As you guys probably already know, I'm not a huge fan of flying in airplanes. I like the novelty of sitting down and knowing that in less than a day I'll have travelled a distance that would have once taken people months to traverse, but I hate feeling cooped up in a narrow space, with the sounds and smells and movements of both the plane and the ( Read more... )

(I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the really, really slow internet access in the lobby, which refused to work for me earlier... I'm typing this on dad's small enotebook in the room (not wifi, but a land cable), and this keyboard is so cramped that I keep typing the wrong thing. Think of each ten keystrokes having at least two errors to ( Read more... )

Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Location: bus en route to Torrevieja ( Read more... )

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(I suspect I'm going to be constantly about one or two days behind on updates. Apologies for any typos - they will be fixed upon my return to Canada when I have "free" and unlimited Internet ( Read more... )

Day 1, 1:00am Edmonton time ( Read more... )

 Well, we're heading off to Spain soon! :) Tomorrow, anyhow. I'm not going to give TOO many details, because there still may be serial killers stalking this journal as anonymous lurkers... And hey, a message to you: I'm travelling with two karate experts, one of whom is a blackbelt (and not the one you'd expect just from looking at him), as well as ( Read more... )