Travel

Paraguay

Tuesday, May 1, 2007 // 0 Comments

Asuncion (1/5/07 – 3/5/07) Paraguay was never intended as a long stopover. In fact, there were only two things on my list for Paraguay – the Chaco, the sparsely [more...]

My Inca Trial

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 // 0 Comments

Trekking through Peruvian highlands This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first [more...]

Bolivia

Friday, April 20, 2007 // 0 Comments

Copacabana (20/4/07 – 22/4/07) Bolivia is a place I have only previously known through reading about its dire hyperinflation in the chapter “Bolivia’s high [more...]

Peru

Thursday, April 5, 2007 // 0 Comments

Lima (5/4/07 – 8/4/07) The wealthy and affluent capital of Peru and once the capital of Spanish South America (all of South America except Brazil). A very large [more...]

Ecuador

Monday, April 2, 2007 // 0 Comments

Quito (2/4/07 – 5/4/07) Quito is one of the few places in the world where the pilot actually has to *decompress* the cabin prior to landing. Most of the time, the plane [more...]

Half Time Break

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 // 0 Comments

Hey everyone, I thought I’d give everyone a break from my atrocious travel writing… “toot toot! the whistle blows for half time, and the train waiting to [more...]

United States of America

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 // 0 Comments

Los Angeles (13/3/07 – 15/3/07) This was a bit of a let down. Santa Monica beach at about 10am. I think the weather might have had something to do with it. The bus [more...]

Ahh… Venezuela

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 // 0 Comments

Overlooking Canaima Lagoon This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of [more...]

Venezuela

Thursday, March 8, 2007 // 2 Comments

What to say about Venezuela? This is the second time that I’ve been here (if you want to know about the first time, which was also very memorable but for very different [more...]

Cuba mea

Thursday, March 8, 2007 // 0 Comments

Poster of Ernesto Guevera This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of [more...]

Cuba

Sunday, February 25, 2007 // 2 Comments

Havana (25/2/07 – 1/3/07) Cuba is an interesting place. The first thing that one notices is the apartheid. This is not like the apartheid that poisoned South Africa [more...]

A holiday within a holiday

Saturday, February 17, 2007 // 0 Comments

Hi everyone, an update on my many (mis)adventures… Since my last email, quite a bit has happened (like, a few people being added to this mailing list…), although [more...]

Graduation Speech

Friday, February 9, 2007 // 0 Comments

My farewell/graduation speech for my Spanish Course at the Don Quijote Language School in Guanajuato, Mexico (apologies for the very bad Spanish) ante todo, quiero decir [more...]

Guanajuato, Mexico

Saturday, January 27, 2007 // 0 Comments

Dear All, I thought it would be good to update everyone on my travel adventures… Firstly, I have been able to connect my laptop to the internet. So if anyone is [more...]

Melbourne to Mexico

Friday, January 12, 2007 // 0 Comments

Buenos Dias everyone, welcome to the first installment of the Daniel Yeow / Nick Sheridan 5-month Latin American Odyssey. Firstly, if you would for any reason at all not wish [more...]
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