Photo Grab-Bag, Mostly Awful

A Bit More Belen

And that would be me- praying for rhinoplasty. And my guide, John, in the background.

A Brief Note On Police

I’ve just been in the main square watching some sort of band/maybe rally/social thingy with drums, and i stopped paying attention to the bongos because the police were way more fun to watch. They seem to have the most ultimately pointless job- i have seen one arrest since i got to peru, and that wasnt [...]

State of the Onion Address.

This is just a boring text-filled no-pretty-colours update because my camera cable is back at the hostel and i dont want to pay a taxi so i can go and get it. Im not attempting any sort of organised post, just a sort of scrapbook of observations ive had knocking around.

Im still in Iquitos, and [...]

Belen

“The Venice of the Amazon”.
A family.

The refresco shop boat.

Random girl.

Queen Victoria lily pads (3ft across).

Sweeping the doorstep/river.

Girl with noodles.

A rather wonky house.

A dog on a boat.

This wasnt actually in Belen, but its the coolest Beetle mod I’ve ever seen.

More Photos.

This is my 3rd attempt at publishing this and if it doesnt work im going to cry.

Amazon Sunset

Dead Palm Leaves.

Photo Grab-Bag

This is what jungle storms look like when theyre getting going.
On the boat to go and see Liam Gallagher.

Id like to apologise to all my readers about yesterdays post, i was in a bad mood and bad moods are not good for writing witty and entertaining pieces of the exceedingly high standard that [...]

Jungles.

I wrote a huge post yesterday, full of pictures and pretty colours, and then hit “post” only to be faced with the dreaded “cannot reach server” window. which meant i thought i had lost the whole thing. and it being my birthday i had a tantrum, signed out and went to the pub. Turns out [...]

Birthdays! Mine to be exact.

*I wrote this yesterday, and then the internet died on me, but somehow i managed to save it as a draft copy without realising. here it is, by some miracle*
Well im in Iquitos at last, a 3 day boat journey from hell (well i quite enjoyed it but everyone else hated it). we went through [...]

Team Bandido

This (minus kayleigh, whos taking the picture) is Team Bandido. Me, Carlos, Moises and Marina.
Ive just woken up in a town called Yurimaguas, arrived here at 9:30pm last night after a 7hr car journey which was like my nightmares- winding mountain passes on mud roads, gaping abysses and a driver who seemed to have [...]

Jungle!

Im in the jungle and its absolutely bonkers! il put up a post tomorrow of some things like the giant waterfalls and the moth that was bigger than my hand. it is so incredible here but i have to go and wander round mango groves. (sigh)

Early Morning Bus Ride

Typical Northern Peruvian Landscape

Phwoooarrr!

Who is more orange- me or the board?

The Moon

A 4-second exposure from the balcony of a restaurant overlooking the sea.

Chulucanas

When i was up in Mancora, i took the bus to Piura (3hours south) then from there to Chulucanas (1 hour east I think) to visit the grave of Jago Lear, who died in a car accident near there in 1984. He was the priest who married my parents and he was also my fathers [...]

Restaurant

This boy, Oswaldo, was the son of the cook at the place where i had breakfast a couple of days ago. He was fascinated by the camera because you could see the picture straight after taking it, so i gave him the camera to have a play, and got some pictures of a slightly [...]

Joke.

There are two peruvians in a desert, thy have been lost for days, theyre going slightly crazy from lack of food and water, and they are on the verge of death. suddenly Jorge grabs Carlos’s shoulder and says “look! Look, Carlos, we’re saved, eez a bacon tree!” (in a spanish accent. probably in spanish too.) [...]

Apologies

Sorry there has been a ghostly silence over my page the past week, for some reason/technical hitch/God hates me the system wasn´t allowing new posts. This meant that three times I wrote modern masterpieces and three times the computer ate them when I hit publish. So I sort of gave up and went and lay [...]

Yaroooooooo!

MY COMMENTS THINGY NOW WORKS!!!!!!!!! Now lets all play nicely…

Mancora

Im up in Mancora now, i have been since yesterday at 5am and it is so hot you wouldnt even believe. the pavements are very literally hot enough to fry eggs on, and the water is so warm its actually unpleasant to swim in. on the upside, theres only 5 days left till im [...]