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		<title>Back in Bondi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in Bondi, in some ways it is almost as if we never left. Things look oddly the same around here and it is hard to believe that we&#8217;ve spent the last four and a half months visiting some of the most incredible places on earth. 
Sadly, the blog lagged far behind in the latter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>kevin07 at timbuktu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, we haven&#8217;t taken a detour from our carefully planned itinerary through the south of India. This is Kate&#8217;s folks, Roger and Roz (2nd and 3rd from right) together with a few recruits from their African safari tour group, flying the flag for Kevin in one of the remotest capitals on earth, Timbuktu. The T-shirts? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cows on a beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Days 123-124: Cows on a beach. That&#8217;s Goa in four words. There&#8217;s nothing that quite puts one off swimming than seeing a huge bovine wandering down to the water&#8217;s edge and discharging about five litres of urine.
With a dozen or so different beaches to choose from, we spent a couple of days in Anjuna, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a goan immaculate conception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Days 121-122: India! Hindu one day, Catholic the next. So it was in Panjim, the capital of Goa, where we paused to acclimatise to the humidity of South India. This striking silver Christ figure welcomed visitors to the Bishop&#8217;s Residence, in the hills above Panjim. Typically for a country in which people of different faiths [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mumbai&#8217;s fine balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Days 117-120 : In India, I&#8217;ve been reading Rohinton Mistery&#8217;s A fine balance. Set partly in Mumbai, it&#8217;s a moving story about four characters whose livelihoods are bound together in an unlikely way. Struggling to make their way in the world, they&#8217;re living on the edge in every sense, with the slightest external shock having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>surviving the twenty20 cricket in mumbai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 119: The highlight of our stay in Mumbai was our trip to the Twenty20 cricket game between India and Australia, keenly anticipated by local cricket fans (and that means just about everyone) and the first international Twenty20 game ever played in India. Getting into the stadium itself was possibly the biggest achievement. 
Clutching our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ghandi&#8217;s ashram, ahmedabad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 116: En route from Rajasthan to Mumbai, we broke the journey in Ahmedabad where we stopped in at the ashram from which Gandhi planned his campaign of satyagraha in support of independence for India. It&#8217;s now a museum to Gandhi&#8217;s life, it was a peaceful place, full of the rich history of the path [...]]]></description>
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		<title>world&#8217;s largest turban?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 114: Roll up! Roll up! See the world&#8217;s largest turban! This sizeable, dare I say unwieldy, creation certainly laid laim to the title however I won&#8217;t be convinced of its supremacy until I see someone wearing it.
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		<title>navrati in udaipur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Days 111-114: Water, in sufficient quantities, is a sure-fire salve for the nerves of the most jangled traveller. Udaipur had lots of it. With a whitewashed palace in the middle of a man-made lake made famous by the James Bond movie Octopussy, and a golden-hued palace lining the shore, Udaipur was one of those picture-postcard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>lassi heaven?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 110: There&#8217;s always something comforting about buying food and drink from a vendor which verifiably makes more than a thousand of said snack per day. This lassi stand, just inside the main gate near Jodphur&#8217;s famous clocktower, was pumping out their famous cardamom-flavoured lassi at a dozen a minute in the short time that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hotel wonderview, udaipur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Days 111-114: You couldn&#8217;t complain about the view from the rooftop in Udaipur. Hotel Wonderview indeed. Nice folks too.
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		<title>the blue city, from jodphur&#8217;s fort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 110: Jodphur&#8217;s fort was the most magnificent of those we had seen in India; one local sign proudly reminded us that it had recently been named Asia&#8217;s best fort. (It&#8217;s always difficult to judge these things.) 
One thing was for sure; the audio tour of the fort and palace was truly wonderful, narrated roundly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>out and about in jodphur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 110: In Jodphur, with only a day to see the city and its environs, we headed out on one of the popular locality tours for some hands-on experiences. Making a turban, for example, seemed to come easily to me, although the final product did not entirely resemble the demonstration model. 
Our impromptu pottery class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>durag niwas guesthouse, jodphur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 109: Arriving late in Jodphur by train, we disembarked one station before Jodphur central to be just around the corner from our home for the night, the Durag Niwas Guest House. A night before we left Australia, a friend of ours advised us that the best places to stay in India were family-run guest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>jaisalmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 108: Jaisalmer was the western extremity of our trip to Rajasthan, and India too. From the fort, you could almost see the Pakistani border, and there were frequent air force operations throughout the day as Indian military flights landed at an airport just out of sight to the south and west of town. The [...]]]></description>
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