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	<title>A Pinay in Europe</title>
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	<description>Europe in Photos</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Biking Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/05/11/biking-copenhagen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category>

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 Trip to Denmark, 10-14 April, 2012
I had looked forward to this trip to Copenhagen with sheer enthusiasm!  First, it was to be my first visit to Scandinavia,  second, I always wondered how a Nordic city looks like, feels like and acts like as a society.
Our plane landed at Copenhagen airport in the afternoon.  As the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick tour of Delft</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/05/07/a-quick-tour-of-delft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 21:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category>

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 Trip to Delft, The Netherlands, 4th April 2012

I have always associated Delft with blue porcelain plates, blue porcelain Dutch dolls and other glazed ceramic items of the colours blue and white.
So when my tourist guiding guests - my sister and her family who came to spend the Easter holidays in The Netherlands and Scandinavia - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving through the golden yellow fields&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/05/05/driving-from-the-south-to-paris-suburbs/</link>
		<comments>http://mariadams.com/2012/05/05/driving-from-the-south-to-paris-suburbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 21:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Finally, we&#8217;re back in Paris after driving for total ten hours from our home in the Franco-Italian border.  We left yesterday afternoon, I fell asleep the whole time and it was only this morning that I noticed the golden yellow fields dominating the whole scenery.  Of course, they are the rape seed fields that brighten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The gardens of Venice</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/05/04/the-gardens-of-venice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What makes a drab structure exquisitely charming is the garden around it, be it in containers, on land growing upright or through the walls  rambling down.  Venice is already a stunning city but the flowers and vegetation surrounding it could melt everyone’s heart even further…
I don&#8217;t think the photos below need captions so I will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Window Shopping in Venice</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/05/03/window-shopping-in-venice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s been exactly one week ago today when I went for a day trip to Venice and I haven&#8217;t posted a single photo of it here.  Well, the good news is, I&#8217;ve been sizing up and categorizing my shots for posting but there are just too many themes involved so I am going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Giulietta&#8217;s balcony in Verona</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/04/29/finding-giuliettas-balcony-in-verona/</link>
		<comments>http://mariadams.com/2012/04/29/finding-giuliettas-balcony-in-verona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[balcony of Juliet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Casa di Giulietta]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[love padlocks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Romeo and Juliet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Verona]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, a Friday,  is our last full day in Padua so as soon as H left for work this morning, I immediately set my sights on planning one final trip to another most visited place in Veneto - where else but the city of the most famous lovers of all time - Verona.
I must admit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Padua - Celebrating Liberation Day</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/04/25/padua-celebrating-liberation-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During this week-long business trip of H to Padua, Wednesday, 25th of April,  had to fall on an Italian public holiday but that doesn&#8217;t mean I could tag him along with me through my Padovan exploration today.
Oh no&#8230;.his home office is France,  work goes on, and that means making his virtual reporting and tele-conferencing from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Padua - Basilica of San Antonio</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/04/23/padua-basilica-of-san-antonio/</link>
		<comments>http://mariadams.com/2012/04/23/padua-basilica-of-san-antonio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[San Antonio de Padua
He is the patron saint of lost items, travellers, the poor and the sick. A great number of devotees light candles to ask for his intercession and if their prayers are heard, people return to express their gratitude&#8230;.. I grew up surrounded by people attending a novena devoted to him, every Tuesday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tulips at the Keukenhof Gardens</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/04/19/keukenhof-gardens-in-lisse-holland/</link>
		<comments>http://mariadams.com/2012/04/19/keukenhof-gardens-in-lisse-holland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lisse, Holland

 Hyacinth fields - photo taken from a picnic spot in Keukenhof gardens

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I&#8217;m back from an 8-day, 3-country tourist guiding assignment and can&#8217;t wait to post my pics of Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, Keukenhof gardens, Copenhagen, Legoland and Malmo!  It was drizzling half of the time and the average temperature was 5degreesC but we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherry Blossoms at the Notre Dame Cathedral gardens</title>
		<link>http://mariadams.com/2012/04/06/cherry-blossoms-at-the-notre-dame-cathedral-gardens/</link>
		<comments>http://mariadams.com/2012/04/06/cherry-blossoms-at-the-notre-dame-cathedral-gardens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariadam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I went for my annual Visita Iglesia (Church Visit traditionally done during Holy Week)  and my first stop was the Notre Dame Cathedral!
Gee!  Am I am so glad I made a side trip to its gardens for I saw the most spectacular display of cherry blossoms ever!
I just couldn&#8217;t believe my eyes&#8230;. so mesmerized [...]]]></description>
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