Blah is how I feel. After my overconsumption of libations last night, I fell asleep in my bed last night without any water! A serious error I will not make again. I was extremely thirst and hungover this morning with a nice headache and class at 10am! I woke up 7am again by the loud speaker guy. I found out last night everyone who sells fresh goods to the towns sell them by broadcasting their "products" over loud speaker. So I guess this is something I´m going to have to get used to. My alarm finally went off at 9am. I [View Full Entry]

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What a beautiful city Quito is. We flew in over the very different landscape, (compared with the tropical countries we've visited recently), mountainous and arid, into a very easy, small airport with no immigration hassles to our relief (you're supposed to show a ticket out of Ecuador which we didn't possess). We were met by the driver of the hotel which made it just about the easiest transfer we've done. We were staying at Cafe Cultura (yes, slumming it again in a boutique hotel!!) was a beautiful and unique hotel nonetheless. We first stayed in a room at the back of [View Full Entry]

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Hola Amigos, Finally a version of our famous appearance on CBS´s ´Let´s make a deal´. The official version is still to be shipped to us but for now you can watch and appreciate my sweaty armpits in a recording made from the live show on camera. It´s pretty good quality too so many thanks to JOanna and Fergus and of course the kids back in Edmonton. The link is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wqGCs7jRgA If you can´t use this just type in "Lindsay and George: Let´s make a deal". [View Full Entry]

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Hej alle, Saa er vi tilbage efter en fantastisk tur til junglen! Vi boede paa en rigtig laekker lodge. Det var virkelig luksus for alle pengene. i vores hut havde vi en kaempe kingsize seng, laekkert badevaerelse og vores egen altan lige ned til en lille soe. Det var rent definitorisk vist nok ikke en soe, men naermere et sted, hvor en masse smaa aaer samledes til en stoerre og dannede noget der lignede en soe. Men under alle omstaendigheder var det en flot udsigt. Restauranten paa hotellet var virkelig god og vi fik baade 3 retter til frokost og aftensmad. [View Full Entry]

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H: Hello Galapagos, what a very pretty place you are! Barren islands sprouting Cacti, white sand beaches, muddy wetlands... and the guidebook is right, incredibly fearless wildlife. Landing at the makeshift open-air airport we realised this was really a trip of a lifetime. We found our guide who was calling out the name of our little boat, "Rumba, Rumba". It was indeed little, the smallest boat in the Galapagos waters we were told. Five teeny-tiny bunk cabins, the roof just high enough for me to stand and squatting Joe. This meant for some rocky nights at sea but luckily Joe and [View Full Entry]

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The town of Latacunga, the capital of the province of Cotopaxi is chaotic on a Saturday, arriving mid day, lots of things going on I noticed as the bus crossed the blue bridge and into the narrow streets, i was the only one left in the bus, the driver told me to get off, i said take me to the terminal, he said it was before the bridge where everyone else got off! I got annoyed and yelled at him and the bus conductor, why the hell did they not tell me! Just gave me a blank stare back. Mumbling to [View Full Entry]

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I decided to stay a couple of days in Bogota not only to catch up with emails and blog entries, but also to meet a friend who was on business in Bogota. The first day I spent more or less in the internet cafe and in the evening we discovered the night life of Bogota, going to the Zona Rosa for dinner. I felt save in Bogota, against all the stories I heard before, because at any corner there was a police man or military guy. I really enjoy the city even though it was high up and I needed to [View Full Entry]

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Jeg har godt nok pludselig svaert ved at huske hvad jeg lavede denne weekend - det er jo over en uge siden, naa jeg vil proeve... Loerdag d. 17. oktober Jeg vaagnede saadan nogenlunde tidligt - i en forkert seng og listede nedenunder for at finde en administrator (de moeder kl 7.45) som kunne laase mit vaerelse op. Da jeg kom derind laa der 3 belgiske fyre og saa forvirrede ud. Fortalte at de havde vaeret helt urolige for mig da de var kommet hjem kl 5 om morgenen og jeg ikke var i min seng, men det er jo svaert [View Full Entry]

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I am finally in Quito. The layover in Atlanta was not too bad. I had some tasty hummus and some chicken and then hopped on the plane to Quito. The flight wasn´t too bad. I was lucky enough to get an exit row seat so I had plenty of leg room...BUT there was an exit row behind me too which means I couldn´t recline my seat at all! It wasn´t too bad since it was a 737 with private touch screen TV monitors with plenty of movies and TV shows to choose from...it even had trivia that you could play against [View Full Entry]

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L’Equateur se partage en trois secteurs : la Costa à l‘ouest, la Sierra au centre et l’Oriente à l‘est. Ils se distinguent les uns des autres, tant par leur climat que par leur végétation, leurs habitations et par les hommes bien évidemment. Notre voyage ne nous mènera pas en Oriente, la jungle, les forêts humides et les rios en canoé, ce ne sera donc pas pour cette fois. Dommage, mais « tenemos que elegir » ! Nous quittons donc la Costa et ses cabanes aux toits couverts de palmes sèches, pour retrouver le béton, les toiles en plastique et les assemblages [View Full Entry]

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