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  TROWBRIDGE-based Guru Magazine has launched a free-to-subscribe app, which is available in Apple’s Newsstand and the Android Marketplace.
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  The glass is half full for brewers after the Chancellor’s Budget, although some in Wiltshire say the Government could have done more to support drinkers.
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           <title>the long road home</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[My last blog from across the atlantic.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[A shakey ride through the Amazon by truck, bus and weighted down taxi make for an interesting crossing into Ecuador.]]></description>
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           <title>In the spirit of &quot;try everything once...&quot;</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[On my last weekend in Trujillo, north Peru, I head uncertainly to a Peruvian cock fight, to see what its all about.]]></description>
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           <title>living rough in New Jerusalem</title>
           
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  I find myself now half way through my project with Bruce Peru, where I am spending a month working in schools for disadvantaged kids who aren’t in school: teaching them, giving them a bit of food
  and generally supporting them in the hope of getting them back into mainstream schools for the following academic year. It’s terrifying, awe-inspiring, endlessly frustrating and eternally rewarding
  work. When I signed up to work in Peru, I really had no idea what I was in for… I was expecting basic, but there is “basic” and “Basic.” This is “Basic.” Our school, in a barrio called "Nuevo
  Jerusalém" consists of 18 children ranging from 7 to 14 years old, all jumbled together in a building with no roof, only 3 walls, and packed with more chickens than children. The floor is sand, so
  if you drop your pen, you lose your pen. The tables slope at all sorts of interesting angles and if you don’t put the breakfast food high up, don’t expect it to be there when you return – those
  dogs are hungry. The only blessing is that in Trujillo, it doesn’t rain, because that really would be miserable. I can’t say I find it easy working with these kids, nor that they are immediately
  endearing. When you work daily in a landfill sight between 8pm and 4am, you aren’t terribly predisposed to long multiplication the following day. Plus, the majority of these children´s parents are
  illiterate and see no value in education. “If I manage without literacy, why can´t you?” seems to be the message passed down daily to the children. On top of this, there are also horrendous
  problems with domestic violence – 40% of women suffer from domestic abuse, and the figures for children are thought to be higher still.
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  It’s been 1 month since I first entered the country and I feel like this weekend for the first time I have seen the “the real Peru.” 3 hours up in the mountains, at 3,300m lies the little village
  of Mache, where an Irish nun agreed to host us for a couple of days. The ride up was an experience in itself with lots of views over the edge of the cliff that I could have done without. But then,
  3 hours later, we stopped and my heart rate slowed. We had emerged in a tiny village constructed from mud and tiles with donkeys, pigs, chickens and small children running wildly around. Defying
  our weak lungs, which were feeling the 3km climb, we began walking up one of the highest peaks around. The path curled its way around the mountains, dipping down and rising up and licking its way
  to the top. The views were spectacular. Between green patchwork mountains the mist rolled in and out. Had a dinosaur emerged from around the next bend, I don’t think it would have shocked me. This
  really was Jurassic Park country. But the kindly Irish nun (whatever you are imagining here, you probably aren’t far off) had prepared lunch for us so pretty soon we were having to make our way
  back. Instead of following the path we decided to make our own way down. We are young, we can do anything, we laugh in the face of danger… Not happening! The mountain turned into cliff face all
  over the place and soon we were forced to go to the nearest house (which curiously had a taxi outside) to ask for direction.
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  Its Sunday in Trujillo and a day of rest alter 1 month of absolute epic journey. I feel like I really have seen more that my 19 year old eyes are able to contain. I have met 1 million interesting
  people who struggle down every walk of life, I have seen the worlds biggests birds swooping over the worlds second biggest canyon, boarded down the worlds highest dunes, swam in the clear blue
  pacific as the sun goes down and watched sea lions giving their cubs the first tender nudge towards the sea. Can I ever be impressed again?
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  Its Sunday morning and I can officially claim to be recovering from my first ever peruvian night club experience. It goes without saying that the option to visit the clubs and bars has always been
  there, and at times the need for a good beer, or the local speciality: the pisco sour, is overpowering. But going out in a gringo group is just no fun, so when the opportuntiy arose to accompany
  some real locals here in Nazca, I jumped at the opportunity. Nazca is famous for the enigmatic lines left in its surrounding desert in times before Christ. It is famous for this, and only this. As
  such the night life is not great. Still, I´m always game for a new expeirnece and I was unlikely to be able to effectively tell a good peruvian night club experience from a bad one anyway.
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           <title>On the Isla del Sol...</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[My final week in Bolivia takes me to the famous Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca, famous (erroneously) for being the highest navigable lake in the world.]]></description>
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