When I first started practicing yoga it was due to curiosity to help with body weight training.
The more I began to practice the more I enjoyed it. I didn’t know the names of any of the poses, I didn’t know the correct alignments and I didn’t care.
If I was holding a pose correctly I just didn’t care, I move my body to the positions I wanted and didn’t care if it was wrong. I lost myself in my breath and my movement.
Then I learned the alignment needed to hold poses “correctly” I learned the importance of pelvis alignment and correct positioning for the spine.
Yes the more I learned the more I realised the importance of correct alignment for my own safety, but I’ve become to much in my head and not enough in my heart.
So for now my practice is more on my own internal struggle, to balance knowledge and passion. To find my “Sthira & Sukha”
Stop dividing yourself.
Think of all the energy inside yourself as a percentage. That energy is yours and how you choose to use that energy should be a bit more conservative than you think.
Because of the modern world we live in we can spend so much time and energy on just keeping ourselves informed about other people’s lives. Ask yourself how does this really benefit yourself??
Just gaze your minds eye forwards to a time when your soon to pass from this world. Would you not look back and wish you’d spent all that time and energy on yourself and not on others?? Just think what you’d give to have that time back.
Through technology were constantly able to keep In touch with anyone anywhere in the world. But sometimes we put to much of our own energy just trying to keep in touch with people. If they are your true friends and if they add value to your life, then you should be able to go days, weeks, months even years without talking and they’ll still be there.
Next time you look at whatsapp/Facebook/Instagram/twitter maybe put your phone down and pick up that book you’ve never finished. Walk along a road you’ve never been down, stop and admire the world around you.
When we control how we spend our energy we can grow personally stronger than we ever thought we could before. We can build relationships that’s will stand the test of time. An we can be true to ourselves knowing we haven’t wasted our most precious gift…..time.
Dragonman oh man oh man
So here I sit in a hostel in the capital of Ecuador. Our tour finished last night and now Jac and I are on our own again to explore. The tour was great, It was a complete holiday from travelling. Every morning we got up at the pre agreed time for breakfast then sat on the truck and watched the never ending breath taking scenery of Colombia pass by the window. We didn’t have to plan where and what we were going to do or how to get there, we simply sat back and got to experience and see the country around us. Yes after a period of time you have no interest in walking around or seeing churches. Anyone who has been to Asai will be able to relate after seeing all the temples!! But the trip was great. We were taken to quite remote villages normally untravelled by backpackers and saw all the country had to offer. My photos really don’t do it justice, Especially as my DSLR is broken and all the photos are from my iPhone. So from here we head back to Colombia and to Bogota for 10 days. We’ve rented an apartment and were going to enjoy not being surrounded by 20 people all the time!!
Medellin, food and sangria
From Mompox we headed to another town 5 hours drive away. It was a nothing town with a stop just to break up the drive to Medellin. Still we enjoyed walking around the square in the evening smiling at all the locals who pointed towards the group of “gringos” in there town.
The next day we had our longest drive yet, a 420km 12 hour trip to Medellin. We knew nothing of the city ahead except that it was a mutual friends favourite city in the world so our hopes were high.
The drive took us over mountains and through valleys with breath taking scenery. Once we finally got to our hotel after battling through traffic and random police stops we headed for the main square.
It was surrounded with bars and restaurants but it was late we just wanted to stuff our face and sleep!!
The next day we had a city tour with a local guide. We visited statutes in parks and hoped on the cable cars to find panoramic views of the city below.
After the tour we grabbed some lunch and rested before a Pablo Escobar tour in the afternoon. We had no real idea what to expect especially at the prospect of meeting his brother at the end of the tour.
We visited one of his former buildings and listened intently to a tour guide who flamboyantly told us stories. We then headed to a cemetery and weaved our way through funeral ceremonies to visit his grave.
From there we went to house which had been turned into a museum. After a tour around Roberto, one of pablos brothers and former book keeper chatted with us and posed for photos. It was odd to be in front of a man who was witnessed to such boffin crimes poss for selfies. I declined the chance for a photo with him but still enjoyed listening to stories.
The next day Jac and I and 2 others from our tour jumped onto the metro and headed for the botanical gardens. It was so nice and quite and fun to just stroll through the gardens and butterfly parks. We bought souvenirs and ate ice creams then headed back for the bus ride to Guatape
The drive to Guatape was only 3 hours. Once again the road winded along mountain sides revealing more breath taking views of Colombia. Once at our hotel we were greater by Sam. Originally from India he had tracked and worked around the world. The extended a level of gratitude and friendly mess that instantly made everyone like him. We were invited to his restaurant for a meal that evening and little did we know we were about to enjoy the best meal of our lives!!
He brought us all a mix of foods to try, buttered chicken and masalas and others I couldn’t name. The food was simply amazing!!
The next day we had a boat tour across the lakes learning about the history of the artifice lakes. They had been created only 20 years ago and now supply 70% of Colombia power and well as power for surrounding countries. We visited another of Pablo esobars houses although this one was in ruins after being bombed.
In the afternoon we were taken to a local land mark. A rock that had been pushed from the ground centuries ago that you could climb to reveal views as far as the eye could seek
After the days hiking Jac and I went back to SAMs for dinner. Once again we gorged ourselfves with food and chilian wine and sangria. The rest of the night was a drunken mess in a Spanish disco with laughing that brought tears and pain to our faces smiling so much.
There are videos of that night but they will remain safely tucked away on my phone no doubt to be used as bribery in the future 😉
For now I’m sat in a cafe as Jac sleeps of her hangover watching a festival walk bye and looking forward to the next few days. After a stop in a. Town were spending 3 nights camping in a coffee plantation and have a night eating a Argentinian bbq!! Yum
Cartagena
We dropped anchor at 1am In the port city of Cartagena. The crossing from Sandblas Islands has only taken 32 hours, a record time for our captain. After waking when we arrived and seeing the city lights I headed back to sleep.
We spent the morning on the boat eating and packing and saying goodbye to our new friends. We had a hotel to check into and a new city to explore!!!
The hotel was he starting point for our over landing tour. Since neither of us had planned to come to Colombia we had no idea about the country at all. I’d found a tour that would take us through the country and into equidor and make the trip as simple as possible.
After checking into the hotel we enjoyed our first showers for 5 days and put clean fresh clothes on. You have no idea how nice it felt!!
We headed off to lunch in a near bye Italian then went off to explore the city of Cartagena!
We found ourselves in the old town, filled with shops and restaurants we enjoyed wondering the streets and enjoying the city. We headed back to the hotel then went out for dinner before the day of travelling ahead.
The next day we met the other 18 people who are on our tour, people from all around the globe and all ages. The first stop for the tour was a town called Mompox, the town that Colombia gained its independence.
The city hasn’t changed in the last 60+ years, we spent an evening walking the streets and eat dinner in a square surrounded by locals enjoying there Sunday evening.
Today we enjoyed a walking tour around the town then sat inside enjoying even more our air conditioned room!!
Tomorrow we head off to our next town!!
Panama in a nut shell
so despite me promising to keep this up to date it quickly fell at the way side. It’s amazing how fast the days go and how little time you seam to have to write an what not even when you don’t have a job!!!
So how the hell do I update from my last post just after my birthday! Since then we travelled across Panama twice, went hiking on mountain trails for treasure, rode horses to tranquil villages in the middle of nowhere, got ourselves to a deserted town to scuba dive in a national park with dozens of sharks, explored the Capitol of Panama and enjoyed old towns and crashed roof top pools, spent 5 days sailing in paradise on deserted islands gorging ourselves on fresh lobster and fish and arrived in Colombia in time to join a trip that will take us through the country and into Ecuador!! Bloody hell there’s no way I can sum all that up except it was amazing. How do you pick a favourite when every day is unforgettable. Il just dump a load of photos beneath.
Coiba diving
When every day is a sunday
I’ve woken up in our hostel in our private room and like almost every other day I forgotten what day it is. I lie in bed next to Jac and make a few stupid jokes and we chat about what do with the day ahead.
We know where were we’ve got to be on which dates this month but we have days with nothing planned. Do we go scuba diving, snorkelling, surfing, to the beach, or just sit around and watch episodes of suits on netflix? the beauty of it is, we could do them all.
So quickly I’ve fallen into this magical lifestyle free from any care or responsibility or stress. So many times we catch ourselves walking down new streets laughing because our minds are completely blank.
We literally have removed all day to day stress from our lives! I remember the amount of time back home that my mind was constantly busy trying to juggle all the day to day realities of life. How I thought I was happy because I could do it all and stay in control. It’s crazy to think back now just how much time and effort I spent on just living life day to day.
With my mind constantly active on day to day things I was always to busy to let my mind go free. Now my mind is free I notice so much more about the world around me. I appreciate the women beside me, I notice the small animals scurrying back into the holes as we walk by. I’m free to let the lessons I’ve learned soak in and actually learn from them instead of just living them.
Who knows how long I will be able to keep this going, for now I know I’m happier and at piece more so then any time of my life. Past gremlins that haunted me my whole life have been put to bed and I’m ready for the future ahead!
Turning 30 on a island
Back maybe in February when I committed to myself that I was going to leave the world as I knew it and travel far afield, I realised there may be some things i’ll mis out on doing at home. Seeing friends on a regular basis, christmas and my 30th birthday.
I’ve never been one to really be bothered about my own birthday, I tend to sometimes go above and beyond to make others birthdays special though. When I decided I was going to head off I resided myself to the fait of possible experiencing my 30th birthday alone, and in some far away hostel on the other side of the world. Boy was I wrong.
In the last week the group that I’ve been travelling with have dwindled down to just Jac and myself. Lonnie and Chantelle headed off inland to Panama as they had a shorted time scale. Pam although she wasn’t due home till july decided after over 6 months of travelling she was ready to go home so headed on back to canned. An even ryan, A guy I meet at the Panama border all headed off.
I had no real idea what I wanted to do for my birthday as always. I thought maybe about lying in all morning then spending the day eating and drinking our way through town before collapsing on a hammock. Jac on the other hand had other plans.
I was told that for the 17th and 18th I was to have my bag packed as the 2 of us were heading off to a near by island of Bastimentos. I’d never even really heard of the island even though we had past it many times on boat trips and days scuba diving.
We got dropped off on a tiny little dock pocking out into the ocean and had to make our way between and under houses to find the main road of the island. I use the word “road” lightly as it was about 3 feet wide and filled with holes. On the whole island there aren’t and cars or vehicles bigger than a push bike.
We made our way on between houses rolling a sign for a place called “firefly” an appropriate name as Jac and I had spent many a night back on the yoga deck on our retreat watching the fireflies above. As we walked along the coast front between palm trees and sandy beaches we found the hotel at the end of the path. It slept only 10 people and was amazing!! so far from the hostels we had been sleeping in for the las month. It even had hot showers!!
We spent the rest of the day exploring the new island and town we landed on. It was mostly stretched along the coast line and being off season we were pretty much the only tourists around to be found. Unlike the busy town of Bocos Del Toro this island was filled with women and children playing in the streets and fields between and around the houses.
After exploring for the day we headed back to the hotel, jumped in the pool then showered and changed ready to head off to dinner. We had been recommend by someone who ran the hotel to try and small place called Chavela, we didn’t realise just how small until we found it.
Wedged between houses along the street up a unlit muddy path sat a bar with a kitchen and maybe 4 tables. Jac simply lead the way and walked off into the darkness to lead the way as if shed been there dozens of times.
Once we got there we couldn’t decide what to eat so as a standard fallback that I have in these situations we simply ordered all 3 we were trying to choose between. We had tune, barracuda and a awesome home made burger all washed down with cold beer. We both sat after with massive food babies growing within us.
We very slowly, Caribbean style walked back to the hotel and passed out asleep after watching a episode of suits on the laptop.
The next day was the 18th and my 30th birthday. Being 6 hours behind the UK and all my friends and family meant I woke to find a whole host of messages from back home. A morning Skype call with my parents was great and also the first opportunity in a while to catch them up to date with possible planes for the next couple of months.
We then went and sat out on the deck and enjoyed a fresh homemade breakfast completed with fluffy banana pancakes
After scoffing ourselves we set off to find a chocolate and permaculture farm with organic cafe that we had read about. A sign on the high street pointed on up a hill and we began in mid day heat a walk up a hill and through a forrest to a unknown place.
We did after about a half hours walk find the gates to the hidden to cafe. It was nestled on a hill top far away from any others properties and was a beautiful quite little spot. We were greeted by a Scottish women who own the place and quickly dropped our bags from the hike up the hill. We sat and drank fresh smoothies and ate home made brownies whilst the cool breeze cooled us both down.
Now one thing I should mention about Bastimentos is it has a reputation for red poison frogs. When we were back in Costa rica we had spotted a bright green frog and for days I had been trying to spot one of these illusive little red frogs. There not that easy to find as there no bigger than the end of your finger tip. But hear sat on the mountain top wedged between plants I saw some of them. I carefully caught one and then spent my time trying to photograph these tiny little frogs with what camera equipment we had. Luckily Jac has a really good camera as I’d left mine at home after discovering a problem with it.
When I had finished playing with the frogs we made our way back down the hill. Not before Jac slipped on a piece of wood and fell flat into some mud mind! The walk back was easier as the mid day sun had passed and we settled in for the afternoon to enjoy our hotel. We sat and watched as the sunset in front of us.
We got ready for dinner and for only the second time since I left home I put a shirt on!! the meal was a mix of local cuisine and Thai and once again we couldn’t decide what to eat. We asked Ryan our host to simply bring his favourite and we gorged ourselves on local fish whilst we drank a few bottles of nice red Chilean wine. I wish I had taken more photos but I just wanted to sit and enjoy the dinner and the company for the evening so this is the only one I took.
The next day after waking up with a slight hangover we checked out and headed back to a house on Bocos for the next few nights.
It was an amazing birthday and one I will never forget. Jac and I are building a habit of having great birthdays together. Hers was during our last week at Anamaya and that one also stays fresh in my mind but thats a story for only us to share.
The next week will be a mix of things but I’l try and keep this up to date .
A day under the sea.
Today was our second day on our Padi course. First we had to go over and review a test we had completed the night before. Luckily we passed with only errors 😀 from there we were shown how to kit up our BCD’S ( buoyancy control devices ) onto oxygen tanks and were ready to get in the ocean.
our first test was shallow water diving drills. After a quick demo we all jumped from the dock in front of our dive school into water about 2/3 meters deep. After grouping on the surface we had to deflate our BCD”S slowly descend to the ocean bed.
The first few breaths under water for me were a mad mix of excitement and fear. I could feel my heart rate quickening and a slight sense of claustrophobia kicking in. Id spent the last month at a retreat learning to breath through my nose during my yoga practice and the instinct to do so slipped in now and again. As soon as I did although my nose was inclosed within my mask i sucked in a few drops of ocean water and quickly began to cough. This only added to my panic as I had no idea at this stage what to do.
Slowly our dive instructor calmed my breathing down and we had to start our first drills. Slowly we learned how to remove our regulator from our mouth and replace it. Then to use the secondary emergency regulator. These tasks I found fine as I could easily see and understand what to do. From there we had to fill our masks with water and learn how to clear the water trapped within them. This didn’t go so well for me and I panicked, a lot!!
With my nose enclosed within the mask as soon as I let it fill with water it felt as if my nose was breathing in all the ocean water. I began to cough and choke and couldn’t regain my breathing through the regulator. I panicked and nearly used off the ocean floor for the surface above. Some how though I tilted my head back and breathed hard through my nose to push the water out from my mask. With all the water removed I could see clearly and I began to calm and breath some what normally.
After a few ore tasks the last we had to perform was to remove our masks and swim for 60 seconds under water with our eyes open, we then had to refit our masks and clear the water. Removing the mask and swimming under water was no problem but once again re fitting the mask and feeling water pushed up my nose by my air bubbles really panicked me. I tried to push to the surface out of instant but my dive instructor clasped my hands around my mask and insisted I continue. Some how I refitted the mask onto my face and cleared the water. For maybe a minute or more then my breath was panicked and rushed. I had to close my eyes to try and calm my breathing. After the others and done the same task we all surfaced and broke for a lunch break. Jac did amazing at the skills and took naturally to them, her calm helped me steady my nerves over lunch. A slight bit of panic had set in at the thought of being 18 meters under water and the same panic coming over me but I had to try.
After we had ate lunch we headed back. I explained my apprehension I had to my dive instructor and simple asked if we could go slowly through the open water tests. We then went out on the boat to a dive spot just along the coast. When I got in the water at first a feeling of nausea came over me. I slightly began to panic at the thought of throwing up in my regulator under water. I simply put my mouth piece in and stuck my head under water to look at the ocean floor beneath. Slowly my breath claimed and my stomach settled. We gathered in our group and descended to 12 meters. Here we performed a few more skills. We had to remove our mouth piece and show we could replace it. We then once again had to fill our masks with water and clear them. Doing this I did slightly panic but I now knew and understood how to recover. We then had to remove our weight belts and then our full BCD’s and tank then refit them. There were a few other skills to perform but right now I cant remember them.
After doing this we headed on for our first full open water dive. Without the pressure of performing skills new to us and simply scuba diving it all became very natural to myself and Jac. We swam past coral reefs and ship wrecks and saw more ocean life then I could ever hope to name. WE completed that dive then did another at a site further up, It was great and left us both with a taste for more.
Tomorrow we complete our course with a deeper dive and a final test, We cant wait!!
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Bocas Del toro whirlwind…..
Whoops so this little blog has fallen at the way side but its not my fault, Ive just been way to busy and it got to much to catch up on. So briefly a quick back to Montezuma and the road trips that have lead me to be in Bocas Del Toro Panama.
After the amazing month that was my YTT I needed at least a week to sit and do nothing to let everything sink in. During my time at Anamaya I found others that had no immediate travel plans so 5 of us decided to book a AirBNB house in a near by town of Santa Teresa. The group was going to be myself ( obviously ) Pam and Tori, 2 best friends who had been travelling the world for the past 6 months, Lonnie a New Zealander and Jac ( more on Jac to come )
The house was in the middle of Santa Teresa, a town stretched along a single road spanning maybe a mile filled with surfers and beach bums. For a week we got up at sunrise, practiced yoga on most days ( honest ) and then either went to the beach or drank beer whilst eating mango in our private pool.
Tori left after only one night as she had to be back in Canada so it was just the 4 of us for most of the week. It was a perfect detox from the resort life we had been living for a month and just what we needed.
I had planned to head up through central America and do some diving off the coast of Honduras or Nicaragua. It turned out through more internet searching that getting up to the dive sites was going to be a pain and also a massive expense. We then in turn discovered off the coast of Panama a group of island called Bocas Del Toro that offered discounted ( compared to previous searches ) diving and living costs. Costa Rica had turned out to be more expensive than any of us had budgeted so we decided to head to Panama.
First we had to plan a cross county trip from the far west point of Costa Rica to the most southeasterly town we could find. That turned out to be a town called Puerto Veijo. In one day we took 3 buses and a boat for 16 hours to cross the country but we did it.
It only went slightly wrong when in the capital San Jose we got a taxi to a second bus terminal on the advice of a fellow traveller that was not needed. It turned out the bus we wanted actually departed from the terminal our last bus had finished in. This wasn’t entirely our fault as it turned out that are 2 Puerto Veijo’s and there on different coast lines. Once we found the right bus a rainy 6 and a half hour ride dropped us of in our new home for the next 5 days.
Puerto Viejo is the most popular last town for all heading on down to Panama. The first 2 nights we stayed in a hostel just outside of town. It was fine for a the $20 each but we wanted to stay for longer, as there was 4 of us we booked another AirBNB house as it worked out just as cheap as the hostels.
The house was amazing, it was almost brand new and slept the 4 of us so comfortable I couldn’t believe we got it for the price we did. On our second day before we left the hostel we rented bikes and rode up the coast to a local wildlife sanctuary. They rehoused and looked after animals from all over Costa Rica including Snakes, monkeys, sloths, wild deer, birds, ant eaters and even alligators. Ive been to lots of zoos and sanctuaries before but this one was the best kept and well staffed with volunteers that I’ve ever seen. Every person there really loved what they were doing and the love and effort they all put in really showed and it was amazing to see.
We left after filling our cameras with photos ( this was the first time I discovered my DSLR has a focusing problem 
) to head back to the hostel and move our bags to the house that was only 2 doors up from the hostel. As we walked up to the house Pam and Lonnie up ahead of us shouted at the fact a wild sloth was walking across our new driveway and across our front yard. We then jumped about for 10 minutes taking videos, photos and selfies with a wild sloth, as you do.
I loved the little Caribbean town and could have stayed for longer but we had booked accommodation in Bocas Del Toro and had to head on. Jac and I wasted a whole day being ill in bed after drinking tap water and thats a pain I don’t want to go through again.
I took the responsibility of booking and planing our way to Bocas and the crossing of the Panama border. It was $25 each for 2 shuttles and a water taxi that picked us up from our house. There were some great details of the crossing into Panama but I’ll omit those stories from a public blog as to not implicate myself and others 😉 meet me in person and il tell you the stories.
The actual crossing of the border across the old rusty bridge was amazing. I have no idea how the bridge is still standing with the amount of rust that it was covered in. Every single railing was loose and corroded and missing. The planks had huge holes in them and you had to really concentrate on the path you walked as to not fall through and into the river below.
Once we arrived in Bocas we had to find our AirBNB house. I had a crappy screen grab of google maps but it wasn’t accurate and a general address. We did struggle to find our house at first which was interesting in 35+degree heat but we found our ocean front house in the end.
The next day we simply walked the streets and got our bearings for the town. It appeared quite at first and we became slightly apprehensive that we may have made a mistake leaving our idilic Caribbean town, but we soon found the reasons behind the empty streets. Bocas Del Toro as it turns out is best described as a hub town. Its filled with hotels and hostels and bars and restaurants and water taxis everywhere. People come here and just use the town to visit all the sights and sounds of the surrounding islands.
The next day we decided to head to Red Frog Beach, a short $5 water taxi ride to a near by island. It was beautiful and the waves were great fun to swim in. There was a great little bar with a slack line set up outside and we spent a good few hours playing on the beach enjoying the sun.
The next day we booked the same taxi boat that had taken us to the beach to take us snorkelling for the day. He picked us up from our own dock alongside our house and we took off for the day. We stopped first at a wild mangrove forest and we couldn’t understand why he had stopped there. Then he pointed out 2 wild sloths up in the trees above us. How he spotted them I don’t know but it was great to see more sloths in the wild.
From there he took us via a restaurant to order our lunch for later in the day and we got to see some wild macaws on the island. They were in no way friendly and as soon as I walked closer to them they chased you and tried to peck at your toes. That doesn’t sound to scary but if your wearing flip flops and see the size of a macaws beak you’l understand why I quick footed it away from them.
From there he took us to a snorkelling point in the middle of the bay. We swam around and drifted with the current watching the ocean beneath. Just as we started to head back to the boat I noticed a Manta ray, I grabbed Jac’s leg and shouted to Pam and we chased and watched it across the ocean floor. I tried to head back and grab my go pro but by the time I got back it had swam away.
The next stop was a national park that turtle’s laid there eggs on regularly. We knew the entrance fee was normally $10 each but our driver had said he could call on our behalf and get us local prices of $5 each. As it turned out instead of heading to the normal dock for the boats he went as close to the beach as he could and we had to jump out and swim to shore. He agreed to come back in a few hours and we were left to explore the island. As we clambered out of the water it started to rain but being in the Caribbean being in the water was warmer than being out in the rain so we simply swam on the beach for the next few hours amongst the turtle nests.
When 1pm came we swam back off the beach and into our boat. As we left the island Ryan ( a guy I had got chatting with at the Panama border who was heading to Bocas and had started to join us for a few days ) noticed some fins pop out of the water just off the boat. He pointed to the driver and we swung the boat around and went after them. It turned out to be 2 big pods of dolphins. After following them for a short period I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to swim with them. As we got close to them I dove off the boat towards them hoping to swim amongst them but as soon as I surfaced they had all swam off. Technically I was in the same vicinity as them so I’m counting that as swimming with wild dolphins ha.
We headed back and had our pre ordered lunch on the island then headed back to our house. We spent the rest of the afternoon drinking box wine on our deck and Jac made everyone dinner on the world smallest hob with tini tiny pans. How she did It I don’t know but it was awesome.
The next day Pam myself and Jac had planned to move to another Hostel. Jac and I were starting our 3 day Padi course so we went for our morning lessons then returned home to move our bags. Our new hostel was a great little house with its own private beach and even a pet golden retriever!! after dropping our bags off Jac and I went back for our afternoon class then meet up with Pam and headed back for dinner.
An thats where you find me now, sat with a belly full of spaghetti and box red wine trying to sum up the past few weeks. I will promise to try and keep this updated as the next few weeks are going to be amazing.
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