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Well that was quite a month.

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Since I’ve blogged last I’ve travelling a bit of Thailand, left my passport on a bus, finished my pottery course in Malaysia, spent 2 hours queuing up to get into Singapore, got sick in India and damn near starved to skinny-hood, given up, gone home, and then decided to give it another go.

Right now I’m in Shillong, in India. Started working in Providence school on Wednesday. I’ll be back writing very soon….

In the meanwhile here’s a tiger I met.
tiger

Bus Journey from Hell

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Hello from the bus of doom

(Just as I typed that we hit a pothole that made everyone scream and a shower of dust fall from the overhead vents – argh)

So we decided to take another bus. Most people might have some sense after 2 days on a bus and maybe possibly fly back to where they started. But not us. We’re here to do things properly and we want to see all of Argentina.

This bus is taking us from El Calafate to Bariloche. 9 hours into the trip I awoke to find someone had relieved me of my ipod. Now usually I might say, ‘Thanks I have too much crap with me anyway’ but not when my ipod is involved. With these 36 hour buses it was the only thing keeping me sane. Now I have to face the next 24 hours of this journey in silence. In her defence, Ylva has offered to sing all the songs I want to listen to, but buses seem to make her sleepy so the babble of German guys getting terribly excited with their card game is all I have for now.
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Award time!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Things have been a little slow lately since someone took a liking to my laptop charger in Argentina. I finally found a replacement so the blog will be back on track soon. In the meantime....if you´d like.... you could help ... [Continue reading this entry]

So I passed by a glacier the other day…

Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The 5th of January 2008 was the day I became an environmental nut. No more plane rides or electricity for me! We visited the Perito Moreno Glacier down in El Calafate, very southern Argentina. I had extremely high hopes for ... [Continue reading this entry]

Happy New Year!

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
New year 2007/08 has been a very stressful experience for us. After spending 10 days in Buenos Aires we were eager to move on, but just couldn’t decide where. We wanted to go to Uruguay but it just seemed like ... [Continue reading this entry]

Christmas in Buenos Aires

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Ever since I left Ireland 6 months ago I’ve been planning Christmas. The only problem with my plan was that it kept changing every few days. I wanted to go to a beach, wanted to go home and wanted to ... [Continue reading this entry]

Bye Bye Blog….

Thursday, September 13th, 2007
.....well possibly. I plugged my laptop into a 110V socket, my laptop is 220 or something. The thing got so hot that when I plugged out the converter I´d got, it burned right into the table! Laptop was out of ... [Continue reading this entry]

Questions Answered

Monday, July 2nd, 2007
I`m having trouble with the next blog (and now this one argh!). I`m trying to do a picture story type thing but can`t get the pictures to work properly. So for now I thought I`d answer a few questions I`ve ... [Continue reading this entry]

Travelling…

Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Location: Heathrow airport, London. Time 9pm Hello. How’s it going? Might as well start this blogging thing in Heathrow airport, where I’m here cutting cheese with the end of my toothbrush. Decided against trying to sneak through a knife. Said goodbye ... [Continue reading this entry]

Photo Testing

Friday, June 8th, 2007
I want to know how to do funky things like link to photos. So this is my photo testing entry. To practice I'll put up a few photos from my weekend in Kerry after which I had to say farewell ... [Continue reading this entry]