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		<title>English anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the joys of being English speaking is that we can almost travel anywhere and expect to find the local people fluent to some extent in English.  The summer of 2008, we visited Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary and had not issues talking with people (well, actually we had a little communication problems, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=380&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My day trip to Salzburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things we like to do when we travel, especially internationally, is to take day trips outside the major city that we are visiting.  While Salzburg is a travel destination itself, when we were in Vienna, we visited the city for the day.  We took a train too &#8230; when in Europe travel the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=352&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eastern Europe 2008 &#8230; History comes to life!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just recently returned from Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary and if you like history and you haven&#8217;t been to these countries, they are must visit destinations.
As much as I would like to take credit for planning such a historic-rich trip &#8230; it was happenstance.  As one who loves history, and is aware of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=272&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s leap year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t resist posting on leap year.  I would have to wait 4 years, if I don&#8217;t post today.  Well, I am not sure why leap year is such a big deal, I don&#8217;t feel any different, I didn&#8217;t make any more money, and I&#8217;m not getting any younger, I&#8217;m not traveling this weekend, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=191&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doomed to success?  Visiting the Galapagos &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is a good thing too good?  Each year the Galapagos Islands seem to get more and more popular.  At one time, there were only 60,000 visitors to the islands, but it has grown by tens of thousands.  Recently, a five star hotel opened, appropriately $400 &#8211; 500 per night the last time I checked, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=154&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JNB … the worst airport in the world! Part III</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/jnb-%e2%80%a6-the-worst-airport-in-the-world-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been very critical of Johannesburg airport and they deserve it, but the problems with their airport runs much deeper than confusion, lack of organization, and rude incompetent employees.
While in South Africa, I learned that the country has a quota policy for employment where blacks are at the top of the quota system, followed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=164&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My compliments to Grayline tours</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest decisions to make when traveling is what to do when you get there.  Do you explore on your own or use a tour company?  Well, it depends.  On our trip to Ecuador where language was an issue, we decided to use a tour company, but which one?  I&#8217;ve used Grayline for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=123&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Quito, Ecuador</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the countdown to Ecuador is over, we have arrived.
We flew through my favorite airport, Atlanta, actually that is my least favorite.   We were delayed one hour!  That&#8217;s a blog for another day.   As I said we are in Quito, enjoying our holiday.
Our first full day, we toured the city and visited the equator monument and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=88&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visiting Cape Town, South Africa was one of the most conflicted trips I have taken to date. The country is beautiful, has a thriving wine industry, has a diverse mix of cultures and ethnicities, and is one of the more stable countries on the continent. However, the entire time that I spent in the country, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=7&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Greece &#8230; history, philosophy, politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, we visited Greece and two of the Greek islands, Crete and Santorini.
If you have ever thought that you might want to go to Greece &#8230; you do. We spent the majority of our time in Athens and stayed at the Hotel Hermes, a great boutique hotel in the Plaka area of Athens. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=6&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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