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Wednesday, April 28th, 2004

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum,

Me and Prescott have been a bit bored recently as we´ve taken to the realms
of education once more and started having Spanish lessons we´ve now finished
and i´m fairly confident we can order a beer, a bag of chips and call
someone a f*cking son of a bitch. All good fun. Most of the lessons were
incredibly like those halycon days of university i.e. turning up to lectures
in no state to even raise your head of the table. For those of you who went
to uni with me, i spent much of my time daydreaming, scribbling on prescotts
book and wondering when i could go back to bed. For mum and dad, i learnt so
much and paid maximum attention. Our teachers were quite cool and we taught
him a few english swears which he kept repeating when stood next to english
girls. We hid.
Played football against them as well which was immense, i ran rings around
Prescott mocking him with samba flair as he woefully tried to contain the
Briggs masterclass.

Gut update: My stomach seems to have succumbed to some sort of internal
armageddon as i´ve been trying to invent new colours to match what lies
below me in the toilet pan. Any of you with any spare cash i urge you to
invest in the Peruvian toilet roll industry immediatly.

What else……..we went white rafting last week which was rip roaring fun,
got sidled with Thierry Henry lookalike so for most of trip i kept telling
him he couldn´t head for toffee and that he should watch out for his
teammates in the shower. This quite understandably was met with bemused
looks. Did a bit of body rapid surfing which was mental although i drank
half the river and had to put up with Prescott giggling like a schoolgirl as
the euphoria overtook his senses. We then jumped off some fat bridge and
Prescott tried to copy the Americans backflips. Everyone knows that this
would lead to invetible disaster as Prescott has all the athleticism of a
sloppy turd. CRASH BANG OWWW!!! Cue much muffled laughter from above. We
also had a safety kayaker called Rambo who lost control of his boat about
thirty twelve times. Very Reassuring.

Other things from Peru……

We saw the President he really looked a man of the people. Probably no
taller than a garden gnome and attired Partidge style in Bomber jacket and
jeans.

Guinea Pig tastes splendid although i had to turn down the head and claws.

They love a festival out here, not your Glastonbury or Creamfields mind, no
if someone so much as peels a banana or sneezes they bring out the brass
band and march for 6 hours… in a circle.

Everyone thinks Prescott is Prince William!!!!!

Anyway enough, enough. We´re off to a place called Ica today to do some
sandboarding and down the coast.

Will write personals soon, very soon. But Prescott the big lardy horse wants
food.

Briggsy xxxxxxxx

This place is Caracas (actually it’s Lima!!)

Friday, April 2nd, 2004

Ola Gringos,

Just thought i’d drop you a quick line whilst the sun has gone in for 5 minutes. Where to start? Errrr its mental over here. Actually its very similar to Yeovil in the fact that many people don’t speak english and everyone stares at you like you are something they have found on their shoe.

Got to Madrid on Saturday and it was freezing, got drunk watched Beckham et el batter Sevilla 5-1 it was quality. Madrid nightlife seemed quite mad as well loads of bars and crazy clubs. We flew into LIMA ON MOnday after being upgraded to Business class because well…..we look like astute businessmen don’t we. You{ll be glad to hear that we readily abused the wine and beer at every opportunity. Flew in over the Amazon which was cool and unbelievably managed to see a snake and crocodile far below.

On arrival the city was pretty mad and intense with crazy crazy drivers and loads of heat. Had a beer at the hostel then fell into a deep sleep. Last few days we}ve just been settling in and ghave been walking around Lima getting a feel for the place. There is lots of poverty and everyone stares in amazement at you (actually i think they are looking at Prescotts silly hairstyle.) It is scorchio at the moment and we decided that because we’re bloody british we could handle the sun with no cream, so at the moment we are walking around looking permanently embarrased.Walking around Lima yesterday we were approached by a couple who were happy to be our friends and talk to us in English. We went for some beers with them before being given a bill bigger than an americans belly. We argued thetoss and it all got a bit hairy. Marko our friend/nemesis got and said “don´ta a fukka wiv me what followed was mad (he went to slpa prescott with a big cod and we had to dive and perform karate kicks to his head) the bit in brackets is a lie. Actually we paid up and left cos he looked like some crazy madman and i think he was drugged up to the nines. A bit of a lesson there then but still didn{t dampen our spirits.Watched Peru v Columbia last night and sat amongst the local loonies who were frequently charged by the riot police and were just generaly bonkers. Great atmosphere, poor match.
Been out on the lash a few times and got lost after leaving el dragon club and wandering around the streets looking for our hostel.
Anyway i think the sunsheeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine is calling me so a bid a fond adieu for now.

Thanks for your emails so far.

Peace, love and cerveza.

James xxxxxxx