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                <title>The Pompidou Centre</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I really like the Pompidou Centre as a building. It's so unusual and high-tech it's worth visiting just to walk around the outside. Also home of the Beaubourg Museum. There's always something interesting on there.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Escape To France For Just £21 With Car + 9 Friends.</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Special offer from P&amp;O Ferries. Any duration in 2007 with car and up to 9 passengers, just £21. Includes all taxes and surcharges.<br><br>I recommend it, because it's always a good laugh on the ferry. A mad dash from the downstairs car bays to the restaurant to fight over cod and chips. Then off to the duty free shop for some duty frees. Up top, for a bracing performance standing on the bow rails, as see in Titanic ...before the crazy hunt for the car, because all the decks look the same, and you forgot to write down the deck number.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Plaça de Sant Josep Oriol</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The Plaça de Sant Josep Oriol in the Gothic Quarter is a beautiful part of Barcelona to stay in. There's a nice fourteenth century Gothic Church (Eglésia de Santa Maria del Pi) in the square and an interesting Artist's market where they sell paintings (just about every morning, as I recall). There are lots of very good cafés around there serving excellent food and wine too. It's also within easy walking distance of La Rambla, and the port.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The ferry between Elsinore and Helsingborg</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Someone's already suggested going to Sweden for the day, but the interesting thing to me is that many Swedes buy their alcohol in Denmark, because it's fiendishly expensive in Sweden. So on the ferry, there's all these Vikings trundling around trolleys stacked up with crates full of beer or returning the empties. I tried some Swedish beer and it seemed quite good to me, but if nobody can afford to drink it, then it occurs to me from this, that living in Sweden must be like living in hell... still, notwithstanding the price of alcohol, it was quite good fun there.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Car Ferry Between Fyn And Sjælland</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[On the way to Copenhagen by road, from Esbjerg, the car ferry between Fyn and Sjælland is well worth taking a ride on, because it only takes about an hour and runs right beside The Great Belt Bridge, which is very impressive viewed from the sea.<br><br>At the halfway point of the ferry journey, you get the impression that the bridge is disappearing into the sea at both ends it's that long, at 1,624 meters. The pylons are 254 meters high.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tivoli Funfair</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I'm 99% sure it was at Tivoli Funfair... (although it may just possibly have been in Bakken Funfair, just to the North). But if you like scary rides at funfairs, they've built the ultimate Fear Machine.<br><br>It's a massive big wheel with automated mechanical arms. These are apparently supposed to restrain the passengers into their seats. And that's where the fear starts. It's all computer controlled you see... So, just as you start wondering if that click you hoped you heard, really was the sound of the automated restraining mechanism, locking you safely into this computer controlled, Contraption From Hell (rather than the restraining mechanism just falling to pieces on the floor) ...it rises high up into the sky. And while it does that, you can see the neighbouring passengers doing exactly what you are doing. Panicking, and feverishly tugging at the restraint mechanism to try and escape. But later, when the full realisation of your fate hits you, trying to make absolutely sure it's locked. It then starts revolving in crazy spirals, and tries to fling the passengers across Denmark.<br><br>It is without doubt, the scariest funfair ride I ever been on in my life. Absolutely freaky. My only advice is that it's a good idea to give your loose change and spectacles to a friend (if you don't manage to escape from the queue). Because that's what flies through the air once it starts going round...]]></description>
                
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                <title>Salisbury Cathedral</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Architecturally, the finest cathedral in the UK, in my own opinion (if you like flying buttresses...) Also containing the oldest (as far as I know) working mechanical clock in the world, and some amazing works of art, such as the Sleeping Knight. I can't actually remember who he was though, off hand.]]></description>
                
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                <title>La Marina Beach, Costa Blanca</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Really nice sandy beach stretching 17 kilometres from Santa Pola to Torrevieja. There's some great outdoor restaurants by the beach serving all sorts of seafood dishes. The Paella's great!]]></description>
                
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                <title>New Siru Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Next to the Sheraton. A really nice hotel with the same view, and it's much better than the Sheraton. The food's brilliant and the rooms are great with a fridge full booze that gets replaced every morning, as if by magic.]]></description>
                
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                <title>DFDS Seaways Harwich to Esbjerg</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Brilliant way to get to Copenhagen with a car. It's really good fun. Overnight ship with a great nightclub. They've always had really good bands playing whenever I've been. On the down side, it's quite a long drive from Esbjerg, and you still have to get a ferry to Sjælland.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Plaça Reial</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A great place to spend all night drinking!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Museum of Modern Art (Musee d'Art Moderne)</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[All the the main -isms of 20th century art.<br><br>Opening hours: daily, 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 17:00<br>Admission fee: 5 EUR]]></description>
                
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                <title>Walthamstow Reservoirs</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fly fishing for Rainbow Trout in London! Accessible via the tube.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tivoli Gardens</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Promenade orchestra. Illuminated gardens. Glass swans on the lake, and an excellent firework display every two weeks. Very cool.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Excellent art museum whose collection includes all the bronze sculptures of Degas, many paintings and sculptures by Gauguin, and the excellent Classical Roman Collection including the bust of Pompey the Great (55 BC). Well worth a visit.]]></description>
                
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