Survivor: Death Biking, Female Wrestling & Potosi Mines!


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December 3rd 2007
Published: December 11th 2007
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The moment I had been waiting for arrived! Mountain biking down the world´s most dangerous road in Bolivia is one of the things I have been looking forward to most on this trip. Safe in the knowledge that Kate would keep her promise to her parents not to go, I was released from any possible escorting duties, and I could go at whatever pace I was comfortable at (...fast). We met up in Cafe La Te... Read Full Entry



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Spiderman in big trouble
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Pensioner in red
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El Mask takes exception to the referee
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Mister Atlas and El General duking it out in front of us
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Mister Atlas gets whipped by El General's belt
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Ninja off the barriers
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Real life Cholitas in the crowd
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Mark and a Cholita
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Carnage in the ring
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Cholita in trouble
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Blood streaming down face after chair smashed on it
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View of La Paz by night from El Alto
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Mark and the lovely breakfast cook, pancakes galore!
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Bits and Cream, great ice cream shop
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El Prado
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Looking like a couple of James Bond movie henchmen
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Miners Market - Note dynamite!



12th December 2007

What next!
Thought you and Kate were going to move into a less risky phase of the trip, but from the latest blog I see that you survived death by bike, death by boa, death by monkey spit, death from jealous husband of wrestling Cholita, playing with dynamite, rock falls, getting stuck underground, 96% alcohol, asphixiation, asbestos and cyanide. No wonder Dublin seems a bit slow....
15th December 2007

Wrestletastic!
Women wrestling in skirts is just plain wrong! As is the sight of you holding a snake Mark. Very entertaining once again guys XX

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