Hey dudes and dudettes, we have been so busy with my cousin’s wedding in San Francisco and getting ourselves set up in Ireland, that we haven’t organised our Cuba photos or sent the last 2 travel logs that we wrote 2 weeks ago… so here’s the first of them… we’ll send the other when...
Trip Report: Costs and Tips for a Cheap Stay in Cuba
This is a copy of a post that we put on the Lonely Planet Thorntree travel site for anyone who wants some Cuba tips and a recommendation for a Casa Particular in Havana. 20/10/2005 Hi All We have just spent the last 10 days in Cuba and since we got a lot of...
Avril Develops A New Superpower In Cuba
29/9/05 “Mutant Superpowers will often manifest themselves for the first time in times of extreme stress or extreme self sacrifice…” Professor Charles Xavier founder of the X-men. Buenos Dias Fellow Superfriends and Avengers of Evil We are currently in the west of Cuba in a beautiful mountain valley hiking area called Vinales and...
Panamania
24/9/05 Hola Gato to all you slinky sloths and mangy muppets Well, just after sending our last travellog 6 days ago, we slinked back to our room in Managua, Nicaragua and settled in to watch a crappy James Spader alien movie, when some British mates who we were travelling with came in and...
I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet…
14/9/05 Hey There to all you Narly Rad Tube Dudes Well firstly, I’m gonna make you all spew chunks of envy by telling you that I am currently typing this whilst sitting in a hammock outside our cabina on the beach with the surf breaking behind me and there are heaps of purple...
Fromage a Trois In Nicaragua
5/9/05 Hola to all you funky monkeys and secret squirrels… Well, we are currently in Granada, a totally funky town in Nicaragua and we are definitely the funkiest monkeys in town after flying on a zipline through the canopy of rainforest down one side of the bigarsed Mombacho volcano. Man… it...
Mud In Our Cracks In Colombia
30/8/05 Hey there friends, family and other furry animals… Well we are currently sitting in Panama Airport on our way to Nicaragua and honestly, after all the scary stuff we were worried about, we LOVED Colombia and saying goodbye is actually really sad… Colombia has been such a friendly place to travel and...
FARC The Guerillas… Colombia ROCKS!!!
21/8/05 Buenos to all you Funny Bunnies and Secret Squirrels… Well we are currently in an amazingly beautiful colonial city in southern Colombia called Popayan after a completely crappy ride from San Augustin an archaeological site next to a guerilla occupied area. We are absolutely SHAGGED since they managed to squeeze us...
Coffee, Cowgirls, Wax Palms & The Return Of Ced’s Libido
16/8/05 Que Pasa Chicks, Chickadees and other furry animals… Well we are currently the only foreigners in a place completely off the tourist map called Quimbaya in the Zona Cafetera (Coffee Growing Zone) in central Colombia and all we can say is that COLOMBIA ROCKS!!! Before we came here, every traveller we met...
Biffo In Bogota
12/8/05 Hola Muchachos y Muchachas Well we’ve been in Colombia now for 4 days and HOLY CRAP is it dangerous!!! The pavement is all crooked and they have streetposts that are knee height all over the place so I’ve twisted my ankle twice and whacked my knee several times… man… I don’t think...
The Devil’s Nose In Ecuador and Pre-Colombia Nerves
9/8/05 Hola Muchachos and Muchachas OK this is a diary log that I am writing whilst sitting in the boarding lounge in Quito, Ecuador awaiting a flight to Bogota, Colombia. Now I’m writing this more like a diary entry than a travel blog because I want to document how shit scared we are...
Show Us Your Galapagos Boobies
3/8/05 Buenos dias movers, groovers and other prehistoric animals… Well we have just arrived back in Quito, Ecuador after 8 days in the Galapagos Islands and if the people bonking in the room next door hurry up and come, then I’ll be able to concentrate and finish this travel log and tell you...