Blogs from Bolivia, South America - page 577

On the bus, I shall be mainly eating fruit. I wanted to buy three bananas (quite a few anyway, right?) but to make the price up to 1 boliviano (15 to the pound) I had to get seven. Ditto with the oranges. I shall be listening to Cold Play, Green Day (American Idiot), FF live at Glastonbury, the BEPs, and a compilation CD with Foo Fighters´"Best of You", which had been sending me wild when it came up on Xfm before I left. So good. I have a blanket too. A fetching grey with lime green flecks, it is. Bring this journey on! Sorry, just wasting time (yeah yeah, I hate waste, I know) before meeting the lazy ones for lunch.... read more

Did Mongos, Ram Jams then Mongos again last night for last night with Alice and Chris :-(. (Good tip, Sammie.) From 2.45 today I´ll be toute seule and fending for myself. Expect I´ll start losing cameras and luggage again. It was fun though, and I wish them all the best in the jungle with the mosquitoes. So, I´m not feeling totally tip-top all told, though I´ve a still a couple of hours for it to clear. I´m super duper excited, though, as I´m about to go and buy my pirated CDs for my new player. Woohoo. The men with there little stalls don´t have everything, but I´ve spotted and have my heart set on, to name a few, new Coldplay, F Ferdinand and Black Eyed Peas (solely for Let´s Get Retarded, which we had in both ... read more

I survived! and not only that, i absolutely loved every minute of it! Well, apart from the cold shower at the end and the fact that we had to cycle uphill for 25 minutes!! How hardcore am I?!? At the beginning I was so nervous and worried and convinced that I would be right at the back of the group going 2mph, I fully expected to either hit a truck (which i actually very nearly did!) or go over the edge. We had heard so many horror stories and we talked to people who had done it before who all said it was fun but really dangerous and really scary. I was terrified. But as soon as we got going it was utterly fantastic. Our guide Louis was great, he was up at the front all ... read more

I think I´ve had confimed that most people I know and love in London are OK now, so I´m relaxing. I shan´t go on about it. I really really like La Paz. There´s something about capital cities, isn´t there? They have a special energy. I´d like to hang around here for a few days. My new camera is as like my lost one as can be without actually being it. It´s 7.2 megapixels, a slight upgrade, with a 2.5" screen, a slight downgrade. Don´t know whether it´s a good price or not. Probably not, but not too far off. On my way to buy it, I walked down La Paz´s main thoroughfare. You´re told to expect to see political demonstrations quite often along here. I didn´t. I saw loads of schools parading their sports teams. People ... read more

Last time I was in an internet cafe, two days ago, my Bolivian computer wouldn´t support my blog entry page, so perhaps I´ve been a little slow with this most recent update. But what´s your excuse, eh?! You, with your high-speed broadband at work at home, the bulk of you. There were no messages for me when I logged on this evening. Zilcho. Rien. Nada. Most unimpressive. Well, you´re getting the less funny version of the last few days, that´s for sure. That hilarious story with the raving shoelace seller, one-legged cat and 2 litre bottle of Inca Cola? It goes to the grave with me... So I was about to go to some potentially interesting islands. They were tip top, they really were. My guidebook was quite sniffy, criticising the kiddies for asking for money ... read more