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<title>Chidaogre - A unique village of North East India</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2747_Chidaogre---A-unique-village-of-North-East-India.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[MEGHALAYA, HOME to three major tribes – Khasi, Jaintia and Garo amidst
the minor tribes, is a place for those interested in ethnic and rural
tourism. The fun-loving and caring people have all to offer a tourist,
who wants to get lost in an altogether different world.
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<pubDate>Thursday, 12 June 2008 11:35:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Wintry wiles and whales of Victor Harbor</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2402_The-Wintry-wiles-and-whales-of-Victor-Harbor.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A wonderful winter holiday wiling and watching whales.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 6 August 2007 10:29:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fear of Flying</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2191_Fear-of-Flying.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of flying . . . I hate landing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 9 March 2007 09:34:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bratislava and Slovakia</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2057_Bratislava-and-Slovakia.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2003, I seized the chance of a personalized invite to Bratislava. Upon arriving at the city's train station from Budapest, I was collected by Tómaš, a Slovakian I had met in Vancouver, who was then toiling as a tech wizard for Orange telecom. On this piping hot day, Tómaš and his high-IQ biologist wife Katrina drove us in a smart new Skoda (the famous Czech car) to an ice cold crystal lake on Bratislava's outskirts. Here, amongst the tolerance of naked or non-naked bathers, we could happily cool ourselves off before proceeding to eat a Slovakian staple, apricot jam-filled dumplings, that were prepared by his mother,. 

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<pubDate>Monday, 12 February 2007 05:29:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pumped in Poland</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Grey and impoverished, a downtrodden land inhabited by dour cynics. This was my perception of Poland prior to going there. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 17 April 2006 06:59:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Circumnavigating an Insane Planet</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1838_Circumnavigating-an-Insane-Planet.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Say what you will about traveling light, it is a sound theory, and one which I usually adhere to, but if you happen to be on an around the world journey, traveling lets say, from Perth on the West Coast of Australia to the United Kingdom up into northern Scotland, then flying across the Atlantic to Toronto and from there down to San Francisco, over to Sydney and finally back home to Perth again, as my wife and I did last year, you will no doubt find that the notion of traveling light is simply not a feasible plan.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:33:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Charms of Business Travel These Days</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1835_The-Charms-of-Business-Travel-These-Days.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a typical reaction that you get when someone finds out that you travel regularly for business. Wow, that must be exciting! Oh yes, the glamour of it all. I mean that is if losing 4-5 hours of your week not including the airtime is appealing to you! ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 16 March 2006 12:11:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Saunas of Amsterdam and Northern Europe</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1740_The-Saunas-of-Amsterdam-and-Northern-Europe.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Assume birthday costume. Venture forth, enter sauna, sit tranquil, see thy bodily toxins emerge on the surface of thine mortal coil, from the sauna take thine leave, lay back and gaze into the abyss, and sink thyself into the brief sleep of a guiltless infant. Awaken and repeat procedure. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 7 October 2005 09:28:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Big Mac ' Pizza (Episode Four)</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1533_Big-Mac-Pizza-Episode-Four.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ah, the sweet smell of coffee, that pure white powder refined and produced on a scale beyond reason, oh yes, welcome to the world of the South American drug lords!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 3 June 2005 02:21:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Oz Journals Entry 8 - Winters of Discontent</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1525_The-Oz-Journals-Entry-8---Winters-of-Discontent.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Unlike a great many Canadian folk who have not only accepted the long winters, but actually look forward to them, (for reasons a hibernating homo sapiens like myself cannot begin to understand) the people here in Western Australia view their particular version of winter with a mixture of loathing and contempt.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 31 May 2005 10:07:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Oz Journals Entry Number Seven - Bali High</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1507_Oz-Journals-Entry-Number-Seven---Bali-High.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[When I was last in an airport my baggage was overweight by maybe half a kilo. I am the type of traveler who rarely packs my bags no earlier than ten minutes before the taxi is due to arrive and whisk me to the airport. On that occasion, they overlooked my extra weight and told me to pack more carefully in future. On one flight I took, I was not so lucky.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 30 May 2005 09:14:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Battle of Marathon</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1504_The-Battle-of-Marathon.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Many scholars agree on the theory that the human race came out of Africa and evolved according to the climate and conditions of the region where they settled. Having fingers, we seem to have been meant to eat fruits and hunt. Indeed tribes were nomad hunters, who later became shepherds.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 27 May 2005 02:02:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wonderful Nairobi - Things For travellers</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1496_Wonderful-Nairobi---Things-For-travellers.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nairobi is a bustling modern city with almost every convenience you can think of (OK, only “almost”), with a wonderful African ambiance.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:54:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>KENYA - What more do you want?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1495_KENYA---What-more-do-you-want.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[All right, let’s get it out in the open right from the start – I’m biased. I love Kenya, and I love Kenyans. In fact, if I ever meet the member of the American Embassy security staff who wrote an entry for an information website for potential expatriates which started with the words: “Most Kenyans smell and they can’t speak English,” I’ll … well, he’s probably bigger and tougher than me, so let’s just leave it at that vague, uncommitted elision.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:53:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Big Mac ' Pizza (Episode Three)</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1442_Big-Mac-Pizza-Episode-Three.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[China turned out to be a luxurious and enjoyable trip bar one incident, which spoiled the party so to speak. I was on exhibition duty having to help set-up the stand, demonstrate the equipment my company was selling and organise the packing and stripping down of the stand once the exhibition was over. I’d not be on my own this time. Most of the overseas office from Shanghai and Hong Kong would be present for obvious language reasons. I knew most of these people quite well making it a relaxing environment to work in.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:34:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Oz Journals VI</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1379_The-Oz-Journals-VI.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[To my way of thinking, a surf culture, be it in Bondi or Big Sur, would be lost without the automobile ( just try getting to the beach with your surfboard on a ten-speed, because it ain't happening, Moondoggie!).  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 26 April 2005 12:33:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Oz Journals V</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1378_The-Oz-Journals-V.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[“ You can smell it in the air. They’re burning the dry brush away.” The old man exclaimed as he trudged down the sandy path toward me. We met in the middle as I walked away from the beach and he toward it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 26 April 2005 12:32:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Big Mac ' Pizza (Episode Two)</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1333_Big-Mac-Pizza-Episode-Two.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[“Foda-se fihlo da puta.” I loved screaming that from the passenger seat of a black Ford Escort XR3i on the way back to my hotel having had another easy day’s work in São Paulo, Brazil. I was actually shouting, “Fuck you, you son of a bitch.” The driver - my interpreter - started to teach me the more important Portuguese words (that’s what they speak in Brazil - in case you didn’t know).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 19 April 2005 03:46:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Big Mac ' Pizza (Episode One)</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1326_Big-Mac-Pizza-Episode-One.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ever read any of Bill Bryson's travel guides? Impressed? Well over the next few weeks / months and so on I'll be putting up my view of the world, an online cyberpunk version of planet Earth (well not all of it, just the odd country here and there - Hong Kong, Brazil, Israel, Syria, the USA, the UK, Turkey, Thailand to name just a few).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 18 April 2005 04:20:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bringing Home the Travelling Experience</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_876_Bringing-Home-the-Travelling-Experience.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The journey to travel best beyond the tourist gimmicks thrown out at you.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 27 December 2004 02:26:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Travelin' Tales: Traveling alone</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_826_Travelin-Tales-Traveling-alone.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have traveled as a hitch-hiker through Europe more than once. This summer I took up a hitch-hiking trip all by my own. What can you expect from this type of trip?
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<pubDate>Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:35:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Travelin' Tales: English language doesn't quite make it in Europe</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_825_Travelin-Tales-English-language-doesnt-quite-make-it-in-Europe.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In Europe, we expect people to know the English language. In theory it is a very wide-spread language that people should understand. However, this isn't so. That's what I have found during my trips through the Baltic states, Poland, Germany and France.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:34:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UK students from Devon college visit Africa</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_783_UK-students-from-Devon-college-visit-Africa.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[All they have been hearing and seeing on television is the disaster, war and famine. Occasionally, images of malnourished children appear as strange stories are told about a war in Uganda. Many hear poor and inaccurate presentations of the rest of the story.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:51:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Travel Vs Backpacking</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_692_Travel-Vs-Backpacking.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[TRAVELLING isnt quite what it used to be. Going off into the big wide world is the opportunity of a lifetime. It gives us the chance to step outside our comfort zones and learn to expect the unexpected. It helps us dig deeper into our own personalities and return home enlightened.  Im afraid to say I disagree.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:52:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tracing the steps of Heinrich Bll: my trip to Achill Island, Co. Mayo, March 2003</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_524_Tracing-the-steps-of-Heinrich-Bll-my-trip-to-Achill-Island-Co-Mayo-March-2003.html</link>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 10 July 2004 07:40:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The parade!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_480_The-parade.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It was almost time for the parade to start, and I was getting excited. I had been to Ireland three times before, but I had never managed to be there for the national holiday because during my first visits I had still been a school student, and March 17th is traditionally a school day in Germany.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 20 June 2004 07:30:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hitch-hiking to Spain! A trip of 8000km</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_458_Hitch-hiking-to-Spain-A-trip-of-8000km.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Travelling from Estonia to Spain and back, covering about 8000km altogether, passing through Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Germany and France  its not the easiest trip to take, is it? Try doing it by hitch-hiking all the way and by never staying the night in some hotel, but always using alternative ways. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:51:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>My Ireland Holiday</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_408_My-Ireland-Holiday.html</link>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 5 June 2004 11:10:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Vacation Spot: Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_407_Vacation-Spot-Avalon-Santa-Catalina-Island-California.html</link>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 5 June 2004 08:18:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ireland In Seven Clichs</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_371_Ireland-In-Seven-Clichs.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[With Dublin about to collapse under the weight of tourists (mostly of the oversized American variety) its worth re-examining some of the old stereotypes about the Emerald Isle . So many people who have never set foot in Ireland have an image in their head of what the place is like, whether its cheery leprechauns, fiery, red-headed women or an old man playing the fiddle. This little article (part analysis, part city-guide, part self-indulgent memoir) aims to uncover the truth behind the clichs]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 28 May 2004 04:49:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>An 'eejit' in Budapest</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_277_An-eejit-in-Budapest.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Someone once said "travel is an education in itself". Someone also said that "the best way to learn was through mistakes"...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 24 April 2004 04:20:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Travel Bug</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_139_Travel-Bug.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[What does it take to be a lone female traveller?  A woman reflects on how far she has come through travelling far.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:51:45 GMT</pubDate>
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