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		<itunes:summary>A quick roundup of the latest travel news posted to Travel Off The Cuff.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Feb 2010 Desktop: Chicago, IL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a low angle shot of Trump Tower Chicago.  The saturation in the image was created by running it through a &#8220;toy camera&#8221; filter and adding some vignette to the edges. From Wikipedia:
The Trump International Hotel and Tower, also known as Trump Tower Chicago and locally as the Trump Tower, is a skyscraper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 02, Part 1:  Holy Baths &amp; A Warm Roman Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day began with the warm Italian sun rising from behind the hills of Rome and birds in the trees twittering like teenagers with cell phones.  Or it would have, had I had the shutters on the windows up.  As it was, I awoke to the alarm in a dark room.

It was a solid night of sleep, which was expected given the long day yesterday.  The bed itself was on the firm side and the two sheets of onion paper which stood in for pillows still didn’t distract me from passing out in the darkness.  My hand danced around the bedside table looking for a light switch for a couple of long moments before bathing the room in warm, yellow light.]]></description>
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		<title>Jan 2010 Desktop: Pisa, Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a shot I took of the Leaning Tower in Pisa Italy last May.  Pick your monitor size and enjoy this desktop image for the next month.  Learn more about the tower at Wikipedia.  And tell us what you think below!

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		<title>Day 01, Part 2: Veal and the Pope</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2010/01/12/veal_and_the_pope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a nice short nap and a warm shower, I headed down to the lobby for our first meeting.  My room was on the fourth floor of the hotel and had this view, which was looking away from Rome.


I was a bit early, so grabbed a couch off to the side to wait.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throwback Video: Virgin Atlantic, Still Red Hot</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2010/01/03/throwback-video-virgin-atlantic-still-red-hot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe that this commercial aired in the UK a year ago.  It&#8217;s celebrating Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s 25 years of flying.  I&#8217;m a big fan of Virgin airways (praying that Virgin America makes a hub in Orlando).  I&#8217;ve flown them over to the UK and via my part time job, met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Standing Still in Germany</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2009/12/30/video-standing-still-in-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The really cool thing about watching other people&#8217;s videos on the web is that the better they are, the more you want to try out the effect.  I&#8217;ve toyed around with Tilt-Shift photography and am currently playing around with time-lapse video.  There are a couple of different ways to do time-lapse.

The first way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Photo: Epcot Norway Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday decorations in Norway at Epcot.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 01, Part 1: Rome Around and Around</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2009/12/13/day-01-part-1-rome-around-and-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s better: the perfect vacation or one littered with unexpected events?  I’d argue the second because it makes your stories so much better.  The perfect vacation is, well, boring.  Sure, the sites you saw are interesting, but with no hardship, there’s no conflict, no growth as an individual.  No excitement.

For example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Photo: Aphrodite of Milos</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2009/11/25/travel-photo-aphrodite-of-milos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken at the Louvre in Paris in September 2008, I like taking photos not necessarily of the subject themselves, but of reactions to it.  Here we see a collection of tourists studying, viewing and photographing the Venus de Milo statue.]]></description>
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		<title>Into Rome</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2009/11/18/into-romr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve never had what I would consider a bad flight across the Atlantic until this trip.  Perhaps “bad” is the wrong word. It wasn’t a “bad” flight, per se, just…well…
I was able to book round trip flights on Air France for less than $700 round trip total, which was a very good deal at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While at Epcot with a buddy of mine (and fellow blogger of Discover Epcot), I talked him into filming a fun little video in Germany.  Click read more to see the video.


After seeing the results, we both have ideas on different methods to do this, so you might see more of these videos&#8230;
For those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Tour</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2009/10/20/video-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, check out our new video tour of the website and see how to get the most out of the site as well as utilizing the First Class Submit link to make submitting stories to Travel Off The Cuff incredibly easy!




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		<title>Two Weeks off the Cuff</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2009/08/31/two-weeks-off-the-cuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, thanks to everyone who visits and/or contributes stories to the site.  Our goal is to make it easier for you to find and share interesting travel stories.  I’m looking forward to getting more and more people submitting stories they’ve either found interesting or written themselves.  This site runs better the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Sheets Wednesday: Prague</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2009/08/26/three-sheets-wednesday-prague/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zane is in Prague for the Absinth bars and chugging contests at the legendary U Fleku beer hall.




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		<title>Three Sheets Wednesday: Japan</title>
		<link>http://traveloffthecuff.com/blog/2009/08/18/three-sheets-wednesday-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wolinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is a country that prides itself on its traditions, even when it comes to drinking.




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