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Post Office Bay Back in the days when whalers were…

Posted in Ecuador, South America, Travels on February 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Post Office BayBack in the days when whalers were decimating the whale population of the Galapagos Islands, in a little bay on Floreana island they left messages for each other in a barrel.Naturally all the whaling has stopped now by the tradition of leaving messages in Post Office Bay has continued and visitors can leave [...]

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I’ve been banished from paradise and now just a bi…

Posted in Ecuador, South America, Travels on February 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been banished from paradise and now just a bit lightheaded and woozy from all this extra altitude (currently 3000m higher than I’ve been for the last week), so I think I’ll find somewhere a 1000m lower to acclimatise easier….
You’ve already seen what happened on the first morning and it just continued like that for [...]

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North Seymour Island

Posted in Ecuador, South America, Travels on February 21, 2005 | 2 Comments »

We’d been sailing all night and it was an early start to the day, we got up at 6am, shuffled sleepily onto the dinghy and off to North Seymour Island. The islands are not what I expected islands on the equator to be like, you know the idea, clear blue seas, white beaches, palm trees [...]

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Mindo

Posted in Ecuador, South America, Travels on February 16, 2005 | 3 Comments »

I’m sure you’ve all been wondering how my Spanish is going, well it has definitely improved, while I was in Banos I did a couple of days Spanish classes and I’ve gone from using 10 Spanish words very confidantly to actually creating whole sentences of bad Spanish, another few classes and I’m sure I’d be [...]

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Banos

Posted in Ecuador, South America, Travels on February 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

There were a number of things puzzling me by the time I arrived in Banos, along the way people were spraying water and throwing water balloons at the bus, in the town itself there was more water balloons and spraying shaving foam at each other, it was a Monday and there no kids at school [...]

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the whitlams

Posted in Music on February 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

The Whitlams are all but unknown over here just like so many Irish artists are unknown outside of Ireland and it’s a shame but at least I got to hear them and their very clever and funny lyrics, they have one song which says “she only like me when she gets drunk but lately she’s [...]

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