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jungle surfing This month we take a look at Australia - Jean Lutz takes a good look down under with her Jungle Surfing adventure,  and Bernard O'Keefe discovers street chess and Percheron horse and carts in Swanston street, Melbourne.

David Anthony treats our culture-vultures to a historical look at Montmartre, Paris in hios piece heart warming art.

Allison Quattrocchi seeks out fairies and leprechauns, with her piece on the Lure and Lore of Ireland. While our intrepid solo travellers give two very different accounts of holidays in Equador.
Sea Lion JoAnn Schermerhorn discovers the Galapagos sea lions in Lobo de Mar, and Sandra Kennedy takes a 23-day adventure, when she returns to the Amazon Rainforest.

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