Going Long
I don’t know about you, but if I had the emergency exit row on a plane with all that extra leg room, I wouldn’t feel the need to recline my seat back at a 45 degree angle. It’s a shame the woman in...
View ArticleRedeeming Features
Yeah, we were mugged on our second day here, but it wasn’t so bad – I mean, they had a knife, but it wasn’t terrible or anything! That’s awful! Where did it happen? Um, it was a place in the middle of...
View ArticleRio, Grand
Having spoken with others, it seems like we were just the victims of bad timing for our visit to the Corcovado and there certainly weren’t the crowds today as we took the cable cars up Rio’s most...
View ArticleBits And Pieces: Spain and Brazil
You have my 100% cast-iron money-back lifetime warranty guarantee that the following will delight and entertain you! (Not a guarantee.) I can’t even speak Fast Show style fake Spanish as fast as real...
View ArticleChile Con Carne, Cafe Con Piernas
I could name two Chileans before I came here, General Pinochet and Salvador Allende. I had little idea what they had actually managed to do, but Franco, the guide on our walking tour around Santiago...
View ArticleThe Navel Of The World
I owe Bill Watterson a huge debt of gratitude. Not only for his unauthorised semi-biographical cartoon of me, Calvin and Hobbes, about a loud-mouthed, know-it-all blonde-haired child and his...
View ArticleIn Poor Taste
I had only been convinced that I should eat KFC to help banish a hangover that threatened to sabotage our day trip to Valparaiso, and now I felt worse than ever. Santiago certainly feels much safer...
View ArticleConfiguring OS X Mail For Gmail Without Duplicates
I’ve been using Gmail tied to my Google Apps account for the last couple of years and I love it. However, travelling around with intermittent Wi-Fi access for the last 6 months has meant there have...
View ArticleUnited States of Anxiety
I was last in the United States in the summer of 2002, when I travelled around the country using Amtrak. I met lots of people on the trains and in diners who were very keen to talk about world affairs,...
View ArticleA Small Announcement
Now that we have seen as many people as possible face to face, I thought I’d put up my speech from our engagement party last week. Friends, Surrogate Family, Soon To Be In-Laws, Colleagues and Nemeses,...
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