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		<title>The Tintin trail in Brussels, Belgium</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portfolio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared in the Sun-Herald, Australia on Sunday 5 February 2012. See the Sun-Herald version here. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; You don’t have to walk around Brussels for too long to realise that the comic book has a different status here. Relegated to the nerdier reaches of society elsewhere, in Belgium the strips have a profound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A helpful PR guide for dealing with travel journalists</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2012/01/25/a-helpful-pr-guide-for-dealing-with-travel-journalists/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing & Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Travel Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Things I do need 1. Exactly what I requested on the e-mail. &#160; Things I don’t need 2. Anything else.]]></description>
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		<title>A conversation on the way to the waterfall</title>
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		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2012/01/19/a-conversation-on-the-way-to-the-waterfall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Destination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palau]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we inch down the muddy path towards the base of the waterfall, I ask Kent how long he has been doing these tours. “About two years now,” he replies. “This was my first job.” This comes as something of a surprise. We’ve only just met, and it seems wrong to ask him his age. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to start asking questions about tax</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2012/01/13/time-to-start-asking-questions-about-tax/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2012/01/13/time-to-start-asking-questions-about-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Travel Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel journalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blame tax rises No-one likes paying tax. Let’s face it, we live in an economy that splutters along based on massive, widespread corporate tax avoidance. And when a tax goes up, it’s an easy whipping boy. The general line, it seems, is that if you make a business pay taxes, it can’t possibly be profitable. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The A to Z of Palau</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2012/01/11/palau_a_to_z/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Destination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[press release]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, I am somewhat scorful of press releases. But next week, I am going to Palau, the hottest destination of 2012 as decided by me. Largely because I&#8217;ve paid to go there, and I&#8217;m damned if I&#8217;m not going to make something of it. So get excited. This is the year of going to Palau [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel industry predictions for 2012</title>
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		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2012/01/03/travel-industry-predictions-for-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air Passenger duty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flash sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel surcharge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QR Codes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2012 should be a big year in travel – so I thought I’d join everyone else by making predictions for the forthcoming twelve months in the travel industry. These are based, naturally, on extensive research. &#160; 1. QR codes to catch on in a big way. Office watercoolers are likely to buzz with talk of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we don’t send postcards any more</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2012/01/02/why-we-dont-send-postcards-any-more/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2012/01/02/why-we-dont-send-postcards-any-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Destination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Etiquette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postcards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Barbara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t the most savoury of areas. The post office appeared to be situated next to some sort of junkie zoo – or at least a massively prolific drug rehabilitation drop-in centre. More importantly, however, the post office appeared to be closed. At least for another hour. Yet again, California had thwarted my attempts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories from the worst day</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/12/31/memories-from-the-worst-day/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/12/31/memories-from-the-worst-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Destination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Kitts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember leaving the airport, a disparate group in the minivan, slowly being dropped off at hotels around the island. I remember, at the penultimate stop, deciding to jump out of the back seat to join the driver in the front. I had that second wind you get after touching down from a long flight, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What information should be in a good travel guide?</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/12/30/what-information-should-be-in-a-good-travel-guide/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/12/30/what-information-should-be-in-a-good-travel-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guidebooks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.grumpytraveller.com/?p=2117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New Grumpy Traveller guides I’m still working on getting the redesign for the new look Grumpy Traveller done (see this post for explanation), but one major thing I plan to concentrate on is offering genuinely useful city guides. By this, I don’t mean generic blather about the main attractions that seems to pass muster on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karaoke with the coffin-dodgers</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/12/28/karaoke-with-the-coffin-dodgers/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/12/28/karaoke-with-the-coffin-dodgers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Destination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karaoke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road trip]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A night in a lonely Florida motel turns into something magical once the cast of Cocoon walks in&#8230; &#160; At the end of almost every line in Five For Fighting’s Superman, there is a high note. I know this because I can’t reach it. It would, perhaps, have been better to discover this before now. [...]]]></description>
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