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		<title>High On Tasmania</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[High above Hobart, Tasmania&#8217;s capital, looms Mt. Wellington. From the summit, at about 4200 feet, Hobart and the Derwent River gleam in the hyper-clean, frigid and sunlit air. Getting up there, and being there, were breathtaking, in a teeth-chattering sort of way. First, getting there, on a narrow curvy road. A road so narrow that &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/28/high-on-tasmania/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">High On Tasmania</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>No Tasmanian Devils</title>
		<link>https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/no-tasmanian-devils/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tasmania astounded me and stole my heart. I came expecting wildness, the smelly and fierce Tasmanian Devils, the Outback ends of the earth. Those do exist here, I know, but instead what I found was hundreds of black swans, a dockside greeting from the Tasmania Police Pipe Band, a private concert for Azamara guests given &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/no-tasmanian-devils/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">No Tasmanian Devils</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sometimes Trains</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dunedin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;ve been traveling for a long time by ship, sometimes nothing sounds better than a train trip. The world still rocks and rolls in a familiar way, so all of your sea-legs skills still apply, but it&#8217;s speeding, or occasionally creeping, across dry land. This is the fabulous Dunedin railway station, built in 1906 &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/sometimes-trains/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sometimes Trains</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Most Beautiful Land</title>
		<link>https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/a-most-beautiful-land/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2024 23:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand never fails to stun me. This was my first visit to the Bay of Islands, and it offered the kind of lazy perfection that I dream of, but don&#8217;t always find, when traveling. And when I can bask in beauty knowing it&#8217;s for a great cause, my spirit soars. Soaring is effortless when &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/a-most-beautiful-land/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Most Beautiful&#160;Land</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Polynesian Eye Candy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raiatea]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am here to confess, and apologize for, the inescapable fact that my impressions and recollections of French Polynesia are blurry, rain-soaked, dripping with sweat and the damp fragrance of flowers. Also somewhat random, like this part of the trip itself. Tahiti, Raiatea, Bora Bora, then back to Tahiti. Not to the Cook Islands. Six &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/12/polynesian-eye-candy/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Polynesian Eye Candy</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mo&#8217;orea (Mis)adventures</title>
		<link>https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/moorea-misadventures/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 03:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mo&#8217;orea is fantastically beautiful, especially under the brooding skies that presaged the coming storm. So beautiful that it&#8217;s hard to imagine taking a bad photo; it seems to be the kind of place where you just point your camera and take prize-winning pictures every time. That&#8217;s what I thought, in a great display of imagination &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/moorea-misadventures/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Mo&#8217;orea (Mis)adventures</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a just a brief bulletin from the climate change-informed department of weather. If you&#8217;re in a part of the world that&#8217;s currently getting inundated by various nefarious weather phenomena, you&#8217;ll sympathize. Over here in wherever-we-are, we are too. Yesterday we were in Raiatea, where it was off-and-on pouring like the word drought had &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/stormy-weather-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Stormy Weather</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Of Mutiny and Atolls</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in 1789 when the notorious band of mutineers seized control of the HMS Bounty after putting the captain overboard, they hid out from justice right here, on Pitcairn Island. I expect that it looked then pretty much exactly as it does today, and a less hospitable island is hard to imagine. Nonetheless, some 47 &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/of-mutiny-and-atolls/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Of Mutiny and&#160;Atolls</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reaching Rapa Nui</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Of all places on Earth that I never imagined being able to visit, Easter Island, more properly called Rapa Nui, would have to be at the top of the list. It&#8217;s impossibly remote, lying 2200 miles off the coast of Chile. And even when you get there, unless you fly in, you have only about &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/01/30/reaching-rapa-nui/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Reaching Rapa Nui</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>(Mostly) Edible Peru</title>
		<link>https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/01/28/mostly-edible-peru/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abra Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Being slightly obsessed with ceviche I decided that when we docked in Salaverry, Peru I would take a class in making ceviche and pisco sours. In the event it wasn&#8217;t the best bowl I had in Peru, but it was pretty darn good. But in order to get to our class from Salaverry port we &#8230; <a href="https://frenchletters.wordpress.com/2024/01/28/mostly-edible-peru/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">(Mostly) Edible Peru</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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