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><channel><title>The Amateur Traveler Travel Podcast - best places to travel &#187; Craig</title> <atom:link href="http://amateurtraveler.com/author/craig/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://amateurtraveler.com</link> <description>The Amateur Traveler focuses on the best places to travel to. It covers everything from road trips to swimming with whales in Tonga. It includes both a weekly audio podcast, twice monthly video podcast and a blog.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:46:11 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>Day trips from Krakow</title><link>http://europe.amateurtraveler.com/2007/08/02/day-trips-from-krakow/</link> <comments>http://europe.amateurtraveler.com/2007/08/02/day-trips-from-krakow/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:40:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[europe travel]]></category><guid
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