Note to self: In many places in the tropics, the rainy season means that it occasionally rains. If the town you're in has cavernous storm drains every ten yards of pavement, then it is probably not one of those places ( Read more... )

Hello all ( Read more... )

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Another handwritten missive, from the pages of the Cat´s brain:( And some pretty piccies of people being political )

Hello all ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow is when I travel out to the rain forest, and the nature reserve I´m going to be volunteering at for the next four weeks.  Internet access is probably going to be way sporadic for the next month or so, alas.

Quito is still an amazing place.  I only have a handful of pictures for you because I´ve been too busy going around going 'wow' ( Read more... )

And Quito rocks!  It´s a busy, vibrant, slightly shabby kind of place surrounded by these gorgeous looking mountains that I have a distinct urge to climb (or at least to take the cable car up, because actually, they´re epically huge).  I can´t even begin to put its coolness into words.  I still can´t quite believe i´m actually here.  Plus, the ( Read more... )

My flight to Quito is in four hours time.  This is very, very exciting. Also scary, but mostly exciting.  This is when the interesting stuff starts.

(European cities are great, but after a while they tend to blur into one another.  I´ve just got back from Sevilla where the most interesting thing that happened was I managed to stumble across a ( Read more... )

( Barcelona, Granada, and people who vandalise your food in youth hostels... )

( Of Sitges and a sad absence of transvestites )