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House boat weekend

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January 25th 2010
Hi again everyone! Just back in the journalism office now, but have had an amazing weekend! A group of us from my accommodation headed to Allepey, supposedly the "Venice of the East", in the next door state, Kerala. It was quite a hard journey to get there - we had to take 6 different public buses, all of which were absolutely packed, and although we left at 10 pm on Thursday night, we didn't g ... read more

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