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		<title>Top 10 Off The Beaten Track Travel Destinations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Would you like your next trip to be a little adventurous? Are you looking for an unusual yet fascinating place to visit? Here are the ten places I&#8217;ve visited in my life that I have enjoyed the most. Give them a chance, take your time, don&#8217;t pack too many sights in a single trip, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dream your life or live your dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was honored to be interviewed by Virginie Wéverberg, a student in communication at the &#8220;Université Libre de Bruxelles&#8221;. Here&#8217;s the really nice article she wrote on my experience: Dream your life or live your dreams… François de Halleux made his choice – The story of a talented travel photographer by Virginie Wéverberg It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel photography exhibition in Brussels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to be in Brussels, don&#8217;t miss the exhibition of my best travel pictures from my trip. It took me a while to browse through all my pictures, select the best ones, and organise everything but it is finally happening! I decided to print 13 pictures in large format (up to 1.2m wide) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideal travel photography equipment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I arrived back home a couple of weeks ago, a few people have contacted me to ask me questions. I&#8217;ve therefore decided to answer these in my next blog posts. My answers will hopefully be helpful to many people. Several questions were about the photographic gear I used. This also was a really tough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrived home after 9 months on the road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 273 days I covered 32938 km crossing 22 countries to finally make it back home without taking a single plane! I&#8217;m quite amazed myself that I managed to stick to my only rule without any prior planning. It wasn&#8217;t easy though and I had to considerably change the initial itinerary I had naively drawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia, a hidden gem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arriving in Tbilisi, Georgia&#8217;s capital, is a surprising experience. People most definitely look very different compared to Central Asia. Certainly a lot more European but not totally either. I was for example immediately identified as a tourist and locals spoke to me in English before I even said a word&#8230; Georgians speak very differently too! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After leaving Uzbekistan, I went by train to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan to catch the infamous cargo ship that would take me over the Caspian sea to Baku in Azerbaijan. This cargo ship is renowned for having no fixed schedule whatsoever. When I arrived in Aktau on the 2nd of June, the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fascinating Uzbekistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Kyrgyz people were frowning at me when I told them I would visit Uzbekistan afterwards. According to them Uzbeks are arrogant and not friendly at all! The recent events in Osh illustrate this in a very dramatic way unfortunately. At my first stop on the way from Osh to Tashkent, I was rather surprised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Aral Sea Disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my trip I have seen many environmental disasters. In fact, everywhere I go they seem to have become the norm rather than the exception. There is always a good excuse or reason. In Indonesia, I have driven for two days in Sumatra without seeing the natural rainforest, only endless plantations of palm trees, grown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I left my job to travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of my blog posts so far have been relatively impersonal and were merely describing my travels. Now that I have a little more time to play with ( it&#8217;s raining here in Samarkand) I thought I would answer a question that a couple of people asked me already: &#8220;Why on earth did you leave [...]]]></description>
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