The last couple of days have been pretty much insane.
I think I left you in Uyuni. I spent the rest of that day posing for
photos on the saltflats - you know the photos I mean, right. Where you have the toy dinosaur in the foreground and everyone else a bit away so it looks like you're being chased? Evidentally it's harder to pull off than you'd think.
That evening bumped into someone I lived in halls with. That's someone I've not seen in most of a decade, in a salt mining town (population 15,000) in the middle of Bolivian nowhere. How weird?
I bought some dynamite. That's not something I've ever done before.
And now I'm in La Paz, which is a rip-roaring mental type place. Top three things that are a bit weird:
3. The shoe shine boys where balaclavas and look scary as.
2. They have people dressed up as zebras to tell you off for not using zebra crossings.
1. You can buy llama foetuses fairly easily. And yes, yes I did. I quite like the fact that dynamite isn't the oddest thing I've bought this week.
Went mountain biking on The Death Road today. Ate that up, even the uphill bit that you're supposed to get the bus for. 400 ft drop; schmoreschmundred schmoot schmop. Anyone who says that that's the most dangerous road in the world obviously hasn't been to Melbourne Ave on a grotty Tuesday night.
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Fact: Canadians don't have a name for 'bouncy castle' they call it 'the inflatable thing that you jump up and down on.' To be fair it's not impossible that Tanya was having me on as I was trying to convince her that we call it a 'palace of wind',
I think I left you in Uyuni. I spent the rest of that day posing for
photos on the saltflats - you know the photos I mean, right. Where you have the toy dinosaur in the foreground and everyone else a bit away so it looks like you're being chased? Evidentally it's harder to pull off than you'd think.
That evening bumped into someone I lived in halls with. That's someone I've not seen in most of a decade, in a salt mining town (population 15,000) in the middle of Bolivian nowhere. How weird?I bought some dynamite. That's not something I've ever done before.
And now I'm in La Paz, which is a rip-roaring mental type place. Top three things that are a bit weird:
3. The shoe shine boys where balaclavas and look scary as.
2. They have people dressed up as zebras to tell you off for not using zebra crossings.
1. You can buy llama foetuses fairly easily. And yes, yes I did. I quite like the fact that dynamite isn't the oddest thing I've bought this week.
Went mountain biking on The Death Road today. Ate that up, even the uphill bit that you're supposed to get the bus for. 400 ft drop; schmoreschmundred schmoot schmop. Anyone who says that that's the most dangerous road in the world obviously hasn't been to Melbourne Ave on a grotty Tuesday night.
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Fact: Canadians don't have a name for 'bouncy castle' they call it 'the inflatable thing that you jump up and down on.' To be fair it's not impossible that Tanya was having me on as I was trying to convince her that we call it a 'palace of wind',
1 comment:
well I hope you've shown her the photo from the palace of wind that we found in Essex? You are demonstrably a connoisseur of such things.
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