Ok, I am back! After being hit for six by some stomach bug last weekend I’ve been feeling run down all week and have only been able to face eating one meal a day. I think I am finally perking up now, but must drink more water!
As I spoke about in my previous post we started spanish school last Monday which came as another shock to the system for both of us I think because for the past fourteen months we’ve had no routine, just going with the flow and waking up when we felt like it. It’s been a long time since we had to wake up early and have any sort of set routine. Read the rest of this entry »
Thanks to Zereth@Flickr
So much for my fussy eater! Today as we were walking through the big market in the colonial part of Oaxaca we passed a chapulines seller who I struck up a conversation with. Lillia had insisted we try chapulines when we moved to Oaxaca and at least now I can say we have. Chapulines, for the unsuspecting reader, are deep fried baby grasshoppers and are a real delicacy of the Oaxaca region. Read the rest of this entry »
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I haven’t posted any new entries for a couple of days. For this I have to thank my lovely little daughter (there is a touch of sarcasm in there). My lovely girl decided to go wild on my laptop and she has corrupted the network settings so I am having great difficulty connecting to the net.
Kids, huh?!
Anyway, there’s been some amazing things happening, the most wonderful of which has been all the emails I have been getting from readers. It’s fantastic, I can’t tell you how excited I get every time I connect with a reader, I am loving it! It’s really easy to get in touch with me, there’s a link to a contact form at the top of this page. I would really, seriously love to hear from you. I’d like to apologise to the readers who I have been communicating with and haven’t emailed back yet, but once I get my laptop fixed I will be firing on all cylinders and would love to stay in touch. Read the rest of this entry »
The amazing Adam Pascal (in blue, just coming out of the door) who plays Roger
Those of you who have read my interview on Andy Hayes’ website will know that I had a terrible few years before this trip. One of the things that got me through some of those hard times was the soundtrack to the musical RENT.
I first discovered RENT when flicking through the movie channels and I caught the film adaptation; immediately I was hooked and bought the soundtrack. I listened to it at home, in my car, it was on my iPod, it was everywhere! As soon as the songs from RENT came on my mood was bolstered, sometimes I could even manage a smile through my tears. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tel Aviv Beach
Katie has been asking for a while to have more of an input with articles and she has given me a list of her favourite places with an explanation of why. Read the rest of this entry »
How to Stay Sane
This is part of a survival guide I have figured out while traveling. It’s easier when there are two parents traveling because when situations get too much for one adult the other can take over. Things have been pretty intense at times over the past 14 months; Katie and I have been together pretty much all the time apart from the odd hour or day here or there. If someone so much as offers to take her for an hour I pretty much throw her into their arms.
The advice books say when things get too much then walk away, go into another room for a while, but when you are just living out of one room, or maybe if you are couchsurfing, you may not even have a room to yourself, where do you go? Read the rest of this entry »
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Angkor Wat
I did an interview with the lovely Andy Hayes last week that can be read by clicking on this linky thing here. I really enjoyed doing it as the questions that Andy asked made me think about our trip in a way I hadn’t quite done before. It is one thing to remember places we have been but when you are asked specific questions it makes you analyse the choices in destination and travel you have made. I thoroughly recommend reading the rest of Andy’s site as well as there is lots of interesting and useful articles with other travellers too.
To the readers who are here because of that interview – WELCOME! You may want to subscribe to this blogs feed here so you never miss an update.
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Oaxaca, Mexico
Apologies for not updating yesterday, I was just about to sit down and write up our first few days in Oaxaca when I went out on to the terrace and found a lovely Mexican lady sitting at the table that is there. We were talking, well trying to with my limited Spanish and I was suddenly offered a drink by two other girls who came out and joined us. It was delicious and I asked what it was; I could make out the spanish word for juice so I happily drunk it. It dawned on me when I noticed everyone drinking much slower than I, and the fact that I was becoming very happy and not just a bit giggly, that it might be a bit more than just fruit juice!
So I slowed my pace but my ability to sit down and write anything I thought readable was completely gone! So here it is a day late, my report on our first few lovely days in Oaxaca City! Read the rest of this entry »
Sticking with the theme of Thailand which I have certainly been thinking a lot about the past few days if not writing about it here is a video of Katie in Pai in the northern part of Thailand. This video holds a particularly special sentimental value as we went to Pai on a whim as I’d been told the food was good, and wherever there is good food I’m there! We also were shown the most tremendous amount of hospitality there when Katie and I found ourselves at 10:30pm totally starving with no bed for the night and two lovely local guesthouse owners and a bunch of friends on holiday from Bangkok for the weekend helped us out. I will be writing about what happened in Pai when I was nearly floored in amazement at the kindness of strangers as part of the ‘It’s Not What You Do – It’s Who You Meet‘ series.
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Tags: It's Not What You Do - It's Who You Meet, katie, Pai, Thailand, videoblog
Thanks to El Monstrito@Flickr
I’ve been feeling like a fish pulled out of the sea and dumped on to strange land. Since the Uruguayans arrived Spanish has been the main language in the apartment. Everyone has been speaking Spanish, including the long-term French couchsurfer Lison, and another French couchsurfer and her English friend who were here last week. They all speak Spanish which is fine, I understand that, but I don’t. I know enough to say that I do or don’t like something, or order food in a restaurant, and make myself understood in day-to-day life. But I can’t hold a conversation and I am unable to pick up on a thread of what they are saying so I can at least try and figure out the topic. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Learning Spanish, Mexico City, socialization
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