The photos from the trip are slowly making their way up to my flickr site badfracture@flickr. I’ll be updating the blog posts on the places I visited very soon (probably after my next holiday!)
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After a rather effecient taxi service (thanks to the Brophy) everything went downhill! Poor scanning and a mass drug search at Gatwick meant appalling queues and little time for a beer. Departure on time was followed by an incredible roller coaster ride(with a couple of hysteric Latvians) and a diversion to Tallinn – not the planned...
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With an altitude change of 5000 meters in two days, altitude sickness is a potential issue....
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If I haven’t already tried out some stupid sports, this ranks high up the list.  An outfit called Bigfoot Hostel’s offer a Volcano boarding package at around $28. This 4.5-hour excursion will have you climbing to the top of Nicaragua’s ominous Cerro Negro volcano, only to mount a sit-down board and travel at speeds...
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While in recovery mode, I thought I'd look into a nice time filler - a round the world(aka rtw) trip. Avoiding the usual rtw flight tickets, I thought I try and integrate a number of overland routes.
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Not content with plugging my MacBookPro into the TV to watch movies, slideshows and the BBC iPlayer(and now SkyPlayer) I decided to splash out on a MacMini and AppleTV.
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