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SPAIN | Saturday, 8 Sep 2007 | Views [573]
The last few days have been amazing. Spain and Portugal are great. We stayed in Coimbra for a night, which is a University town in the middle of Portugal. We then travelled to Lisbon for two nights. Lisbon is amazing. The outskirts are ugly and full ... Read more >
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UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 18 Aug 2007 | Views [817] | Comments [2]
Hello and welcome to my more sensible account of our travels in England. London was frantic. We saw three west end shows in three nights - Les Mis (brilliant), Spamalot (very very funny) and We Will Rock You (yes, well, um, it was loud and there were ... Read more >
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UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 8 Aug 2007 | Views [643] | Comments [3]
Greetings from London! (I was going to begin with 'I'm in London Still' but I thought some of you might complain about gratuitous use of song titles in my posting.) I arrived in London at midday on Monday. Getting here was quite a trial, what with traffic ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Saturday, 14 Jul 2007 | Views [600]
We spent one night in the city of Xela, before heading to a much more relaxed town on the banks of Lake Atilan. We had a whole day by the lake, so we got up early and took a boat to a small village on the other side of the lake. First we visited a local ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Sunday, 8 Jul 2007 | Views [494]
In San Cristobal, the hawkers are even more determined than in Palenque. We are thinking of having tshirts made saying No Gracias, because we have to say it so often. We arrived yesterday, after a 5.5 hour bus ride through winding hills. (Very pretty, ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Friday, 6 Jul 2007 | Views [526] | Comments [1]
Today we went to Palenque ruins. I´m glad we went to Chichen Itza first, because Palenque was far more interesting. 94% of the city is still under the forrest, with only a few temples unearthed and restored. It was great to wander through the forrest ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Wednesday, 4 Jul 2007 | Views [394] | Comments [3]
Hola from Sunny Mexico. It´s about 34 degrees here and very very humid. I spent all of yesterday walking over the ruins of Chichen Itza. They were huge and amazing. There were several temples, a few ball courts, a maze of 1000 colonades (there were only ... Read more >
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