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		<title>Thanksgiving Korean Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday of this week, Koreans celebrated their own version of Thanksgiving. Called Chuseok, it is the most important holiday of the year and combines a harvest festival with the vestiges of ancestor worship. There is also a great deal of booze involved.    While Chuseok proper was on the 22nd, it&#8217;s a three-day break from work. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1427&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been&#160;back in South Korea for about a week now. How long we&#8217;ll&#160;stay this time&#160;is anybody&#8217;s guess &#8211; anywhere from one month to one year. It&#8217;s good to be back, too, because there is still so much left to write about. But before I get to all that, I feel I must give props to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1349&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Score One for the Scots</title>
		<link>http://gnomeless.com/2010/08/31/score-one-for-the-scots-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of this blog, of whom there are a few, will remember that I once made a crack about the Scottish thinking Haggis is food. Well, I tried it the other day and must now reach deep down into my soul to find that last shred of integrity I&#8217;ve been hanging on to and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1236&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Continental Awards</title>
		<link>http://gnomeless.com/2010/08/29/the-continental-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right, well it&#8217;s been a while since the last post. In the time that has passed, we&#8217;ve been to Florence, Paris, Brussels and now we&#8217;re in England again. The best way I can think of to catch up is to present awards to the cities we visited during our fifty days of travelling throughout continental Europe. So, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1188&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sofia vs. Ohrid</title>
		<link>http://gnomeless.com/2010/07/27/sofia-vs-ohrid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past week, we have been in Ohrid, Macedonia. For a week before that, we were in Sofia, Bulgaria. Both cities are in the Balkans and both spent decades under Communism. However, that&#8217;s about all these two places have in common. Whereas Ohrid is dynamic and thriving, Sofia gives every indication of needing a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1160&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Little Hostel in Sofia</title>
		<link>http://gnomeless.com/2010/07/24/the-best-little-hostel-in-sofia/</link>
		<comments>http://gnomeless.com/2010/07/24/the-best-little-hostel-in-sofia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Places We've Stayed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve stayed at a lot of hostels over the years. Many are just places to sleep and many others are great places to meet fellow travelers and swap stories and travel tips. The most rare type of hostel, though, is my favorite: a place to meet other travelers as well as lots of local people. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1138&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Bulgaria!</title>
		<link>http://gnomeless.com/2010/07/18/welcome-to-bulgaria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a heart-stopping moment, I thought the taxi driver was going to drive away with our stuff. I began banging on the trunk, yelling, &#8220;Get back here!&#8221; while I started to memorize his license plate number. Thankfully, the taxi stopped. I stepped aside and he backed up to the curb. I stood in front of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1112&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Simulate ADD</title>
		<link>http://gnomeless.com/2010/07/13/how-to-simulate-add/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just done about twenty-seven seconds&#8217; worth of research, and here is what I&#8217;ve got to show for it: About three per cent of people have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Simple math says about 97 per cent of the population does not live with this condition. Well, if you&#8217;ve ever wondered what ADD is like, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1091&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Very Civil Unrest</title>
		<link>http://gnomeless.com/2010/07/11/very-civil-unrest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a one-day transit strike in Rome on Friday. That in itself is nothing remarkable, of course. Transit strikes are common around the world. But this one was different from others I&#8217;ve experienced &#8211; bus, subway and commuter train drivers actually showed courtesy to the citizens who would be affected. We&#8217;re staying at Camping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1074&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World&#8217;s Worst Airport?</title>
		<link>http://gnomeless.com/2010/07/05/the-worlds-worst-airport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Melland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a curious fact that Russia produces plenty of chess grandmasters but is apparently unable to find anyone who can manage an airport. We learned this on our trip from Seoul to London on June 23rd, which included a three-hour layover at Moscow&#8217;s Sheremetyevo Airport. I&#8217;ve been to quite a few airports over the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnomeless.com&#038;blog=12693669&#038;post=1032&#038;subd=jeffmelland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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