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		<title>Retrospective: honoured hostels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian: Hoscars&#8217; top 10 UK hostels
It&#8217;s now been six months since I left for an amazing trip. During the month I traveled through Scotland, Ireland and Wales, I&#8217;ve stayed in a lot of hostels. Most of them were average; in most cases, I merely thought of them as a place to store your stuff and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&blog=4036570&post=238&subd=mindthehalfgap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching up with carbon offsets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unbelievable. It&#8217;s now been three months since I finished that wonderful trip to the UK, Ireland, and Paris. While I&#8217;m expected to display my photo slideshow to the family on Christmas eve, the one thing still outstanding for me is to find out about offsetting the carbon used during my flights (and if possible, my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&blog=4036570&post=234&subd=mindthehalfgap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been two months since I left for Europe, and almost a month since I&#8217;ve returned. In the correspondences I&#8217;ve been having with people I&#8217;ve met and have returned, they too still want to be travelling. I&#8217;m no exception, and that should have been the case.
Originally, I intended to travel to Japan and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&blog=4036570&post=223&subd=mindthehalfgap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mind the (Half) Gap goes to VIFF</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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2008 will be my fifth year attending the Vancouver International Film Festival. In some years, the screenings I&#8217;ve attended in the festival have been the only movies I&#8217;ve watched in a theatre all year. I don&#8217;t know why that is, but I&#8217;m not really complaining.
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		<title>The obligatory wrap post.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Forget the jet lag and the reality I had to face when I came back. I have to say, unequivocally and with oh-so-great conviction, that this trip was the best experience I&#8217;ve ever had. There were no real disappointments to speak of, and you will have a hard time getting me to pick my most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&blog=4036570&post=204&subd=mindthehalfgap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trip pictures!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(My banner picture has now been updated, to reflect the inspiration for this blog&#8217;s title&#8230;)
It&#8217;s taken a bit of time (thanks jet lag + cold!), not to mention plowing through almost 2000 pictures that remained in my camera&#8217;s SD cards (through some fancy math I calculated I actually took about 2400, but deleted the rubbish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&blog=4036570&post=199&subd=mindthehalfgap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jet lag is no fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s now been three days since I&#8217;ve returned, and the transition back to Vancouver time hasn&#8217;t been much fun. I woke up at 3:00am on Sunday, after about five hours of sleep, and tried to get back to sleep, but ended up tossing and turning all the way to 6:00, when it was no use. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&blog=4036570&post=195&subd=mindthehalfgap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 38: Notes from the plane</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was starting to type this as my plane flew over Greenland; I had been napping when a spot of turbulence woke me up. The windows were down, as Ironman was being screened, but the row ahead of me had its windows up. I opened them in time to see some fantastic glaciers.
Over the last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&blog=4036570&post=188&subd=mindthehalfgap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 33: Bye to London</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t realized how regimented the tour timetable is, which is why I barely have time to write this post before heading to pack, then sleep. In the morning (very early!), our tour group travels to Paris.
I think I&#8217;ve gotten the most of London in the limited time I&#8217;ve been here. Obviously I couldn&#8217;t get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&blog=4036570&post=181&subd=mindthehalfgap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 29: The lone wanderer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Roald Dahl Plass and Wales Millennium Centre, taken on Thursday night. I came back to Cardiff Bay in the evening to see how it looks at night. In the time I was there, it wasn&#8217;t lit very well; the folks at Torchwood and Doctor Who probably had to flood the place with lights when they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&blog=4036570&post=174&subd=mindthehalfgap&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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