So, we went to Caracas. If you ask me how the trip went, it'd be pretty hard for me to give you a straight answer. Let's just say it was interesting (as they seem to go around here). We got out of class at 8pm last Thursday and headed to our houses to frantically throw the last of our things in our bags. Then we headed out for the bus terminal which was about a half a mile from our neighborhood. We arrived just in time to hop on the bus and head out. We were riding on a double-decker buscama [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone. Thanks for your various messages. We have arrived safely in Margarita after a very long day & 3 flights. We were travelling for 22 hours & Chris has worked out on his GPS that we are 4400 miles from home. The villa is quite nice, lovely big room, private terrace, swimming pool but no air con. However beers at 15p each we cant complain!! Just had lunch for 4 which cost 18 pounds, so our 20 pounds per day budget is easy to stick to. A few more days here & then a ferry to the mainland & the [View Full Entry]

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Hún á afmæli í dag, hún á afmæli í dag! JEi jEi. Mín kæra vinkona Aðalbjörg er orðin 22 ára. Til hamingju med daginn sæta mín, vildi að ég gæti komið í kökur til þín. Fékkstu SMS-ið frá mér. Það er örugglega það dýrasta sem ég hef sent á ævinni hehe. Knústu Betu bjútí frá mér og Fannar líka. Sakna ykkar allra :* [View Full Entry]

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Arrived safely in Caracas, it was a bit stressful when we arrived, a lot of officals coming up to us speaking in Spanish (surprise, surprise) - but our guide was there to meet us which we were very thankful for.... Myself and Ida were like two wet rags after the flight but Emma was buzzing and looked great coming in from Lisbon - maybe something to be said for those LARIUM tablets after all.... Off to Barinas tomorrow more later hopefully..... [View Full Entry]

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I´m writing all this a few days after since its been bloody hard to get to the net for an extended amount of time but since I´ve kept a diary of stuff I can update online. However the idiot that I am, left my camera back in the hostel we´re staying in, so will have to upload pics another day..sorry! So yeah I finally found Graeme in the airport in Lima, we went to an airport hotel and watched a bit of premiership football and then caught our flight to Caracas, Venezuela, a city that is infamous for its kidnappings and [View Full Entry]

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Wow... I knew I didn't really keep my Blog up to date... but that I actually didn't write about anything of my Venezuela Experience, exept the arrival somehow slipped my mind... Well... month have passed, I have seen a lot of this country and still there are so many things left, that I did not manage to visit and now it's already time to say good bye and start once again a new journey... So I'll just try to sum up the most important moments and experiences... After a pretty stressed start in my job here - because I had [View Full Entry]

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The journey was bad enough to begin with. I had to get back to Ecuador, so the Dragoman tour continued towards Brazil without me, setting off at 8am. I had a nightbus back to Caracas that night at 10pm, which meant waiting around by myself for FOURTEEN HOURS. And the nightbus itself was a ten hour journey. Plus, when I arrived at Caracas airport, I would have a further eight hours to wait for my flight back to Quito. Oh, the joys of travel! I was not looking forward to Caracas airport in particular. I took an "official" cab from the [View Full Entry]

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well as the title says we are in Caracas.... but an interesting last few days.... here it goes... well tayrona in colOmbia was awesome the best beach i have seen in my life... so far... there was crashing surf sandy beaches adn giant boulders placed in picture perfect places... a great day and wished we could have spent more time but we couldn't as we were off to venezuela... so after spending an great... though short... time in colombia we made our way ovewr to venezuela... getting into the country was easy until we got to customs... our bags were ripped [View Full Entry]

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On my last full day in Ecuador I headed for the nearby volcano of Cotopaxi for a fun day's mountain biking. It's the thing to do. For once the gods were shining on me and we (all 15 of us on the tour) had an amazing clear day - a rare thing I believe around Quito. We were driven up the mountain to near the base camp and then basically given our bikes, helmets and knee and elbow protectors and told to get on with it (the descent that is!). Well i'm glad i put the protection on, because the [View Full Entry]

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So here we finally are, the famous group emails are no more a new era has begun, the first entry into the blog commences... I start with an apology for the absence of photos. Uploading them involves a lot of paraphenalia and as you will see i am still a little wary about carrying round expensive stuff especially as it is approaching sunset when the badboys come out. I promise when i am out of Caracas i will put a few on of both Caracas and wherever my next stop is. Arrived on Wednesday afternoon after two predominantly pleasant flights, [View Full Entry]

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