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	<title>From Now On</title>
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	<description>A blog by Tim Reader</description>
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		<title>See you back at The Ranch &#8211; or not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often rejoice in a demise, but the closure of The Ranch on Whiteladies Road in Bristol, gave me a little frisson of schadenfreude. The axe is entirely mine to grind, so let me just paint the picture for why I so despised this blameless Clifton drinking establishment. The Fine Line, which once inhabited the unit at 59-61 Whiteladies &#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/07/18/see-you-back-at-the-ranch-or-not/">Read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The trouble with paradise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my head, the Fiji part of the trip went something like this: 1) Land in Nadi, Fiji 2) Catch a boat to paradise island from outside the airport 3) Be lying on hammock drinking cockatils in the sun within the hour. The reality was somewhat different.<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/05/25/the-trouble-with-paradise/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/05/25/the-trouble-with-paradise/</link>
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		<title>Fiji&#8230; or Africa?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fiji. Weird. Of all things I&#8217;m transported straight back to Africa. The smell &#8211; both natural and polluted &#8211; the humidity, the taxi experience &#8211; both the fare negotiation and the rickety vehicle &#8211; and the extensively pot-holed roads. There are probably places in the world that are more alike &#8211; and certainly less &#8211; but based on my limited &#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/21/fiji-or-africa/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/21/fiji-or-africa/</link>
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		<title>Nelson and Christchurch and bye bye NZ!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a jaunt to Kaikoura &#8212; which incorporated none of the things it&#8217;s famous for (dolphin swimming: booked up; stunning mountain views: overcast; crayfish: soooo overpriced but a few things it isn&#8217;t known for &#8211; a petting zoo and horse trekking) &#8212; we headed back to Nelson. En route we stopped in Blenheim again as it&#8217;s the one place we&#8217;ve &#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/20/nelson-and-christchurch/">Read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Marlborough: tastes, sights and Sounds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I arrived in Blenheim to a pleasant surprise. This small city is, to us, merely the staging area for the food and wine festival, hosted at the Branscott Estate winery on its outskirts, I hadn&#8217;t given a second thought to what it might actually be like. This is wise I think! This trip has taught me that imagination is often &#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/20/marlborough-tastes-sights-and-sounds/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/20/marlborough-tastes-sights-and-sounds/</link>
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		<title>West coast road trip, Femmy and eye gunk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having returned from Doubtful Sound I spent a day doing nothing much except for eating my second legendary Fergburger (exclusive to Queenstown and open 20 hours of the day) and hunted around in vain for a budget or second-hand copy of the highly acclaimed Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King, in order to join the dots of what &#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/20/west-coast-road-trip-femmy-and-eye-gunk/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/20/west-coast-road-trip-femmy-and-eye-gunk/</link>
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		<title>Queenstown and Doubtful Sound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Queenstown, in the south west corner of the South Island and the gateway to the two &#8216;Sounds&#8216; &#8212; Milford and Doubttful &#8212; only made my itinerary because so many said I &#8216;must go&#8217;. After the earlier misfires my hopes were, well let&#8217;s say neutral. But I needn&#8217;t have worried: Queenstown was marvellous and my overnight cruise to Doubtful Sound the &#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/14/queenstown-and-doubtful-sound/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/14/queenstown-and-doubtful-sound/</link>
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		<title>Napier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realise I jumped a day in my last post, so going back a day&#8230; I managed to catch a lift from Rotorua to Napier with a mother and daughter (Beryl and Stephanie; no prizes for guessing which is the mother!) who had been staying with me at Funky Green. We stopped in at Taupo to see NZ&#8217;s biggest lake &#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/10/napier/">Read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t know what I want</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny in life, and in travels particularly, how often we get recommended something by someone who doesn&#8217;t know us at all. &#8220;You&#8217;ll love this band&#8221;, &#8220;you must see this movie&#8221;, &#8220;you HAVE to visit xyz&#8221;. Frankly, no I don&#8217;t want to go skydiving, bungee jumping, canyoning, zorbing, jagairing, ziptreking, or on any other suicide mission. however &#8216;adrenaline fuelled&#8217;. I&#8217;m &#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/08/you-dont-know-what-i-want/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/08/you-dont-know-what-i-want/</link>
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		<title>Lake placid?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an Aron Ralston-style fit of athletic hubris today I found myself in dicey waters and very nearly up a creek without a paddle. Not that I want to over-state it; of course it wasn&#8217;t anywhere near as epic, gruesome, drawn-out or extreme as 127 Hours, and the denouement nothing like. But having seen the film only days ago, scenes &#8230;<br /><a href="http://www.fromnowon.me.uk/2011/02/06/682/">Read more</a>]]></description>
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