http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Mr Bills/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Mr Bills en-us Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:46:07 BST Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:46:07 BST 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/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/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/blog-237451.html wow. well today i'm feeling what can only be described as fragile. last night was the big giant birthday japes and suffice to say it was celebrated accordingly. these slovene folk certainly know what they are doing when it comes to partying. rent a cabin type thing in the middle of nowhere get more alcohol than all the pubs in welshpool could muster and go. and by go i mean GO. so yes it was http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Slovenia/Upper-Carniola/Kranjska-Gora/blog-222302.html reeeeeeeesting my legs are falling off i swear. see i cant remember my legs being this tired in summer despite that being a month of walking around. i suppose i wasnt waking up at 7am every day then but still. whats happened to me i'm so unfit it's ridiculous. ah well boo hoo hoo. it's still been a fantastic time. token recap.after leaving this on an incredible cliffhanger yesterday as i http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Slovenia/Upper-Carniola/Ljubljana/blog-221774.html first of all thank you very much to everyone who deemed me loved enough to waste 40p by texting me happy birthday very much appreciated. thank you to everyone who emailed facebooked myspaced yadda yadda too lovely stuff. i had a brilliant day and was considerably happier than all of you fast show moment there so woo great stuff.i've gotta go back to monday night gah anyway monday nig http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Slovenia/Upper-Carniola/Ljubljana/blog-221433.html aaaaaaaaaace. it's bloody cold in this wonderful place. jerry is currently on an inversion table and it looks pretty entertaining to be fair. anyway token recap of the last 24 hours. getting to stansted was a pain and it cost me a stupid amount of money resulting in me then worrying about saving money for when i get back which is pretty lame as i dont want to worry about that whilst i'm here http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Slovenia/Upper-Carniola/Kranjska-Gora/blog-221008.html well i'm drunk in london. the birthday week has been a fascinating 24hours so far anyway fun times. myself bean ash pete ami and crazy mike went out last night for a 'quiet drink' and had a fantastic night so the term quiet drink is probably very wrong. well so wrong that i missed my coach this morning. i awoke looked at the clock which said 9am and said to myself 'nah thats never the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Acton/blog-220472.html well im in italy. and its crap.ok it isnt crap but im grumpy and im out of money and i miss slovenia so its crap. change of plan now due to having no money im going to be coming home on thursday instead of next wednesday. so thats right kids the 5th of july i am home. home from what will have been 25 of the best experiences i have ever had. so this is going to be something of a review b http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-176356.html i had another super day yesterday and my routine summary of events will start now...woke up had a hilarious shower you cant beat holding the shower head and went off to the train for my day in what i thought was the hilariously named kranj. Kraaaaaanj. train was decent just more validation of how much this place makes me smile really. got off the train and sonja was already there. said our h http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Slovenia/Upper-Carniola/Ljubljana/blog-175746.html well well well well. i shall start by stating the obvious.slovenia is absolutely incredible. i am totally utterly in love with this place and i do not want to leave. before coming i had it in my head that this would be the highlight of the month and by gum was i right. the train journey here was pretty uneventful with some burnt rubber delaying us for 20minutes gaz breaking a window and a big http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Slovenia/Upper-Carniola/Ljubljana/blog-175166.html hello there.ok first things first i suppose. today is bethans birthday and she would have been 11 years old. its a well documented thing and i wont dwell on it but suffice to say my thoughts have generally only been about that little bugger but thats no different to any other day. so yes despite me being fully aware that you never used the internet and that heaven still only has dial up i lo http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Austria/Tyrol/Innsbruck/blog-174336.html awww what a bloody brilliant evening i had. from the topgot back to the ol' hostel last evening after my net time and decided that because i hadnt eaten much fruit on this trip i could really do with getting some. so off i went again on my todd to get some fruit of some sort. i had remembered some markets that i had passed earlier so decided to venture back towards them. as soon as i steppe http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Munich/blog-173653.html first off apologies to sam. for some reason i tend to say el scorcho quite alot at the moment probably because im not great with the heat so must deal with it in a latino accent. see that makes sense to me. oh and if my grammarspelling is rubbish here its because this keyboard is mad.anyway im in munich or munchen as the germans hilariously call it. its a pretty damn cool little place id http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Munich/blog-173368.html