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	<title>Haje's Brain</title>
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	<description>Assorted ramblings from what passes for a brain these days</description>
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		<title>Adventures in Easyjet: A Letter of Complaint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, on February 20th, I was scheduled to fly from Stansted to Edinburgh on EasyJet flight 233. Despite being a frequent flier, I have to admit I&#8217;ll award that flight the dubious honour of being the single most appalling flight experience I have ever had. 
Upon arriving at the airport at 6:45am, we discovered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/adventures-in-easyjet-a-letter-of-complaint/</link>
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		<title>Tas Firin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The frost is forming growing crystals of ice on the pavements of east London. Small clouds puff out of people walking along the streets as if they were tiny, human-powered steam locomotives. One by one, wrapping themselves warmer into their layers of Gore Tex, casting furtive yet flirtatious glances through the narrow slit between scarf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/tas-firin/</link>
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		<title>Astro Star Cafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[for the purpose of this review, please pretend it's formatted as a proper screenplay.]
Meeting at the death star
Inside a large, 20-sided room with tasteful but muted lighting.
The room has a long, horse-shoe shaped table in it. At the most rounded side of the horse-shoe stands DARTH VADER, obviously pissed off. The 10 or so aides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/astro-star-cafe/</link>
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		<title>The Narrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There aren’t that many international super-stars of cookery, but the British chef Gordon Ramsay (who has no less than 12 Michelin stars against his name at the time I’m writing this) is rapidly becoming one of them.
In an intriguing turn of events, he has decided to open a series of pubs, serving good, wholesome British [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/the-narrow/</link>
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		<title>Belgo Centraal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was first taken to Belgo with a friend who said ‘you’ve got to go at least once – it’s a pretty sweet place’. Boy was he ever right: Back when the elevator was still working, you were taken into a steel-cage industrial elevator into a basement, where you’d be forgiven for half expecting prisoners [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/belgo-centraal/</link>
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		<title>The Rock and Sole Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make – I’m one of those ‘filthy furriners’ who came here to steal your jobs and women. So far, I’m struggling with the ‘jobs’ bit, and I imported my own woman, but nonetheless&#8230; Anyway, I’ve lived in the UK for 7 years, and I never had fish and chips until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/the-rock-and-sole-place/</link>
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		<title>The Restaurant at Wallett&#8217;s Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dover is a strange old place &#8211; almost everyone who lives in the UK has gone through the place at one time or another, en-route to the European mainland. When I told people I was going to go to Dover, they responded with ‘Oh, that’s nice. Where are you going?’ ‘Dover’ ‘Yeah, but where are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/the-restaurant-at-walletts-court/</link>
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		<title>The Morgan Arms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gastro-pubs are rip-roaringly popular in the UK, for a great reason: You don’t pay silly money to eat well, you don’t have to worry about being served something you can’t identify, and it’s always exciting to get simple, wholesome meals done well.
The Morgan Arms is one such restaurant which gets consistently good reviews, and we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/the-morgan-arms/</link>
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		<title>Haozhan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haozhan is a Chinese restaurant smack-bang in the middle of Chinatown in Soho, London. It’s a funny little place, wedged between a Chinese supermarket, and surrounded with traditional Chinese restaurants at all sides. We ended up choosing this restaurant over the others because it looked less traditional than others – sure, there were the classic, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/haozhan/</link>
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		<title>The Gordon Arms Hotel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upon deciding we were going to foray to to Edinburgh more or less on a whim, we discovered that public transportation and planes were out, partially because of the late notice, and partially because the whole town was about to explode with Robert Burns celebrations for the legendary poet&#8217;s 250th birthday.
Anyway, the long and short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kamps.org/haje/the-gordon-arms-hotel/</link>
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