Christmas of 2010 was my first ever away from home. It was an interesting experience for sure, but one echoed by many other people in the hostel, not particularly Christmassy. There’s just something about it being ‘summery’ weather for Christmas which is just plain wrong! Read the rest of this entry »
So now feels like a good time to write this entry, although maybe an hour earlier would have been better, as I think the alcohol from last night is now well and truly out of my body which means all those random ideas I had to add in this entry appear to have gone now too! Read the rest of this entry »
Hey there,
Just a quick update to let you know that the past week or two we’ve had pretty severe troubles with the server that was hosting my site. I unfortunately screwed up the database backup procedure which means I’m slowly re-adding old entries from the past few months based on Google Cache and also the text which I fortunately wrote out in Microsoft Word. So the rest of the articles should be back up with in a week or two dependent on how much free time I have.
Also I’ve added a “Print Friendly” button at the bottom of each article. This makes it easier to print out entries should you wish to do so! If there’s any other things like this that’d help out then please let me know.
Alex.
I spent just over a week in Buenos Aires in total, and it was pretty much the last stop on my South American leg too. After the two days I covered in my last entry I was just left with Ciaran and Kristian from the trip about, and we only met up occasionally really. So this was actually the first time I had to fend for myself properly in South America. Which wasn’t hard to do as such, but it was frustrating in struggling with simple basic communications when trying to order food etc. Read the rest of this entry »
So after Iguacu Falls we were into the last few days of the Dragoman tour, and we were basically just making our way to Buenos Aires with a few stops along the way. Our first stop was in San Ignacio to see the Jesuit Ruins. The Jesuit Missions were setup in the 1600s to adapt the indigenous people to the western style of life and also protect them from the slave trade. The missions were pretty much self-sufficient with everyone taking a certain role. The tour was a little interesting, but the ruins were a quite underwhelming. Apparently this is one of the most complete ruins there is, but in comparison to the stuff we have in Europe and considering the place has only been left for 200 years there wasn’t much there. Read the rest of this entry »
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