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		<title>Wales: Welsh Revhead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hiding among the idyllic Welsh countryside is a notorious school for boys and girls. Phil was a lousy tour guide. Here we were in the gorgeous green dales of Wales and what was I going to see at around 200 km/h? Mighty trees, a mere metre or so from my door handle were an unseen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denmark: Quirky Copenhagen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some things you just have to do when you go to Copenhagen, but not all of them you’ll find on the tourist bureau brochure rack. Changing of the guard, canal cruises, palaces and art galleries are all there for the picking. But how about beneath surface? Every city has their little secrets and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSW: Off Path Takes Some Beating</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Sunday Telegraph, 23 August 2009 Roderick Eime gets lost somewhere out the back of Byron and finds an oasis of good taste Spindly branches and twigs whip my face and shoulders as I hurtle down the wet, rocky trail. I retain just enough control to dodge fallen logs, puddles of unknown depth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niue: Stalking the Giant Uga</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Niue for AAP On a tiny Pacific Island, man still hunts to survive. Roderick Eime, goes in search of a real prehistoric monster that still haunts the Polynesian rainforest. The uga (pronounced OONG-a) is not to be trifled with. It is a truly hideous beast that lives deep in the damp Niuean tropical forest and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mount Kinabalu: Attitude over Altitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As published in Escape as "High and Mighty in Borneo". Trimmed to 750 words. With too much time spent at the bistro instead of the gym, ambitious mountaineer Roderick Eime, sets his sights on Mount Kinabalu for a triumph of age and Body Mass Index over metres-above-sea-level. I strain against the rope, trying to haul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing the Ho Chi Minh Trail of Saigon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spurred on by an old scrapbook clipping, Roderick Eime finds himself staring history in the face. I turn fifty this year and I‘m betting the retiring baby-boomers who were my school teachers, bullying big brothers and pop idols wouldn’t score too well on a Ho Chi Minh quick quiz. Even at 14, I was following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Uncle Arthur &#8211; Remembering a digger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking to solve some lingering family mysteries, Roderick Eime went looking for a quiet, shy bloke and found a hero. My childhood is full of fond memories of my funny old grandma. The tales Nanna told of her early childhood and the tough times the huge rural Lutheran family had eking out a living on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PNG: First Contact</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[alternate title: The Golden Wahgi When gold was discovered in the highlands, it brought a million people into contact with the rest of the world. Roderick Eime traces the history of that first contact. “The whiteman came from there,” said the old village elder gesturing toward the end of the valley, ‘we’d never seen such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India: Tea and Toffs on the Brahmaputra</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 07:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brahmaputra River in Assam sees few westerners yet delivers an unusual adventure as Roderick Eime discovers. “The ambassador is missing!” The urgent call came from somewhere within our little group, just disembarked from the tiny 4WDs used to carry us through RG Orang National Park. Deep in the backwaters of Assam, the thick undergrowth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marquesan Revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Aranui for Cruise Passenger] On islands as far away as one can get, a once mighty Polynesian culture is returning. Roderick Eime disappears in the Marquesas in search of the original Tiki. The islanders gathered around the newcomers, gazing curiously at their pale and pocked skin, examining their unusual garments and incomprehensible footwear. The strangers [...]]]></description>
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