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		<title>Barcelona City Stays</title>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">¿What's a Gaudi?</h3>
<p><strong>Where: </strong>Barcelona, silly.</p>
<p><strong>When:</strong> All year.</p>
<p><strong>What:</strong> Stay in Stoke's own hostel, tour the city the Stoke way, party with us in our own bar.</p>
<p><strong>Cost: </strong>20€ a night for the hostel, 30€ with a walking tour and an hour of unlimited drinks.</p>
<p><strong>Add ons:</strong> Bike tour, lunch and dinner, walking tour, hour of unlimited drinks (included with bed in super package for 50€) </p>
<p><strong>What else: </strong>Come and party with us in the city we call home.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">We're drunk just thinking about it.</h3>
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<h1>Basic Trip</h1>
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<h1>starting at From 20€ ()</h1>
<h4>from All year &#8217;till </h4>
<p><em>including: Bed, walking tour, friends for life.</em></p>
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<h1>All inclusive.</h1>
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<h1>for only 50€ a day.</h1>
<h4>all the time</h4>
<p><em><strong>what do you get:</strong> Bed, lunch, dinner, walking tour, bike tour, hour of power in the bar, club entry.</em></p>
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<h3>Our own hostel.</h3>
<p>Which is conveniently opposite our own bar. Which is all conveniently located in the centre of Barcelona. We love this city, it's why we live here, why our offices are here and why we really want to show you around here.</p>
<p>If you just want a bed, we can do it. If you want to combine the bed with a walking tour and an hour of power (and we're not talking about a gymnasium session we mean drinking drinks for an hour, as many as your pretty little face can handle) then we can do that too. If you want lunch and dinner, and an awesome bike tour as well as everything we said above, and nightclub entry and a pubcrawl, well guess what? We can do that too.</p>
<p>Come and join us in the wonderful city we call home.</p>

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<p><strong></strong><h3>Beautiful Barcelona.</h3>
<p>This is the best city in the world. There, we said it, but we really feel like it is! It's artistic, there's an amazing youth scene, people skateboard everywhere, the place is covered in babes, and it really knows how to party.</p>
<p>It's also as artistic as a guy in a smock, the architecture will knock your socks off and the street art is grrrrreat.</p>
<p>The beach here is home to more delightful flesh bags than a Beirut butchers, the weather is very rarely cloudy, let alone rainy, and the place is home to the mighty FCBarcelona, the greatest sporting team Macguyver ever put on the face of the earth.</p>
<p>Remember the 1992 olympics? They were held here! How awesome is that!? You were probably about 4 at the time or something. Maybe you weren't even born. In any case, coming to Barcelona can help you relive your childhood! Thumb sucking goodness! </p></p>
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<h3>On a plane man.</h3>
<p>They fly here from all the cities of the world. Fly to either Barcelona, Girona or Reus. Get onto <a title="Finding flights" href="http://www.skyscanner.com">skyscanner</a> to check them air birds out (what other kinds of birds are there? Oh...).</p>
<h3>On the train dude.</h3>
<p>The Spanish train service is called <a title="Trains ahoy" href="http://www.renfe.com/">Renfe</a>, check them out!</p>
<h3>Or by bus.</h3>
<p>Because they all go here too. Some great companies that make bus journeys to and from Barcelona are <a title="Buses here." href="http://www.alsa.es/portal/site/Alsa">Alsa</a> and <a title="More buses, more here." href="http://www.eurolines.es/es/">Eurolines</a>.</p>
<h3>Or even boat.</h3>
<p>But if you're such a legend that you're arriving by boat you don't need our stinking directions.</p>
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<h4><strong></strong>Bloody Barcelona.</h4>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Skiing and boarding only two hours from Barcelona.</h3>
<p><strong>Where: </strong>Andorra, a country between Spain and France. </p>
<p><strong>When: </strong>Every weekend throughout winter.</p>
<p><strong>How: </strong>Private coach from Barcelona.</p>
<p><strong>Cost: </strong>220€.</p>
<p><strong>Sleep: </strong>3* hotel.</p>
<p><strong>Eat: </strong>Breakfast included.</p>
<p><strong>Inclusions: </strong>Transport from and to Barcelona, accommodation, dinner, breakfasts, lift pass</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Ski, board and tick a little visited country of your to-do list.</h3>
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<h1>starting at 220€ (From Barcelona)</h1>
<h4><span style="color: #38c5b7">from Thursday December 1 &#8217;till Sunday April 15</span></h4>
<p><em>including: Transport from and to Barcelona, accommodation, dinner, breakfasts, lift pass</em></p>
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<h2>The perfect mix of sports and shots.</h2>
<p>We love it in Andorra! Not only is it just up the road from our offices in Barcelona, but the snow there is simply wonderful and the fact that the principality is a tax free haven makes our favorite passtime, partying, as cheap as, well, as cheap as us after a big night of partying.</p>
<p> The trip departs Barcelona on Friday afternoon. After a two hour drive we find ourselves mitts deep in the Pyrenees just in time to dump our bags in the hotel and hit the bars for dinner, drinks and some inappropriate dancing.</p>
<p>The next morning we drag our sorry asses out of bed and hit the slopes, the alpine air makes for the perfect hangover cure and a day on the slopes being just what the doctor ordered, if your doctor was cool as berets. That night Stoke Travel is buying the dinner and maybe even a round of shooters, before we again stomp our way to dance floor glory around Andorra's many bars, chances are this one will be a late one.</p>
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<p>We're up bright and early again on the Sunday for one last day of shredding before heading back to Barcelona in the evening. We're going to be tired, we're going to be sore, we're going to be hungover but by golly are we going to happy as a crabby patty.</p>
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<h2>The Mountains.</h2>
<p>We slide all over the slopes of two resorts Pal-Arinsal and Ordino-Arcalis.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pal-Arinsal: Great for all levels</span></strong></p>
<p>- 63kms of runs (4 green,16 blues,16 reds,5 blacks)</p>
<p>- A snow park, 2 freestyle areas, half-pipe, boarder-cross area,and slalom course.</p>
<p>- Levels: 30% for beginners, 55% for intermediates, 15% for advanced</p>
<p>- 371 snow cannons covering 19 km of pistes which guarantee good conditions</p>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ordino-Arcalis: When its slush elsewhere, there is still powder here</span></strong></p>
<p>- Resort area: 442 ha Altitude: from 1940m to 2640m<br /> -26 km of runs: 6 greens, 6 blues, 11 reds and 2 blacks<br /> -Levels: 20% for beginners, 30% for intermediates, 50% for advanced<br /> -Slalom course</p>
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<p><strong> </strong><h2>An often overlooked Pyrenean treasure.</h2>
<p>Squeezed in between Spain and France high in the Pyrenees Andorra is usually omitted from most travelers itineraries. Well it shouldn't be! It's right next to Barcelona, so beautiful your eyes will weep snow flakes. Tax free snow flakes!</p>
<p>That's right, Andorra is tax free, so drinking, smoking and pornography is cheaper here than in other European countries. Hooray!</p>
<p>To get there you want to get to Barcelona, and we'll do the rest. By golly golly bliss bombs it's that easy!</p></p>
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<h3>It's a bird. No, it's a plane dummy.</h3>
<p>Wherever you are in the world you can fly to Barcelona. Ryanair and Easyjet, the perennial budget favorites for your comfort shirking tight asses pals down here at Stoke Travel, both fly here regularly. One thing to remember is that the Girona terminal, where Ryanair fly, is an hour by bus from downtown Barcelona.</p>
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<h3>Good old fashioned rail travel.</h3>
<p>A great option if you're coming to Barcelona from elsewhere in Spain, or from France. Check out www.renfe.es for trains from within Spain and www.sncf.com for those departing within France.</p>
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<h3>Buses, the battlers of international travel.</h3>
<p>Check www.eurolines.com for international buses to Barcelona, or www.vibasa.es for buses from within Spain.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Shortest Month of the Year. And also one of the few months without a quirky, punny, moniker. Fresh from Movember you go into AC☇December, and then into Fanuary but what comes after? Because this month aint no joke. It&#8217;s the weirdest month of the year, with a quarter of a day in it, [...]]]></description>
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<h1>The Shortest Month of the Year.</h1>
<p>And also one of the few months without a quirky, punny, moniker. Fresh from Movember you go into AC<strong>☇</strong>December, and then into Fanuary but what comes after?</p>
<p>Because this month aint no joke. It&#8217;s the weirdest month of the year, with a quarter of a day in it, and it&#8217;s the loveliest day of the year because of that little Cupid dude. It&#8217;s also the month we travel to<a href="http://stoketravel.com/morocco/" target="_blank">Morocco</a>, <a href="http://stoketravel.com/andorra-snowy-weekender/" target="_blank">Andorra</a>, and go to <a href="http://stoketravel.com/carnavale-in-sitges/" target="_blank">Carnival</a>. And the month when we start planning <a href="http://stoketravel.com/the-running-of-the-bulls/" target="_blank">Pamplona</a>, <a href="http://stoketravel.com/the-surfari/" target="_blank">the surf camps</a>, the month when we finally get over our <a href="http://stoketravel.com/oktoberfest/" target="_blank">Oktoberfest</a> hangover and start working on our <a href="http://stoketravel.com/spanish-street-fests/" target="_blank">La Tomatina</a> one.</p>
<p>But because it&#8217;s difficult to rhyme something <em>meaningful</em> with Feburary we lazily leave it as is.</p>
<p>Plain old boring old February.</p>
<p>Well no more, because here at Stoke Travel we believe that all months were created equal. So lets boogie on in to the possibilities.</p>
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<p>Dancing Gary literally tried to tear the house down&#8230;</p>
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<h2>Febugary.</h2>
<p>The most obvious of them all. Febugary is a celebration of all things Gary.</p>
<p>Maybe you have a friend named Gary, well it&#8217;s his month. Maybe you love Spongebob&#8217;s snail, go and buy a cat.</p>
<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s time to get to know the work of all the famous<a href="http://gary.appenzeller.net/Garys.html" target="_blank">Garys</a> out there.</p>
<p>Like Gary Busey here. Not only was he <strong>awesome</strong> in Pointbreak, but seems like the dude really knows a party..</p>
<p>Making him the kind of person we want to spend <a href="http://stoketravel.com/carnavale-in-sitges/" target="_blank">CARNIVAL</a> with!</p>
<p>*We go to Sitges for Europe&#8217;s craziest Carnival on the 21st of February. Join Gary Busey and us!</p>
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<p>Just because you&#8217;re famous doesn&#8217;t mean your kid won&#8217;t get picked on in school.</p>
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<h2>Celebruary</h2>
<p>Do you ever read gossip magazines and think to yourself, &#8220;gee whizz I could really go for a bit of that for a month&#8221;?</p>
<p>But then you open your wallet and the moths growl at you, fearful your intention is to get your overworked mitts on the last scraps of lint in there?</p>
<p>We know we do!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why we just adore Celebruary, a month to live out the extravagances of the rich and famous, within your means, of course.</p>
<p>No paparazzi? Flash a nipple at the CCTV camera in your nearest fish &amp; chip shop.</p>
<p>No luxury yacht? No worries, dress in white and stand near roadside puddles.</p>
<p>No caviar? Soak beanbag balls in cat food.</p>
<p>No personal assistant? No worries, just don&#8217;t do anything. At all. For the whole month. Get fabulously filthy.</p>
<p>No luxury desert hideaway with servants and camels? Come down to <a href="http://stoketravel.com/morocco/" target="_blank">Morocco and join us on our surf camp. It&#8217;s as cheap as sand and twice as fun.</a>.</p>
<p>*Stoke&#8217;s Moroccan surf camp runs all year and prices start at 25€ a day. Get in there.</p>
<p>I bet you were worried about where we were going with that one. Well we had a back up plan, and it<a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2070329_2070340_2070332,00.html" target="_blank">involved Mariah Carey&#8230;</a></p>
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<h2>World Wide Webruary.</h2>
<p>Because we have a new website.</p>
<p>How can we describe a thing of such beauty with mere words? We can&#8217;t. So just take a little <a href="http://stoketravel.com/" target="_blank">looky yourselves.</a></p>
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<p>Honourable mentions: Maghrebuary, Februbeery, Februbleary, Plebruary.</p>
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<p>And what do you think? Can you come up with a better one? Do you think we should just stick with February? Do you not care and are you angry because we wasted your precious minutes (and there aren&#8217;t many of them in this month).</p>
<p><strong>The best way to let us know what you think is to &#8216;like&#8217; our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/stoketravel" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> and post on our wall. If you can come up with another name for February that we haven&#8217;t thought of, and more than five people like it, we&#8217;ll send you a beautiful Stoke Travel t-shirt&#8230;</strong></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Surfing on the edge of the Sahara.</h3>
<p><strong>Where:</strong> Taghazoute, Southern Morocco, North Africa.</p>
<p><strong>When:</strong> All year, though the best season is October to June (European winter).</p>
<p><strong>How: </strong>Fly to Agadir or Marrakech with numerous budget airlines.</p>
<p><strong>Cost: </strong>From 25€ basic, 50€ all inclusive, 250€ for the City and Surf tour.</p>
<p><strong>Sleep: </strong>In the Moroccan Surf Palace, five floors of pleasure.</p>
<p><strong>Inclusions: </strong>Bed and breakfast (basic), all meals, surf lessons and equipment hire, local guides (all inclusive), airport pickup, all transfers, night in Marrakech, full-time guide (City and Surf).</p>
<p><strong>Optional:</strong> Camel rides, quad bikes, traditional bath house, jet ski rides, ski trips, desert safari.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Perfect surf and year 'round sun.</h3>
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<h1>starting at 25€ a day (minimum 2 days)</h1>
<h4><span style="color: #38c5b7">from Friday October 1 &#8217;till Friday June 1</span></h4>
<p><em>including: breakfast and bed</em></p>
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<h1>City And Surf Tour</h1>
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<h4><span style="color: #d20f0f">all the time</span></h4>
<p><em><strong>what do you get:</strong> Accommodation (including one night in Marrakech), airport transfers, round trip transfer Marrakech - Surf House, all meals, all surf lessons, equipment hire, parties.</em></p>
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<h2>Morocco.</h2>
<p>What's not to like? Year 'round sun, world class waves, a local chef whipping up your every meal, sunrises over the Sahara and sunsets over the Atlantic, panoramic ocean views from our roof top terrace, after surf beers, wacky tobaccy in your shisha pipe.</p>
<p>And that's just the half of it!</p>
<p>Our packages are for everyone, from the seasoned scaly sea dog to those who simply want to wet their toes and sun their bellies. Our instructors specialise in teaching absolute beginners how to find their feet, and for taking those who want to step it up a bit to the multitude of world class waves dotted around this peninsular (you can see three of them from our terrace).</p>
<p>The basic 25 euro a day package is for bed and breakfast. This is perfect for those with their own boards, the independent souls amongst us. Throw onto that some meals (have you even TASTED Moroccan food? Soooo good!) a surf lesson each day and some board hire and the 50 euro, no more to worry about, package is the one for you. Alls you need to do is get your flight down there (and we even help you sort that!)</p>
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<h2>City and Surf Tour.</h2>
<p>(Trips run Thursday/Friday until Sunday/Monday but if want us to be flexible you know that we can)</p>
<p>The best of all worlds. Fly into Marrakech and be met at the airport by our legendary guide, spend a night in this famous North African city in a hotel by the main square, the world famous Djemaa el Fna, shop until you drop and then shop some more, bath yourself in a traditional bath house (we'd love to say that nudity is optional, but sometimes it just aint. When in Marrakech...) and eat dinner surrounded by snake charmers.</p>
<p>The next day we set off along the foothills of the High Atlas Mountains to the coast. This short drive takes us through some truly breathtaking landscapes where the 30 degree desert heat is complimented by the high snow capped mountains to the south. One of the world's greatest short drives. Upon our arrival in Taghazoute, surf city Morocco, we'll go for a surf. Then we'll lay in the sun. Then we'll go home and smoke some shisha and drink some beers and talk some surf style jazz amongst ourselves until we decide it's time to either a) go to bed, b) start a beach party, or c) head into rocking Agadir for a night on the tiles. In any case we'll be having one whale of a time.</p>
<p>Once we wake up we wash the cobwebs away with coffee and massive breakfast before hitting the waves again. Then we pack it all and head to Marrakech, so we can get our flights back to the real world, loaded with souvenirs, sun tans and an addiction to surfing that will last forever.</p>
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<p><strong> </strong><h3> On the edge of the Sahara.</h3>
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<p>Whilst you can see Morocco from the cities of Southern Spain, once you're on the ground you'll realise that you couldn't be further away... In a wonderful way!</p>
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<p>This is North Africa baby! This is a place of camels and forts and snake charmers. Where date palms grow out of sandy deserts, and kids run up to your car snotty faced asking for sweet, sweet candy.</p>
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<p>Our surf palace is located in the south of Morocco, in the village of Taghazoute, near the resort city of Agadir. An area so lovely the King of Morocco has his beach palace down there. Here the High Atlas Mountains complete their run down to the North Atlantic Ocean, where goats reside in trees and where fishermen make their nightly drift out to the horizon on seaworthy car tyre inner tubes.</p>
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<p>Taghazoute is a stereotypical North African fishing village, with a serious of narrow lanes winding either side of the one road, Highway 1, which runs through it's middle and provides the villages central focal point. Along this road there are a handful of shops, a market place and mosque and a few hotels. You can walk through Taghazoute along Highway 1 from end to end in about 5 minutes, which is taking into account stopping to pat cats and high five locals.</p>
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<p>The Stoke Travel Surf Palace is located just off Highway 1. Whilst from the outside it looks identical to the houses surrounding it, tall and narrow and salmon in colour, but once inside you will realise that it is very, very different. The palace is populated with sun worshipers and surf rats from every corner of the globe, and they can be found lounging in one of the four indoor common areas, or slothing about on the roof top terrace. There is a combination of shared and private accommodation, though most nights you'll pass out on the terrace with the ever-clear North African night sky twinkling away above you...</p>
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<p>*A note on the terrace: Because it deserves it. This terrace is amazing and is definitely the focal point of the house. This is where we eat, drink tea, share stories, chug beers and smoke hookah. This is the place where you can play a game of chess or kiss a beautiful stranger. We BBQ up here, we surf the net, we sloth around and we dry our wetsuits. From this terrace you can check the surf at three of Morocco's best breaks, from this terrace the sunset will burn so bright and beautiful your eyes will bleed, from this terrace the sounds of a Moroccan fishing village will drift up and mingle with chatter from all around the world. This is the terrace.</p></p>
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<h3> Come fly to us...</h3>
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<p>This is really the only practical way to get here. Because it's on another continent fool! (Unless you live in Africa, thereby making us the fool) Anyway, to get here grab a flight to either Agadir, which is the airport nearest the surf palace, or to Marrakech, which is also close-ish and usually cheaper, and with more frequent flights.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The airlines we usually fly with are Ryanair, Easyjet and Royal Air Maroc. Like with most of these trips the earlier you book the cheaper it will be. So book now homegirl!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you are flying to Agadir we will preorder a taxi for you. They don't cost the earth, especially when you are traveling in a group (and we'll let you know if anyone else on your flight is coming to the palace so y'all can share).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you land in Marrakech you can either prearrange a taxi to take you to the Surf Palace, or make your own was here on the public bus (see details below). In any case we'll go through all of this with you in person when you book.</p>
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<h3>Once you land you might need to take the bus.</h3>
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<p>CTM and Supratours run frequent buses from Marrakech to Agadir. The trip takes about two and a half hours and costs a measly ten euros. When you land grab a cab, a <em>petite taxi</em>, and head to the terminal. (They leave from different terminals, choose one and tell your cab driver, they both go often).</p>
<p>There's no need to book a ticket in advance, and even if you needed to you couldn't. This is North Africa dudes. Just go with the Berber flow. </p>
<p>Once in Agadir take a taxi to Taghazoute, the surfing village. And once in Taghazoute ask for Stoke Travel, or Adventure Keys (our name in Moroccan). It's too easy.</p>
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<h3>Is Morocco Safe?</h3>
<p>Yes. The most dangerous thing in Morocco is coming across an angry goat after you've had too many cans of Stork beer, or underestimating the strength of the wacky tobaccy in your hubbly bubbly pipe.</p>
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<h3>Aren't there Muslims in Morocco?</h3>
<p>Yes. Many. Nearly everyone. And they are lovely, except when they have to go to the mosque at 5am and the loud speakers act as the town's alarm clock.</p>
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<h3>I heard alcohol was illegal in Morocco, is that true?</h3>
<p>Ha, hahaha, oh god, you guys are cracking me up! Do you think we'd be down there if that was true? Oh my oh my, too funny!</p>
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<h3>What's the weather going to be like?</h3>
<p>We're on the edge of the Sahara so it's going to be hot and sunny during the day and a little chilly at night. It never rains, except when it rains, which is exceptional.</p>
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<h3>So what should we bring?</h3>
<p>Yourself, something to swim in, something to party in, something warm for the night times, something pleasant for the fuzzy tingle times. Bring sunscreen and condoms, because they're hard to get here, and bring a bottle of spirits as they cost a bit down here. Bring a camera so you can get shots of goats in trees.</p>
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<h3>Wait. What? Goats in trees?</h3>
<p>Yeah, in Morocco the goats hang out in the trees. It's pretty sweet.</p>
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<h3>And food, what's up with the food?</h3>
<p>Breakfast is cereals and bread with cheese, jam and chocolate spread, coffee and tea and juice, usually. Though like all wonderful things in this universe it can change. Lunch is a sandwich made with love and served on the beach. And by sandwich we're talking long, strong and full of cumin. And other delicious ingredients. And some fruit. Mmm mmm. Dinner varies between a fair few Moroccan faves, like tagine, or cous cous (so good they named it twice) or little fish fried to delightfulness, or massive BBQs with a little of everything, and it is always served with plenty of salad and bread and it's always so sweet.</p>
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<h3>But Stoke, i'm and attention seeker and I don't eat meat!</h3>
<p>Don't worry there little one, there are plenty of vegetarian friendly options down here in Morocco. Get on it!</p></p>
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<h4><strong></strong>Where is the Surf Camp</h4>
See where we are there? Right in the middle of town which is on the Highway number 1. When you arrive ask at the restaurant called La Paix for the Stoke Surf Palace, or ask for Adventure Keys, which is the Moroccan name for the place.
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Europe's Funnest Carnival.</h3>
<p><strong>Where:</strong> Sitges, 45 minutes south of Barcelona. The bus leaves from the Hard Rock Cafe, Plaza Catalunya, Barcelona.</p>
<p><strong>How:</strong> On Stoke's private coach.</p>
<p><strong>When:</strong> Tuesday the 21st February, leaving Barcelona at 8pm and returning from Sitges at 3am.</p>
<p><strong>How much:</strong> 20€</p>
<p><strong>Included:</strong> 'Round trip coach travel, awesome guides, face painting on the bus, one litre of sangria.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Bring a mask, be anonymous and forget yourself for one fabulous night only.</h3>
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<h1>20€ (One night only!)</h1>
<h4><span style="color: #38c5b7">Tuesday February 21 <br /></span></h4>
<p><em>including: Round trip private coach to Sitges, guide, complementary sangria.</em></p>
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<p> <h2>Only the party of the year!</h2>
<p>Well, at least the party of <em>this time of year</em>.</p>
<p>Carnavale means something religious, like the last chance you get to really <strong>indulge</strong> before the 40 days and nights of abstinence that're required of you in the lead up to <strong>Easter.</strong></p>
<p>(But we'll let you in on a big secret here - this is just an excuse to get freaky deaky buck wild)...</p>
<p>So the deal is that y'all have to dress up to the nines, like go all out in sequins and boas and body paint, and a <strong>mask</strong>, because nobody needs to know your identity at this party.</p>
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<h3>The gay and lesbian capital of Europe.</h3>
<p>And they sure do know how to party. This isn't a homosexual, nor heterosexual, affair - it's an excuse to party! So throw your inhibitions out the window, along with your shirt, and let's stop being so darn prudish for this one big night.</p>
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<h3>Why with us?</h3>
<p>Because we want to go <strong>wild</strong> with you. And because our guides know this party like no one else. And because the public transport is full and ceases to exist at a ridiculously early hour. With Stoke we pick you up and drop you off at a convenient point. Oh, and we put a sweet bottle of sangria in your hands when you get off the bus...</p></p>
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<h3>Beautiful Sitges.</h3>
<p>This seaside resort is located about half an hour out of Barcelona. There's a boulevard which runs along its famed beach, which is where the parade takes place and the people hook up respectively. </p>
<p>The town is a bit of a maze, which is why our guides are there to show you around the town and take you to all the hottest spots.</p></p>
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<h3>On our bus dummy!</h3>
<p>Enough said.</p>
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<h2>Enter your questions in the comments box below and we'll answer them here, because we love you.</h2>
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<h3>What time does the trip leave?</h3>
<p>We leave Barcelona at 8pm, getting us to Sitges before 9pm, traffic permitting. We plan to get you home by 4am, so you can score a few minutes sleep before school or work the next day.</p></p>
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<h4><strong></strong>Lovely Sitges</h4>

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		<title>Las Fallas</title>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Burning.</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Where:</strong> Valencia, Communidad de Valencia, Spain, Europe, Earth.</p>
<p><strong>When: </strong>Thursday 15th - Tuesday 20th of March.</p>
<p><strong>How: </strong>Plane, train, bus or car to Valencia, or private coach from Barcelona with Stoke.</p>
<p><strong>Cost: </strong>50€ per day, 175€ for three day <strong>tour </strong>with round trip private coach transport from Barcelona. </p>
<p><strong>Sleep: </strong>Camping accommodation (twin share tent, sleeping mat, sleeping bag).</p>
<p><strong>Eat: </strong>Hot breakfast everyday and BBQ dinner Saturday night.</p>
<p><strong>Inclusions: </strong>Accommodation, meals, massive Stoke campsite party, transfer the festival, beach games, party night in Valencia city.</p>
<p><strong>Add ons:</strong> Stoke's own bus from Barcelona - Valencia and return.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">5€ a day unlimited beer, wine and sangria.</h3>
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<h1>starting at 50€ per day (5€ a day for unlimited beer and sangria)</h1>
<h4><span style="color: #38c5b7">from Friday March 16 &#8217;till Tuesday March 20</span></h4>
<p><em>including: Camping, breakfast, BBQ dinner, guides, wild parties</em></p>
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<h1>for only 175€</h1>
<h4><span style="color: #d20f0f">Friday the 16th returning Sunday the 18th</span></h4>
<p><em><strong>what do you get:</strong> Camping accommodation, two way coach transfers, breakfast, big BBQ, guides, parties.</em></p>
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<h3> Setting  fire  to  things  and  dancing  in  the  street.</h3>
<p>And that's it! This is one of the street festivals Spain is famous for, the only one this time of the year. If you've never witnessed a Spanish street festival you just have to check it out, and if you have, well then you've probably already booked.   Las Fallas is a festival to celebrate the coming of spring. It is a festival to wish a jubilant bon viaje to winter. And in Valencia they welcome/farewell seasons by building giant effigies and burning them to the ground, setting off fireworks (like everyone doing them everywhere) and, of course, drinking sangria and dancing in the streets.   Stoke Travel at Las Fallas set up a sweet, secure, beachside camp. We rage at the <a href="http://www.maximebellefleur.com">campsite</a> with a BBQ dinner dance party that finishes with the die hards chilling on the beach. We charter buses to take us into town to party. We go to night clubs, we dance in the street, we kiss beautiful strangers. We quite simply have the most fun possible.</p>
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<h3>What does it include?</h3>
<p>Well lookee here: * Beachside camping accommodation with tents, sleeping bags and mattresses. * UNLIMITED BEER &amp; SANGRIA! (when at the campsite) * Stoke's famous BBQ dinner &amp; beach party * Hot breakfasts each morning * Beach Games * Stoke guides   What are you waiting for? This is one wild party that you can call a cultural experience. How wonderfully convenient!</p>
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<h3> ¿Why  not  ride  the  bus  with  us?</h3>
<p>Living in Barcelona, Madrid or Sevilla? Well no need to stress yourself out with travel arrangements when you can ride the Stoke Travel bus with us! Our buses leave on Friday afternoons and return Sunday evening, and are the most fun transportation units getting around, scientifically proven, with music and drinks and a real festive feel (drinking is officially not allowed, but eff those rules).</p>
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<h3>Beachside  Camping.</h3>
<p>As in, in a campsite which is near the beach. And this camping isn't Yogi Bear shit. We're not deep in the woods digging holes to poop in. No way. This is a secure site with muchos amenities, swimming pool, restaurant, shop and bar. This camping is five star, but it is camping. It's more about community and good times and less about sleeping on duck feathers.   We provide twin or triple share tents (singles available with a surcharge), complete with sleeping bags and mats. We also provide swinging common areas, an overworked dance floor, a tent dedicated to charging your phones and answering your queries, DJs, an open bar (5 euro surcharge = unlimited beer and sangria) and the amazing Stoke Travel crew setting up drinking games and generally encouraging misbehaviour.   Our campsite is just to the north of Valencia in the seaside resort town of Puzol (Puçol in Valencian). While it is only two streets behind the beautiful Mediterranean beaches of Valencia, our campsite is completely secure. So don't think you'll be leaving your valuables laying all the beach. Your stuff is safe with us!</p>
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<h3>You'd  think  they  were  paying  us.</h3>
<p>Because we're recommending Ryanair and Easyjet yet again. But, yet again, they will be the cheapest. Valencia has an international airport and you can fly there for peanuts from most European cities.   If you can't fly directly to Valencia, grab a flight to either Barcelona, Madrid or Sevilla and jump on one of our buses! Go on, you know you want it.</p>
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<h3>Want  to  meet  us  in  Valencia?</h3>
<p>Jumping on the train is a wonderful way to do it. Check out http://www.renfe.com/EN/viajeros/index.html for schedules and prices in english.</p>
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<h3>The best way to get here.</h3>
<p>Is with us! Our buses run from Barcelona, Madrid and Sevilla and the round trip costs a mere 50€. And they are the most cotton lovin' fun buses running in Europe, guaranteed!</p>
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<h3>What will the weather be like?</h3>
<p>The festival is to celebrate the coming of spring and the passing of winter. Which means nice days and chilly nights with a slight chance of rain, but usually as dry as a camel's hump. Pack for everything.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Aren&#8217;t we a tech savvy little bunch these days!? Isn&#8217;t our new website <em>fancy</em>? Doesn&#8217;t it have a lovely <em>design</em>? </p>
<p>Not bad considering that not too long ago we thought the World Wide Web was the aim of some global terrorist spider organisation &#8211; probably called Al Q&#8217;Arachnid &#8211; and now we&#8217;re all up in this motherbitch.</p>
<p>But it aint just the fancy design that&#8217;s making us wet our little knickers with excitement, it&#8217;s a whole new everything.</p>
<p>Like, to book and shit. It&#8217;s so much easier now. And look at all of our products! And we&#8217;re always adding more and more. We won&#8217;t stop adding more. We love it. We love it so much we want to take it on picnics near streams and eat chicken for dinner with it. That&#8217;s how much we like adding new products.</p>
<p>Like what you may say? Well there&#8217;s plenty. Like the <a href="http://stoketravel.com/spanish-street-fests/" target="_blank">Spanish Street Fests</a> which has us so excited our pants have taken to spontaneously exploding. And <a href="http://stoketravel.com/st-patricks-day/" target="_blank">St Patricks Day</a>, holy leprechaun that&#8217;s going to be fun.</p>
<p>Another thing we&#8217;re doing now is including a simple bed and breakfast option for our surf camps. The all inclusive is still the best value this side of Bangkok, but the B&amp;B option gives you the choice to eat only clams, if you love clams, and to surf only on Tuesdays and to only <em>pay for what you use</em>. Because we&#8217;re really nice people.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve probably noticed, by the tone of this letter, that we&#8217;ve become really serious now. Corporate types. Business minded guys that wear suits. And you&#8217;d be right. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that our trips aren&#8217;t going to be FUN, because if we ever started running trips that weren&#8217;t the most FUN trips in the whole flipping universe then we&#8217;d probably flip the flip <strong>OUT</strong>&#8230;</p>
<p>Anyway, you are probably really excited about checking out the amazing shit on our new site, so we&#8217;ll leave you to it. </p>
<p>Remember that we deeply have a passionate sexual love for every single one of you, metaphorically, and we need to meet you all, share a good time, a dance and maybe even a can of low fat beer together sometime in the nearest future.</p>
<p>A giant kiss from us here at Stoke Travel,</p>
<p>MWAH!</p>
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		<title>Stoke’s Guide to the Apocalypse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end is nigh. Whatever that means. According to the Mayans ‘nigh’ means December 21, 2012, when the world is going to end, the last time that we will be able to sample the many delights that are available to humans on planet earth. Which is a real bloody shame. We heard this a while [...]]]></description>
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<h1>The end is nigh.</h1>
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<p>Whatever that means.</p>
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<p>According to the Mayans ‘nigh’ means December 21, 2012, when the world is going to end, the last time that we will be able to sample the many delights that are available to humans on planet earth. Which is a real bloody shame.</p>
<p>We heard this a while ago and, like all crackpot conspiracy theories with absolutely no grounding in scientific fact, we took it seriously. Dead seriously. End of the world dead seriously.</p>
<p>So we set about creating the best 2012 we could. Like a year that, at the end of it all, you’d be kinda glad it was the last. Picture an ice age of snow sports, a tsunami of surf trips. We wanted to meet the zombie plagues drunk and on the dance floor – at least that way they might mistake them for one fi their own.</p>
<p>So we created our own little ‘fuck-it’ list, which is a little like a bucket list but more, fuck it, you know, because you may as well go out with a BANG if the world is.</p>
<p>Don’t you agree?</p>
<p>In any case, we’ve created a Stoke Travel apocalypse survival guide. We made it in the spirit of WWMD (What Would Mel Do) because that crazy bastard sure does know his Mayans. We hope you enjoy it, and we really want to party with you this last year.</p>
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<p>Water Sports.</p>
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<p>We’ve all seen Waterworld so we all know that the ocean is the only place we’ll be able to live post apocalypse. Fact!</p>
<p>In the interest of preparedness we’ve decided to increase our watery holiday destinations.</p>
<p>Hooray!!</p>
<p>This year we’ll be surf camping in <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/4b067fa0fb7691c1f183d11fa576f48f?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">Spain</a> and<a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/8cb3b680b0a508992ec0eac246f70160?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">France</a>, with the option to combine the two – Sacre Bleu, Aye Caramba.</p>
<p>Not to mention <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/d10901377f99da65bc2b750e4dc76872?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">Portugal</a> and <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/6bc8434b573fc5d6545e8d9a23019728?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">Morocco</a> which are both happening right NOW</p>
<p>And if surfing your way through the crisis isn’t your cup of salty tea why not sail your way through it on one of sail Croatia tours?</p>
<p>Holy mackerel, Stoke Travel has got your wet eternity covered…</p>
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<p>Mad Mel and his Mayan minions embrace the post apocalyptic water world.</p>
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<p>Because it seems like they are always spared from the destruction.</p>
<p>(You know the score – enchanted dildo rips apart New York, London, maybe the pyramids, leaving the rest of the world unscathed.)</p>
<p>Anyway, Stoke Travel is all about partying with the people who live there.</p>
<p>Whether in the streets of Spain, or the beer halls of Munich, we strive to kick it with the people who call the place home.</p>
<p>And now with the distinct possibility of the world ending it makes all the more sense to get to know people from areas that won’t be destroyed by tidal waves, alien hordes or lost meteorites.</p>
<p>And that doesn’t mean that we’ll stop befriending New Yorkers, we just won’t live with you come the end of the year.</p>
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<p>- Hey there sugarplum, do want to come to a club where people wee on each other? &#8211; I&#8217;ve heard that before, pal, from a scaly man fish&#8230;</p>
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<p>Do Something Different.</p>
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<p>Because you may never again get the chance.</p>
<p>Soak strangers in <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/3b0a717d47893b45b132c1da4ba0ebb4?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">wine</a>, hurl <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/27d6f401c0da3074dddc356e532b9fd8?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">tomatoes</a> at grannies, let <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/eabc917253f62830d3292e276f912872?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">bulls</a> chase you through the streets, learn to surf on the edge of the <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/f4c41dcef934fd7b87f7e78c28c7132d?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">Sahara</a>or snowboard in one of Europe’s teensiest<a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/41f3648c0d0d76dcbc0cda4deb46937d?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">countries</a>.</p>
<p>These are a few of the things on our fuck-it list for this year, and consequently this ever.</p>
<p>The last thing you want to be thinking whilst watching the nukes rain down all around you is “I really wish I got to go to the tortilla festival…”.</p>
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<p>Mel really loved the Running of the Tortillas this year, where people dressed as flour wrestle with salty in midgets in giant pools of warm water.</p>
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<p>Make new friends and potentially touch them.</p>
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<p>You never know who you will be able to rely on post apocalypse.</p>
<p>Studies show that your family will be the first to go, probably while on the phone to you, and that you will lose your friends, most likely while you are holding their hands and they are dangling from a building being ravaged by a monstrous cloud of fart.</p>
<p>That is why traveling with Stoke Travel is all about meeting people from around the world and potentially kissing them, or at least becoming their <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/b7af6b6b4ad2f501ee65b24b7476837c?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">Facebook</a> friends.</p>
<p>We know that you don’t want to travel the world to only meet people from your postcode, which is why we try and get as many different nationalities as we can at our events.</p>
<p>Like Confuscious once said: “traveling is all about hooking up with as many foreign people as you possibly can”.</p>
<p>But he was a dirty old bugger, we just want to make plenty of friends.</p>
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<p>Mel says: &#8220;befriend the locals. They not only know the best things going on, but how many people you know have a Mayan flag, you get my drift?&#8221;</p>
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<h1>Now that you know how Stoke Travel is planning for the apocalypse why don’t you join us? We have such a good time on our <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/b7af6b6b4ad2f501ee65b24b7476837c?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page, and our <a href="http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/cfc228ff01d94b1641f2e8218cc61c01?pa=7050256324" target="_blank">website</a> is full of great holiday/post apocalyptic survival ideas…</h1>
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<p>Stoke Travel doesn’t necessarily think that world is ending, but does like to cover all eventualities. We have nothing but the deepest respect for Mad Mel and his piercing blue eyes. If you really like having FUN, doing new things, getting kicks out of life, meeting new people and potentially sleeping with them or having a whale of a time, then we are your kind of people. And we are just dying (one day, far off we hope) to meet you!</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Spring break in Europe's party paradise.</h3>
<p><strong>Where: </strong>Ibiza, the Mediterranean, Spain. </p>
<p><strong>When: </strong>April 5th - 9th.</p>
<p><strong>How: </strong>Overnight party ferry from Barcelona.</p>
<p><strong>Cost: </strong>250€.</p>
<p><strong>Sleep: </strong>Hotel.</p>
<p><strong>Eat: </strong>Eating's cheating.</p>
<p><strong>Inclusions: </strong>Ferry transport to Ibiza and back, 2 nights beachfront accommodation, Guides, Boat party , Pool party with open bar of sangria, Private party in a beach club, Volleyball tournament, Poker tournament, Insane Ibiza parties!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The authentic European Spring Break experience.</h3>
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<h4><span style="color: #38c5b7">from Thursday April 5 &#8217;till Monday April 9</span></h4>
<p><em>including: Ferry transport to Ibiza and back, 2 nights beachfront accommodation, Guides, Boat party , Pool party with open bar of sangria, Private party in a beach club, Volleyball tournament, Poker tournament, Insane Ibiza parties!</em></p>
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<h3>The Party Capital of the Universe!</h3>
<p>It just makes sense. You're in Europe, you're studying, or working, here, and you've been trying really hard. you've been breaking mental sweats all over the place. You haven't even thought about parties, (except on the Mondays, Tuesdays, and every other Buddha damned day that you party) but you've earned another one. You deserve another one. <strong>A big one</strong>. Then, like a subtle reach around, the powers that be grant you a break. A break in, or around, spring time.</p>
<p>And something deep inside your heart, brain, genitals, screams "SPRING BREAK WOOOOOH!"</p>
<p>And you know what you have to do.</p>
<p>But you're in Europe, and Cancun is waaaay too far away and all those other <em>hot spots</em> are pretty much on the other side of the world...</p>
<p>So you do something even better. You head to Europe's number one party destination, which, by deductive reasoning and process of elimination, and general science would make it the <strong>world's </strong>number one party destination.</p>
<p>And, according to our current knowledge of the physical everything would make it the universe's number one party destination.</p>
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<h3>What does Spring Break in Ibiza mean?</h3>
<p>One big mother flipping party, that's what. The kinda party where you mind melts and becomes at one with your pancreas. The kind of party that wakes you up, in the middle of the night, in June 2035, screaming "<strong>that's what I call a pickle loving PARTY!"</strong>.</p>
<p>And not only that, but the island itself is so beautiful that ancient mariners likened it to Miranda Kerr's butt in a swimming pool. It's mountainous, the water is as blue as a blue bird's denim shorts and let us not get started on the quality of humanity that's floating around there.</p>
<p>To witness them is to have lava poured through your heart and into you veins and down to your loins. It's like having baby frogs dance on your eyeballs chaperoned by the most elegant of teenage swans. </p>
<p>In short, they should rename Ibiza <em><strong>babe</strong></em> island.</p>
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<h3>What's included?</h3>
<p>Here's a list, it will knock your socks clean through your shoes:</p>
<p>- Ferry transport to Ibiza and back<br />- 2 nights beachfront accommodation<br />- Guides<br />- Boat party <br />- Pool party with open bar of sangria<br />- Private party in a beach club<br />- Volleyball tournament<br />- Poker tournament<br />- Insane Ibiza parties!</p>
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<p><strong> </strong><h3>Ibiza.</h3>
<p>Which is Spanish for "i'm partying, I have no pants, and I still can't help but think how beautiful this place is", (Spanish translations probably aren't accurate, but who's checking?).</p>
<p>It's an overnight ride on our party ferry from Barcelona, a ferry that really sets the tone for the days ahead...</p>
<p>We stay in a hotel where the maids have turntables attached to their dust brooms. A hotel where sleep is possible, but not really high on the list of people's priorities, where beds are more likely to be used for wrestles (pants optional), where the elevator isn't the only thing going down.</p>
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<p>With us. On the party boat. Derr.</p>
<p>Here are the deets...tails.</p>
<p>(as quoted to us by a salty sea captain)</p>
<p>"The boat be leaving Barcelona port at 22:15 on the 5th of april. We be meeting at</p>
<p>8pm in Stoke Bar for a pre-drink (rum), some pre-trip info (where the booty be) and so that we can</p>
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<p>the following morning at 08:00 AM."</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Where the wild guidos roam...</h3>
<p><strong>Where: </strong>Genoa, Italy.</p>
<p><strong>When:</strong> April 4 - April 8.</p>
<p><strong>How: </strong>By cruise ship from Barcelona.</p>
<p><strong>Cost: </strong>330€</p>
<p><strong>Sleep:</strong> Two nights on the love boat, two nights in a 3* hotel.</p>
<p><strong>Eat:</strong> Italian food.</p>
<p><strong>Inclusions:</strong> All transport, accommodation, guides and day trip to Cinque Terre.</p>
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<h3>It's a cruise to the Italian Riviera.</h3>
<p>Where we live the high life, experience the best of this ancient country. A trip where we learn, but not just about <em>things</em> but also about <em>stuff.</em> A trip where we enjoy ourselves in a very historic place...</p>
<h3><strong>Speaking of history...</strong></h3>
<p>Italy has plenty. This is the land that gave us Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael (pretty sure Splinter was Japanese though), of the Roman empire, of Pizza <em>and</em> pizza pie*, and of The Jersey Shore, or at least their ancestors. This place has his-tor-y.</p>
<p>Where we go, Genoa on the Italian Riviera, is the hometown of Chris Columbus, the kinda big deal that only discovered the New World (after people were already living there and the vikings had performed a raid or two, but let's not get mired down in details...). And not just that, but pesto too! Yes pesto <strong>and</strong> focaccia, all from the one city.</p>
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<p>Yeah, as opposed to a bus trip, or a rail pass, we do <em>all</em> of our travel by sea. And traveling by sea is Neptune lovin' luxurious traveling getting around. This aint no tour like any you've done before, and we're sure you'll really dig it. From the cruise to Italy, to the ferry we take to the isolated seaside villages of Cinque Terre - when you're visiting Columbus' hometown you've just gots to do it by sea, right?</p>
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<h3>The boat.</h3>
<p>We take an overnight cruise from Barcelona to Genoa, which is ultra lovely and a whole heap of fun. It's like the love boat, but with more bars, and maybe less <em>real </em>love. We should call it the lust boat, or the party boat. In any case it's by a long shot the most fun way to travel there...</p>
<p>And don't worry, we've booked y'all beds on the bus, so when the night is drawing to a close you can return to your cabin, catch some zzz's in peace and wake up in fair Genoa.</p>
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<h3>Genoa.</h3>
<p>More than just a pretty name. Genoa (Genova) is a beautiful old city, which buttresses the dwindling European Alps against the Mediterranean Sea. It's sprawling Old Town is the largest of its kind in Europe (which would mean in the world, non, I don't think too many other continents have <em>overly</em> old towns).</p>
<p>Chris Columbus learned his shit here, and the maritime tradition continues, making this Italy's most important port city. What does that mean to us? Well port cities usually encourage excessive spending, you know the P Diddy super yacht scene, so the nightlife here in Genoa is killer. So we can do the mazey old beautiful shit in the daytime, and the amazing beautiful people by night. </p>
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<h3>Cinque Terre.</h3>
<p>We take a day trip to the isolated villages of Cinque Terre (no roads here homeys) by boat. This place is so beautiful that you'll never want to leave. A combination of lifestyle, environment, architecture and people that will turn your eyeballs into love hearts and your love hearts into slow dancing teenage swans. After we fall in love with the place, and each other, we grab a delicious bite to eat (seafood anyone?) and we have a few wines, or beers, or tears of joy in shot glasses, and we head back to Genoa, vowing to return sometime very soon...</p>
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<h3>The end.</h3>
<p>Going home is always difficult post holiday, but we have jobs and schools and real <em>lives</em> to go to. Fortunately for us we know we'll be back and fortunately for us we know we've fallen in love with <strong>yet another part of the world</strong>...</p>
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<h3>Amazing Italy.</h3>
<p>The country that's shaped like a boot.</p>
<p>The home of pizza and pasta and pesto and parmesan and penne and prosciutto and pepperoni and pizza pie.</p>
<p>A place where a pair of tights, some plucked eyebrows and a Vespa scooter will have people labelling you <em>masculine</em>.</p>
<p>Our trip takes in the delights of the Italian Riviera, from the hometown of Chris Columbus to the wonderfully isolated villages of Cinque Terre, this trip is seriously <em>nautical.</em> From the moment we board until we disembark...</p></p>
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