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                <title>Carlsberg Brewery Tour</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[You might remember the TV advert that claimed ‘the Danes hate to see it leave’ but they certainly don’t mind offering visitors the chance to drink it in their city. The tour offers some of the cheapest pints in the city as, after a brief look round, you can drink for an hour for free. The catch – it’s open until 4pm, so getting your money’s worth may feel a little indecent!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Taberna Casa Pepe de la Juderí</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A great tapas restaurant in the very heart of old Cordoba, in the Jewish district. It was so good we went twice while we visited this amazing city. The kids loved tasting all those different dishes and the people were so friendly.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Don't join the long line of people waiting to get in the Prado. If you are with your kids go to the Reina Sofia instead and see some marvellous contemporary and modern art paintings like Picasso's 'Guernica'. <br>After, go to the café/restaurant for some great food and of course a bottle of wine from the Ribera Del Duero region, superb.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Teatriz restaurant in Madrid</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Teatriz restaurant in Madrid is a fantastic restaurant  designed by Philippe Starck, converted from an old theatre. I had lunch there on Christmas Day with my family to celebrate my wife's birthday and it was one of the best meals I have ever eaten.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Royal Bombay Yacht Club</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you're a member of a club back in London, check to see if it has a reciprocal with the Royal Bombay Yacht Club - if not, try blagging! Food and bar is very cheap - really nice views of the bay and it's got a 'last days of the Raj' feel to it.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Stay in the heart of the West End away from the corporate hotels</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[London hotels aren't as stuffy and formal as they used to be and you can find a selection of stylish designer ones in the west end. One Aldwych is great. It has plenty of facilities – business centre, gym, scrummy room service – and some attractive minimalist décor. It also has a lobby bar and pool (quite rare for London). If you're feeling particularly extravagant you can book Suite 410, 500 or the Dome Suite, all of which have private gyms and spectacular views of the London skyline. <br><br>Another great West End hotel worth paying a trip to is St Martins Lane. This one was famously designed by Philipp Starck and it has a really brilliant restaurant – Asia de Cuba. Its bar, Light Bar, is where all the beautiful people hang out and the basement houses an exclusive private members club (Bungalow 8).]]></description>
                
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                <title>Sketch Gallery - great cocktails</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Sketch Gallery, on Conduit Street, is highly recommended. The modern British/French food is divine (the beef tartare is astoundingly tasty) but it’s the interior design, walls adorned by electronic projections instead of wallpaper, that takes your breath away.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Free wi-fi in JD Wetherspoons</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[JD Wetherspoons pubs and bars offer free wi-fi connection to their customers. Just enter username 'Spnsored' and password 'Service' when asked.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Room 101</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Room 101 is a bar and restaurant in Dong Cheng district. It is one of the only foreign-managed places in Beijing which is open 24/7. They also have 24-hour delivery which is a godsend - their paninis are delicious! They also have lots of live music events, free wi-fi and a terrace with BBQ.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Barretos village bull run in August</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Barretos, a small, sleepy, typical Alentejo village near Marvao, comes alive on the 2nd weekend in August with a bull run through the village, followed by a festa (festival) which continues well into the night. See the real Portugal and join the friendly locals in their tradition (they do not kill the bulls here in Portugal).]]></description>
                
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                <title>Galle Fort Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[What? Hotel.<br><br>Why? The food.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Club Magazijn</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Magazijn is an unpretentious club without a door policy in the heart of Amsterdam. The drinks are affordable despite the stylish atmosphere and the retro interior and squishy leather sofas make for a great night out in the city. Local DJs spin a mixture of cool, chilled out tunes.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Weinstube bar - just like Cheers!</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[There is a bar and restaurant called Weinstube. I found it accidentally and was surprisingly welcomed after listening to the craic going on at the bar by some local expat regulars, while having some really good schnitzel! <br><br>Staff are not over-friendly and if you need to know anything they just want to help you, from shopping to directions, or other places to eat or drink! I travel regularly to HK and pop in every time I'm there as it’s like a home away from home for me...hope it’s the same for you!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Royal York Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Boutique hotel with cocktail bar, private karaoke rooms, restuarant and plenty of history.<br>Just off the seafront.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Red Captial Club Bomb Shelter</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The bomb shelter bar near the Red Capital Residence is one of the more interesting drinking holes (in the ground) of Beijing. Getting there is half the adventure as you climb into a manhole-sized opening and down steep stairs under a low ceiling: awkward for all but the most agile.  <br><br>It was built as a bomb shelter during the cold war between China and Russia to protect party officials but the the mobile signals show the quality of construction. 50s propaganda movies and memorabilia set the scene. Serves Gold Star Yanjing beer!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Most impressive dining view in HK</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I lived in Hong Kong for four years and by far the most impressive view of Hong Kong island is from 'Aqua', a bar/restaurant at the 29th floor of 1 Peking Rd, Tsim Tsa Tsui on the Kowloon side. On the floor above Aqua there is a Chinese Restaurant called 'Hutong' that is also very impressive and with dimmed lighting to enhance the view even more.]]></description>
                
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                <title>HK Light Show and cityscape</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A bar in Kowloon to enjoy a drink after work and watch the skyscraper light show on Hong Kong. The bar also owns an old style junk called Aqualuna which takes you through the harbour and is a top place to view the cityscape.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Drink with locals</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you are bored of the same old faces in the expat world that surrounds Lan Kwai Fung in Hong Kong Island, then why not jump on the star ferry to Kowloon and explore some of the bars facing the harbour. You are more likely to bump into locals and will still be served with a smile, just at a fraction of the cost.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Sport on TV</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you want to catch some sport on television go to Champions, a good bar in the Marriott hotel. Shows a lot of live sporting events like football, rugby etc. Popular with locals and expats alike.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Super-cool clubs in Chicago</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fancy a boogie? Sound Bar and Enclave are your passes to the best late-night hedonism Chicago has to offer. The former has two levels and is invariably packed: downstairs plays hip-hop music and upstairs grooves to an unrelenting house beat. You can engineer your very own oasis of calm, though, by booking a table in the VIP room. The drinks are phenomenally cheap, you get waitress service and the chance to retreat if the music becomes too much or the people too raucous. Not the best club in the world, but a good laugh nonetheless. Altogether better is Enclave. This upscale location has undergone a full year of renovation: new floors, new (clean) bathrooms, new furnishings, impeccably styled bar areas, etc. And it’s been worth it. This is now the premier dance spot in Illinois, with beautiful people to match. Get a table in the circular, curtain-swathed VIP area and forget all about work.]]></description>
                
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