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		<title>Canadians: Know this if you take a US plated Car into Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My routine when traveling back to Canada, as a Canadian living abroad, is to land at a US airport not far from the border, rent a car and cross into the home country. The advantages of doing it this way are multiple: much cheaper car rental rates, cheaper flights, debit check cards can be used, and generally friendlier border agents. It has been smooth sailing in nine years of doing it this way. However, you ask, aren’t Canadians prohibited from driving US plated vehicles into Canada?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/canadians-know-this-if-you-take-a-us-plated-car-into-canada/</link>
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		<title>Little Tricks Airlines Play to Steal your Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Airlines used to have to be nice to their customers, but that all changed after September 11, 2001, when they became martyrs. No other industry is as coddled by federal governments. They can pretty much do anything they want to you, and if you dare even raise your voice a notch, you could find yourself thrown to the ground and handcuffed by a bunch of burly guys! One of the prime directives of today's airline companies is to take as much of your money as possible and above all else, never, ever issue a refund! Here are a few of their favorite tricks...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/airline-tricksd/</link>
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		<title>Copyright? Trademark? What’s that?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a world traveler, you quickly discover that the laws back home simply do not exist or are not enforced in most of the countries you visit. The first casualty is the right to intellectual property, be it copyrighted, trademarked or even patented. If it is not nailed down, it is everybody’s property and anyone can make copies of your work without your consent and profit from it without paying you a cent in royalties, and without any risk of prosecution.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/copyright-trademark-what%e2%80%99s-that/</link>
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		<title>Mauritius: Paradise or Dead Dodo?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both Charles Darwin and Mark Twain referred to Mauritius as a heaven on earth upon arriving on its shores. Both great men visited the island in the 19th century, yet they're quoted again and again by the tourism industry over a hundred years later. I  don't believe there's such a thing as paradise on earth, and setting the bar that high will invariably leave you disappointed. If your destination answers your basic whims, you have to accept gracefully the imperfections you're sure to encounter.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/mauritius-paradise-or-a-dead-dodo/</link>
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		<title>What are Nine Years of Expat Living Like?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the time the month of June rolls around, I will have lived as an expatriate for nine years. I have no regrets and will likely end my life living quite far away from the land where I was born: Canada. Why would any sane person want to abandon what is said by many to be the best country in the world? One word immediately comes to mind: cold. Canada is also the coldest country on earth, even colder than Russia. It's not the only reason for my exile, but as one Canadian who spent every rainy cold autumn dreading winter, every never ending frigid winter waiting desperately for spring, every cool spring wishing for summer, and every brief, bug infested summer hoping against hope it would stick around just a bit longer, leaving was salvation!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/what-are-nine-years-of-expat-living-like/</link>
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		<title>Falklands or Malvinas?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look at any map printed in Argentina, and you&#8217;re told in no uncertain terms that the Falklands are called the Malvinas and its main city is named Puerto Argentino, rather than Stanley. Of course, it&#8217;s still and always a British territory and has never been legally part of Argentina. Argentina&#8217;s claim over the islands is <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/falklands-or-malvinas/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/falklands-or-malvinas/</link>
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		<title>Buenos Aires in a Nutshell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires is one of the great capitals of the world and one of my favorite cities. Let me lead you on a quick but concise tour of this unique place&#8230; The Big Avenues: 9 de Julio &#8211; The world&#8217;s widest boulevard and the most emblematic of this city, with the enormous obelisk at the <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/buenos-aires-in-a-nutshell/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/buenos-aires-in-a-nutshell/</link>
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		<title>Beware of the Buenos Aires Mustard Squirters!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had visited one of my favorite cities, Buenos Aires, dozens of times before without incident, but this particular trip at the end of February, 2010 was to prove different. Barely had I left my hotel to venture out in the Plaza del Congreso,  a small backpack containing my laptop computer and digital camera slung <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/beware-of-the-buenos-aires-mustard-squirters/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/beware-of-the-buenos-aires-mustard-squirters/</link>
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		<title>Quick Guide to Montevideo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[South Americans often refer to Uruguay, that small country sandwiched between giants Argentina and Brazil, as the &#8220;first world of the third world&#8220;. I don&#8217;t share that opinion as you can plainly see there&#8217;s still far too many people living in extreme poverty in this country, but it is, de facto, the most stable democracy <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/quick-guide-to-montevideo/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/quick-guide-to-montevideo/</link>
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		<title>Earthquake: Chile Now Off Your Itinerary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(JZTZR5H5EEJV) I&#8217;m currently visiting Buenos Aires and woke-up to the news of a 8.8 (Richter scale) earthquake overnight south of Santiago, in neighboring Chile. I&#8217;m watching TV Chile, and it&#8217;s evident that the damage is extensive in the capital and surrounding area, as you might expect, and travel in or out of central and southern <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/earthquake-chile-now-off-your-itinerary/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/earthquake-chile-now-off-your-itinerary/</link>
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		<title>The Medical Tourism Check-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old story still going around about doctors in poor countries re-using syringes and even bandages. It&#8217;s a myth. If it ever did happen, it was in some remote outpost, and even then I would still doubt it. Fact is, medical schools in large cities across the developing world turn-out highly skilled doctors and <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/check-up-on-medical-tourism/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/check-up-on-medical-tourism/</link>
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		<title>The Art of NOT Complaining</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A family of four, including a toddler and a newborn baby, enters a cinema for a late show. The movie is rated PG-13 and the baby soon begins to wail thanks to the booming Dolby sound, while the bored toddler tears around the theater. None of the dozens of other spectators complain. A neighbor throws <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/the-art-of-not-complaining/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/the-art-of-not-complaining/</link>
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		<title>Is your Web Site Censured in China?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s still a lot of people out there who don&#8217;t realize China isn&#8217;t a democracy, perhaps confused by its booming capitalist economy that&#8217;s expected to replace Japan this year as the world&#8217;s second biggest in terms of GDP. China doesn&#8217;t have elections, has no freedom of speech and, of course, censures the Internet. Recently it <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/is-your-web-site-censured-in-china/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/is-your-web-site-censured-in-china/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Reasons for Moving to the Developing World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The developing world conjures images of poverty, violence and corruption. While its true that there are quite a few problems in that other world, nowadays there are parallel societies within it that offer all the amenities of  &#8220;first world&#8221; living.  Here&#8217;s ten good reasons why pondering a move to a developing country might not be <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/10-reasons-to-move-to-the-developing-world/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/10-reasons-to-move-to-the-developing-world/</link>
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		<title>Argentina&#8217;s New Tourist Tax Targets Canada, Australia, and USA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a result of yet another ill-timed law passed by Cristina Kirchner&#8217;s government, travelers visiting from Canada, the US and Australia are now required to pay a tourist tax upon arrival in Argentina. The law went into effect late in December, 2009, and has raised grave concerns from the Argentinean tourist industry, already reeling from <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/argentinas-new-tourist-tax-targets-canada-australia-and-usa/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/argentinas-new-tourist-tax-targets-canada-australia-and-usa/</link>
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		<title>Gringo Discrimination Alert!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine going to a restaurant and being handed a different menu than other diners. The menu is identical in every way to the others, save for the prices, which are three times higher. This would never happen in New York, Toronto, or Sydney, but it happens routinely in Cozumel, Mexico, and a lot of other <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/gringo-discrimination/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/gringo-discrimination/</link>
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		<title>Adapt or Leave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Culture is everything in a human being. It tells us what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong, and never can we escape the culture we grow-up with. In order to be a successful permatourist, you have to be flexible in your belief system. Like it or not, the cultures you&#8217;ll adopt will probably conflict with your own. <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/adapt-or-leave/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/adapt-or-leave/</link>
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		<title>24 Hours is all you Need to Visit Any City!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you travel as often as I do, you&#8217;ll break-up the physical and mental torture of long trips by including a brief stop in a major city of interest, preferably where you&#8217;d be connecting to another flight taking you to your final destination. If you travel as often as I do, you&#8217;ll break-up the physical <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/24-hours-is-all-you-need-to-visit-any-city/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/24-hours-is-all-you-need-to-visit-any-city/</link>
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		<title>Checklist for Choosing a Country to Live in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more people are free to live wherever they wish these days, mostly thanks to the Internet. Having to live close to where you work is no longer a requisite, especially if where you work is in cyberspace, which is everywhere. If that&#8217;s you, then there&#8217;s a few things you need to know in <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/checklist-for-choosing-a-country-to-live-in/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/checklist-for-choosing-a-country-to-live-in/</link>
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		<title>Money-Saving Tips for Renting Cars in North America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Renting a car in North America is a similar experience to buying a car in North America. If you&#8217;re not attentive, you might wind-up signing a rental contract that is anything but a good deal. There&#8217;s a few things you should be aware of before you make a reservation that will help you understand the <a href="http://www.permatourist.com/article/money-saving-tips-for-renting-cars-in-north-america/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.permatourist.com/article/money-saving-tips-for-renting-cars-in-north-america/</link>
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