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	<title>There and back again</title>
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	<description>Thailand, Australia, Vietnam, Cambodia, India and who knows where else</description>
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		<title>Coming Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a couple of weeks sitting on our arses on various beaches (and eating some pretty amazing seafood) around the state of Goa, we returned to Mumbai catch our flight back to London. Colva Beach To finish off our truly fantastic trip we decided to spend the last night somewhere special and in Mumbai that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kerala</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bangalore to Kerala, we&#8217;ve been looking forward to visiting this state, wowed by tales of seafood, relaxed coastline, cosmopolitan history, and remote boating along &#8220;the backwaters&#8221;. Our first stop was Fort Cochin (Kochi), A bizarre place across the water from the modern bustling busy neon Ernakulam (pronounced eer-nakalaker-numnium-num I&#8217;m sure) it&#8217;s a small oasis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangalore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was back on the sleeper train again to get to Bangalore. I bought the tickets thinking I had got a great bargain as they were only half the price Vj had been quoted. It was only when he pointed out that the tickets were for 2nd class I realised they hadn&#8217;t been such a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hampi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We got a sleeper bus from Goa to Hampi which was 10 hours of torture. It made the train jouney seem like a night of luxury in comparison! There was a combination of normal chairs, chairs that reclined and manouvered themselves into some sort of flatish bed and flat beds on the upper berth. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Goa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having managed to avoid the Rajastan Runs we ventured south to the wonderful state of Goa. Its much calmer , cleaner and quieter than the North. The first difference you notice is at the airport, the taxi drivers here are complete amateurs. Nobody tried to grab our bags, or give us false directions or anything, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jaipur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Jaipur at 7AM after a semi sleepness night on the sleeper train. It was an interesting experience and I spent half the night enviously watching others in peaceful slumber from my elevated watch point on the upper berth inches from the train ceiling. It was also the best place to hear the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Udaipur</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the madness and chaos that was Delhi and Agra it is with some relief that we have spent a few days in whimsical Udaipur. Its a calm tidy(ish this is Rajastan) little town set on the banks of a lake. The lake has a very impressive palace in the center and it is here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holi !</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today it is Holi the colorful Hindu spring festival. As most of the celebrations involve the chucking of paint at people, we decided to hole up in our guesthouse for most of the day. Last night there was a large gathering outside the local temple where there was lots of loud , very distorted music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Found a place that lets us upload pics so enjoy ! Our &#8220;Palace&#8221; in Bombay The Elephanta Caves Bombay skyline Chowpatty Beach Bombay Delhi Metro The cleanest cheapest and easiest way to get around Delhi Lotus Temple Delhi Looks a bit like something in Australia ? Qtab Minar Delhi Red Fort Delhi Humayan&#8217;s tomb, Delhi. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Delhi on Monday for the next leg of our Indian adventure. This city has a very different feel to Bombay.The taxi ride from the airport was an adventure all in itself. I sat screaming &#8220;watch the road&#8221; in my head at the driver and slamming on my invisible brakes as Vijay almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bombay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Landed in Mumbai (Bombay) a couple of days ago and have really enjoyed the place. It is the financial capital of India as well as the home of Bollywood and the most populated city (18 and a bit million people) Just getting used to the Indianness of it all. The food (we have been vegetarians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So long SEA</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/so-long-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With just over six weeks of our epic adventure left we sadly leave Thailand and south east Asia for India today. It&#8217;s not that we are sad about going to India, far from it, but we have had such a great time here we just don&#8217;t want to leave. And of course it is coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luang Prabang to Vientienne</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/luang-prabang-to-vientienne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Travelling in Laos can be arduous. Towns and cities are spread out and the transport is slow. We got a &#8220;minivan&#8221; from Luang Prabang to our next destination Vang Vieng. We had the luxury of sitting in the front with with the driver which made some people a bit jealous believing we had more leg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luang Prabang</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/luang-prabang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After two days on a boat we arrived in Luang Prabang. It is a peaceful, sleepy town set where the Rivers Nam and Mekong meet (confluence ?). Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995, the town was described as &#8220;an outstanding example of the fusion of traditional architecture and Lao urban structures with those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huay Xai to Luang Prabang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We had a few options to chose from for this leg of the journey. We could have flown but that seemed a bit easy and too quick (and Lao airlines don&#8217;t have the best safety record). Some of the roads are unsealed and still under construction and are reportedly a bit bumpy to say the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Across Thailand</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/across-thailand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We spent a couple of days in Phuket town, which is much nicer then much of the rest of the Island and actually has an old area unlike many towns in Southern Thailand. Of course we popped to Patong for old times sake ! Patong Beach, Nice ! We then had some fun with Indian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Koh-ing around</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We spent three nights in Kho Yao Noi not doing very much that didn&#8217;t involve hammocks and paperbacks. Largely unaffected by the tourism boom on the neighboring islands like Phuket, Koh Yao is pretty natural and still retains its traditional Muslim culture. Riding through the roads (mud paths in places) to the bungalows you always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island hoping in the Andaman</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/island-hoping-in-the-andaman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/island-hoping-in-the-andaman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We had a change of plan and are now in the truly lazy part of our trip, island hoping around the Andaman coast of Thailand. We got a flight to Krabi and spent a few very lazy days exploring the markets and eating delicious barbequed fish whilest deciding on our next move. After some deliberation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanoi</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/hanoi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/hanoi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the delightful overnight train journey we were happy to arrive in Hanoi even if it was at the stupidly early hour of 5.30am. As soon as we stepped off the train we were beseiged by hundreds of taxi drivers and moto drivers in true Vietnam style (i.e persistent and begrudging when you escape them) [...]]]></description>
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		<geo:lat>21.03</geo:lat>
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		<title>Riding the Reunification Express</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/riding-the-reunification-express/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many things in Vietnam are affected by either the French war of independence and the American war (ie the one we call the Vietnam war), and so it is with the Reunification Express Railway. The reopening of the rail link from Saigon to Hanoi was seen as a symbol of national unification after 1975. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Traffic</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/vietnam-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Madness ! See for yourself.]]></description>
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		<title>Rainy days</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been raining non stop for almost four days now. And not just little showers of rain. Buckets of water falling from the sky. It&#8217;s almost like Ireland, when it starts it just doesn&#8217;t stop. So we haven&#8217;t really done a lot the last few days. We spend 2 days in Nha Trang which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Da Lat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We managed to crawl out of bed on new years day after very little sleep and get ourselves on a bus to Da Lat up in the mountains. It would have been ideal to spend a day recovering in HCMC but we only have a few weeks left on our Vietnam visa and needed to [...]]]></description>
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		<geo:lat>11.93</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>108.41</geo:lon>
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		<title>Some Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/some-photos-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/some-photos-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Managed to find a web cafe with USB access again so here are some more pics. Not a bad way to spend christmas But we were not alone ! Life on the Mekong with our intrepid explorers The floating market]]></description>
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		<title>Ho Chi Min</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/ho-chi-min/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/ho-chi-min/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Goodbye Cambodia and hello Vietnam, and what a difference. Roads have tarmac, there are traffic lights, and the streets are clean (ish). We came here for three days and then took a trip to the Mekong Delta and came back to see in the new year. Its a fantastic city, and the French influence is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>10.75</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>106.6666667</geo:lon>
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		<title>Leaving Cambodia</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/leaving-cambodia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/leaving-cambodia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are on our way to Ho Chi Min City (previously known as Saigon) and are having a stopover in Phnom Pen just so that we are not stuck on a bus for 13 hours. We&#8217;ve had a lovely Christmas by the sea in Sihanoukville, during which time I have been particularly special doing things [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ding Dong Merrily on High</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/ding-dong-merrily-on-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/ding-dong-merrily-on-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas everybody. Hope your not feeling to rough this morning. We will be spending the day on the beach doing not very much and possibly having a beer or two this evening. Vijay &#038; Anne 2006 xxxx]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a stop</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/time-for-a-stop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/time-for-a-stop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are now at the low key resort town of Sihanoukville around four hours from Phnom Penh and are going to hole up here in a (slightly) nicer hotel for a few days to catch our breath and have a minor christmas break. It feels like we have been staying away from hot water and air [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>10.63</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>103.5</geo:lon>
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		<title>Phnom Penh</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/phnom-penh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/phnom-penh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the highs of Ankhor, today we saw the darker side of Cambodian history with visits to a couple of paticularly gruesome and somber historical sites. The Khmer Rouge regime executed about 1.7 million people (about one fifth ofthe population of Cambodia) between 1975 and 1979, in a place called Choeung Ek, also known as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>11.55</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>104.91</geo:lon>
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		<title>Siem Reap</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/56/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/56/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting in an internet cafe in Siam Reap watching gekos scale the wall behind the computer screen chasing and devouring bugs almost the same size as themselves, could do with some of those at home! We&#8217;ve spent the last 2 days at the world heritage site Angkor Wat which is the largest religious momument in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>13.35</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>103.84</geo:lon>
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		<title>Singapore</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/singapore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/singapore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We crossed over into Singapore on monday afternoon. At the border we had to get off the bus and have our passports stamped to leave Malaysia then get back on the bus for a brief journey across the bridge before getting off the bus again (this time with all our luggage) and go through Singaporean [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Malacca</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/55/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/55/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have just spent a couple of days in the city of Malacca. Its a funny old place having been ruled by the Sultans , then the Portuguese , the Dutch the British and for a couple of years during the war the Japanese. As a consequence there are buildings in lots different historical styles [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>2.1969444</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>102.2480556</geo:lon>
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		<title>Selamat Datang Kuala Lumpur</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/selamat-datang-kuala-lumpur/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/selamat-datang-kuala-lumpur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are in our second Asian megapolis of this trip, Kuala Lumpur. I thought Bangkok was smelly, noisy, chaotic and lots of fun, KL is all this and some. Its a city full of huge bright shiny skyscrapers and small mucky bustling streets with market stalls and colonial style buildings(shophouses). We are staying in a guesthouse [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>3.1666667</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>101.7</geo:lon>
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		<title>Some Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/some-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/some-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies, its been a while since we had access to a computer which we could use to upload pictures. Enjoy. Vijay in Little India in Georgetown Penang. Very  bright and colourful little place with some excellent food.   Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion Georgetown Penang Ferry from Georgetown to Butterworth.   Resident of the butterfly farm Cameron [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Highlands tour</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/highlands-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/highlands-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being the sensible people we are (although some may call it lazy) we opted for the bus tour rather than the walking tour of the Cameron Highlands and spent a day on the tourist conveyor belt navigating the sites .  The weather is supposedly similar to Britain and they take great pride in their strawberry farms and rose [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teatime in Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/50/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/50/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Anne wrote we are back in Asia and all is good. Spent three days in Penang which is a lovely place. Old buildings, nice food. Friendly people. Shame about about the dirty sea water, oh well cant have everything. We stayed outside of Georgetown in a little beach area called Batu Ferrengi, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>4.4833333</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>101.45</geo:lon>
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		<title>Back in Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/back-in-asia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/back-in-asia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stepping off the plane in Penang felt walking into a sauna after the cool refreshing breeze of Sydney (I imagined my skin was crisping up like a rasher under the grill!). We shared a taxi with a strange yank who tried to convince us that there were no buses from the airport into town (I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>5.4166667</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>100.3333333</geo:lon>
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		<title>Goodbye Oz</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/goodbye-oz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/goodbye-oz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have been back in Sydney for the last 4 days, happily camping out in Manisha and Alex&#8217;s spare room/office and can now tick most of the touristy things (the opera house, the rocks, the bridge (just looking, not climbing), botanic gardens etc.) off our list. We&#8217;ve even bought a boomerang amongst other tourist tat [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>-33.869999</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>151.21000</geo:lon>
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		<title>Weekend in Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/weekend-in-melbourne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/weekend-in-melbourne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So we are taking a weekend city break in Melbourne (not like us at all !) We are staying in an old hotel right in the middle of town called the Victoria Hotel, not quite what you would call backpacking but almost an attraction in itself. It was built in the 1800s which is bloody [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>-37.810</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>144.96</geo:lon>
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		<title>The Big Smoke</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/the-big-smoke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/the-big-smoke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to be developing Vijays skill for witty titles! After a few peaceful days on a remote beach somewhere near Byron bay we headed to the Hunter Valley for some wine tasting. It probably isn&#8217;t in the news in Europe at the moment but there are some huge bush fires raging north of Sydney [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>-32.83</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>151.36</geo:lon>
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		<title>Aye Currumbin</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/aye-currumbin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/aye-currumbin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We haven&#8217;t seen very much of the odd Australian wildlife, and had no desire to see some of it  in the wild so we took a trip to the Currumbin Wildlife park and got our fill of Koalas, Dingos, &#8216;roos and the like. Was almost tempted to get a bush ranger type hat, but figured [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Gold Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/42/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/42/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our road trip has continued along the coast heading towards Brisbane or Brissy as the locals call it. But we were stopped in our tracks by a thing called &#8216;schoolies&#8217; where thousands of kids who have just finished the school term congregate in surfers paradise for a week and drink themselves stupid. Hell on earth!So we [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>-28.16</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>153.53</geo:lon>
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		<title>There must be a reason this place has so many motels</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/there-must-be-a-reason-this-place-has-so-many-motels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/there-must-be-a-reason-this-place-has-so-many-motels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So after a second day on the road we have reached a place called Grafton. We had a largish selection of motels, hotels and caravan parks to choose from, but there seems to be not a lot to do. We had a walk around the town, it was 7.30 all the shops were closed and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>-29.6833333</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>152.9333333</geo:lon>
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		<title>On the road</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/on-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/on-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we have hit the road in our Hyundai Elantra automatic 2l monster, its not that big but compared to what we normaly drive, it feels huge. Since the initial panic of figuring out how to drive an automatic car in the car park and navigate our way out of the middle of Sydney we have been [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>-32.4166667</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>152.2166667</geo:lon>
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		<title>U2 in Sydney</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/u2-in-sydney/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/u2-in-sydney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After we emerged from the shadow of the tallest man in Sydney and side stepped  a strange man with a back pack on dancing like he was a chicken trying to suck a worm out of the ground with great difficulty, we got the closest to Bono we have ever been, not exactly a religious [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Newtown Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/the-newtown-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/the-newtown-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Newtown is a very old part of Sydney. It has been described as &#8216;an arty-farty suburb filled with freaks, poofs, junkies and weirdoes&#8217; but thought it looked a bit like Camden on a Sunday. They have an annual festival where they try to raise funds from a variery of people. Some have dogs on bits [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Blue Mountains</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/37/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/37/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australians seem to have a very literal convention for naming things, a black snake with a red belly is the red bellied black snake, the mountains with snow on are the Snowy Mountains and the large desert containing a lot of sand is the Great Sandy Desert. One place that defies this convention is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manly things</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/manly-things/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/manly-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sydney is an absolutley wondeful city, I can truly see why people come here for a visit and then just not leave. On Friday afternoon Manisha took us on a ride of the Manly ferry, which is a great way to get across the harbour and see many of the sites, harbour bridge and opera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gday</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/gday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/gday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well we have finally got to the lost continent. After no hours of sleep (Kids on planes, dont even ask) we have touched down in Sydney. Thanks to Manisha for collecting us from the airport, we are now housed in their spare room on a mattress and about to partake of tinnies, barbies and meeting [...]]]></description>
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		<geo:lat>-33.86</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>151</geo:lon>
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		<title>Ill show you Wat Po</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/ill-show-you-wat-po/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/ill-show-you-wat-po/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So back in the megapolis of Bangkok . Arrived at Hualampong Station form Phisanulok (7 Hours !!) in the evening and took a taxi to the hotel we had booked, the driver going on continuously about how he new a much better cheaper hotel, and that christians get murdered regularly around our street. Spent the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>13</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>100</geo:lon>
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		<title>Ruined ruined, ruined I tell you</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/32/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/32/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you all for your get well messages. You will be pleased to here that we have donned our packs and have hit the road again. We left Chiang Mai on Monday and travelled down to a place called Phitsanulok where we are spending a couple of nights. It was nice to get to an authentically [...]]]></description>
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		<geo:lat>17.25</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>99.66</geo:lon>
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		<title>Last of Pai.</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/last-of-pai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/last-of-pai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So our last day in Pai, heading down to Chiang Mai, Anne is still not too well, so will probably not do. too much. Cant remember the last time I went to the hairdressers. Bathroom visitor.        ]]></description>
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		<title>Too much Pai&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/too-much-pai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/too-much-pai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it was bound to happen at some point! We ate something bad (very very bad) and suffered some very nasty side effects (don&#8217;t want to too many details but it was from both ends!) for 2 days. To make it even worse it was from our own cooking! Although I think more likely the ingredients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pai or not to Pai</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/pai-or-not-to-pai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/pai-or-not-to-pai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have just spent four hours on a government bus from Chiang Mai to Pai, the most god awful contraption known to man. No air con, and the seats were so close together we couldn&#8217;t even sit straight, and so were mostly sprawled into the aisles with smiling old ladies and screaming kids. Welcome to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<geo:lon>97.91</geo:lon>
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		<title>Some Pics</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/29/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I only wanted a short ! From Chiang Mai Bazaar ! From Chiang Mai Slumming it From Chiang Mai]]></description>
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		<title>Chaing Mai</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/28/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/28/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are doing very well with this backpacking malarkey. After getting a taxi to the airport we got on a plane which took us to Chaing Mai within an hour, where we checked into a lavish 4* hotel! We could get used to this lifestyle. But the food is very cheap so it makes us [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>18.75</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>99</geo:lon>
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		<title>Bangkok</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/bangkok/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/bangkok/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well we finally arrived in Bangkok on friday evening (local time) after nearly 13 hours in a plane and a 3 hour stop over in Dubai. We are slowly getting used to the heat and the culture shock of Bangkok. Our hotel is surrounded by &#8220;ladies/boys of the night&#8221; and the hotel charges 650baht for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>13.73</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>100.5</geo:lon>
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		<title>Guestbook</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/guestbook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/guestbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Waiting to go]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have added a guestbook to our blog, please head over to leave us a message. Guestbook]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thanks</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/thanks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/thanks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Waiting to go]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick thank you to whoever bought the The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid book via one of the links on our site. We are still in London, but almost everything is in storage, no TV or Broadband, we are having to (shock horror) talk to each other and (how primitive) read [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>One for the road</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/one-for-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/one-for-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Waiting to go]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you would like to raise a glass, to see us on our way we will be at Callaghan&#8217;s &#8211; Piccadilly Circus from about 7pm on Friday 20th October. MAP Please feel free to tell/invite/bring along anybody I may have missed. Hope to see you there. Vij]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>51.511019</geo:lat>
		<geo:lon>-0.136364</geo:lon>
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		<title>Still at home</title>
		<link>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/petes-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vandatrip.co.uk/petes-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Waiting to go]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome, Thanks for popping by. We are still at home in London, bouncing off the ceilings and raring to go. Feel free to leave us a comment, or to shop at Amazon Vijay &#038; Anne]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<geo:lat>51.5</geo:lat>
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