Fraser Ross
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Fraser Ross
Greetings fellow travellers! My name is Fraser and I'm from Scotland. I'm setting up this travel blog to describe my 5 month tour of Latin America, starting with in Rio de Janiero on New Year's eve and finishing in Cancun in May with two organised tours in between.
In 2009 I travelled around New Zealand after having lived, worked and played rugby in a small town near the capital, Wellington for a few months. Despite falling in love with the country, I couldn't help but feel that it was culturally similar to my own, so this fuelled a desire to go somewhere completely different and take me out of my comfort zone even if it meant learning a language.
So upon returning, I finished my mathematics degree, got myself an office job to save up, and set about learning Spanish so that I could travel to most parts of Latin America and be able to communicate. Although English is spoken in a lot of countries, I feel its more enrichening to speak the language of the country you're visiting.
There is a blogging history in my family. My younger brother Jamie has earned wide spread acclaim for his humerous take on his battle with chemotherapy entitled 'Cancerous Capers', and for his witty, sharp and sometimes contraversial articles in the magazine of his university which earned him the award of The Guardian's Student Feature Writer of the Year 2011.
Although such recognition is unlikely for me, I do hope that what I write will be interesting to those who have future plans to travel in Latin America, or to those who are simply interested in what I'm upto in 2012/13.
Given that I failed English at school, writing a blog is a step out of my comfort zone, but that's what these 5 months are all about!