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		<title>Bus station plan ditched!</title>
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Good news – Buchanan Galleries have scrapped their ambition to build a multi-storey  carpark on top of Buchanan Bus Station – a victory for common sense,  though perhaps one motivated more by the financial climate than a sudden  conversion to the value of public transport over private interests.
In my meetings with Scotland’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dry land at last</title>
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So I&#8217;m back. Back in the land where freighter terminals not only have public transport but also trees, green spaces and even a wind turbine!
Actually as I write this I&#8217;m onto the next stage of my journey home, sat on a train at Antwerp station which should be on it&#8217;s way to Brussels before I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patrickharviemsp.com/2010/08/dry-land-at-last/</link>
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		<title>And so to sea</title>
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I always knew that one day my ship would come in, and today it did. I will be boarding for the long trip homeward in a couple of hours, and I&#8217;m just taking the last opportunity for a bit of wifi in a lovely little cafe near my hotel. One more blogpost, a few more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N&#8217;awlins. The best place in the world?</title>
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How can I describe New Orleans? How can I put into words the utter delight of the place, and my dismay at leaving do soon? Quite simply this could very well be the best place in the world.
My stay here has been a straightforward holiday &#8211; the programme I&#8217;ve been participating in ended in Houston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I just don&#8217;t like Houston</title>
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Throughout my American adventure I have been blogging belatedly. The delays have previously been caused by the electronics, the wifi, and the long hours of meetings. But with Houston, I just needed some time to come to terms with the place before I could begin to set out my thoughts.
In short, I hated the place.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patrickharviemsp.com/2010/08/i-just-dont-like-houston/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Star Trek, Jim, but not as we know it</title>
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Those who know me and my tastes won&#8217;t be surprised that when I saw this online, I made a beeline for what I took to be an open-air screening of an old Star Trek episode in a Seattle park. 
How wrong I was. How delightfully, wonderfully wrong.
What I found after a longer than expected walk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patrickharviemsp.com/2010/08/its-star-trek-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s cool up north</title>
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And so to Seattle (as ever, updating the website slightly after the fact!) for a break from the relentless heat&#8230; though only for a while as I&#8217;ll be in the South after this until I leave.
For a city so closely associated with cool it first struck me as morelike a typical northern town, with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patrickharviemsp.com/2010/08/its-cool-up-north/</link>
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		<title>Sacramento, land of the Governator</title>
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From a total sample of two, my impression is that US capital cities just don&#8217;t feel like cities. DC had a small town feeling despite the government machine which occupies its centre, and Sacramento appears to be a smaller version of the same thing. Astonishing though it may seem, in the state capital of California [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patrickharviemsp.com/2010/07/sacramento-land-of-the-governator/</link>
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		<title>Recharging&#8230;</title>
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OK, so the blogging hasn&#8217;t been going quite so well. I&#8217;ve been having continual problems getting a power converter to work, and for most of the time I spent in Chicago my phone and laptop were both out of batteries. I&#8217;m now on my third converter, so fingers crossed for the rest of the trip. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patrickharviemsp.com/2010/07/recharging/</link>
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		<title>One last post about DC</title>
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(written in DC, posted from Chicago, why can&#8217;t wifi be everywhere?)
Election fever is getting under way throughout the US as Senators, Representatives, mayors and councils approach November&#8217;s mid-term ballot. DC is a little different, having no voting representation at Congress. But the local government elections are still taking place, and midweek I bumped into Mayor [...]]]></description>
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