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	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>So I married a truck driver&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcel Koning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s her birthday&#8230;
We have been in the middle of a dramatic shift in spending patterns this past few months. Consciously trying to move away from the pure consumerism that seems to be the western-way. Buying stuff and things that we don&#8217;t really need&#8230;
We all know the drill; keeping up with the Jones&#8217;s is also part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fit for travel. Fit for life.</title>
		<link>http://toursandtales.com/fit-for-travel-fit-for-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Beep. The Kettler announces today&#8217;s regime. I take a deep breath and start rowing. 45, 77, 83, the strokes per minute are climbing. I steady around 90 and relax into my rythm.
&#8220;What are my plans for this morning?&#8221; I close my eyes and wander off.  I need to write that article about the football radio before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Form vs Function when cycling Garda Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Italy rules the world when it comes to exquisite styling and taste. Even in another 30-plusser of summer sun, Italians are perfectly coiffured.
Wearing the latest strappy numbers with matching sandals, and perhaps even a headband to catch their perfectly formed beads of sweat.
Well, that doesn&#8217;t happen in my world &#8230; here it is dominated by form follows function!
Sure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underwater residents of Punta Cana</title>
		<link>http://toursandtales.com/underwater-residents-of-punta-cana</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcel Koning</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[DO Dominican Republic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a couple of days in the water off the beach at the Catalonia Royal Bavaro resort. Which is pretty normal. I mean what would you do amongst the palm trees and perfect beaches?
And also singularly unremarkable but for the fact that grown men with new toys act like little boys. Determined to test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bacardi Island &amp; Humpback Whales</title>
		<link>http://toursandtales.com/bacardi-island-humpback-whales</link>
		<comments>http://toursandtales.com/bacardi-island-humpback-whales#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcel Koning</dc:creator>
		
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Welcome to Samaná Bay!
To the left you will see fishermen with their small canoes and dug-outs. Fixing nets and clearing boats for another day on the water&#8230; Ahead you will see a mass of people crowding the end of the pier. Waiting for the speedboat to ferry another load to the larger vessel anchored half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bus ride through the Dominican Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcel Koning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning!
Yes&#8230; once again we&#8217;re up before dawn during our holiday&#8230; What&#8217;s supposed to be a relaxing time to rest and recharge from a long year of hard &#8216;graft&#8217;, feels rather less-so at five a.m., I think to myself, standing in the open-air foyer of the hotel&#8230; But it&#8217;s about 23 degrees - nice and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schiermonnikoog, a Frisian island cycling day trip</title>
		<link>http://toursandtales.com/schiermonnikoog-frisian-island-cycling-day-trip</link>
		<comments>http://toursandtales.com/schiermonnikoog-frisian-island-cycling-day-trip#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cousins Ina and Andries live near Groningen in the very top of Holland. We live close to Amsterdam. When we go camping, we often meet in the middle.
Okay, not so much in the middle. We choose a quiet little spot in Vierhuizen. Less crowded than other campings nearby &#8230;
The proximity to Lauwersmeer National Park (Lauwer lake) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating a mid-life crisis at Walibi World</title>
		<link>http://toursandtales.com/celebrating-mid-life-crisis-walibi-world</link>
		<comments>http://toursandtales.com/celebrating-mid-life-crisis-walibi-world#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I look back at the noughties with mixed feelings. It&#8217;s been the toughest decade ever and yet my most rewarding. We gave up the sunny comfort of South Africa and chose to migrate to the Netherlands.
Emmen was our first port of call. Where Marcel started life and still has some family. More to the point, it was chosen &#8216;cos of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laguna Vista Beach Resort, Sharm el Sheikh</title>
		<link>http://toursandtales.com/laguna-vista-beach-resort-nabq</link>
		<comments>http://toursandtales.com/laguna-vista-beach-resort-nabq#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re making idle chatter with our hostess when a rather grumpy couple climb aboard the shuttle bus. An onslaught of arbitrary complaints follow in Dutch. We roll our eyes. Great &#8230; it´s going to be a long ride! Especially considering that Laguna Vista is nestled further up in Nabq, the new suburb of Sharm el Sheikh. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Smoker’s lament in a Zero-tolerant world</title>
		<link>http://toursandtales.com/smokers-lament-in-a-zero-tolerant-world</link>
		<comments>http://toursandtales.com/smokers-lament-in-a-zero-tolerant-world#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penelope Sachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Florence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just come back from my first visit to New York. My equally addictive traveling companion took a photograph of me standing and smoking next to a big fat chimney which belched creamy  steam into Lexington Avenue to give our kind of zap sign to their ever so clean mayor, Mr Bloomberg.
Our hotel room [...]]]></description>
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