San Sebastian and Pamplona

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Beach at San Sebastian

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Opening ceromony Running of the Bulls - Never been to anything as insane

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More opening ceromony

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Again more

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Its traditional for the locals in balconys to throw buckets of water down

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2 guys that we seemed to keep bumping into.

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Assuming the position

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What you looking at Benny?

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The festival is opened with the firing of rockets

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Cop some Gorrie

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Solving problems over some sack

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Get that sangria into you Adam

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What's wrong with an outdoor disco pumping at midday?

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This photo started with about 4 people in it, then everyone wanted to join

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Where's Benny?

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Enjoy it son!

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Thought it was easier to catch a trolley than walk

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We got into Pamplona early to get a spot to see the run

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Bullring where the bulls finish the run

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After the run, you can enter the ring and "play" with a younger bull which they let loose

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Although it's a small bull you can still get into some trouble

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Chilling at the festival

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We were seeing how far away from our mouth we could drink the "bota" i.e. sack full of sangria

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Power Nap

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Getting ready for the run in the morning

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More bullring action

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We rocked up at 5am one morning to make sure we got a spot to watch the run
Florence and Rome

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Ponte Vecchio

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Duomo

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Replica of David

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Looking down on Florence

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View of Tuscany

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More Tuscany

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Marty on scooters we hired

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Leaning Tower of Pisa

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Bottom of Spanish Steps

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Roman Forum

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More Roman Forum

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This is the coat of arms of Rome

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Massive Roman monument, locals call it the wedding cake

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Inside Vatican museum

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Outside Vatican

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Main dome in Vatican

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JP II Tomb

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Down the road from the Vatican

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Trevvi Fountain

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Pantheon

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Colosseum

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Inside Colosseum

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More inside

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Proof I was there...

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More Roman Forum

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Serge, Geoff and I at the Roman Forum
World Cup 2006

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Norway - Easter 2006

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Frozen lake, photo taken from on train

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View from the Flam Railway

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Flam Railway

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Bottom of Flam Railway, Aurlandfjord

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More scenery from Flam Railway

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More scenery from Flam Railway

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Frozen Waterfall

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More scenery from Flam Railway

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More scenery from Flam Railway

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Bergen

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Frozen lake at bottom of mountain before hiking to see the Pulpit Rock

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English translation = Pulpit Rock

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Cool view as we started the hike

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Part of the trail

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More scenery on the way up

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More of the trail

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Some of the trail wasn't as easy as other parts....

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This was an easier part of the trail

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Almost at the top

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Getting teased now....

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And there it is, PULPIT ROCK

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View is amazing, worth the 2 hour hike.

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The Lysefjord

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More of the Lysefjord

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View down the 600 m drop

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Breathtaking

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That's Marty hanging off the edge. I had a go too!

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That's me standing on the edge

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More view down the 600 m drop

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Just before heading back

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Part of the path back down from Pulpit Rock

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Downtown Oslo

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Viking ship

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Another Viking ship
Dublin, Ireland

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St Patrick's Day Parade

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More parade

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More parade

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More parade

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More parade

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Statue in the middle of Dublin's most popular street. The parade went passed this.

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Big heads in the parade

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Just found a spot in our first pub for the day.

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Some of the gang we were with

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Nick and Ben

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I can't remember this one

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The gang again at a different pub

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Marty, Nick, Louis and I

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I look a little too happy. I can assure you Nick was not doing anything to me!

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Serge, Nick and I

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Serge and I

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Enjoying a Guinness

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Ben and a Leprechaun

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Serge and Tim

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Ben in the pose

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Marty feeding Tim a Guinness

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Looking the part

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Louis and Nick

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Marty, Nick and Louis

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Lord of the Dance style dancing

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Time to go home Cesar

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A photo I took walking home

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Having a drink at the top bar in the Guinness Factory.

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The bar at the top of the Guinness Factory, Gravity Bar I think its called

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Enjoying the drink and the view

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Dipping their noses in the Guinness

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View from the gravity bar

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The Guinness just kept coming

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View from outside our B&B

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The famous sign

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The river Liffey that runs through the middle of Dublin

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More views from the gravity bar

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It was packed on the day after St Pats day

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In 1979, 1 million people came to this park to see the pope. This cross was erected to celebrate it

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Allan, Declan and Michael. Sons of the man that organised the accomodation for us. Great night out with them
Val D'Isere, France

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View out the window of our room

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Staircase leading up from the front door of the chalet

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Us and Charlie, one of the hosts

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Scenic shot

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Chilling out in the sun at lunch

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So pretty

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Yep, a lot of snow

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Even more snow

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Mountains

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I'm an idiot

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Tanning up

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View from the deck chairs at lunch

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More lunch time shots

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Even more lunch time shots

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More scenery

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Looking up the road from outside our chalet

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Looking down the road from our chalet

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The dinner table

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Dinner was always a lot of fun

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Me in the chillout zone of the chalet

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Top of La Grande Motte, -18 deg

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Serge and I one night out in the snow

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Out having fun one night at one of the local bars

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Serge, not realising that he is about to hurt himself

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Serge after he hurt himself

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Serge resting the heel

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View from a gondola

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More from the gondola

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Scenic shot

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Another scenic shot

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View from the balcony of the chalet

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The boys at Apres-ski

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More after skiing banter

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A car under snow

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This is a famous landmark in the village

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The village

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Another shot of the village

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The Chalet

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Me playing in the fresh snow

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Looking down the road after all the snow that has fallen

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More playing in the snow

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We couldnt ski on the last day because of the bad conditions, so we made a tobogan track up the side of the chalet

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A scenic shot next to the chalet

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More playing

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Of course the civil engineer inspects the tobogan track to ensure all is good

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That's Ben on the roof behind me

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Ben jumping of a ledge into the soft snow

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Just chilling
New York 2005

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Times Square

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More Times Square

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Even more Times Square

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The famous Wall Street

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Financial District

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This bull represents Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987, the day of the largest 24hr decline in recorded stock market history

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Ground Zero is still an eerie place

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This cross was found like this in the rubble

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The new Freedom Tower

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Have you seen the movie Serendipity?

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This is what happens when you drink to many Jager Bombs. I.e. Jagermeister and Red Bull

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Brooklyn Bridge

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New York Skyline from Brooklyn Bridge

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My favourite photo, The New York Skyline from Manhattan Bridge

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Yankee Stadium

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The Empire State Building

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Entrance to Empire State Building

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Looking downtown

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Looking uptown

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Little Italy

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Statue of Liberty from boat

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Ms Liberty and I

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New York skyline from Liberty Island

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I tried a faux arty photo

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Ellis Island

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As dusk approaches

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If you have seen Seinfeld you will know this one

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Anyone for peking duck in Central Park?

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New York from Central Park Reservoir

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Oktoberfest 2005

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This was early on in the piece

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If Only!!
Zurich NYE

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Australia Day 2006

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