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	<title>A Gamer&#039;s Odyssey &#187; italy</title>
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	<description>Tracking the every day minutiae during the worldwide adventure of keen gamer, traveller and bar tender : Simon VanderHeyden</description>
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		<title>Battaglia dei Fiori</title>
		<link>http://www.agamersodyssey.com/2009/07/08/battaglia-dei-fiori/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Ventimiglia, once every two years a pretty amazing festival is held: La Battaglia dei Fiori or in english, the Battle of Flowers. This festival is an celebration of the Spring where the communities that make up Ventimiglia compete to create the best most extravgant float to be judged during a parade. These floats are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ventimiglia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My visit to Ventimiglia started with the first ever photo of me in all my gear, and ended with a new understanding of my family and our history. Arriving on the train from Nice (I haven&#8217;t written anything about my time in Nice mainly coz I don&#8217;t have time) I stepped onto the platform to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinque Terre</title>
		<link>http://www.agamersodyssey.com/2009/06/23/cinque-terre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best things about busabout is the freedom it provides in finding neat little places for yourself. Each major day of travelling has an optional halfway stop. At first I was a bit reluctant to try these stops, but with every pickup along the route of people who took time out of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pisa</title>
		<link>http://www.agamersodyssey.com/2009/06/17/pisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to say it, but Pisa was the first time I felt a little disappointed on my trip. Hey, seeing the leaning tower was cool. One of those “I’m in Italy, I’ve gotta see it” sorta things, but over all a trip out to Pisa is pretty much a non-event. Pisa is a fairly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florence</title>
		<link>http://www.agamersodyssey.com/2009/06/15/florence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florence is very cool. A lot of cool kids study there. It seems to be the thing to do. Most of them are studying &#8220;Mass Communication&#8221; or &#8220;Fashion&#8221;. I don&#8217;t mean to offend anyone, but it seems that pretty much all the chicks in Florence are studying &#8220;Mass Communication&#8221; or &#8220;Fashion&#8221; but none of them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roma</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to legend Rome was founded by Romulus when a bunch of birds almost shat on him and decided he should be the king of the new city. He had a bit of a blue with his brother Remus and ended up killing him, which was unfortunate as they were apparently nursed by a wolf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.agamersodyssey.com/2009/06/12/an-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Transcript of audio recorded on 25/06/2009 in St Peters Square] A Gamer&#8217;s Odyssey: &#8220;With us today is Simon VanderHeyden. He&#8217;s been traveling the world for nigh on Six months and has been blogging about his experience. Thanks for chatting with us today Simon&#8221; Simon VanderHeyden: &#8220;My Pleasure! Great to be here in the Vatican today&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toga! Toga!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An evening at the Venice camping ground acts as the theatre to a battle between the shining light of busabout and the bitter, weeping dark of Topdeck. Bedsheets and ivy. Expensive beers and Poker Face on repeat. Toga was the call, and toga we resounded. TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! I am still amazed that toga parties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venice</title>
		<link>http://www.agamersodyssey.com/2009/06/12/venice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times when I think &#8220;Damn, a girlfriend would be handy&#8221;. Not for the obvious benefits of getting her to check what that sound out the front was, or a someone to watch my beer while I go to the loo down the local pub but then duck out to check the score on [...]]]></description>
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