoy the beach and the pool and leave the rest. If there is a worldrenowned sho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritius/Black-River/Flic-en-Flac/blog-667021.html</link>
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                    <title>Botswanian Rhapsody</title>
                    <description>Botswana has 1.8 million people a diamond mine the Kalahari Desert and 270000 elephants in Chobe National Park alone.  To have a look at the National Park we spent three days at Muchenje Safari Lodge.  Getting there from Victoria Falls involved an hour drive to the ZimbabweBotswana border queuing in two hot and stalesmelling immigration offices then a short ride in the back of a safari veh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Botswana/North-West/Chobe-National-Park/blog-665757.html</link>
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                    <title>The Thunder that Smokes</title>
                    <description>Actually the title of this short post should be The Smoke that Thunders.  The Thunder that Smokes was the situation with our digestive systems after 4 nights and a total of 32 courses plus snacks at the fantastic Dulini Lodge.The Smoke that Thunders or Victoria Falls as it was renamed by the explorermissionaryantislavery campaignerallround dogooder Dr Livingstone is an amazing si</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zimbabwe/Victoria-Falls/blog-664476.html</link>
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                    <title>Sabi Sand Sojourn</title>
                    <description>We flew from Cape Town to Nelspruit Mpumalanga and drove for two hours to Dulini Lodge in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve.  We have been lucky enough to have four nights in this rather special place so instead of the usual combination of illinformed opinion and schoolboy humour this episode will rather gloatingly depict the highlights of a typical day.In Sabi Sands the animals have become used to </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Mpumalanga-/Sabi-Sands/blog-663378.html</link>
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                    <title>Lucky Cape Town</title>
                    <description>We thought we were unlucky having left Sydney an hour late and after doing the customs queue shuffle for an hour in Johannesburg we stupidly got ripped off by some guy at the airport helping us to catch our onwards flight.  We thought we were unlucky that is until we found out that Qantas cancelled all flights the following day due to a strike.Then it rained for a day and a half.  Then</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Cape-Town/Victoria-and-Alfred-Waterfront/blog-662602.html</link>
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                    <title>The Hills Are Alive</title>
                    <description>I love a sunburnt countryA land of sweeping plainsOf rugged mountain rangesOf drought and flooding rainWe took a trip to see itIts secrets to uncoverAnd found it not too shabbyBut with limited mobile coverWe knew our good friends the Roffes were heading towards us on their own inland odyssey and we played phone tag with them for about a week getting a voicemail every so often but never managing t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Armidale/blog-654615.html</link>
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                    <title>Marree  My Heart Is Breaking</title>
                    <description>Marree was a big time railway town up to 1980.  About 400 kilometres south of Oodnadatta and 685 north of Adelaide it was firstly a terminus then an important stop on the Great Northern Railway from Port Augusta to Alice Springs.  Then it was a breakofgauge station when the standardgauge railway arrived.  It was a serious railway and service town.In 1980 though the railway line was reroute</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Flinders-Ranges/blog-653180.html</link>
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                    <title>But He Doesn't Know the Territory</title>
                    <description>We spent our first night in the Northern Territory at the Threeways Roadhouse at the junction of the Stuart and Barkly Highways 27 kilometres north of Tennant Creek.  We were in a motel unit with shadecloth for a fly screen a rattly loud air conditioner and inoperable reading lights as someone had thoughtfully removed the globes.Moving on to our first real stop we headed south to Alice Sprin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Ayers-Rock/blog-650765.html</link>
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                    <title>I Can Feel a Fourex Comin On</title>
                    <description>Weve had a mixed few days since our last instalment with some very touristy activities and some food for thought about the struggles and sacrifices to settle these areas in the first place.Longreach is a very nice little town on the Thomson River now a little bit more prosperous after we visited all its attractions.Some of these attractions are well known  the Qantas Founders Museum for e</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Mount-Isa/blog-644862.html</link>
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                    <title>Travelling North</title>
                    <description>Welcome back reader and thanks for sticking around.Our first instalment for this trip is being penned in the sunshine alongside Carnarvon Creek near the gorge of the same name.  The birds are squawking the kangaroos and the young cattle are eating contentedly and the threateninglooking clouds are staying away in the northwest for the time being.  And the beer is cold.  Thats enough gloating </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Carnarvon-NP/blog-637894.html</link>
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                    <title>I'm in a New York State of Mind</title>
                    <description>We are now heading home after just over nine weeks away and looking forward to some downtime thats for sure.  But first New York City.We spent about a week taking in all the sights and sounds and smells and going to all the usual places.  We were amazed not only at the sights but with the whole atmosphere of the city.  So many of our preconceptions turned out to be not quite right.Firstly</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-624950.html</link>
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                    <title>Scenes Irish and Cornish a Family Get Together and a Pint of Speckled Hen</title>
                    <description>And so back to the Republic for a further dose of scenery before we leave Ireland.  We drove down to Kilkenny via a very rainy and cold Bru na Boinne.  This neolithic bunch of tombs is 500 years older than the pyramids and it wasnt the first time that we were reminded just how old civilization is on this island.Our Kilkenny hosts were Vicky and Patrick.  They were very hospitable we felt alm</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Heathrow-Airport/blog-622742.html</link>
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                    <title>Concrete and Country</title>
                    <description>Weve just visited four places  two stunningly scenic two disturbingly urban.From Westport we drove out to Achill Island Irelands largest offshore island although not far offshore as the bridge to it is only about 50 metres long.  We drove along Atlantic Drive another winding undulating potholed goat track complete with wandering sheep stones marking out the most dangerous of the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Kilkenny/Kilkenny/blog-620139.html</link>
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                    <title>Solanum Tuberosum  The Harry Potter Spell That Goes Staight to the Hips and Thighs</title>
                    <description>Kenmare was our first stop in County Kerry.  On a bank holiday long weekend and the Kenmare Walking Weekend no less it was packed with visitors.  We saw at least two hens parties trawling around the town in their finest sparkly getups.  We watched the Ireland vs Macedonia Euro 2012 qualifier in one of the pubs.We visited Kenmares local sights  a miniStonehengelike ring of stones the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Galway/Galway/blog-618373.html</link>
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                    <title>Go West Old People</title>
                    <description>We travelled by train to Shrewsbury on a long day that involved as much waiting as it did travel  waiting for a connection at Brussels waiting for a connection at London Euston waiting for a replacement train at Crewe when the rostered guard didnt show up.Shrewsbury is a nice quiet town a bit historic and in a nice setting but for us it was good for some down time after all the cities we</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Cork/Kinsale/blog-617195.html</link>
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                    <title>Bohemian Parody</title>
                    <description>Our trip back to the Czech Republic started in a van with 6 Asian kids Sharon says I should call them young adults all apparently malnourished.  From Vienna Westbahnhoff to the outskirts they ate about three sausages each some rolls hepas of lollies and one guy finished off with a boiled egg with soy sauce.  Then as all Asians seem to do in any moving vehicle they promptly fell asleep for t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/North-Rhine-Westphalia/Cologne/blog-615187.html</link>
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                    <title>An AustroHungarian Visit</title>
                    <description>Olomouc is a town of about 100000 people in Moravia in the eastern part of the Czech Republic.  It has a lot of the things that the big cities have  a town square old buildings churches by the dozen a UNESCO site drunks and beggars  but is much less crowded with either.We spent two nights there to have a look around en route from Krakow to Budapest.  It was a great decision.  The big</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna/blog-613653.html</link>
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                    <title>From the Baltic to Kosciuszko Country</title>
                    <description>We left Tallinn by bus after a quick detour to the airport when the taxi driver took us to the wrong place.  The trip to Riga was smooth and comfortable  flat for kilometre after kilometre.  Forests farms and puddles where the spring melt had not yet dissipated.Riga was a great surprise with a beautiful historic centre lots of people and lots of drinking going on.  Our digs were quite close</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Olomouc-Region/Olomouc/blog-611748.html</link>
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                    <title>Same Shirt  Different Country</title>
                    <description>Welcome back reader.Our relatively speaking adventure begins again.We are now in Tallinn Estonia having arrived yesterday by ferry from Helsinki Finland having arrived there two days earlier by overnight plane from Hong Kong.  Hong Kong was 28 degrees sticky and disturbingly efficient.  Helsinki was 4 degrees and efficient.  Tallinn was not very efficient but was quite medieval.But I am g</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Estonia/blog-610450.html</link>
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                    <title>Wet and Wild in South Australia  Desperates in Coolangatta</title>
                    <description>As we left the Barossa it was great to finally see the one weather condition we were yet to experience  fog.  The drive was quite eerie through the numerous tiny villages Monday morning but with barely a sign of life.The fog and rain and then wind in fact followed us the whole way to Port Elliot a small town just north of Victor Harbor on the Fleurieu Peninsula.  What a great area this is</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/blog-589741.html</link>
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