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		<title>Lodging in Europe &#8230; the European way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 04:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a place to stay in Europe or anywhere can be a challenge, especially if you are making your own lodging arrangements, which we like to do.  But, one reason we have a challenge in finding a place to stay has to do with avoiding American chain hotels &#8230; not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=207&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling to Europe without breaking the bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer we are traveling to Europe and will be visiting three countries:  Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungry.  We are traveling while the dollar is very weak compared to the Euro &#8230; and most other currencies, but we are traveling anyway and intend to do so as if the dollar was strong.
Yesterday, I suggested [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=206&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Livingstone, Zambia and Taita Falcon Lodge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest decision that I had to make when visiting Livingstone, Zambia was where to stay.  Accommodations, service, and comfort are vitally important.  No disrespect to Zambia, but the country is developing and making travel arrangements are not as easy as developed countries.  For instance, I had not trouble make hotel reservation online [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=171&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lodging in Quito, a tale of two hotels</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/lodging-in-quito-a-tale-of-two-hotels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WalkinGates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During our recent visit to Ecuador to visit the Galapagos Islands, we got a chance to spend several days in Quito before our cruise and a couple of days in Quito after the cruise.  We decided to stay at two different hotels in different parts of the city &#8230; we were expanding our experience of Quito, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=122&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Galapagos Explorer II &#8230; now that&#8217;s one fine ship</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/galapagos-explorer-ii-now-thats-one-fine-ship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I was a little skeptical about exploring the Galapagos Islands on the Explorer II.  The ship is owned and operated by Canodros who markets themselves as ecotourism providers.  There were a couple of things that I was concerned about like how comfortable would the ship be, would we get motion sickness, what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=100&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My funky boutique hotel experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting experiences that we have had during our international travels has been to stay at family and boutique hotels.  Admittedly, staying at family or boutique hotels is a gamble, because at chain or commercial hotels, you know what you are getting &#8230; most of the time.
In 2006, when we were in Portugal, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=51&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Staying in the bush &#8230; a Zambian experience</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/staying-in-the-bush-a-zambian-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We visited Livingstone, Zambia June 2007 and had a little concern about where we would be staying.  Making lodging reservations for Zambia is different from our experiences in the United States Europe, South America, and other places.  I must admit that I am addicted to Expedia and to a lesser extent Travelocity.  To my dismay and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=4&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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