Month: May 2009
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Quick travelling update
Sorry to my regular readers about the lack of updates 🙁 It is simply due to me enjoying myself so much and having an active social life. From 26May The fact is I am simply loving travelling here, especially with beer at $1 a pint, hotel rooms at $8 night and decent meals for less…
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Getting around Cristobal
After 12 hours here in The Galapagos I decided to extend my stay for another week! A quick bike ride to the airport,then about 12 steps from parking the bike to the AeroGal office followed by about 10 clicks on her computer and the job was done, no charge, no fuss. Airports and booking as…
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Arrival 90degrees from Cambridge.
Finally, about 50 years after Stan and I marvelled at huge tortoises, I’ve arrived at The Galapagos islands interestingly at the same place that Darwin landed t 200 years ago! I guess better late than never 🙂 This afternoon I did a little walk by the cultural centre which is full of profoundly depressing stuff…
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250km shopping trip..
Today I tagged along with Margaret and her driver for an all day shopping trip up north from Quito. First stop was Calderon where they specialise in making highly coloured figurines from bread dough or masapan. Reasonably interesting and I guess where Oxfam gets some of its clutter from. A little factoid garnered was that…
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Where is The Equator?
Today I ventured out of Quito with Margaret (who I met in Samara in my first language class) to find The Equator. Armed with my Garmin GPS we took the public transport buses, 50 cents for a 30km journey, to Mitad del Mundo where the Equator was determined in 1736 and the nearby Museo Inti-Nan…