So, how are we all. I´ve been told it´s been aaaaages since I did this, so it could be a long one. So before I begin, go grap yourself a cup of tea, get your thermos for your mate, or a pint of vodka, whatever you think you´ll need...... Right, are we all sitting comfortably? No, me either, but we´ll begin anyhow. Oh, and first let me say that this may not make a lot of sense, I´ll ramble a bit, probably forget loads and come back and add more later, and as ever it seems, there´ll be no piccies.... When [View Full Entry]

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So, I´m now in a small seaside place called Puerto Madryn. Surrounded basically by a stunning amount of flat nothing on the Argentine steppe, it, along with a few places in the area, was founded by some intrepid welshman, who thought it was obviously a good place to raise sheep. I´m not convinced it was, as they have to limit the amount of sheep to 1 every 3 hectares to avoid desertification. So you don´t necesarily seeb many. Anyway, what there IS a lot of is coastal wildlife. It seems that everything under the sun that likes a bit of the [View Full Entry]

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Well, I´m really only writing this because I haven´t done one for ages. It seems I´ve gotten pretty bad at this. Ah well. So, I finished my Spanish classes. I think I´m speaking reasonably well again now, so it acheived its purpose. I´m not sure I learnt much new, but I´m not sure I expected to. The school and classes were OK, especially for the absurdly low price, but not nearly as sociable as the school I went to last time. Not that it needs to be, I still managed to have myself an excellent bloody time. Anyway, now I'm in [View Full Entry]

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It´s been pointed out to me that it has been a while since I wrote one of these things, so here goes... Well, what have I been upto?! This and that... After New Year, I was thinking about going away for a few days before enrolling for classes. Well, I realised that I could enrol a day earlier than I had thought, so decided to wait, and go away for the weekend after I´d enrolled. However, I then got an email from an Icelandic friend saying she´d be coming back to BA from Brazil, so I ended up staying to meet [View Full Entry]

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Hope you all had a great time celebrating Christmas and New Year. I sure did. New Years Eve was good fun, if not the best I ever had. I think it seemed to lack the focus of places like Berlin, Rio and Madrid. Not helped, of course, by the fact that no self respecting Argentine is likely to be out partying when the countdown comes at midnight!!! Most were off having dinner with family or in a vastly over-priced restaurant or some such. As a result, I headed back to the hostel where I´d been staying to join in their asado [View Full Entry]

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So, after the airport hassles, I finally arrived back in Buenos Aires. Needless to say, I´ve been having a great time, partying extensively, eating lots, and sleeping little. I´ve now found myself a nice little room in a quiet little shared apartment, in a good location in Palermo, a couple of blocks from where I lived before, and on the same street. Christmas was different. After a big party in the hostel on Christmas Eve, at about 2pm I went with a load of Dutch people to hang out in one of palermo´s many parks, drink some Malbec and watch the [View Full Entry]

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Don´t they suck?!!! So yesterday, after more Panamanian Taxi-Trauma, I finally get to the airport only to be told the flight is overbooked, and I´ll have to wait for the same flight the next day. So they taxi´d me back to the City Centre and put me up in th 5 star Riande Continental. Yay. I felt so out of place, a scruffy traveller in an expensive hotel. Though, to be honest, if I´d been paying for it myself I would have been a little disappointed, I think. And the Christmas pipe organ in the lobby is possibly the world´s most [View Full Entry]

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Hey. Well, I thought I'd just drop a quick note from paradise. Well, kind of. I'm on the Panamanian carribean islands of bocas del toro, a short, noisy twin-propped 'plane ride from Panama City. There's a pretty chilled out atmosphere here, with a bizarre Jamaican patois spanish creolle mix going on. It's all beaches, rainforest and partying. Yesterday we went on a (fairly high-speed) boat-ride around the islands, which was pretty much an excuse to get taken to the bars of the boat captains friends. But we saw dolphins, did some snorkelling, and saw bright red frogs on red frog be [View Full Entry]

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So, here we go again!!! Here I am in Panama City. It's a bizarre old place. Kinda makes me think of how Havana may have ended up without Fidel. I've been here a few days now I guess, and I'm having a good time. It's been really cool to catch up with Rachel. She seems to have a good life here with lots of cool friends, even if sometimes it feels like I've stepped into an episode of the OC! The night life is pretty good, I've already managed to not sleep one night, and not a lot last night either. [View Full Entry]

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It's raining, and it sucks. Well, I've had a great time, seen interesting things, met great people, drank lots, ate lots, got in far less trouble than makes for good stories, but thoroughly enjoyed myself. So, where next?!......... [View Full Entry]

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