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		<title>YouTube video: Part of my Radio 4 interview on Montserrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks after my return trip to Montserrat, I got a call from Harry Parker, the producer of Radio 4s travel programme &#8216;Excess Baggage&#8216;. He seemed interested in the idea of having me on the programme. He spent 45 minutes grilling me to get a feel for me and if I had anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube video: Falling in love with the Grand Canyon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. I didn&#8217;t want to work as a ranger at the Grand Canyon National Park. I put it right at the bottom of my choices on the application form. Too busy, too commercial, too well known&#8230;it seemed a world away from the remote places I like. But boy, was I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montserrat after the volcano: true resilience</title>
		<link>http://www.worldtalks.co.uk/blog/montserrat/montserrat-after-the-volcano-true-resilience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just had the very great pleasure of being a guest on Rose Willock&#8217;s Saturday morning cultural show on ZJB Radio Montserrat. Rose was the calming, cheerful voice that helped inform and support the community through difficult times. After the show she explained how Montserratians had shown true resilience in the face of the volcano. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting for Montserrat&#8217;s national bird: the oriole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was up at 5.30 ready to be guided up Katy Hill by a Montserratian legend, James &#8216;Scriber&#8217; Daley. A forester and nature guide, he&#8217;s the person every research project employs when they come to Montserrat and want to work in the forest. He is an expert on Montserrat&#8217;s wildlife. As we drive through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The site of Montserrat&#8217;s original airport</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I flew out of the W.H. Bramble airport in 1995, as many Montserratians were choosing to leave for other Caribbean islands, Canada and the UK. But no-one used it ever again after the 25th June 1997 eruption of the Soufriere Hills killed 19, and destroyed the airport. Today I&#8217;m on Jack Boy Hill looking down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montserrat&#8217;s volcanically devestated capital of Plymouth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Plymouth, but not as I remember it. I&#8217;ve just driven up Garibaldi Hill, just outside the exclusion zone, to get my first sight of Plymouth in 16 years. Even though I know, intellectually, what happened since, it&#8217;s still a shock to see it. Then it was the thriving heart of Montserrat. Today it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From golf course to volcanic desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the Belham River valley: it used to be Montserrat&#8217;s premiere golf course. Expensive houses lined its periphery. An area overlooking the valley is called Happy Hill. Truly paradise for the wealthy expats who lived in the area. The Soufriere Hills Volcano (in the background of this photo) changed all that. Volcanic debris carried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature hiking in Montserrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montserrat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Weather is unpredictable in this transition period between the warm dry winter and the start of the hurricane season, but I arrived on a hot, sunny, humid day. After settling in to my guest house on the west coast I was itching to reacquaint myself with Montserrat after 16 years, so I started walking. Past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A warm welcome to Montserrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been too long, but I&#8217;m finally back in Montserrat. It&#8217;s a different airport (the old one having been destroyed in 1997) but the new, one room replacement, opened in 2005 by Princess Anne,  is still small, friendly and laid back. The customs officer asks me some questions and when I tell him who&#8217;s meeting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respect elephants: especially when they charge you in the campsite</title>
		<link>http://www.worldtalks.co.uk/blog/botswana/respect-elephants-especially-when-they-charge-you-in-the-campsite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.worldtalks.co.uk/blog/botswana/respect-elephants-especially-when-they-charge-you-in-the-campsite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Botswana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our campsite at Savuti was almost infested with elephants. They see tents as solid objects fortunately, and are very careful not to stand on them, but occasionally you can push them too far&#8230; Why are they attracted to this area? The acacia trees. In the late 19th century animal populations were hammered by a combination [...]]]></description>
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