Ok, if you think the title of this thread is weird, you should have tried being in my shoes yesterday!
I went back to Reforma on Monday morning to see if I could find the restaurant where I met Liilia in case she was there again. Now it is one thing when you don’t know an [...]

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I have met a lot of people in this trip but there have been a special few who have changed my life, my outlook, inspired me or who have just stood head and shoulders above the rest.
I have decided to write a series about the extra special people I have met so far who have [...]

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Fran on July 30th, 2009

This is one of my favourite photos of one of my favourite days out in L.A. Katie had gone roller-skating with the family we were couchsurfing with and their daughter and I explored Hollywood and downtown L.A.
I met Captain Jack outside the Kodak Theatre just after I had seen Scooby Doo arguing with a guy [...]

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Fran on July 29th, 2009

I know it is not good to pass judgement when travelling, that everyone, everywhere has their own way of doing things. But while I was going through my trip photos I came across this photo and I remembered something that had stuck in my memory.
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Fran on July 28th, 2009

This is photographic entry with some of my favourite pictures that I took on the whole trip. They involve the most tame lizard I have ever come across. We were at a cultural village in Kuching, Sarawak, which is in Malaysian Borneo, and this little fella happily posed for ages for peoples cameras. I’m not [...]

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Fran on July 27th, 2009

This is the bum shaking, hip wiggling Mariachi I mentioned in a previous post when I went on a canal boat in Xochimilco. It may just be me, and maybe you had to be there but I found him hilarious!
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Fran on July 25th, 2009

Ok a word to the wise and a precautionary tale.
While we were in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, we booked a one day tour to the Bolaven Plateau in advance, starting from Pakse, which was the next stop on our route. We spent an hour in a tour agency that was highly recommended by the [...]

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Fran on July 24th, 2009

I know it has been a couple of days since my last update, but goodness, I have been exhausted! I was invited to join an outing with Katie’s summer camp to a place called Granja Las Americas.
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Fran on July 22nd, 2009

I had intended to set up this blog when we first left England and write about our travels, but lack of time, exhaustion and irregular internet access worked against me. It wasn’t until we reached the States that I was finally able to get it up and running.
So instead writing about our travels as we [...]

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Fran on July 22nd, 2009

Before I made plans to come to Mexico I was as aware as everyone else of the high amount of kidnappings in Mexico City, so I decided that even though we would have to fly into Mexico City we would get out as soon as possible on the next bus or plane to another part [...]

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