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Marks and Spencer self checkout
This one has bugged me for a while. Seems like a disconnect between the software and the planning of the self-checkout terminal. Here’s what happens: You scan in your items You choose to pay (by card) You are asked to insert your card, so you move to the card reader and gaze at it… Meanwhile,…
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Papa’s got a brand new bag
The old John Rocca was getting a bit too funky, upgraded to a nice Marimekko bag!
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Weezer in 8-bit
This is just awesome, any 30 somethings out there will remember trying to make some tunes on the C64 and the like…of course these songs are a little better than what I achieved. Link
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The Rules of Travelling
During our trip in South America we always joked about the Rules of Travelling: basic rules of thumb that ensure that you get the most out of your travels with the least amount of hassle/pain/irritation, especially when backpacking. These will also work on city trips. The Rules have been developed and refined on the numerous…
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Back from down South
South America that is- Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. 6 weeks of truly inspired travel, amazing sights, hairy bus rides, deadly rides….the blogging continued on another site…now I’m back, new flat, time to make money again…
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More pics
The backlog is going up online at last – back in the land of fast connections, hurrah. Final posts will be up later….cheers!
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Lake Titicaca
We just got back from a cool trip on Lake Titicaca, the famous body of water that borders Bolivia and Peru. We took a boat out and visited the man made reed Islands of Uros, and then continued on to the lovely Island of Amantaní, where we stayed with a local family that put us up…
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World’s Most Dangerous Road
We’ve just had the most exhilarating, scary, amazing and mind numbingly mystifying experience possible. After chilling for one day in La Paz (world’s highest capital at 3,600m above sea level), we decided that it was time for some action. Yungas Road, also known as the World’s Most Dangerous Road, has more fatalities per km than any…
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Uyuni, Uyuuniiii!
After Potosi we took off for Uyuni and the Salt Flats, it was another 6 hour bus journey through bumpy gravel roads, but the scenery was really spectacular – amazing mountain ranges and lamas all over the place! Uyuni is a town out in the middle of salty nowhere, not much going on apart from…
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Think your job is hard…?
Then try mining for silver in Bolivia! In Potosi we had the opportunity to visit the local silver mines to experience what life is like for miners in Bolivia. Just before leaving Sucre we watched a movie called “The Devils Miner“, which gave us some background on just how hard life can be, especially for…
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Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore
We arrived in Bolivia last Friday and spent the first night in the wealthy city of Santa Cruz. The hotel was supposed to have a sauna and a swimming pool, but the former wasn´t on, and the latter was ice cold but we bravely had a swim nevertheless. It was like swimming in a lake in Finland…
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Welcome to the jungle
I am writing this in the border town of Corumba, which has excellent pizza al forno and is very charming, we are going to fly into Bolivia in a few hours time, so it will be bye bye Brazil! We spent the last few days in the wetlands of the Pantanal, staying in jungle lodges…