http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Mr-Bills/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Mr Bills en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:20:38 +0000 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:20:38 +0000 wellif you think im going to do a usual blog about 9 days worth of stuff then you are very much incorrect. so here is the last 9 days in neat bullet point form. i shall expand on bits and pieces and leave some tantalizing cliffhangers. im being very antisocial to write this by the way so appreciate it. mostar was awesome and i fell in love with it pretty sharpish. on the first night i met a g http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Montenegro/Budva/blog-397153.html hello from bosniayes bosnia. currently in mostar its raining but that shant dent spirits had a lovely few days since last written busy but not busy at all and the weather has been glorious oh yes. so a general recapstayed in zadar for another day and spent the evening by the sun disk. the sun disk is a big cylindrical thing on the sea front pretty unassuming in the day but at night it tur http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/South/Mostar/blog-394564.html welcome to croatia and welcome to another exciting run of the official most boring blog on the interweb winner fun times ahead as i follow my tradition of having an awesome first week a difficult second week a great third week and then probably home early marvel at my lack of awareness that sarcasm and the internet do not work be amazed at my confusion at the keyboards enough of this driv http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Zadar/blog-393520.html holy moly i've been putting this off first in a week what are you doing man well it serves me right that i come to type this on the most confusing keyboard yet so we'll see how far we get. not too far i would guess so yes as the bit at the side of this entry will inform you i am currently in olomouc czech republic. also as anyone who has been bombarded with texts will also tell you its http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Olomouc-Region/Olomouc/blog-342640.html well its certainly been a pleasant few days. as im walking around these wide streets i always think of a million and one things to write about but then sit me in front of a computer and my mind goes blank only thinking about really menial things. but then all of my blogs are centered around menial things so maybe that isnt so bad. anyway if i remember correctly there were 3 things i wanted to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-340278.html boy is it raining. i'm not going to say jurassic park rain but it certainly is raining. i'm wet we'll leave it at that. i almost said to arta before that a bit of rain never hurt anyone but that is one untrue saying that persists in the world. rain kills millions of people every year just ask poor old bangladesh. i suppose thats probably something that acquits to social awkwardness but i cant http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Latvia/Riga-Region/Riga/blog-339243.html i dont think i have ever been this cold in my life. ok thats probably not true but holy diver there be a wind a blowin. i'm currently in a little place called parnu which i'm told is estonia's favourite summer resort. unfortunately it's late october. or maybe thats fortunately im not sure. either way its mighty cold and mighty windy and there aint many folk about. which is perfect to be hon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Estonia/Parnu/blog-338491.html i'm so easily amused first it was kiek in de kok now it's a supermarket chain in estonia that is called 'konsum'. so yeah add an E on the end of that and you get me chuckling. so that plus me eating crisps that have a pirate on the packet and im getting strange looks for my chuckling. am spending a quiet evening in me couchsurfers apartment watching some strange film about christina ricci ha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Estonia/Tartu/blog-338094.html i keep forgetting what day it is very lame well it's wednesday yesterday was tuesday and the last time i wrote one of these was monday so here's the old 'what i've done since last time' entry. it's been a nice couple of days so strap in for some cheeriness.arrived in tallinn a little earlier than expected monday night it must have been about 11pm i think. i decided that the wisest move woul http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Estonia/Tallinn/blog-337255.html well this mornings was a pretty big waste of an entry so i shall make up for that with this beast. and beast is most definitely the word to describe the majesty that is about to unravel on this here piece of networky canvas. i suppose i will start off by saying what i know what everyone knows and what is generally becoming more and more hard fact as time goes on. i love being here. it's not as http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Latvia/Riga-Region/Riga/blog-336521.html another day another airport. check out my jet set lifestyle ok so it's not really that exciting i'd go so far as to airports are boring but hey this is pretty cool i guess. to be entirely honest i always do an airport blog and i dont know why. i don't have much to say really i'm flying to riga and then getting a bus to tallinn. everyone already knows this so this is pretty much just a wa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Merseyside/Liverpool/blog-336366.html well strange how all this happens i guess. it's also strange that an absolute majority of my blogs start with the word 'well'. i wonder if i start many sentences with that. o i dont wonder but i am now. from now on i'll be really conscious of that i guess. but anyway back to the point.im now in merida and im genuinly feeling better. i still want to come home i stil need to come home but sti http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Andean/Merida/blog-329569.html well how inevitable was this. i had a good week a really good week in caracas. then i headed to maracay and ever since i got there its been a different ball game completely. its not anything to do with the place itself or even the people im around. it has just quite literally hit the fan and the cheery juanito billetes that milled around the venezuelan capital with a 74 year old has been re http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Central/Puerto-Colombia/blog-328278.html the best thing i saw today without doubt was a poster of big man chavez. it was him with a massive grin on his face holding a baseball bat as if he was about to swing it. glorious. today was also the 2nd time i had walked into a chavez rally of sorts. venezuela has elections coming up and in plaza bolivar today there was a live band and whatnot with pretty much everyone wearing red tshirts. h http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-326846.html this entry was originally going to be one line long because it sounds so bizarre but then i suppose im doing too much to justify that. either way ill start with the aforementioned line and then get into the details.last night i went out for drinks with my host a pole dancer and the most german guys ever and watched venezuelas version of ozzy osbourne cover iron maiden led zeppelin metal http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-325992.html i just saw my first cockroach wow anyway ive got lots to update so i best get started.i bought another watch so after having no watch for a long time now i have two. good work john good work. the flight was loooooooong but i did get a pretty awesome view of the moon on the flight from london to madrid. that was cool i took a photo but its pretty bad. i also bought a new book at the airp http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-325428.html hello thereso it's stupid past stupid o'clock and i'm at heathrow airport. after reading so many horror stories about this place it's refreshingly organised although i did forget that you have to take your shoes off when going through the security thing and that takes me ages at the moment as i'm wearing massive walking boots cheers neve. i cant wait to wear these things with three quarter http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Heathrow-Airport/blog-324493.html well well well well.i find myself sitting at riga airport like a giant lemon all tired out and wearing too many layers. see its dang cold outside but inside its el scorcho. very annoying. been another interesting day really yesterday was insane. maybe not as insane as a man holding a gun to his head on a tram but still latvia is mad. so yes recap.woke up early yesterday as arta had school s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Latvia/Riga-Region/Riga/blog-238288.html it's cooooooooold.well lots to put in here i guess has been an interesting couple of days. i'll do the right thing and start at the beginning makes the most sense really. ok a matter of life and death in latvian was wonderful not that i picked up a word of it but of course i pretty much know that film off by heart so it wasnt really a problem. i must have looked a little silly talking over t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Latvia/Riga-Region/Jurmala/blog-237985.html hello there return of all this i suppose. i will start by a little spiel about east midlands airport. what can i say about that place i'll put it joint top with rome ciampano in my list of lamest airports. now i havent been to skopje yet and from what perry mccoy tells me it sounds lacsidasical but for now the triad of notts derby and leicester join rome at the top of that unfortunate pile. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Latvia/Riga-Region/Riga/blog-237451.html