http://www.travelblog.org/ Live Travel Journals, Diaries and Photos from real Travellers en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:50:35 BST Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:50:35 BST Honduras After school I never thought Id spend 7 hours on a school bus. But that is how we got from Belize City to Punta Gorda. They squish as many people as they can on the buses and thru the aisles and make stops wherever someone wants to be picked up. You rotate from knees on the seat in front of you squashed down a bit to head on the seat in front of you to sitting up straight...every 10 min http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Bay-Islands/Utila/blog-320259.html Belize The next morning we got back on the bus to cross over to Belize. We got off at the crossing to go to immigration then had to walk over the bridge to Belize and go thru customs. We got thru customs and thought our bus had left but a guy helped us spot it 400m down the road. Belize is on the Caribbean and we were back in English speaking territory. Most of them speak Creole and even if yo http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/Belize-Barrier-Reef/Caye-Caulker/blog-320258.html We finally got an internet connection that didnt refuse our mass of photos in El Salvador...so here you go. Barra de la Cruz Part unohttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid65716le656fid609417068Barra de la Cruz Part doshttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid69801l92739id609417068San Cristobal and Palenquehttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid69972l5fab5id609417068 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chiapas/San-Cristobal-de-las-Casas/blog-320257.html Moving on into Guatemala I was looking forward to this part of the trip. I travelled here several years ago and what I remembered of it was all good. First stop was Tikal we camped at the ruins and in the morning you could hear all the monkeys and birds waking up...it was like something out of Jurrasic Park.....every monkey thought that he was romeo Most of the group got up at 4am for a early http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-320248.html Last night I had a very involved conversation with la Seora Primitiva I swear I did all about what time Kristen and I needed to wake up in order to catch our bus to Huancayo in the morning. Thought we had it all figured out we truly did. But either la seora was too distracted by her evening prayers to give us the right information or something got seriously lost in translation because a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/blog-320245.html Tuesday 26th AugustTraveling back to Las Vegas today we set out after I had had my gym fix in Barstow at Anytime Fitness gym We were soon into the heat of the Mojave Desert with air con on full at 90 all the way. After a 2 hour drive we arrived in Vegas and decided to check into our hotelcasino first so we could drop off our ever expanding luggage before returning the hire car. We are stayi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-320242.html 1.9. Livornon kautta eteln Viareggiossa aamulla kumiveneilimme sataman veneiden ja telakoiden vliss ensin koko perhe karttakaupalle. Lare ja Juha ja KsiKaverit menivt sitten hakemaan polttoainetta. Lopuksi mentiin isolla veneell eli Merilokilla vakilaiturien ulkoreunalle ja otettiin ilo irti vesiletkusta. Sitten jatkettiin.Nhtiin jopa pieni ptk tasaisempaa Italiaa ennen kuin vuoria http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/blog-320240.html Please refer to the clinical section for updates including a new tally feature.Current clinical focus is on Ward shadows to acquire a working knowledge of bedside patient care while sparking questions for further researchanalysis and physician shadows to become familiar with the doctor's mindset knowledge and skills.Current academic focus is on selfstudy of Anatomy and Physiology to create a m http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Liberia/blog-320239.html Everything locks in Lima and I mean EVERYTHING. The gate outside the front door the front door itself the bedroom door the door to the balcony. When you hail a cab you do two things haggle over the price then hop in and lock the door. If you don't the driver will do it for you. That's so no one jumps in and carjacks you en route I assume. Nice to feel safe here really. Glad I'm headed off http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/blog-320238.html My head is spinning from the powerful and truly magical place we were blessed with. THANK YOU Tom for your hospitality generosity stories drumming light spirit and the love you showed us all. We spent four blissful nights at Bishop's Wood in the Gower arguably the most wonderful place we've visited on tour and all of us reluctant to leave. The beautiful woodland nestled in the hills near http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Gower-Peninsula/blog-320237.html Eureka The brilliant travel blog webite I have just now discovered allows me to change the date and time of my entries to whatever I chose. So please hop into my time machine now and allow me to do this properly... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/blog-320236.html Salzburg...words on the way... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Upper-Austria/Salzkammergut/blog-320232.html He's dropped us off on a slipway in a sea of motorways. We're on the outskirts of Seville Spain and the sun had gone down a long time ago. Suddenly hitchhiking from Wales to Morocco doesn't seem so rosy. I am with John a friend from Swansea University and we're just two of the idiots who signed up to this adventure in the name of charity. We start walking just a walk to take us away from this http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-320231.html Walking along the riverside in Hamah Syria. It's a humid night full of noise. Nearby the crickets and cicadas are buzzing loudly in the reeds and in the distance the slow persistent creaking of water wheels is keeping a steady beat. These wheels locally known as norias up to 20 metres in diameter are centuries old endlessly scooping the water from the Orontes River and tipping it into mini http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Syria/West/Hama/blog-320229.html Today was a funny day. I didnt really sleep lastnight so i got out of bed just after 8 and finally took advantage of the free breakfast. it was just croissants cereal toast and fruit but it was really good. after breakfast i reserved a bunch of stuff. i bought a ticket to see Rain Man in production. Josh Hartnett plays Charlie Babbit which is pretty cool. My first celeb sighting i guess. I also http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-320227.html Well I'm finally here We left our house about 840am on Thursday and arrived at Chicago airport around two. After meeting up with the Ambrose group...around 17 students....we checked in our luggage...mine being exactly at the mark We took off from Chicago around 7pm and flew through rain pretty much the entire time. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Carlow/Carlow/blog-320226.html We clocked up some serious bus miles and hours after Tulum first travelling to Chichen Itza to see the pyramids and other ruins there before spending a day in a town called Merida and a 20 hour bus journey to reach Oaxaca in the south of Mexico.Merida and Oaxaca are both old spanish colonial towns with really colourful central squares and markets. The people were really friendly and much easie http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Distrito-Federal/Mexico-City/Plaza-de-la-Constituci%F3n/blog-320225.html After 6 glorious days in Prague we headed off to Cesky Krumlov in South Bohemia to find the weather was rotten and the campsite was beautiful but pretty average facilitieswise. Although on the banks of the misty and picturesque lake Lipno Coco summed it up by saying the lake looks pretty from the tent but when you go down there there's lots of gross stuff the lake isn't actually dirty but http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/South/Cesky-Krumlov/blog-320224.html Hey EverybodyI hope everything is going well back in the states.Caitlin and I have moved on from Romania through Hungary and are now in Croatia. Budapest was a big and great city. Plenty to see and do...we stayed in a hostel that reminded me of Pitzer....a lot of hippies...the spirits were moving.Croatia has turned out to be a surprise stop for me on this trip. Zagreb is the perfect capitol c http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia/Zadar/blog-320221.html It's been over a week and this is the first time I've had a chance to get online and do anything. We booked this trip solid and have been on the go nonstop. Unfortunately I don't have much time to say a lot about what's been going on. Itrsquos getting late and I have an early morning tomorrow. To sum it up everything has gone according to my 'perfect' plans. I got to do everything I wante http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-320218.html The English language has such a wonderful selection of idioms describing the consumption of alcohol to excess and perhaps. on occasion alcohol has indeed been consumed to excess in the straw bale house after a hard day's work but I shall leave such occasions to your imagination. This entry describes the frenetic burst of activity required to achieve weathertightness before the first frosts and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Aberfeldy/blog-320216.html Sunday 24th AugustAfter a good 11 hours of sleep we were ready to tackle some more hikes. This time we headed to the top of the mountain and walked to Taft Point for some spectacular views of the valley floor and where we had explored the day before. It was fun looking down but we were both grateful for the metal railing put in to aid the view. We then hiked along the mountain edge to Glacier Poi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Yosemite-National-Park/Yosemite-Valley/blog-320215.html