30/8/05 Hey there friends, family and other furry animals… Well we are currently sitting in Panama Airport on our way to Nicaragua and honestly, after all the scary stuff we were worried about, we LOVED Colombia and saying goodbye is actually really sad… Colombia has been such a friendly place to travel and...
FARC The Guerillas… Colombia ROCKS!!!
21/8/05 Buenos to all you Funny Bunnies and Secret Squirrels… Well we are currently in an amazingly beautiful colonial city in southern Colombia called Popayan after a completely crappy ride from San Augustin an archaeological site next to a guerilla occupied area. We are absolutely SHAGGED since they managed to squeeze us...
Coffee, Cowgirls, Wax Palms & The Return Of Ced’s Libido
16/8/05 Que Pasa Chicks, Chickadees and other furry animals… Well we are currently the only foreigners in a place completely off the tourist map called Quimbaya in the Zona Cafetera (Coffee Growing Zone) in central Colombia and all we can say is that COLOMBIA ROCKS!!! Before we came here, every traveller we met...
Biffo In Bogota
12/8/05 Hola Muchachos y Muchachas Well we’ve been in Colombia now for 4 days and HOLY CRAP is it dangerous!!! The pavement is all crooked and they have streetposts that are knee height all over the place so I’ve twisted my ankle twice and whacked my knee several times… man… I don’t think...
The Devil’s Nose In Ecuador and Pre-Colombia Nerves
9/8/05 Hola Muchachos and Muchachas OK this is a diary log that I am writing whilst sitting in the boarding lounge in Quito, Ecuador awaiting a flight to Bogota, Colombia. Now I’m writing this more like a diary entry than a travel blog because I want to document how shit scared we are...
Show Us Your Galapagos Boobies
3/8/05 Buenos dias movers, groovers and other prehistoric animals… Well we have just arrived back in Quito, Ecuador after 8 days in the Galapagos Islands and if the people bonking in the room next door hurry up and come, then I’ll be able to concentrate and finish this travel log and tell you...
When My Baby Smiles At Me, I Freak Out In Rio
23/7/05 Ole Cariocas Well, we are currently in Foz Do Iguazu in Southern Brazil after spending the last 3 days in Rio De Janeiro, and I must say that Rio completely FREAKED US OUT, DUDES…!!! …Well not so much Rio itself but all the horrible expectations that come from reading too much scary...
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina… I’m Too Hungover To Care
18/7/05 Buenos Dias Chicos y Chicas Well, we are currently chilling in our hostel in Buenos Aires after partying a bit too hard last night and crawling home at 5.30am so we thought we’d use hangover recovery time to update our travel blog. Yay!!! So this is the first official on the road...
Holy Crap! We are going to Colombia!!!
28/6/2005 Click on the above cartoon if you want it bigger to read it Hey there dudes and dudettes… this is my first ever bloggedy blog on our new website…YAY!!!!!! Avril’s been writing all the other entries but of course hers are nice and polite so it’s time to get down to the nitty...
Ruined in Peru
5/7/98 Hola amigos and amigas Well here we are in Quito, the capital of Ecuador and only 22km south of the equator, and believe it or not, although they tell us it’s early summer here, we are still wearing our fleece jackets at night since it’s bloody cold due to the altitude!!!...
What Do You Do When You See A Space Man In Peru?
22/6/98 Hola chicos y chicatitas Well we left Cusco with a bad taste in our bottoms… I had the guinea pig for dinner and yes it tastes like chicken although they could have given me a roasted rat and I wouldn’t have known the difference… It looked the same as a rat and...
Operation Shit Scared: Post War Intelligence
11/6/98 Re: Operation Shit Scared…If you haven’t read it then read it here since the is the follow up blog. Yes it’s all true for all you doubting Thomases. Sometimes even sweet little old hamsters like us have to resort to desperate measures. And unfortunately when we arrived in Lima we found...