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		<title>Japan: Kyoto fleamarket around a temple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voices hushed, feet in socks shuffling softly on tatami mats, sandalwood smoke from incense sticks,  heads bowed in ancestral prayer ...  not so at the Kyoto temple fleamarket: a cacophony of voices, from shrill to shriller, boom to bass, everyone trying to overtrump the other and all with the same message: “buy me”. Hundreds of [...]


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		<title>Thailand: Spending a day with tigers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 12:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poachers had killed the female tiger but left the new-born cub to fend for itself.  Passing villagers found it whimpering in the bush and decided to take it to the newly established temple near Kanchanaburi, Thailand.  Little did the Buddhist monks realize that they were embarking on a unique venture in 1994 with that very [...]


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		<title>Honeymooner&#8217;s paradise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honeymoons – what a wonderful time to explore a new country!  And New Zealand is a place that offers it all:  beaches, mountains, hot springs, culture, adventure.  I don’t want to sound like the official tourism marketing agency, but it is true, this country does offer everything to honeymooners of all ages, by the way. [...]


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		<title>China:  &#8220;Turandot&#8221; revisited in Beijing</title>
		<link>http://travelswith.zen-aida.com/2009/10/culture/being-surprise-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not planned, but welcome nonetheless:  A quick week in Beijing, my old stomping ground.  The occasion was a visit to a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Turandot” by the same directing/designing team that I had worked with in 1997/98 for “Turandot in the Forbidden City”:  Zhang Yimou, Chen Weiya, Zeng Li and Gao Guangjian. [...]


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		<title>Australia: The magic of the Great Barrier Reef</title>
		<link>http://travelswith.zen-aida.com/2009/09/destinations/australia-the-magic-of-the-great-barrier-reef/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I dutifully booked an excursion to the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns, I did so more out of a sense of duty of having to visit this one of Australia’s most iconic destinations.  I owed it to myself, I said, since I am in FNQ – Far Northern Queensland – as the locals call [...]


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		<title>Sydney: Views at every turn</title>
		<link>http://travelswith.zen-aida.com/2009/08/observations/sydney-views-at-every-turn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of stating the obvious, Sydney really is a beautiful city.  Wherever you turn, a panoramic view opens – of the harbour, a cove, a bay, an inlet, a beach, a bridge, a point, a head, a park, a dip, a summit feature, etc. etc. And from very many places –  a glimpse [...]


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		<title>Rotorua:  The compleat hot springs experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My forrays to the New Zealand hot springs were by far the most fun of my around-the-world trip so far.  I admit to being a spa-water-mud addict and will gladly spring into any naturally hot thermal waters anywhere.  But four hot springs/spas in four days – I really felt like having a gourmet feast!  And [...]


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		<title>Heaven for the bookworm!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bookworm alert!  For all who, like me, cannot resist a good bookstore (worse than going into a candy store), Buenos Aires has a special treat:  The "Ateneo Grand Splendid" centrally situated on Avenida Santa Fé has been rated 2nd best in the world by the British newspaper "The Guardian" in a 2008 survey (more...) And [...]


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		<title>A night out in Buenos Aires</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don't necessarily come here for the food, nor for the sound of the tin-ey sounding piano.  You do come to this place because of the atmosphere oozing from the aged bricks and to enjoy the nightly changing program of classic and modern tango/jazz/vocals/Argentine  soul. On the night I attended, the young Uruguayan singer Valeria [...]


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		<title>Training Creativity</title>
		<link>http://travelswith.zen-aida.com/2009/02/events/training-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creativity can be expressed in so many ways.  In order to unlock the secret depths of our creativity, I invited my friend Peter to come with me to a session led by Johanna Hartung in Salzburg.   She is an abstract artist, art therapist and has trained extensively as a psychotherapist.  I had met her last [...]


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