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		<title><![CDATA[Are we there yet?]]></title>
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			<![CDATA[Are we there yet?This is the story of 5 intrepid travellers, 3 under the age of 8, 2 knocking on the door of mmty and our journey to a new lifeWe (the parents) have decided to turn a corner in our lives, consciously remove ourselves from the UK. We decided it was time to leave the rat race, stop looking at the blackberry, turn away from The Times and start a new journey. Most of the places we have visited before, but the experiences are more than the place, they are also the time and the company
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			<title><![CDATA[Reading, UK]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Back on the road.
It never felt like we came home moving into a fab house just round the corner from where our place is.  Girls settled back into school really well, work went ok for me - with a reall...]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:23:29 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shanghai, China]]></title>
			<link>http://www.statravelblogs.com/chrisb/blog/china/shanghai/2009-02-11+18%3A12%3A40</link>
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				<![CDATA[One night in Shanghai - well 2 really - but a glitzy style town - with so much building going on the only place to visit was the metropolitan town planning centre - which was a full building to itself...]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Beijing, China]]></title>
			<link>http://www.statravelblogs.com/chrisb/blog/china/beijing/2009-02-08+18%3A12%3A05</link>
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				<![CDATA[The Great Great Wall of China - was Great.We had booked on a trip - but it was more of a taxi ride with entry fees paid for us - which picked us up at 7am. LM had not been very well the past few days...]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Beijing, China]]></title>
			<link>http://www.statravelblogs.com/chrisb/blog/china/beijing/2009-02-07+11%3A10%3A39</link>
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				<![CDATA[Bit of a lie in this morning and got off to the Forbidden City finally at 12pm.  Again it was huge, and we hadn't really allowed enough time to have a good look round.  Much of our time was taken up w...]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Beijing, China]]></title>
			<link>http://www.statravelblogs.com/chrisb/blog/china/beijing/2009-02-06+08%3A55%3A19</link>
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				<![CDATA[Beijing is huge - everything is big - and new.  And old.  1st stop was the Temple of Heaven via the bus.  A huge garden with various Temples in where the Emperor would go to sacrifice a calf for a goo...]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wuhan, China]]></title>
			<link>http://www.statravelblogs.com/chrisb/blog/china/wuhan/2009-02-06+08%3A48%3A55</link>
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				<![CDATA[Hadn't really expected to do a blog from here - but this is how it goes.
Left the cruise boat at 8pm slightly behind scheduled and piled on to a bus to Yichang 30km away.  Went through enormous tunnel...]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Yichang, China]]></title>
			<link>http://www.statravelblogs.com/chrisb/blog/china/yichang/2009-02-05+09%3A41%3A00</link>
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				<![CDATA[Having diverted our trip from Xian and the Terracotta Warriors we had hoped to see something instead - unfortunately the weather blotted out all of the landscape and we could only just see the other s...]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chongqing, China]]></title>
			<link>http://www.statravelblogs.com/chrisb/blog/china/chongqing/2009-02-03+08%3A46%3A28</link>
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				<![CDATA[Here we are - amazing that we got here and such a good journey too.
We booked the plane flight 2 days ago and thought it was all done only to receive an email asking for passport copy, credit card cop...]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hanoi, Vietnam]]></title>
			<link>http://www.statravelblogs.com/chrisb/blog/vietnam/hanoi/2009-01-21+01%3A00%3A02</link>
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				<![CDATA[We're going to China - it has been in doubt a little bit due to the difficulty of getting a visa and sorting out travel.  But yesterday on the third visit to the Chinese Embassy we picked up 5 visas....]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nim Bihn, Vietnam]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Ninh Binh - we made our own way there on the train for 70000d (about £3) on a train with hard seats - literally - a wooden bench seat.  But for only 2 hours or so it was fine.  Fortunately we didn't o...]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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