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		<title>The true test of a hotel concierge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the concierge? Having spent the last week travelling around Switzerland and openly weeping at the cost of, well, absolutely everything, I’ve made unusually frequent encounters with people I don’t usually trust. Common consensus has it that hotel concierges are an excellent source of knowledge about the city they work in. They know where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Plus tax’: A phrase that makes no sense whatsoever</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/06/20/%e2%80%98plus-tax%e2%80%99-a-phrase-that-makes-no-sense-whatsoever/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Americans and tax North Americans, as a general rule, really don’t like tax. In fact, if you allowed a significant number of loonbags on the shouty fringe of the Republican party to have their way, there would be no taxation at all – let’s face it, we don’t need those vile evolution-preaching schools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An important travel lesson: When good deals make for bad holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2010/06/14/an-important-travel-lesson-when-good-deals-make-for-bad-holidays/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2010/06/14/an-important-travel-lesson-when-good-deals-make-for-bad-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seychelles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lesson learned Last November, I learned a valuable lesson. We were half-planning a Caribbean holiday, when we saw flights to the Seychelles for under £400. Figuring we’d never be able to get there as cheaply again, we snapped the tickets up and decided to take the opportunity to do a famous luxury destination on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postscript to bloggers vs journalists debate</title>
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		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2010/02/04/postscript-to-bloggers-vs-journalists-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corrections My previous post &#8211; Bloggers vs Journalists: Why bloggers are second class citizens – seems to have stirred up quite a debate. There are a few things that have been brought to my attention since that I thought I should add. First of all (and somewhat going against my argument), it seems as though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloggers vs Journalists: Why bloggers are second class citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or The Curse of the Woman Who Didn’t Know When To Shut Up.   Difference between bloggers and journalists A few weeks ago, the ever-excellent Matthew Teller hosted a debate on his blog about the difference between bloggers and journalists. It’s something of a hoary old debate, but some excellent points were raised. Key amongst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to avoid debit card charges with Easyjet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Oates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Bryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saving money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budget airlines and Visa Electron There’s probably not a human being on the planet that doesn’t despise the absurdly high fees that budget airlines charge to pay with credit and debit cards. The best way around this, as Karen Bryan explains, is to get a Visa Electron card.   Easyjet debit card loophole But fellow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a budget hotel? The travel media doesn’t seem to understand</title>
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		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2009/09/09/what-is-a-budget-hotel-the-travel-media-doesn%e2%80%99t-seem-to-understand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travel media and budget hotels I have come to the conclusion that people working in the travel media are in some kind of fantasy land. Recently, I have seen so many stories about the best budget hotels in various locations and have had the same reaction every time. Simply put, the travel media definition of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia’s Greyhound buses and the roadhouse misery breaks</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2009/07/25/australia%e2%80%99s-greyhound-buses-and-the-roadhouse-misery-breaks/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2009/07/25/australia%e2%80%99s-greyhound-buses-and-the-roadhouse-misery-breaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greyhound bus from Cairns to Brisbane In May and June, I slowly made my way down the Queensland coast in Australia. Because I’m a big coward and didn’t fancy hiring a car, I used Greyhound buses all the way down from Cairns to Brisbane. It’s arguably the cheapest way to get down the coast if [...]]]></description>
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