Jul 2007

Hey everyone,

Im Spain now. We flew from Quito and our plane was delayed 3 hours then another hour which sucked before getting on the worst flight ever! Iberia is the suckiest airline to ever suck! I would reccomend you never fly with them and if anyone ever offers, you spit in their face!

Sigh, im glad i have that off my chest! So we arrived in Madrid and found ourselves a place to stay. AWESOME city, so much life and really warm. Will definately spend more time there on the way back. Everything has inflated in price because its the busy season and anywhere cheap is booked out so its making it very hard to do it cheaply.

From Madrid we trained to pamplona and checked outthe festival. we were there for the kick off and it wasnuts. everyone was dressed in all white with red sashes for belts and a red scarf around your neck. we bought costumes and had a look around then headed off to Santander.

A night in a horrible hotel that i wont talk about it was soo bad. and were still in Santander with a bus ticket back to pamplona. the plan is as follows.

Get in to Pamplona about 11pm. get ready to run, sleep the night in the park and get up early for running. then celebrate near death and drink all the following day as seems the standard. then another park night before bailing towards Portugal and cheaper chilling out.

Ok so if all goes well ill be posting again soon, if not, and I dont survive the bulls, tell Daino I hate her. just kidding, ill post again soon.

Tim.

P.S. The sun goes down at 10pm here, its nuts i havent bee sleeping cos nightime is only like 8 hours. stupid sun. awesome though, everythings kinda open with the sun. anyway. laters.

Hey everyone!!

Thanks for all the comments. especially my regulars Sam and the Swan (huge comment and wicked to hear from ya). Ive just got back to Quito from La Paz and i thought id bring you up to date.

Photos Here

Last Friday James, Plummers and I embarked on the road of death. It is the most dangerous road in the world with vertical drops the whole way down and is absolutely covered in crosses and memorials for all the people who have died there. We rode down the 66kms hitting speeds of 70kph on the paved road and a little bit less of slippery dirt. freaken unreal!!

Theres a bunch of photos but its hard to capture it. i didnt realise you could go that fast on dirt let alone doing it with 400m drops on the side of the road with no guard rails. exciting stuff. waterfall crossings and all sorts of fun. a really awesome day.

Then at the bottom there was like a wildlife reserve thingy where we got to hug howler monkeys, see an anaconda, macaws and of course play with a baby ocelot kitten for ages. she was nuts. she fully pounced and attacked me from ages and was so much fun. id love to see her grown up!

The when we got back who should be waiting at the hostel but Mr Monkey Tyndall. Beers and chilling for the next two days was rad catching up with Monkey. A little sad to say goodbye to the Mark/c's but it was time to get to Quito and then to Spain.

Thats all for now. thanks again for the comments. keep em coming, really good to hear from you all!

Hutch