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	<description>Roger has earned world-wide recognition as a business travel guru through his weekly column, &#039;The Frequent Traveler,&#039; in the International Herald Tribune; and as a contributing columnist for the New York Times. He has been described as the dean of business-travel journalists in Europe, who ‘created the template for business-travel columns in newspapers worldwide.’ An actor and broadcaster, Roger provides the many voices offered by Voicesetcetera.com.</description>
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		<title>Advertising a la carte</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/11/08/advertising-a-la-carte/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stairwell was a Cape Horn of cooking smells which offered no respite to apfelstrudel lurking uneasily on top of the tafelspitz from Sacher’s famous restaurant. Yes, you’ve already guessed; a windy day in Vienna. The mood postprandial, dyspepsia engulfing the cautious optimism of lunch. I popped another Gelusil and groped for the lift.
Guratsky’s office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recalling the good old days</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/11/06/recalling-the-good-old-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As John Millar sees it, business travel was a much more civilized experience 50 years ago. Especially flying.
Millar, a retired British aerospace manufacturer and former TWA captain (he flew DC-2s in 1935-6) is president of the World Solar Power Foundation. He now lives in Monte Carlo and has been an inveterate first-class traveler since 1936.
 ‘Prewar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nightwings</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/10/22/nightwings-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minou, our beloved cat, indefatigable high-wire acrobat of the fifth floor, inexplicably jumps to his death.
            Was it the swift shadow of a bird? The trajectory was more than six feet from the vertical. Can animals commit suicide?
            Fortunately, Minou misses the grass verge and is killed instantly on the concrete path.
            Anguish, tears, recriminations.
            [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you sincerely want to lose money in commodity futures?</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/04/15/do-you-sincerely-want-to-lose-money-in-commodity-futures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should you be tempted to speculate in commodity futures, think again. You are likely to have as much luck – and more fun – trying to break the bank at Monte Carlo – unless you really know what you are doing.  You can lose your shirt playing chemin de fer; but in commodities trading you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jaime Sevilla’s secret empire</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/01/23/jaime-sevilla%e2%80%99s-secret-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hymie? Hymie who?’
‘Jaime Sevilla!’
The voice on the line is deep and muscular. ‘What sign are you? I’m Sagittarius. Very Sagittarius!’ Big chuckle.
I curse the switchboard for putting this lunatic through.
‘As a matter of fact I’m Aquarius.’
A pause. ‘That’s okay. Aquarians are good with Sagittarians. Look, I read your Gauquelin story in last month’s issue of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In parenthesis</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/01/10/in-parenthesis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday afternoon around the fifteenth of the month will be sure to find me crouched over the typewriter pecking out the last elusive paragraph of this column. If you can fight your way through the Gauloise smoke you will see a lonely figure wearing an imaginary green eyeshade and chain-drinking Whittard’s Earl Grey. Bereft of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juxtapositions</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/11/06/juxtapositions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacques Renoir, a filmmaker friend living in Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice, tells a tale of a middle-aged couple who set out on a day-trip in the arriere-pays to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
In the course of a gastronomic lunch the husband goes for a pee and comes back with his flies open. His wife whispers to him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The big idea</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/11/06/the-big-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Big Idea always comes from the unconscious mind. Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process,&#8221; is what I think I heard David Ogilvy, the veteran adman say in a nocturnal programme called Keys to Creativity on the BBC World Service.
&#8220;I was doing a campaign once and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/09/27/dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am driving someone else&#8217;s car. I think it belongs to a woman in the back seat or else sitting beside me. She warns me to be careful as I take corners too fast.
We are driving on the right-hand side of the road with pools of water (recent rain?). There is a kind of stone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marseille: a taste of Africa, a taste of Provence</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/05/24/marseille-a-taste-of-africa-a-taste-of-provence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marseille is a city waiting to be discovered for itself not for its fearsome reputation – notably among people who have never been there – as a hotbed of crime, corruption, drug-dealing and social conflict. And indeed, this grand old Mediterranean port of 800,000 people – second largest city in France – still grand in [...]]]></description>
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