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Read more: 151. Sending back what the optimist ordered151. Sending back what the optimist ordered
I have been to Fiji eight times. Eight. Not once did it rain more than what we all know as a sun shower. I want that on the record before I tell you what Samoa did to us. This trip was a gift. Literally. Five years ago, the Latino left Argentina, left his family, his job,…
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128. Mysterious bathroom activities.
Read more: 128. Mysterious bathroom activities.I was in my friend’s apartment in Bogota long enough pay a visit to the bathroom when I was gravely informed that we don’t flush paper of any kind down the toilet in Colombia. Not even when you do a poo. Something to do with narrow pipes and weak pressure, all over the whole country.…
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127. Ranting on the bus.
Read more: 127. Ranting on the bus.I’m catching a lot of public transport in Colombia. I’m shoulder to shoulder with the locals; I like it. But there’s a new phenomenon here. Ranting people. The first time I noticed it I thought someone was having a long one-sided convo on the phone with someone. Then my local friend said “We have…
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126. Fall down eight times, get up nine.
Read more: 126. Fall down eight times, get up nine.While we’re on the subject of action man activity in Colombia, I may as well share my sunset SUP experience right? I’d done it once before in New Zealand and, weirdly for an unbalanced girl (physically not mentally, although that could be in dispute), I didn’t fall off once. The promise of an apricot…
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125. Bored? Try flying.
Read more: 125. Bored? Try flying.The Flyboard was invented in Autumn 2012 by a French water-craft rider, Franky Zapata. What a very rock and roll name. The design allows the device to literally jettison out of the water and be stable in the air. Well, stable-ish. There is nothing in my DNA – no matter how many past lives I…
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124.Something about a big bottomed girl.
Read more: 124.Something about a big bottomed girl.It’s been with me since puberty, this enthusiastic bum of mine. It’s been a little bigger at times, and it’s even been a little bit smaller on occasion, but in terms of a hip to waist ratio, at all times it has been on the extravagant side. I’ve embraced it as best I can over…
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123. Hopeless tourist.
Read more: 123. Hopeless tourist.Last night, I counted the countries I’ve visited. 29 – now including Colombia. So I’ve decided I can call myself a seasoned traveller without conceit or exaggeration. But being a tourist? Not my bag. I used to describe myself as a lazy tourist but this trip has changed my mind. I’m just not one at all.…
