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Quito, Cultural Capital of America
As fate would have it, I’m in Quito at the time it’s going nuts wrapping up the year for being the Cultural Capital of America for 2011. It’s been non stop entertainment, and even now at 9pm there’s a swarm of people marching the down street outside the hostel banging drums and generally being noisy!…
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Welcome to Quito, Ecuador
The one thing you read about arriving in Quito is give yourself a couple of days to acclimatise. The city sits 2850m above sea level, and yep do you notice it. Mainly it’s just being short of breath, but after 5 days of being here it’s no so much a problem anymore. That there to…
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SYD -> LAX -> ATL
Well it’s certainly been an interesting flight. I’m now in Atlanta staying in a hotel for the night. I wasn’t planning on having to get a room here, instead just crash out in the airport. The US has some weird checkin/out policy and I ended up having to pick from about 50 airport hotels to…
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