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			<![CDATA[Hi Everyone,
Hopefully by now we will be somewhere beautiful with an exotic name eating a good curry. We thought rather than bombard you with those annoying group emails going on and on about how it is better where we are than where you are we would give you the option.  
If you want to hear about how much better it is here then keep popping by this site and we will try and update it as much as poss. If on the other hand you really don't want your face rubbed in it then stay away and enjoy your next five months safe in the knowledge that you will here all about it when we get back anyway.
So assuming you are still here we should probably fill you in on our plans (apologies to those of you who have been hearing this for months). We are setting off on the 23rd Feb- first stop India. More specifically we have about a month in the North including Delhi, Agra (home of the Taj Mahal), Uttaranchaal and Rajasthan. From there we are heading to Nepal for about six weeks where, amongst other things, we will be do a three week trek around the Annapurna Circuit. Its then a quick trip over the border to Tibet, well by quick we mean the week long rollercoaster of a road ironically named the Friendship Highway. We are then heading, along the highest railway in the world, to Hong Kong for some much needed civilisation and a spot of visa acquiring. This takes us to about the end of May and the start of a month in China heading North in the general direction of Beijing. And of course as neither of us are known for doing things the easy way, rather than a short flight home we will be hopping on the train for a two week journey along the Trans Siberian Railway via Mongolia, Siberia and Moscow and all the way back to the welcoming arms of St Pancras. 
So that is the general plan, which of course is completely at the whim of Delhi Belly, Altitude Sickness, Maoist Rebels, Tibetan Visas and the worlds worst roads and could change dramatically over the next few months but que sera sera.
Hope you enjoy the site
See you all soon(ish) 
Laura and Gareth
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			<title><![CDATA[Sarajevo, Bosnia]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Hello Everyone, 
So here it is our final blog (and hopefully the final set of photos will be following shortly). We have decided to head home a little earlier than planned as, now it is July, Europe i...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dubrovnik, Croatia]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Dubrovnik is another walled city but this time on the coast of Croatia. It's much bigger than Kotor, more touristy and easily the most expensive place we have been. We stayed with a nice old lady who...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kotor, Serbia and Montenegro]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[So from Belgrade we headed to the coast of Montenegro. Formerly part of Serbia, Montenegro is now the newest country in the world after gaining independence in 2006. The whole country has only 500,000...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Hello Everyone,
I'll start off by apologising for the photo on this blog and the next few it is actually in Albania but this site has no other photos of this part of the world to upload so until we ge...]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:33:29 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sofia, Bulgaria]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Hello Everyone,It feels like forever since we last wrote because we have been to so many places in the last week. We are in Serbia at the moment but I will lump that together with Montenegro (if it wo...]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:16:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Goreme, Turkey]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Hi Everyone,
So today is our last day in Turkey as tonight we head to Istanbul on an overnight bus then straight on to Bulgaria. The heavens have opened this morning which is always a good sign its th...]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:25:08 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Antalya And Olympos, Turkey]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Hi Everyone,
Hope you like the pics we have added. We have had a fantastic few days so thought we would update you. From Bodrum we caught an overnight bus to Antalya. Unfortunately, the bus (which we...]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:42:02 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gallıpolı Troy Ephesus And Pamukkale, Turkey]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Hi Everyone,
So as promised I have managed to get on the internet agaın. After Istanbul we had five or six days of fairly touristy sightseeing. Fırst we went to Gallipoli the sight of the famous WW1 b...]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 16:11:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Istanbul, Turkey]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Hi Everyone,
First of all apologies for the lack of blogs for the last couple of weeks we have been so busy that we just haven´t had time to get on the internet. We are now ın fact about to leave Bodr...]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:13:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kathmandu, Nepal]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Hi Everyone,
I'm sure the eagle eyed amongst you will notice that we are not as planned in Hong Kong. We have had a slight change of plan, well actually we have completely changed our plans. We decide...]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:08:53 +0100</pubDate>
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