http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/thefryers/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from thefryers en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:21:58 +0000 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:21:58 +0000 Hello to you all firstly apologies for being so slack on the blog front we have been incredibly busy as you will see....The last blog saw us arriving in northern Ecuador greeted by quite possibly the worst weather we had seen since leaving the UK and to be honest it didnt lay up for quite some timeAfter arriving we headed south to Quito which was literally monsoonal after checking out the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Quilitoa/blog-266401.html So we entered South America via the war torn crime ridden drug capital of the world where if the paramilitaries drug cartels or left wing guerrillas dont kill you then the ferdelance snakes surely will.Or so people would think.The reality is that we found Colombia to be one of the friendliest most welcoming countries we have been to where people will cross the street to help you catch a ta http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/blog-248081.html Firstly thanks to everyone who has left kind messages on the blog. We dont check the actual blog page unless we are making entries so there is a bit of a delay in us getting them but they are all greatly received. We MISS you guys sobAnyhow since our last entry we have been on a bit of a trans central american mission so that we can get to Ecuador Peru and Bolivia for the last few weeks of http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-248059.html So here we are in San Pedro Sula in Honduras a pretty nondescript ugly rather violent town in northern honduras. Apart from that its really nice.Our last entry was from Antigua where before our departure we studied more spanish and climbed another volcano. This one had lava that you could fall into. We toasted marshmallows. Well I say toast we made marshmallows combust into a ball of flame http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-238559.html Firstly HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL we hope you all had a great one we spent the christmas period at a hippy ecolodge type thing in the mountains above Antigua hence the absence of phone calls on the day.So here we are in Antigua Guatemala for a month trying to learn a bit of spanish but especially on my part failing quite miserably. I think i'm gonna have to leave the spanish to Jenny who http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Antigua/Antigua/blog-230571.html After visiting the ruins at Palenque we headed back down to San Cristobal for a night and headed out of mexico destination Guatemala.We caught the bus from San Cristobal to Ciudad Cuauhtemoc and across the border into Guatemala. This was a surprisingly informal affair that took place in the middle of a busy market it would have been incredibly easy to just stroll on through. After having our p http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Lago-de-Atitlan/Santa-Cruz-La-Laguna/blog-225121.html After taking it easy in Puerto Escondido for a few days we headed north to San Cristobal de las Casas which is a beautiful mexican mountain town surrounded by some incredible indigenous mayan villages.From San Cristobal we hired a car with the intention of heading north to the Palenque ruins for a night returning on the next day. As we attempted to find one of the villages we got completely lost http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chiapas/San-Cristobal-de-las-Casas/blog-224932.html After Taxco we headed down to Acapulco for some Loco beach action and dancing chicas. Not. It was a hellhole so we crashed for the night in a cheap part of town and headed straight out east to Puerto Escondido.Puerto Escondido is a nice little beach town that is famous for its surf beach. We stayed at a cool little hostel and met some great people one of which managed to recover our photos fro http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Oaxaca/Puerto-Escondido/blog-224926.html From Mexico City we headed south to Taxco.It was really nice to get out of the city. We left the cloud of smog that engulfs the whole valley and the sun came out. Its strange the weather forecast for Mexico City says sunny but you cant actually see the sun.Taxco was nice. But expensive. So we only spent one night. One massive bonus with taxco was the sheer number of aircooled vws clogging the http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Guerrero/Taxco/blog-224918.html After the Big Apple we flew down to Mexico City on the 19th november. Again apologies for the late updates but as I hurriedly mentioned in the previous post we have been having a bit of a mare with our photos and trouble getting the internet to work. Mexico city is a huge dirty city with a bit of a traffic problem. We were told that 18 million people live there and that 30 of the population a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Estado-de-Mexico/Teotihuac-n/blog-224909.html Hi all Firstly apologies for the delay in out entries. We have been having a nightmare with our pictures we have already lost and recovered them once and had trouble finding a computer fast enough to upload them.Anyway We went to New York.Huge buildings huge meals and huge black extremely polite and friendly gangstertypes. It was surprisingly a very friendly place.Highlights include Jenny http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-222967.html .....well nearly.We are still here up to our ears in boxes and knee deep in crap from our collapsed sewer. Don't ask.Anyway the main point of this entry is to check that this blog thing is working. If there are any obvious omissions from my list please let me know.Hope you are all having a nice week at work oScott and Jenny. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Dorset/Bournemouth/blog-219076.html