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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Great few nights in San Sebastian, went into the crazy tourist party scene and hung out in tiny bars with millions of people, always good times. and another few hard days lying on the beach. Lucky to have a hostel full of cool people but all went our different ways as I headed to Biarritz in France, only an hour away! you can actually walk to france from S.S! i had to get 2 trains and at the change over station I was unsure of where I was…France or Spain, still dont know, they dont even look at your passport! after the first hostel was full moved further down the beach to Anglet to a super cool hostel with great people, haning out with 2 very very Irish girls, fulfilling all my stereotypes at once. So spending my days sitting on the beach and my nights in crazy campsite bars and on the beach, weather is nice but not fantastic, its a big surfing beach so full of too-cool surfers, but I just drop some cool words in like ‘tube’ and ‘backwash’ and I can be cool as well.

Went to this very crazy chocolate museum I swear run by August Gloop’s mother from charlie and the chocolate factory. Intersting experince.

Not spending too much money which is great and cooking up some tasty pasta meals and stealing breakfast food for lunch!

well off to the beach now for a nap!

“I`m sorry, we´ve got no room left”

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

thats what Im getting used to hearing now. Everything is always booked out! esp in weekends where everyone takes off to the nice beach places on cheap flights, unfortunate for us backpackers as weekends mean nothing any more. So after I found I had no bed in Barcelona had a bit of a stressful day trying to figure out what to do next. Should I go to France?? No theres atrain strike plus everyone coming from Nice said it was packed. Had no bed for the night so needed to go on an overnight train somewhere so cant go anywhere to close…should I go to San Sebastian…we´ll thats what I want to do but everywhere I ring is full…and everywhere around San Sebastian don´t have any youth hostels….aarrgghhgh dont know what to do!!! Well eventually I thought I might as well get the night train to San Sebastian (North about 9 hours on the beach very close to French boarder) beacause then I can postpone my worrying till at least the next morning. So went off to buy a very expensive train ticket and spent the afternoon eating sandwhich by the sea and went and saw another very amazing Gaudi house. Grabbed my bags from the hostel and took off to catch my night train which I happened to get a bed on which was a nice surprise. The whole sleeper section happened to be full of backpackers heading to San Sebastian who also didnt have any accomodation so that made me feel better!

Had a surprisingly good sleep and arrived around 8am to begin the search for a bed. It was kind of funny after making friends with all these people on the train once we arrived everyone got a bit suspicious that other people might steal their beds so everyone took off very fast!! Kind of funny

Anyway the tourist office directed me to a place a good 30 minutes walk away (with my heavy pack!) and luckily they had some space. Interesting hostel, kind of like a YMCA, big and no common area but clean and has kitchen and awesome free breakfasts. Meet some cool people from Canada and a guy from NZ so we cooked up a huge lunch and then I slept all afternoon. Today was a great day, myself, Ash and Christina (NZ and Canadien) went up to this hill and then walked along the beach. Brought nice food, sat on the beach…it was a really nice day, nice weather, good times. So no need to be worried as things always turn out in the end!

 

I hate computers

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

for those of you worried (dont pretend I know you were) because I havent actually posted anything for ages...if anyone is actually reading this still (yes Grandma I know you are!) anyway I´ve been in the Spainish countryside for a ... [Continue reading this entry]

through Morocco

Monday, May 1st, 2006
This is only our 5th day here in Morocoo but we've already done so much! Our first day in Casablanca we had cous cous for lunch with all the family, in a big shared plate, really good. Apparently that's what ... [Continue reading this entry]

South America on Tuesday, Europe on Wednesday and Africa on Thursday

Friday, April 28th, 2006

I finally arrived in Casablanca after a very long journey covering a lot of distance. Had a nice last day in Santiago, walked up a big hill, got to look at pollution. And went out for lunch. The long flight ... [Continue reading this entry]

San Pedro, back into Chile

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
Arriving back into Chile was a bit of a shock to the budget. Especially in San Pedro, the most expensive place in Chile. But I was only only here for 2 days and I couldn't be bothered worrying too much. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Would you like Salt with that?

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Uyuni is a small town pretty much only is existence because of tourists starting their Salar de Uyuni tours. And that’s what we were there to do. There are a million companies running the 3 day jeep tour which ends ... [Continue reading this entry]

Hi Ho, Hi Ho it´s off to work we go

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Its been awhile since I’ve updated this so I’ve got a bit to write because have had a great week! After getting back from the Amazon I jumped on a night bus (my favourite) to head to Potosi ... [Continue reading this entry]

The worlds most dangerous road

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

OK, I´ll be honest, I pretty much only did this because it sounds cool. I haven't really been mountain biking before and I don't really like going fast down hills on ... [Continue reading this entry]

La Paz, Bolivia!!

Monday, April 10th, 2006
Bolivia is so cheap, its good times. I spent yesterday just walking around the city, its pretty full on. Yesterday was palm Sunday and there was this big market on the main street. I saw probably the coolest band in ... [Continue reading this entry]