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TravBuddy.com: Kimble_and_Shanty's Kimble &amp; Shanty&apos;s Global Adventure !  travel blog</title>
<copyright>Copyright 2005 TravBuddy LLC</copyright>
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<description>Embarking on a 12 month RTW trip encompassing South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, North America and South America! </description>
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<title>Happy New Year!</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Happy-New-Year-Melbourne-32</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:42:49 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Melbourne-travel-guide-155576">Melbourne, Australia</a>, Jan 01, 2007</p>
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As december and Christmas approached we were still working hard throughout the week and every other weekend. the weather was beginning to get bette&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Earthcore Global Carnival</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Earthcore-Global-Carnival-Shepparton-31</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:48:39 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Shepparton-travel-guide-157669">Shepparton, Australia</a>, Nov 24, 2006</p>
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November came and we decided to get tickets to the annual &apos;Earthcore&apos; global carnival, 2 hours to the north. We got back on the road again by renti&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>La Discoteque Speciale</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/La-Discoteque-Speciale-Coburg-30</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:33:21 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Coburg-travel-guide-152295">Coburg, Australia</a>, Oct 14, 2006</p>
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October in Melbourne turned out to be quiet aside from a warehouse party we managed a sniff out by a collective called Technoir in a suburb north o&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Journey to the world&apos;s most liveable city...</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Journey-to-the-worlds-most-liveable-city-Melbourne-29</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:19:25 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Melbourne-travel-guide-155576">Melbourne, Australia</a>, Aug 25, 2006</p>
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After our whitsundays trip we began making our way down to our final australia destination where we were to spend the next 7 months living and work&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Fraser Island safari</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Fraser-Island-safari-Hervey-Bay-28</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:06:33 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Hervey-Bay-travel-guide-1312960">Hervey Bay, Australia</a>, Aug 06, 2006</p>
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We continued southwards to Hervey Bay where we were to take part in a 3 day self drive 4X4 safari on Fraser island, the worlds biggest sand-dune! o&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Sailing the Whitsundays...</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Sailing-the-Whitsundays-Airlie-Beach-27</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:01:20 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Airlie-Beach-travel-guide-1308663">Airlie Beach, Australia</a>, Aug 01, 2006</p>
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After leaving&amp;nbsp;Maggi island, our journey took us further south, where&amp;nbsp;we arrived at Airlie beach, also known as the gateway to the Whitsun&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Maggi Island</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Maggi-Island-Magnetic-Island-26</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:26:52 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Magnetic-Island-travel-guide-1308745">Magnetic Island, Australia</a>, Jul 01, 2006</p>
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Our travels south from Cairns brought us down to Townsville, an army base town which the Lonely planet described as being full of happy army boys &amp;&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Mossman Gorge</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Mossman-Gorge-Mossman-25</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:22:03 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Mossman-travel-guide-155967">Mossman, Australia</a>, Jun 21, 2006</p>
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Heading back from Cape Trib, we took a stopover in the strange little town of Mossman, a place which appeared to have got stuck somewhere in time (&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Where the rainforest meets the reef</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Where-the-rainforest-meets-the-reef-Cape-Tribulation-24</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:10:44 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Cape-Tribulation-travel-guide-1308359">Cape Tribulation, Australia</a>, Jun 19, 2006</p>
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After the party we headed north towards Cape Tribulation, a beautiful protected world heritage site where the rainforest grows all the way down to &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Winter Solstice</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Winter-Solstice-Dimbulah-23</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:04:16 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Dimbulah-travel-guide-152864">Dimbulah, Australia</a>, Jun 16, 2006</p>
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Our first journey in Erni was into the deep outback to &apos;Emu&amp;nbsp;Creek holiday station&apos;&amp;nbsp;for a 3 days winter solstice festival, an amazing gath&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>The Tropical north...</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/The-Tropical-north-Cairns-22</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:46:24 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Cairns-travel-guide-151891">Cairns, Australia</a>, Jun 05, 2006</p>
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From brisbane we flew up to cairns (tropical north queensland) in search of better weather and a campervan to begin our journey back down the east &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Onto the Sunshine coast</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Onto-the-Sunshine-coast-Mooloolaba-21</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2006 19:31:46 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Mooloolaba-travel-guide-155850">Mooloolaba, Australia</a>, May 06, 2006</p>
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The first thing we noticed in Oz was the weather - it was nowhere near as hot as we&apos;d expected it to be, especially after the scorching sunshine we&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Life down under....</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Life-down-under-Darwin-20</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 20:12:52 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Darwin-travel-guide-152770">Darwin, Australia</a>, May 04, 2006</p>
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1 day stopover at the (Ghost)town of Darwin before flying down to Brisbane...</p>
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<title>Half day stopover</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Half-day-stopover-Singapore-19</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 20:10:53 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Singapore-travel-guide-1175105">Singapore, Singapore</a>, May 03, 2006</p>
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We took a bus from JB over the Straits of Johur into the heart of Singapore. It was instantly noticeable that Singapore is a much cleaner, more org&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Overnight stopover</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Overnight-stopover-Johor-Bahru-18</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 20:06:32 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Johor-Bahru-travel-guide-1088907">Johor Bahru, Malaysia</a>, May 02, 2006</p>
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We arrived into JB on the southern coast of Malaysia as it is cheaper to fly in and get the bus over to singapore than fly direct- No photos here a&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Capital city</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Capital-city-Kuala-Lumpur-17</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:00:03 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Kuala-Lumpur-travel-guide-1096867">Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia</a>, Apr 30, 2006</p>
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The bus journey to KL (as the Locals call it) was one of the nicest we&apos;ve been on so far. The bus was nothing short of amazing- only 3 rows of seat&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Into Malaysia</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Into-Malaysia-Penang-16</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:55:16 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Penang-travel-guide-1307405">Penang, Malaysia</a>, Apr 28, 2006</p>
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The journey to Malaysia did not go as smoothly as we had hoped for- As we left Koh Tao, the ticket agents said we should purchase a bus ticket to M&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Return to turtle island </title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:48:59 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Ko-Tao-travel-guide-1249991">Ko Tao, Thailand</a>, Apr 21, 2006</p>
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Next stop on the agenda was the tiny island of Koh Tao, occupying only 21 square kilometers and with less than 1000 people residing there. Tourism &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>back to the party isles....</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/back-to-the-party-isles-Koh-Phangan-14</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:32:40 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Koh-Phangan-travel-guide-1308759">Koh Phangan, Thailand</a>, Apr 03, 2006</p>
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After a short ferry ride from big buddha pier (samui) we arrived at Had Rinn beach on the familiar island of koh phangan, where we first came on ho&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Return to Samui</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:33:47 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Ko-Samui-travel-guide-631683">Ko Samui, Thailand</a>, Apr 01, 2006</p>
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Arrived late into Samui airport and took a short taxi ride to our home for the night at Al&apos;s resort. Was again nice to have a bit of luxury and ano&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Back in Bangers.....</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/Back-in-Bangers-Bangkok-12</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:30:28 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bangkok-travel-guide-632148">Bangkok, Thailand</a>, Mar 31, 2006</p>
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We arrived late into bangkok for an unscheduled visit and decided to treat ourselves to a 5* hotel for the night in Siam Square. It was everything &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Capital city</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:28:09 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Vientiane-travel-guide-1040503">Vientiane, Laos</a>, Mar 30, 2006</p>
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Arrived in Vientienne after what seemed like a 10 minute bus ride, but was actually an hour. We&apos;ve done so many long overland journeys now that the&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Happy-Shaky Central</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:27:28 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Vang-Vieng-travel-guide-1308486">Vang Vieng, Laos</a>, Mar 26, 2006</p>
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After spending 3 days in Luang Prabang, we took a 6 hour bus journey south to the popular backpacker destination of Vang Vieng. The journey itself &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Slow boat to Luang Prabang</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:26:53 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Luang-Prabang-travel-guide-1040502">Luang Prabang, Laos</a>, Mar 23, 2006</p>
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We decided it was time to quite dossing in Chiang Mai and get on with doing some more travelling.We booked a trip to Laos using the 2 day slow boat&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>3 day jungle / mountain trekking expedition</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/770/3-day-jungle-mountain-trekking-expedition-Chiang-Mai-8</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:13:30 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Chiang-Mai-travel-guide-631369">Chiang Mai, Thailand</a>, Mar 16, 2006</p>
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On our 3rd day in Chiang Mai we decided to take part in a 3 day/2 night jungle &amp;amp; mountain trek. This was to be an amazing experience that consi&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Headin&apos; north...</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:31:09 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Chiang-Mai-travel-guide-631369">Chiang Mai, Thailand</a>, Mar 14, 2006</p>
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After spending 6 nights on the Khao San rd, we were gettin a little fed up of every other person trying to flog us a tailor made suit or a ride in &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Bangkok madness</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:38:59 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bangkok-travel-guide-632148">Bangkok, Thailand</a>, Mar 08, 2006</p>
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We finally&amp;nbsp;reached Don Muang airport, Bangkok after 16 hours of continuous travel. After catching quite a few hours sleep on an uneventful fli&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>2 hour stopover</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:24:43 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Doha-travel-guide-1159595">Doha, Qatar</a>, Mar 07, 2006</p>
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6am arrival for a 2hr stopover in this dry and dusty country....</p>
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<title>10 hours stopover</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:23:37 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Heathrow-travel-guide-1254813">Heathrow, England</a>, Mar 06, 2006</p>
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not much to say there.....heathrow airport at its best! (worst)</p>
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<title>The Emerald Isles</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:28:27 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Cork-travel-guide-935857">Cork, Ireland</a>, Mar 03, 2006</p>
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The journey to Cork was long and stressfull to say the least. As we left the flat in Edinburgh it began to lightly snow. Ah....how romantic we thou&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>The Journey begins</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:17:49 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Edinburgh-travel-guide-363606">Edinburgh, Scotland</a>, Mar 01, 2006</p>
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We finally arrived in Edinburgh feeling tired and ill thanks to a bumpy flight and a chronic hangover due to 4 nights of leaving parties (thanks to&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Not long to go !!!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Brighton-travel-guide-1251475">Brighton, England</a>, Feb 17, 2006</p>
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We&apos;re both now into the final 7 working days before we leave...Frantically taking care of any loose ends at work and at home. - The final hurdle is&amp;hellip;</p>
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