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Excellent piece of running inspiration posted earlier today over at Connecting the dots…. After a long break from running it seems that the parenting part of the family is enjoying the scenery around them while hitting the ground running. Very good and looks like good fun!

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Wow. this is HUGE! Very impressed with the surroundings of the Red Square in Moscow. I managed to get out of the office on time, the weather is great, and I’ve just been at the center of Moscow. Good stuff!!

- Posted using MobyPicture.com

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Just caught a glimpse of this over at Skype.com and it is available for immediate download. Skype continues to develop their successful VoIP software and with Skype 3.0 they have some stuff for us that we haven’t seen from IM software so far.
The ONE thing which is extremely interesting is the ability to connect with […]

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Kim’s Restaurant, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Originally uploaded by gubbex.

Relaxing! That’s what we did on this the last day on Zanzibar. Eric and Jakob went snorkeling for a couple of hours with Captain Sappi, but for the rest of the day everything was about relaxing and a bit of packing for the early morning start the next day.
We […]

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Daladala at Market, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Originally uploaded by gubbex.

With a population counting roughly 200.000, Stone Town is the largest city on Zanzibar and as of the year 2000 listed on UNESCOs list of World Heritage Sites. They say:
“The Stone Town of Zanzibar is a fine example of the Swahili coastal trading towns of East […]

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Bicycle on Unguja Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Originally uploaded by gubbex.

This Bicycle on Unguja Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, is very typical for the bikes we saw. Earlier on we saw many more bikes also including an odd sort of suspension system for the front wheel. Very unique and VERY heavy !
On this the 11th day Eric went diving […]

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Sunrise on Jambiani Beach, Zanzibar
Originally uploaded by gubbex.
Differences from one country or one region within a country to the other are usually not really that big.
However, in Tanzania the differences between the mainland and the Unguja island in the Zanzibar archipelago are quite significant. Yes, the language is pretty much the same - the entire […]

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Close Encounter in Tarangire National Park
Originally uploaded by gubbex.

Got up extremely early to get an early morning safari out of our last day on the mainland. The first half hour or so we nearly didn’t see an animal, but then things started getting interesting.
While Eric and Jakob we standing looking out of the roof of […]

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Elephant Family in Tarangire National Park
Originally uploaded by gubbex.

Going from Karatu to Tarangire National Park, we stopped between Karatu and Mto Wa Mbu to shop for souvenirs at shop by the road side. Eric and Jakob bargained hard to get a good price from the shopkeeper. An hour later Leen got one of the same […]

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Waterfall in the Olmoti Crater
Originally uploaded by gubbex.

We left the Ngorongoro lodge in the morning to go to the Empakai Crater. Later on it turned out that the destination had been changed and we stopped much, much earlier at the Olmoti Crater after a long ride around the Ngorongoro Crater on the rim of it.
The […]

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