New South Wales Mike - I needed to write to correct this horrific racialism. My great, great, great, great Grandfather, Ivor "the Travel" Jones is responsible for the great nation you are now in. Many moons ago, when the earth was still flat, he boldly got drunk and lost his way on a cockle fishing trip. He unwittingly traversed the river Loughor, and the English Channel with it, to discover, gentrify and colonise (via "rapping" - Aiii and pillaging) the country that you are now in, long before Columbus did. He indeed introduced culture to the masses by recreating the legendary mumbles mile but later died, whilst on his own pub crawl, by being eaten by an elephant seal as he searched for a kebab and "Cinders" (the legedary nighspot at the end of the real mumbles mile) which hadn't been built yet. Fortunately, he died before he had a chance to recreate a southern hemisphere version of Port Talbot. I'm glad to see that local culture (males having as many as 20 partners per season) continues.
Finally, why are you now finding male seals good looking? How long has it been since you saw Helen last?
Bono Estente! Wicked stuff Mike, I have been following the journal since its inception but legal issues have prevented me from replying until now. Thanks for the pics of the waterfalls and all of their lovely, wet gushing-ness. I presume the trails were dirty and got you sweaty?
If you need to know detailed information about how, geologically, the waterfalls work (i.e. lots of flowing water going over a big drop) let me know.
Glad to know you are having a wicked time matey and, as I said, make every day count!!!!!!
All the best - Deano
colonized Hi Mike - I have a question re the Welsh colonisation:
Did they bring their own sheep or are there argie sheep there already? They do say a welshman without a sheep is like a frenchman without onions (and a stripey top and a beret)
Hi there - hope Christmas Day went well and the steak was up to expectation! The waterfalls look amazin much better than Niagra. Ali saw the toucan and decided he needed a pint in Bogans bar. we are off to Tenerife in the morning so you are not the only Hall getting a bit of winter sun.Hope you have a great New Year and will email you after 4 Jan.08
love - mum
Very Merry Christmas Mike, hope you had a lovely Christmas Day and a steak is certainly better than a Guinea Pig for Christmas lunch !! Must be a little bit odd having lunch in the sunshine ... wet and dreary here yesterday. Anyway have a great Boxing Day and a fantastic New Year. PS Toucans DO drink Guinness in real life, as do leprechauns of course ;-)
Iguaçú Done Brasil eh? I'll let you try to convince Lola of that sometime.
Happy New Year to you buddy, keep up the good blogging even with your tendency to exaggerate and to ignore the talent spotting potential of your wanderings. Boa sorte!
wtf i have two questions for you:
1. why have i not been mentioned in your blog?
2. why are there no photos of me posted?
perhaps you could kill two birds with one stone by posting a photo of me...then your friends get to see a hot senorita too. what?
have a good christmas.
Happy Christmas Hi Michael
We have been following your progress with interest and look forward to photos of the falls. David and i would have appreciated pictures of the senoritas if possible.We are entertaining your family tonight so if your ears are burning you'll know why.I suppose Christmas Dinner will be another big steak. We'll toast you with a bottle of ale on Christmas Day.
AHA! I see getting deported is your fear... - Its OK Mike, you just need a long camera lens to facilitate trouble-free "perving", as you rather shallowly referred to it. Perhaps you can got hold of one for Christmas? For a moment there I thought you'd gone all egalitarian on us...
Not much point in having a mind broadeding experience without lying back and sampling the sights!
Have the best Christmas. You'll still come to my wedding, right? ;)
The Madness of football Mike, good to see that you are getting into the lives of the Argies! Anyway, I was at the Fulham vs Newcastle game over the weekend..... Not good at all! The best moments were the "Toon Army" who were tireless in their entertainment- watching the crowd was far more interesting than what was going on on the pitch! When (finally) Newcastle slotted in the 90th minute penalty the majority of the "Toon Army" thought it was best to strip off bearing all (in the cool 2 degree's temperature)! To boot, my son and I were found to be interesting by a bunch of female Japanise tourests who wouldnt stop taking photos of us? However, I think it was my son who they were more interested in. Fantastic and this was all at a footie match.... Anyway, look forward to hearing more of your "blogs". James PS Hows the running?
River Plate Interesting stuff - but still not quite the Ashton Gate experience. El superclassico has to be this weekend's Bristol City v Cardiff City riot, accompanied by sporadic outbreaks of football.
Ally's Army Mike .... looks like your having a great time visiting grave yards! .... I knew there was a dark side to you .... are you taking one of those lovely fit argentine women home or you just window shopping? .... there was rumours in 1978 that members of the scottish "Ally's" tartan army never returned home after the world cup for the same reason .... look forward to hearing about the football match blog .... Tony
What, no sea food? Loads of cultural stuff, nice photos and steaks, but no women? You getting old or something, let's see some evidence of the hotties! And make up a story about you trapping, we won't believe you even if you manage it so be inventive.
Give us the beef! Good Work Mikey!! How about some photos of the aforementioned talent. Apparently the local senioritas find it good luck to have a gringo stuff a camera lense right in their faces....
Finally the journey has begun! Mike, great piccy's Oh! indeed I am extremely jealous - adding to your enjoyment, the weather here has turned bloody freezing!!!
Urine Mike, are you sure you are in Argentine? With that amount of urine it could be Uxbridge. Good to hear from you lad, looking forward to teh footy match blog.
Bonus Aries Fill me up with your heat, with your noise
With your dirt, overdo me
Let me dance to your beat, make it loud
Let it hurt, run it through me.
Don't hold back, you are certain to impress
Tell the driver this is where I'm staying
Hello, Buenos Aires
Get this, just look at me dressed up, somewhere to go
We'll put on a show
Good stuff Go to Venezuala - they've just moved their national time forward 30 minutes, out os sync with everyone else. Hugo Chavez is bizarrely anti-GWB to the extent he'd change time just to be different to the US. Don't mention the war in Argentina - 25 yrs of hurt...
Update since our last trip ended: We got back to the UK from our fantastic year travelling in June 2011. We spent the summer in the UK catching up with friends during a "glorious" English summer. To keep the thrill of discovering new places alive, we decided to look for work outside the UK, so home since October 2011 has been The Hague in The Netherlands, which we are looking forward to exploring in the near future.....
Oh, and of course there is the small matter of a wedding to organise!
Watch this space for future travels and thanks to everyone who has checked in over the last y... full info
Dean, "son's, son's,son's son of Ivor the Travel" Jones
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New South Wales
Mike - I needed to write to correct this horrific racialism. My great, great, great, great Grandfather, Ivor "the Travel" Jones is responsible for the great nation you are now in. Many moons ago, when the earth was still flat, he boldly got drunk and lost his way on a cockle fishing trip. He unwittingly traversed the river Loughor, and the English Channel with it, to discover, gentrify and colonise (via "rapping" - Aiii and pillaging) the country that you are now in, long before Columbus did. He indeed introduced culture to the masses by recreating the legendary mumbles mile but later died, whilst on his own pub crawl, by being eaten by an elephant seal as he searched for a kebab and "Cinders" (the legedary nighspot at the end of the real mumbles mile) which hadn't been built yet. Fortunately, he died before he had a chance to recreate a southern hemisphere version of Port Talbot. I'm glad to see that local culture (males having as many as 20 partners per season) continues. Finally, why are you now finding male seals good looking? How long has it been since you saw Helen last?