... i´ve just discoverd that i´ve lost my camera. the thing was falling apart, but i´ve only gone and lost about 3 weeks worth of snaps...
anyway - i´ve heard stories of somepeople losing several cameras in the one trip so, i guess i´ve not done too badly.........mmm
right off to the shops.
Monday, March 31, 2008
The last few weeks
Hello,
I´ve been very lazy with this blogging lark of late and if you think of a good reason why then mail me.
So - since andy mac left bound for blighty over two weeks ago my head has been spinning trying to decide where to go and what to do. As such i fled Lima and headed to a town on the north coast of peru called Mancora. However, with easter weekend approaching all the hotels were doubling their prices so i again fled north into Ecuador and a town called Cuenca. A pleasant little cobblestreeted town where they´re famous for making Panama Hats - so i bought one or three.
My plan was then to head north to the equator and quitos then back down to peru for a few days on a beach before heading to Iquitos to head down the Amazon into Northern Brazil. However, that soon went awry when on the spur of the moment i decided instead to join Rodrigo (a belgian lad whom i taught to play backgammon and who nearly gammonned me in the 2nd game we played) to a town called Vilcabamba. The town is famous for people living till ripe old ages and year round good weather. We turned up and it was cloudy for three days. Still, no one died to my knowledge so we couldn´t have brought all the bad luck.
With the weather being a bit poor i basically sat and read the Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell which, depsite a ringing endorsement from Richard and Judy, is actually a fine fine read.
With 4 weeks and one day left of my trip i need to get a wriggle on to get to Sao Paulo (other side of the continent and several 1000km away). As such, i´m heading to a mellow peruvian beach town called Huanchaco to hang for a few days before flying to Iquitos where i begin my boat trip to Brazil.
While i´m in Huanchaco i promise to update this blog on a throughly fun and comedic fortnight with Andy.
I hope alls good where you are, like.
Oh - also I found a cool site where they give away daily downloads of music and as such my Daza has been slighty updated. Thanks to www.largeheartedboy.com I have no more Keane and lots more of coll stuff like this:
My Morning Jacket - the Bear
I´ve been very lazy with this blogging lark of late and if you think of a good reason why then mail me.
So - since andy mac left bound for blighty over two weeks ago my head has been spinning trying to decide where to go and what to do. As such i fled Lima and headed to a town on the north coast of peru called Mancora. However, with easter weekend approaching all the hotels were doubling their prices so i again fled north into Ecuador and a town called Cuenca. A pleasant little cobblestreeted town where they´re famous for making Panama Hats - so i bought one or three.
My plan was then to head north to the equator and quitos then back down to peru for a few days on a beach before heading to Iquitos to head down the Amazon into Northern Brazil. However, that soon went awry when on the spur of the moment i decided instead to join Rodrigo (a belgian lad whom i taught to play backgammon and who nearly gammonned me in the 2nd game we played) to a town called Vilcabamba. The town is famous for people living till ripe old ages and year round good weather. We turned up and it was cloudy for three days. Still, no one died to my knowledge so we couldn´t have brought all the bad luck.
With the weather being a bit poor i basically sat and read the Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell which, depsite a ringing endorsement from Richard and Judy, is actually a fine fine read.
With 4 weeks and one day left of my trip i need to get a wriggle on to get to Sao Paulo (other side of the continent and several 1000km away). As such, i´m heading to a mellow peruvian beach town called Huanchaco to hang for a few days before flying to Iquitos where i begin my boat trip to Brazil.
While i´m in Huanchaco i promise to update this blog on a throughly fun and comedic fortnight with Andy.
I hope alls good where you are, like.
Oh - also I found a cool site where they give away daily downloads of music and as such my Daza has been slighty updated. Thanks to www.largeheartedboy.com I have no more Keane and lots more of coll stuff like this:
My Morning Jacket - the Bear
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Temporary Fault - - -
Ah - yeah. Sorry about the last post. I thought I´d uploaded a video of a crazy masked man doing a crazy dance in a luxury train carriage. I´ll see what i can do....
In the mean time have a 30 minute video of some music by a band called Tortoise. I think the third track they play on this video (9min 20sec in) is a song called "Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls" from the excellent album TNT.
So what?
Well, not only is it fine music, but I went to Iguazu Falls a month or two ago and it turns out it´s onle one of Pachamamas most spectactular and powerful settings.
In the mean time have a 30 minute video of some music by a band called Tortoise. I think the third track they play on this video (9min 20sec in) is a song called "Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls" from the excellent album TNT.
So what?
Well, not only is it fine music, but I went to Iguazu Falls a month or two ago and it turns out it´s onle one of Pachamamas most spectactular and powerful settings.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The Surrealest Train Journey Ever
So as mentioend me and andy got the luxury vistadome from machu picchu back to cusco and part of that money went towards one of the members of staff having to do the above. the other two memebers of carriages staff where not let off neither as they had to do a fashion show...
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Machu Picchud
arrrgghhh... i´ve just typed osme stuff that got lost... basically, the inca trail was cloudy and tiring, but incredible and we´re well fed. we had surreal journey back on the vistadome train and now we drink cusquena to celebrate. I´ll write more when i find a computer working properly
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