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... back home in Australia. Santa even mentioned he sometimes uses his six white boomers to help him in our country. We lunched at Santa's house outside in our Castle and then headed off towards Tok. (Interesting how it has received this name, It was once ...

... north than I originally intended. With a pen I drew a route that took me across three different maps and a number of interesting long country roads. It was agreed that the fun Franz and I had had over the last 2 days should continue, so we will be doing ...

... with a small stage for the performers. There were also Portuguese folk dancers performing dances representing different part of the country's cultures, with emphasis on the culture of fishing villages. One of the men plays the 12-string guitar and ...

... we had some soup, I had fish and chips, and Julie had a big salad (EUR 30 total). These places are all over the country. These roadside restaurants are not like the ones in the US (ie. McDonalds) but are actually halfway decent options - although I do ...

... have writer's block. I could write continuously, for hours, and never capture even one minute of this amazing, crazy, chaotic, colorful country. AGRA, INDIA: Where else in the world can you watch the sun set from the roof of your guest house, with ...

... freeway where I got pulled over for "failure to use blinker during a lane change."  And then I look north, to Canada and the boundless wilds of Alaska.  South, to the mystical ruins of Peru and the magical grandeur of Patagonia.  The atolls ...

... crisp Mayo morning. Killala was gearing up for a festival celebrating the French invasion of Ireland in 1798. It's not often a country celebrates being invaded by foreign forces. The only disappointment  for Ireland was the failure of the French to ...

... .  We met up with my cousins Kirk and Cathy, who moved to Sutter Creek recently and started a wine touring business called Gold Country Wine Tours, which is beginning to take root.  We saw their new home, which is adorable, and spent a wonderful ...

... Year's, but since then we have noticed there are very few cars and the roads are all extra big, like everything else in this country. This might explain why the driver liked to straddle the white line between the lanes at 120 kph. Going north took us back ...

... Seaport. Another historic area of Lower Manhattan, where this area was once in the middle of the busiest working docks in the country. It is now a pedestrianized mall and if you closed your eyes to the skyscrapers you could be in Cape Town. Very much ...

... also had to try a side order of french fries. The next thing to try was an authentic Greek salad. Horiatiki is a Greek country vegetable salad and is a tomato salad with cucumbers, red onions, feta cheese and kalamata olives, drizzled with olive oil. It ...

... fireworks, watching fireworks from the city’s castle, and watching “Dinner for One”.  Germans from all over the country gather around the TV on Silvester and watch this very funny 15-minute British play that was taped in 1963.  ...

... to create the falls, would make a great Rafting trip (if you are game enough) The trip forward took us into some open country and down into a town called Kalispell, this was a wonderful town as far as Karon is concerned. We required some bread and drove ...

... history and we accept the journey takes us along pathways and routes we would not experience if we had taken a bus tour of the country. Eventually we arrive in Cody Wyoming; this town is named after Buffalo Bill Cody. He was in his time the most famous ...

... was cool and packed full with tourists like Disneyland... quite a difference from those little cities we visited out in the country. 5 years ago when I was in Prague before I stumbled into this dark, hidden restaurant for lunch and had this amazing dish ...

... , coming from a skin cooking 38 Celsius in Rio.  Arriving in Lisbon, it was clear we were back in a first world country again (though some in the EU would disagree). We found our hostel, Black and White, near downtown and checked-in.  The ...

... . What they don`t consider is that their actions will engender a negative valence on my perceptions of their people and their country. They claim that I am rich and that I have an obligation to them somehow. They`re convinced that they are entitled to ...