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	<title>Mike D Goes to Europe!</title>
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	<description>or How to Distract Yourself From Getting Older</description>
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		<title>At Long Last - Photos!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks after returning home, I have finally finished sorting through all my photos from the trip.  So as to break them down into manageable chunks, I have separated them by destination, and in some cases, further separated them by particular sites.  Here are the links to all the sets, more or less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=122</link>
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		<title>Acknowledgements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m back in LA, and still shaking off the last of the jet lag.  I have been home since late Sunday night and I have dreamt about Europe every single night since I got back.
I had an amazing trip, and I want to thank everyone I met along the way for helping to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=95</link>
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		<title>A Relaxing Day at Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With my birthday done, Saturday, November the 1st, felt something like the epilogue of my European story. It was to be my last full day before returning home. 
Originally, I had planned to spend the day in Salzburg. It&#8217;s about an hour and a half by train from Munich. I thought it would be fun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=91</link>
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		<title>The Big Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last came the day that was the inspiration for this trip -my big birthday, number 4-0. I had wanted to distract myself from dwelling on it by doing something so exciting that I didn&#8217;t have time to think about it. And with this trip to Europe, I have succeeded. But it would be wrong [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Munchin&#8217; in München</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the 29th, I finally arrived at the final stop on my European tour - Munich. After more missed and late trains, I arrived in the early evening. A little while later, I met up with Bernd, a German friend of Colin Sears, one of my good friends (and former bandmate) from back in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Welcome to the Middle Ages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, I made a one-day stop in the town of Rothenberg ob der Tauber, a town which has been remarkably well-preserved since medieval times. I teamed up with a fellow Rick Steves traveller who I met in one of the many stations in which I had to change trains, Christine from San Francisco. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Have Fun Storming the Castle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been off the grid since I got to Germany. There&#8217;s no internet access in these little towns, and barely any cell service. But now that I&#8217;m connected again, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been up to&#8230;
I have been visiting the Rhine river valley, staying in the town of Bacharach. If Bruges is &#8220;like a fairytale,&#8221; this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=82</link>
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		<title>A Dam Cool Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As foretold in the previous post, it was time for me to take a little break from trying to see every sight in Europe and relax a little. Amsterdam was a good place to do so. My hotel was in what seems to be one of the best neighborhoods in the city, the Jordaan. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=79</link>
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		<title>If It&#8217;s Thursday, It Must Be Belgium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Waffles, chocolate and beer! What more could a man ask for? I scheduled only one day for myself in Bruges but I wish I could have stayed longer (Dave, you were right). One could easily spend two or three days here. Since I only had the one day, I saw it at a fast pace, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Mid-Game Adjustments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m pretty much at the halfway point of my vacation. I have seen a lot of amazing things and walked many miles to see them. Even in good, comfortable shoes, my dogs would be barkin&#8217; at this point. However, the one pair of shoes that I brought with me to Europe, the waterproof ones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://europe08.therealmiked.com/?p=64</link>
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