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 if this is the most thrilling place on the planet, far from it. but it's just nice, and i'm a fan of [View Full Entry]

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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 still, im feeling better. i got a bus from maracay on sunday night, and good god i was pleased to leave that [View Full Entry]

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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literally hit the fan, and the cheery juanito billetes that milled around the venezuelan capital with a 74 year old has been replaced by a more dramatic version of liverpool john. yes, thats right, either being happy or being sad. only this time its dramatically different. im either [View Full Entry]

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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. hilariously enough, today i wore a red tshirt as well. today was certainly the right day to wear red in caracas. so yes, this [View Full Entry]

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this entry was originally going to be one line long, because it sounds so bizarre, but then i suppose i´m doing too much to justify that. either way, i´ll 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 venezuela´s version of ozzy osbourne cover iron maiden, led zeppelin, metallica and the stones. and by gum it was hilarious. but we´ll go back to where it was left last i guess, which was friday night. we went out to [View Full Entry]

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i just saw my first cockroach! wow! anyway, i´ve 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 airport, which is all about the planets and the solar system, so i suppose i shall continue to be as [View Full Entry]

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hello there! so, 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 trousers, as they are going to look suitably ridiculous. spent yesterday in london, a place for which my disdain is well documented! but to be entirely truthful, i had a mediocrely pleasant [View Full Entry]

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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 so was in the centre of riga by 9.30, which isnt that early, but it certainly felt it. arta went off to school and i went [View Full Entry]

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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 that 'may i remind you sir, we are not alive at all' bit. wonderful bit though really, probably one of my 3 [View Full Entry]

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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. hah, pile, how appropriate. despite that, absolutely beautiful flight. that one definitely tops that particular list anyway. i've always said that flying at night was [View Full Entry]

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