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		<title>Mothers&#8217; Day 2012 &#8211; A Letter to my Mum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 15:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mum, Sometimes, you say to us kids that you could have been a better Mum.  I am writing this letter to remind you that what you have given us is truly precious. You taught us kids that the most important gift is each other.  You fostered our relationships with one another.  You never favoured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women of Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 22:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We laughed and hung on every word as comedian Kate McLennan shared &#8216;A Letter to my Petty Crimes&#8217;. Kate set the scene for an afternoon of wit and humour at the April 2012 &#8216;Women of Letters&#8217; event.  I won&#8217;t divulge Kate&#8217;s childhood crime (&#8216;cos no-one likes dobbers), but let&#8217;s just say she was not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Williamstown Literary Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 22:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Bonney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like golden Autumn leaves falling gently from trees, stories fall from the mouths of writers at literary festivals. These stories are often the untold gems &#8211; how the writer began writing books, the extent to which the main character is based on herself, and the writer&#8217;s relationship to the places in her book. Each Autumn, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1000 Steps &#8211; Kokoda Track Memorial Walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dandenong Ranges National Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a stressful week, I feel an urge to get outside and walk amongst the trees.  Something about being in the nature rejuvenates me.  At times like this, I head to 1000 Steps in the Dandenong Ranges National Park. As the name implies, it is a narrow and steep track surrounded by thick green vegetation.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nikos Quality Cakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you love Greek sweets as much as I do, then you will also love Nikos Quality Cakes.  It is a large cafe piled high with all the favourites.  If Willy Wonka was Greek, this is what his cafe would look like!  Rows of baklava, Greek doughnuts (loukoumades), shredded pastry with custard or nuts (kataifi), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 School Holiday Activities &#8211; Easter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Federation Square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Footscray Community Arts Centre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Museum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Polly Woodside]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shrine of Remembrance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Substation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Werribee Open Range Zoo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my top 10 school holiday activities for Easter.  If you click on the name of the attraction, it will link to my review of it, a map, website and pricing details.  Activities 1-6 are outdoor activities as the weather is predicted to be mostly sunny this week.  However, just in case there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comedy Festival 2012</title>
		<link>http://melbournestaycation.com/entertainment/comedy-festival-2012</link>
		<comments>http://melbournestaycation.com/entertainment/comedy-festival-2012#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Autumn leaves fall from the trees, the weather in Melbourne becomes cooler, and our wardrobes become a bit darker.  Perhaps our sense of humour does too!  It is the perfect season for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. There are comedy acts galore on offer.   Some of my favourites from previous years are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimmy Watson&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://melbournestaycation.com/eating/jimmy-watsons</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard as it is to believe, there was a time in Melbourne when wine was viewed as the drink of choice for alcoholics, and, even worse, communists!!  The stereotype was men drinking beer, while women were confined to the ladies’ lounge sipping a shandy.  Jimmy Watson bucked that trend.  He opened his bar and bistro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love and Devotion Exhibition</title>
		<link>http://melbournestaycation.com/entertainment/love-and-devotion-exhibition</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clare Williamson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr Hossein Ghomshei]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Layla and Majnun]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[master storyteller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Navid Akrami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nefes Ensemble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Persian manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Play of Daniel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professor Charles Melville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Atkinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rumi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seher Cagin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soheil Bahrami]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan Scollay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Did my Beloved only touch me with his lips, I too, like the flute, would burst out in melody.” Source: ‘Masnavi’ by Rumi (1207-1273) Rumi&#8217;s words glide effortlessly across the centuries, inspiring us to rise above our worldly concerns and attend to matters of the heart.  His poetry, written almost 1,000 years ago, speaks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweets Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelbStay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Wojcinski]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Immigration Museum is holding a festival to celebrate the role of sweets in our multicultural society.  There will be many stalls selling sweets from the cultures profiled in their Sweets Exhibition – Italian, Indian, Japanese, Mauritian and Turkish.  I’m salivating just thinking about this!!  You can indulge in everything from baklava to mochi!  The [...]]]></description>
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