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		<title>Staying with locals: the update</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2011/01/24/staying-with-locals-the-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an update stay with the locals schemes that I wrote for yesterday&#8217;s Guardian travel section.  The aim of the piece was to look at what was new in the field and how the site&#8217;s are developing. It ran alongside a piece about an interesting, new homestay project in India and an account by one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going local with World Cup fans in London</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2010/06/13/going-local-with-world-cup-fans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[France fans during the Uruguay game. Copyright Simon Way Two friends of mine in London have embarked on a fantastic project to document every World Cup game from the perspective of the nation&#8217;s fans. Photographer Simon Way and writer Angela Balakrishnan will be hanging out in Greek tavernas, American diners, Argentine steakhouses and who-knows-where-else across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Couchsurfing is great for language learners</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2010/05/13/why-couchsurfing-is-great-for-language-learners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2010/05/13/why-couchsurfing-is-great-for-language-learners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 04:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[couchsurfing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel tips]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/?p=983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve said this before, but I really can&#8217;t emphasis this point enough: Couchsurfing.com is fantastic for language learners. And not just for hosts/guests. It can be a godsend in your home town too and it needn&#8217;t involve a single couch. I have raved about Couchsurfing&#8217;s Buenos Aires forum before (see: Top three ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What travel networks are doing wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2010/02/17/what-travel-networks-are-doing-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2010/02/17/what-travel-networks-are-doing-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where next?&#160;A video introduction to the semantic web (aka Web 3.0) &#160; Thanks for everyone who commented on the Guardian Travel Blog looking at &#8216;where we are now&#8217; with travel networking. So far we&#8217;re up to 40-plus comments&#160; and it seems everyone had something interesting to say. So where are travel networks going wrong? Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The shame of saying &#8216;we met via Twitter&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2010/01/14/the-shame-of-saying-we-met-via-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2010/01/14/the-shame-of-saying-we-met-via-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking Twitter into the real world: Video from CollegeHumor. Some weeks ago I went to a party, which I was invited to via someone on Twitter. It was a Tweetsgiving event (an organisation which, if you get beyond the cringey name, is doing great work raising finds for schools in Tanzania). I was invited by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips on couchsurfing during the South Africa World Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/12/04/couchsurfing-during-the-south-africa-world-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/12/04/couchsurfing-during-the-south-africa-world-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[couchsurfing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word is they&#8217;re short on traditional accommodation options for the South Africa World Cup. I&#160;wrote a piece today for the Guardian about alternative options, including using sites such as iStopover, Couchsurfing and home exchanging. While researching, I logged onto the South Africa group on Couchsurfing.com to get the current lowdown. Predictably, there are a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freeconomy again: the social network that limits your time online</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/11/21/freeconomy-the-social-network-that-limits-your-time-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/11/21/freeconomy-the-social-network-that-limits-your-time-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on from my blog about the Cashless Man, Mark Boyle, here&#8217;s a snippet of info I found on his blog about the social network he&#8217;s created called the Freeconomy Community and how he&#8217;d hate for it to become the new Facebook. Whereas Facebook&#8217;s objective is to keep people on-line, reading their adverts, for as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From strip clubs to badminton: new meet-up groups in London</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/11/10/from-strip-club-fans-to-idlers-new-meet-up-groups-in-london/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/11/10/from-strip-club-fans-to-idlers-new-meet-up-groups-in-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm a big fan of social-networking site MeetUp. Not that I use it very much, but I simply feel comforted to know it exists, so that if I ever have spare time on my hands I can always find interesting new things to do and people to meet. Especially if I go back to London]]></description>
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		<title>Top 3 ways to meet locals in Buenos Aires</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/10/20/top-three-ways-to-meet-locals-in-buenos-aires/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/10/20/top-three-ways-to-meet-locals-in-buenos-aires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you stay in a hostel, your contact is predominantly with other travellers; if you’re in hotel, the receptionist may do a sterling job professing interest in your daily sightseeing, but this rarely goes beyond ten minutes. So how do you break the cycle?]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitality Club&#8217;s happy couple</title>
		<link>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/06/12/hospitality-clubs-happy-couple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goinglocaltravel.com/2009/06/12/hospitality-clubs-happy-couple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicky Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[venezuela]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hooray! A Hospitality Club wedding! Norman Javier, my host last year in Venezuela, and his lovely German girlfriend, Bianca, have just tied the knot in Frankfurt. The couple met when Bianca hosted Javier as he travelled around Europe, crashing with various strangers via Hospitality Club&#8217;s online network. Neither of them signed up to the concept [...]]]></description>
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