Fran on August 24th, 2009

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Fran on August 18th, 2009

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 [...]

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Fran on August 17th, 2009

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.
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Fran on August 15th, 2009

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 [...]

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Fran on August 14th, 2009

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 [...]

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Fran on August 11th, 2009

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 [...]

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Fran on August 10th, 2009

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 [...]

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Fran on August 9th, 2009

Our first stop in the U.S. leg of our trip was L.A. It was also where we had our best couchsurfing experience. We surfed with a wonderful family, Pattie, Garrett and their daughter Shea.
It was a mixed bag arriving in the U.S. It was mine and Katies’ favourite country (though now it’s a close run [...]

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Fran on August 8th, 2009

There is actually one more week of summer camp but as we are moving to Oaxaca this weekend Katie will be missing it, so for her last week was her last week. Unfortunately she will be missing the end of camp show next week and won’t be able to appear in it but I am [...]

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