Hello everyone! I should type (yes, I know, I know) that this is the third entry of the day. If anyone feels particularly motivated to read what I thought of my experiences in Los Angeles, those musings can be found in the two prior postings: sorry! After enjoying a wonderful week with Ben, Courtney and my new-found friends in Los Angeles, I began to feel the traveller's itch, that sensation between discomfort and excitement: I was eager to move on to new adven...

Hello everyone! My week in Los Angeles passed quickly, very quickly. I spent a lot of time simply relaxing in and around the apartment in Venice Beach. I enjoyed the horizontal feel to the place, the friendliness of many of the strangers passing me on the street. I indulged in tasty Mexican food, prepared by real Mexicans who had settled north of the border, searching for a more stable, better life. I took sun-drenched strolls along the boardwalk, a pedestrian p...

Hello everyone! I am sat writing this latest entry from a calm, collected library in the middle of the main campus at Stanford University. The computer is very limited and will not even allow me to write an inverted exclamation mark; thus have I been coerced into greeting you all in English for the first time on this blog... that is America I suppose. Let us not dwell: although I have safely journeyed north from los Angeles to San Francisco, it is time to return...

¡Hola a todos!The airplane flight from Panama City to Los Angeles was highly uneventful, bar sporadic episodes of cold sweats, the likes of which I am increasingly accustomed to experiencing while departed from solid ground: I have never been a confident flier and although I seem to be mellowing with age and repeated experience, nonetheless I grow alarmed even now at the slightest change in the sounds emanating from the plane's engines; the slightest dip in alti...

¡Hola a todos!A quick note: this is the third and final blog detailing my experiences in Panama and I have uploaded all of them within the past tens minutes: my apologies; once again there was something of a backlog!I returned from the islands of San Blas feeling peaceful and refreshed. I asked the 4x4 driver to drop me off outside a backpackers' hostel in Casco Viejo, the 'old town' district of Panama City. The area was originally settled shortly after Captain ...