http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Onehorsetown-Loaferville/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Onehorsetown Loaferville en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:56:45 +0000 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:56:45 +0000 I'm not long back from a very nice slightly classier jaunt to Italy than I'd usually partake in. My friend Cheryl's muchlauded wedding to her intended Mike closed a 2year engagement with a rather lavish lovely 2 day affair with 61 guests holed up in a 15thcentury castle hidden on a hill about 30 minutes drive from Siena in the Tuscan countryside all paid up too by the happy couple. I went http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Siena/blog-291638.html Today is the first time I've had in weeks and weeks to think about anyhting else except work. We went to press our our June issue yesterday so today is the postpress chill. My editor asked me to try and write an entry on our website's blog. I'm half obedient I'm writing a blog just not the magazine's.Actually having the time doesn't mean I've got the headspace free. It's rare that I have days http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-279028.html OK I am not in Berlin right now truth be told I'm in London at work. I had my first chance to travel since last year when Alexis and I took four days to visit Berlin and Hamburg three weeks ago and me with a rubbish cold and sore ears. It was just good to get back on the road in some way just for four days to get on a plane and go somewhere they don't speak English as a first language see http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-255499.html This is the first chance I've had to update my blog well technically I created the chance I'm at work at 6.30pm on Monday press week since christmas when life was very different. Back in those golden days I had almost two straight weeks of pure loafery to get through compounded by a sheer rock face of food to eat my way through coming at me from my boyfriend's parents and my own being http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-238095.html I haven't had any time to write my blog for the last two weeks but now that I have five minutes I actually have some news.I'm going back into honest guv employment in 08. I should be starting the year as Deputy Editor of a financial magazine based in Soho the name and company of which I'll keep to myself until I have signed on the dotted line in my own blood. But I've been offered this job and h http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-228820.html I don't have too much to report on my blog this week but I've committed to writing it every week so here it is. Christ next week is December its christmas. Not only has two months since I got home from my trip passed at a pace of like Mach 2 but the anniversary of my departure November 9 also came around quick. On that day last year at 10am I was packing my mochila backpack in spanish a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Hackney-Central/blog-224016.html I almost forgot to to this week's entry in OneHorseTownLoaferville which must be a sign of something since that's never happened but I dunno what. It's been a pretty rough week since I've been sick it got very cold suddenly and everything became harder. Boo fucking hoo eh. I had to take Friday off work because I was too ill. I didn't like doing that now I'll have to work a Monday to make the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Fleet/blog-220688.html Having spent four years languishing in a tin pot arsebanditry joke of a company where the sole life aims of the management appeared to be nothing short of driving its staff to suicide or cocaine addiction while forcing them to take the bullet for very poorly published items I have to express my surprise relief and delight in temping for a firm which is the polar opposite. It has just turned http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-217949.html I'm writing this week's blog from the comforts of Becki and Paul's living room plonked upon a warm leather couch laptop perched on lap glass of white to my left mobile phone next to it telly to my right. My belly is happy having been fed a thai noodle creation that Bex cooked and I will retire after this to a very comfy double bed in my own room. In the morning I will get up and have a hot s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-215968.html What an uncomsumate professional. I am writing this from the comfort of one of those specially designedforprofessionalcomfort chairs in the office of a wealth management consultancy I'd say 'Boutique' its a small firm with big contracts at ten past four on a Wednesday when I should be finishing this survey I'm writing. But I'm taking a breakout meeting of one to update my blog and chart th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-214189.html Things are looking up. After dragging my arse around agencies and meetings with contacts getting a haircut and dry cleaning my suits I've managed to secure some work of decent pay and in central London. I'm excited. But today I'm also depressed. I just got home from a fairly uneventful night at a friend's mum's jewellery flogging night at her house but I wasn't in the sparkliest of moods and pr http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Fleet/blog-212104.html I've changed the name of my travelblog to OnehorsetownLoaferville adapting it to suit my new position in life that is unwashed in my pyjamas and hoodie all day generally loafing. I doubt it will make as interesting reading for those kind or bored enough to read my blog over the past year who found tales of death roads in Bolivia and surfing in Sydney but I've decided to continue the blog a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Fleet/blog-209211.html My second week back in England is well underway. Being stuck in darkest Fleet a small town in Hampshire with a lot of trees chavs security guards outside pubs and traffic humps is what you can make of it I've found unavoidably dull to look at you've just got to keep moving thinking trying to get back to London basically in order to alleviate the boredom. Or spend all night on msn talki http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Fleet/blog-207755.html I am in Sao Paolo Brazil counting down my last week of my trip. I would probably forget that but Alexis keeps reminding me how many days there are left and we have started getting up early hmmm...10 11 am to execute mini itineries of stuff to see in the various places we speed through feeling the time slipping away. Last time I wrote my blog 31 August or there abouts I was enjoying hanging http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Sao-Paulo/S-o-Paulo/blog-202519.html Well folks I have returned. I am writing from my parents computer in Fleet a contender for the Crap Towns trophy marooned penniless jobless and mobile phoneless in the centre of a huge sprawling modern housing estate with its own church school and Morrisons from which once should never need to leave except if they should wish to taste the sweet nectar of freedom from the shackles of crushing http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/Fleet/blog-204853.html Holy shit its the 31st of August and I have until September 22 to see Uruguay and Southern Brazil. I am in Buenos Aires where Ive been polishing my loafery award with Alexishelp since last Sunday. We got here after 15 hours on a bus from Foz do Iguacu where we saw the famous falls and visited the Itaipu dam. We spent the day at the falls but at first I wasnt much impressed because the viewing http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-197844.html Bom diaI have been in Brazil for the last few days since taking the Expreso Oriente train from Santa Cruz in Bolivia across the Pantanal to Quijarro and crossing to Corumba a tiny border town in Brazils south west. Crossing from Bolivia we stayed overnight in Corumba which seems like a pretty laid back nice little town right on the Pantanal then took a bus seven hours east to Campo Grande wh http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Paran-/Foz-do-Igua-u/blog-195103.html Hola cariosI am finally in Santa Cruz since last night after more than a week trying to get here. I am here with Alexis I guess I should introduce him to yall as hes gonna feature in all blog entries for the rest of my trip. We are travelling together to Rio from here and I guess I should announce that he is my boyfriend Its been a long time since Ive had one of those. But hes lovely and http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Santa-Cruz-Department/Santa-Cruz/blog-192840.html Why god WHY While I was loafing in chapare again travelblogs servers crashed losing all my south american entries. But i recovered a little bit which is all shoved into this one entry. Fuck sake.Im back in cochabamba unexpectedly for one night as im sick and i have to visit a bloody doctor. great.She works hard for no moneyThats right Im Los Tiemposbitch. I work 1213 hour days five days a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Cochabamba-Department/Cochabamba/blog-190189.html Im back at the offices of Los Tiempos this morning for a second week in the ring. My flu which was pretty virulent maybe the Bolivian version is much better today after a long sleep and a fabulous weekend. My boss Maria Julio the economics editor isnt around and I dsont yet know what she wants me to do so Im waiting. I was so busy this weekend I didnt have a chance to buy Saturday http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Cochabamba-Department/Cochabamba/blog-163077.html