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	<title>Ride Earth &#187; Asia</title>
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		<title>How to Cook Georgian Khinkali &#8211; list of recipes.</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/09/22/how-to-cook-georgian-khinkali-list-of-recipes/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/09/22/how-to-cook-georgian-khinkali-list-of-recipes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite foods of all time is Georgian Khinkali. Here are some links to recipes:- http://stlchow.blogspot.com/2009/02/recipe-khinkali-or-how-i-learned-to.html http://www.millionmenu.info/eng/recipes/collection/drecip3263/ Wikipedia &#8211; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khinkali http://www.instructables.com/id/Dumplings-from-the-Mountains-of-Georgia/ http://www.salhino.com/xinkali.html http://khinkali.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVVhfXrJesI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpSkn6pztNE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcOdFBuyb2o Books The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia If you would like to add your link or recipe here please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Mongolian Moments</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/09/19/magic-mongolian-moments/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/09/19/magic-mongolian-moments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related content: Mongolia Mountain Biking Adventure &#8211; Some thoughts in retrospect Frozen Lakes, Mosquito infested bogs, and riding down rivers Georgia &#8211; A Photo Essay Armenia by Bike &#8211; A Photo Essay Where I Slept Part 1]]></description>
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		<title>21 Observations about Mongolia &#8211; tips for the Mongolia traveller</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/08/19/21-observations-about-mongolia-tips-for-the-mongolia-traveller/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/08/19/21-observations-about-mongolia-tips-for-the-mongolia-traveller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been back in England for 1.5 months now. What is sticking in my mind about Mongolia? 21 quick fire thoughts for the prospective Mongolia traveller. There aren&#8217;t many people in the rural areas but you&#8217;re never far from a settlement of some kind. Steppe is beautiful but it soon gets tedious to look at. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georiders &#8211; Mountain Biking in the Republic of Georgia</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/07/27/georiders-mountain-biking-in-the-republic-of-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/07/27/georiders-mountain-biking-in-the-republic-of-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was travelling in India in 2009, I often dreamt of going back to Georgia and doing loads of mountain biking. I wanted to get involved in the local biking community and contribute. Back in Georgia, I was lucky to meet some local mountain bikers. I didn&#8217;t expect to find them because I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mongolia Mountain Biking Adventure &#8211; Some thoughts in retrospect</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/07/01/mongolia-retrospective/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/07/01/mongolia-retrospective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I cycled 140km from Dover to Central London where I now reside. I&#8217;ve had a lot of time to digest the brilliant travel experience I&#8217;ve had in the last 2 months. The relative shortness of the Mongolia trip compared to previous trips has not made it feel less worthwhile. On the contrary the trip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frozen Lakes, Mosquito infested bogs, and riding down rivers</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/06/18/frozen-lakes-mosquito-infested-bogs-and-riding-down-rivers/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/06/18/frozen-lakes-mosquito-infested-bogs-and-riding-down-rivers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom and I headed from Moron, where we had taken some days off to rest, to Hatgal which is a town on the Southern tip of lake Hovsgol. We  had grown sick of pedalling across the steppe and were in search of a change of scenario (quite literally). We met two Finnish and an Australian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A couple of Morons go off the beaten track</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/06/06/a-couple-of-morons-go-off-the-beaten-track/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/06/06/a-couple-of-morons-go-off-the-beaten-track/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last week of riding Tom and I have hit the off the beaten track after deciding that it would be more interesting. From Bulgan we reached the end of the asphault which was a token gesture as we left the settlement. Soon we were back on the dirt tracks which have made Mongolian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wind-powered pedalling and diving into walls of dust for fun</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/05/28/wind-powered-pedalling-and-diving-into-walls-of-dust-for-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/05/28/wind-powered-pedalling-and-diving-into-walls-of-dust-for-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 18:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summed up the last week has been a lot of fun cycling off-road tracks through stunning scenery with a generous helping of bizarre weather conditions. We started out from Ulaan Baatar on a hot sunny afternoon through the gridlocked traffic but were soon in the countryside. We stopped briefly for a plate of noodles with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soviet Mattress Suspension and Ulaan Baatar</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/05/22/soviet-mattress-suspension-and-ulaan-baatar/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/05/22/soviet-mattress-suspension-and-ulaan-baatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 18:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom and I are now in Ulaan Baatar. The bus journey here was arduous. We expected it to take around seven hours  but it took the entire day. However, one day is nothing compared to the four days on the train. The bus had extra springy suspension and Tom and I were lucky enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain biking across Mongolia – Trans Siberian to Ulan Ude</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/05/16/mountain-biking-across-mongolia-%e2%80%93-trans-siberian-to-ulan-ude/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/05/16/mountain-biking-across-mongolia-%e2%80%93-trans-siberian-to-ulan-ude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 18:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom and I are in Ulan Ude. We spent 4 days on the train and 5600km on the Trans Siberian crossing Russia from Moscow. I came overland from London to Moscow via Eurolines and Ecolines buses. Tom came from Yerevan on trains and buses and took the ferry from Trabzon (Turkey) to Sochi (Russia). The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelling back from Georgia for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/01/22/travelling-back-from-georgia-for-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2010/01/22/travelling-back-from-georgia-for-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I travelled back to the UK from Georgia by public transport to spend Christmas with my family. The journey was an adventure of it&#8217;s own. I took overland public transport instead of flying because of the environment impact of flying from carbon emissions. I also find flying quite boring and psychologically disagreeable especially after spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curry, Dolma and Wilderness Mountain Biking in Armenia</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/11/15/curry-dolma-and-wilderness-mountain-biking-in-armenia/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/11/15/curry-dolma-and-wilderness-mountain-biking-in-armenia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom emailed me last week to tell me he was going to follow an old man on a horse to a hot spring at 3000m. That sounded like my idea of fun so I decided to go to Yerevan and do it. I went to the bus station in Ortachala in Tbilisi at 9.30 am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Caucausus Mountain Bike adventure in Khevsureti</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/11/10/a-caucausus-mountain-bike-adventure-in-khevsureti/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/11/10/a-caucausus-mountain-bike-adventure-in-khevsureti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom, David and I went for a bike ride into the Caucasus mountains of Georgia. I&#8217;d been planning it for a while and I wanted to get some proper riding in before the snows descended. Tom arrived on the Sunday but leaving was delayed until Tuesday. To pass the time we decided to build up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weddings, unlike lightning, strike in the same place twice&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/10/06/weddings-unlike-lightning-strike-in-the-same-place-twice/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/10/06/weddings-unlike-lightning-strike-in-the-same-place-twice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first post in a while to the Ride Earth blog because I&#8217;ve not been cycle touring recently. I returned via Public transport back from France to Tbilisi  at the end of the summer. I met Tom in Venice and we spent a long and strange evening sleeping on a bench drinking wine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories from Iran</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/08/21/memories-from-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/08/21/memories-from-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write something more about my experience in Iran. At the time I didn&#8217;t write much on the blog. But I did write a lot in my diary which will appear in a book in the future. Some experiences stay in my mind in particular. They started at Agarak, the Armenian-Iranian border. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Two Month Storm</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/07/13/a-two-month-storm/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/07/13/a-two-month-storm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain Biking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4HWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[andrew welch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CENN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critiscism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dave allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demonstrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folklore]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[georgian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rustaveli]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[swimming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[uk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Websites]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time since I wrote, I know. In fact I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time in front of a computer. I&#8217;ve been writing every morning and now have written 95000 words of my book. I met one of my sister&#8217;s friends a couple of days ago who has just finished writing a book she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 things I&#8217;ve learnt from writing a book so far</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/06/01/10-things-ive-learnt-from-writing-a-book-so-far/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/06/01/10-things-ive-learnt-from-writing-a-book-so-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expedition Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now 55,000 words into my book&#8217;s first draft and I&#8217;ve learnt a few things which I thought I&#8217;d share: Get up early in the morning to write. e.g. 6 am. I tried writing late at night and got into a counter-productive routine of falling asleep at 10.30 pm, waking up at 2 am and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi to Georgia</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/05/11/email-about-how-i-got-from-delhi-to-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/05/11/email-about-how-i-got-from-delhi-to-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 08:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expedition Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bombs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[istanbul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tbilisi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After leaving the Iran embassy having been rejected for the visa a second time, I cycled over to the travel agency, and booked a flight to Istanbul. Flying is not the best transport for me because I feel that it cuts out the point of travel which is the adventure of meeting people and having [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Getting things clear</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/26/getting-things-clear/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/26/getting-things-clear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constructive Ranting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working a lot on creative stuff recently. My profession is in the field of web design. I&#8217;ve been posting artwork onto the Ride Earth flickr photo album, and other creative nuggets of inspiration and perhaps they don&#8217;t belong there. So I&#8217;m working on splitting things up so that Ride Earth is just about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My photos headline on Citizenside.com</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/23/my-photos-headline-on-citizensidecom/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/23/my-photos-headline-on-citizensidecom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constructive Ranting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizenside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demonstration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tbilisi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard about a public-driven journalism website from a friend, http://www.citizenside.com and I uploaded some photos I took of the &#8216;cells&#8217; that appeared all over the main street, Rustaveli, Freedom Square and around the Parliament building yesterday morning. These metal framed cuboids covered in plastic sheeting are housing protesters claiming the president Saakashvili has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A life without goals is going nowhere</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/23/a-life-without-goals-is-going-nowhere/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/23/a-life-without-goals-is-going-nowhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constructive Ranting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mentality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ngo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tbilisi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volunteering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being in a new location, and having hatched new plans I&#8217;m finding myself at that stage of tilling the ground and sowing the seeds to hopefully grow into burgeoning new projects. I&#8217;m organising my design resources and getting my website workflow sorted. I made a time plan to organise my day. I&#8217;ve met people to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing etc</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/20/writing-etc/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/20/writing-etc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constructive Ranting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing is going ok. It&#8217;s new territory and a new challenge and I&#8217;m enjoying it.I have written about a previous adventure before- a mountain bike ride from Inverness to Fort William in May 2006. You can read that account in the earlier blog archives. I feel that my writing then was particularly stylised to appeal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new mission</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/14/a-new-mission/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/14/a-new-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expedition Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m hanging up the panniers for a while and I&#8217;m living in a flat with Fanny in Tbilisi. I decided to write up my journals into a book which will cover my journey from England to India and Nepal. My goal is to write 1000 words a day for the greater part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demonstrations in Tbilisi</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/13/demonstrations-in-tbilisi/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/13/demonstrations-in-tbilisi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expedition Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demonstrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tbilisi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I arrived back in Tbilisi in Georgia just in time to witness a demonstration in a similar mould to the one Tom and I witnessed when we arrived for the first time back in January 2008. 50,000 people gathered on the main street, Rustaveli, outside the front of the parliament building. There is a large [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Back in Tbilisi- On the lookout for work</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/06/back-in-tbilisi-on-the-lookout-for-work/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/04/06/back-in-tbilisi-on-the-lookout-for-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constructive Ranting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expedition Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Build it up, tear it down&#8221; &#8220;A period of expansion, and a period of consolidation&#8221; So I&#8217;m back in Tbilisi (story on that to come shortly). I&#8217;m on the lookout for creative projects / work to earn some cash.  My intension to stay in Tbilisi for some time as Fanny has a job which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Things i don&#8217;t do enough of</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/03/04/10-things-i-dont-do-enough-of/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2009/03/04/10-things-i-dont-do-enough-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constructive Ranting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conviction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drawing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Pursue my music production interests+ meet likeminded people 2. Paint and draw &#8211; making art in general 3. Spend time with mum, dad, sister, grandparents, in fact my entire family 4. Be totally unselfish and put others before myself 5. Break habits 6. Be the small observer 7. Dance, sing, express my me-ness 8. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back on the Road, for now.</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/09/29/back-on-the-road-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/09/29/back-on-the-road-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, I’m back in that bumpy, unforgiving place of discovery they call the road. This time I&#8217;ve only got myself and the wildlife for company.  I’m in exotic ancient Persia, or Iran on modern maps. I traversed the mountainous land of Armenia in a thigh burning, vodka toting, but rewarding 6 days. The luxury of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Needle in a haystack</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/08/19/geopolitics-of-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/08/19/geopolitics-of-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/08/19/geopolitics-of-georgia/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I have been digging through the news about Georgia to find some articles which are closer to what I consider to be closer to the truth. Typing &#8216;real news&#8217; into Google I came across a news website which is member supported and do not accept advertising, government or corporate funding. We don&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/08/09/war/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/08/09/war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expedition Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/08/09/war/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Georgia declared a state of war with Russia. Luckily I&#8217;d left on the 26th of July to come home to England to surprise my family. I travelled by bus and train. I&#8217;m planning to start to travel back towards Georgia on Monday. I hope that by the time I intend to get back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmentally Sustainable Building Technology in Tbilisi</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/06/03/environmentally-sustainable-building-technology-in-tbilisi/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/06/03/environmentally-sustainable-building-technology-in-tbilisi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constructive Ranting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently designed a website for a new building in Tbilisi. It is the first Class A+ building, designed by a German architects Wandel Hoefer Lorch. It is an impressive looking structure with a glass fascade which stands out amongst traditional Tbilisi buildings. The special thing about the building is that it is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practicing What You Preach</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/05/02/practicing-what-you-preach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 08:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went to teach my English speaking lesson at the &#8216;Georgian-Scottish-House&#8217; in Tbilisi. Recently I have had another gear-change with regards to my thinking on how I can do my bit to help reduce the now widely accepted human-induced climate change that is happening. A main aim of Ride Earth is to observe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space and Time</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/03/31/space-and-time-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Tbilisi and hopefully this blog will fill in what has been happening with me. As you may know I arrived in Yerevan for the first time, by bicycle, on the 24th January. I met up with Tom in the city after we had cycled alone from near the Georgian border. Fanny came out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stillness and Realisation</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/01/30/stillness-and-realisation/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/01/30/stillness-and-realisation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived in Yerevan last Wednesday. I have been staying with some wonderful new friends who work at the French Embassy here. From the first village after crossing the border into Armenia from Georgia, Tom and I decided to cycle alone to Yerevan. Cycling alone gives one more freedom. I decide when to move, stop, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tbilisi Beneath the Ice</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/01/17/tbilisi-beneath-the-ice/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2008/01/17/tbilisi-beneath-the-ice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Sylvester, the Polish cyclist we met on Christmas Day in Batumi, was explaining that conditions were difficult here for local people in Georgia, coping with the cold midwinter, I remember thinking, surely it&#8217;s not as difficult as cycling round the world? What a weird comparison and abstract concept. People in places with extreme weather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing in the Dark</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2007/12/20/dancing-in-the-dark/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2007/12/20/dancing-in-the-dark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was cycling towards Trabzon.  We went through a number of dark, ominous looking tunnels through the hills. I&#8217;m cycling along, and then there it is, another black hole. My blood pressure rises, the hard shoulder thins and squeezes me off onto the road, to share it with the multi-tonne trucks flying past, spraying me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling off the tongue</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2007/12/13/rolling-off-the-tongue/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2007/12/13/rolling-off-the-tongue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although people are helpful and friendly, we often get looked at like we have three heads. I find it funny, and its completely harmless and utterly understandable. Two bearded English men turn up. One is wearing a fluorescent sock on his head and looks like a traffic cone, the other is wearing a ridiculous helmet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Nights and Notes from Sinop</title>
		<link>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2007/12/09/cold-nights-and-notes-from-sinop/</link>
		<comments>http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk/blog/2007/12/09/cold-nights-and-notes-from-sinop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I smell pretty terr?ble but I’ve got a fishing boat to go and sleep on tonight, and I just bought a new blanket which I hope will keep me warm as the nights have been uncomfortably chilly recently. Normally camping is a perfectly fine option for our sleeping arrangements, but I’ve been more dubious recently [...]]]></description>
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