Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-08-31
:: wohoo. Traveltrousers.com is up to position 4,687,000 in the world :p only a few positions to clear then :p #
:: hmmm, going to the pastry shop so room before dinner was a mistake… But a tasty one #
::when you have to go… No power in xela atm so im crapping in the dark [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
::while the rest of the northe…
::while the rest of the northern hemisphere swelters in the summer heat i am stuck up a mountain in torrential rain. i should try research?!
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
My daily routine in Xela
Day 341
Xela, Guatemala
I’ve been here for three weeks now studying and my days are pretty much the same. I wake up at 7.30am, eat breakfast and walk the 50 meters to the school around the corner. I get a cup of coffee and sit studying Spanish until 10am when there is more coffee and usually [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
My New Spanish School
Day 322
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
I’m on day 2 of my Spanish language lessons and I’m quite happy with my progress. It seems I haven’t been quite so lazy after all and have been slowly absorbing the language during my time in Mexico. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
My teacher Rosario is a cute little lawyer in [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
The day of the ‘Black Cloud’
Day 316
Coban, Guatemala
In the afternoon it started raining. I tried to ignore it despite the fact that the rain was so heavy it disrupted the satellite signal. It was really coming down. A lot!
The owner started banging on my door and I came outside to find the car park outside my room under 6″ of [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana, Batman!
Day 312
Semuc Champey, Guatemala
I was at “the most beautiful place in Guatemala” but it didn’t quite seem like that. After my exhausting trip there I slept for 14 hours and decided I would go to the waterfalls of Semuc Champey in the afternoon. The weather conspired against me on that front as a black cloud [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Tikal, Guatemala
Got up at 2.50am to make it up to the ruins in Tikal for sunrise. We wandered through the awakening jungle by torch and moonlight past looming stone structures half glimpsed in the faint light.
We climbed up to the wooden platform above the layer of mist that carpeted the jungle and our group [...]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Breaking down in the jungle
DAY 301!
Barton Creek, Belize
I packed up and decided to head west with Katrijn and Eva. I was going to have to go to Guatemala no matter what, there is no vehicle ferry to Honduras. I would have a dilemma soon though since it seemed that is where all my new friends from Caye Caulker would [...]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
A week on a Caribbean Island
Caye Caulker, Belize
One week would never be enough but it would have to do. Caye Caulker isn’t the ‘la isla bonita’ Madonna sings about but it was a beautiful spot all the same. The time was right, I arranged to take Katrijn and Eva over to Flores in Guatemala and just about managed to catch [...]
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Chilling by the beach
Belize
Just a quick update while I wait for my turn on the connection. I’m currently about to leave Hopkins in the middle of Belize with a charming American girl (they do exist!) called Vanessa on a trip back to the north to see some caves, temples and wildlife. Staying on the beach wasn’t a great [...]
