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Rebecca Tully: What I will miss.
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What I will miss. Hopping on a bus. Snap transport decisions. No advance tickets. They`re like a very well organised lift. Looking at mountains for a whole 3 hour journey. Such BEAUTIFUL mountains. People grinning when they get on the bus. Being able to make empty promises and know you probably won't keep them and you'll get away with it. Cheesy 80s music cropping up everywhere. Having time to mull; getting a good 10 hours sleep whenever I wanted. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). All in the past.
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Rebecca Tully: T Shirts
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This has been brewing for a while but what i saw this week takes the biscuit! When I first got here I kept catching sight of diminutive Nica girls and women who looked like they wouldn’t say boo to a goose, sporting t-shirts with really brash English phrases emblazoned on them. Yes I am good in bed. I’m the best – forget the rest. Don’t Touch. I can only please one person a day. Too many for it just to be the discarded garments of Nicaraguans. it all comes from the US, seconds and goodwill. In the UK I d...
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Rebecca Tully: Viene el guapo
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And now we´re off to explore the touristy side of Nicabloominragua. Luke says. My spanish needs to improve rapido to catch up with Rebs. I´m borrowing her for a week or two so no more updates for a bit. Everything is sticky and hot! See you when I´ve stopped being a tourist! Have a good time both of you. 9 July 2008 at 00:25. How happy are you two? Enjoy, and have fun! Luke - catch up after Latitude and Rebs - i'll email. 11 July 2008 at 18:10. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This song is everywhere.
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Rebecca Tully: Bubblegum Biscuits and Bugs
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Bubblegum Biscuits and Bugs. Ah I see that a large quanitity of information and thoughts on coffee is not the way to elicit comments. Well then, how about BUBBLE GUM FLAVOURED BISCUITS? The good people of Yali cannot rely on a regular water or electricity supply, or paved roads, but they do have 24 hours a day the possibility of, for just one cordoba, floating off to bubble gum biscuit heaven with chicle galletas. It´s odd - they taste like overly sweet biscuits, and smell like bubble gum. If I don´...
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Rebecca Tully: Not me aswell...!
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It's true, it really is a country that gets under your skin. It's gone. Oh no, that bus goes at 3.10. WHAT! Oh yes, hasn¨t gone at 3.30 for ages. WHy do people lie! I'm standing in what is essentially a mud/dirt field (yes, it does look a lot like Glastonbury) deciding what to do next. The goddamn endearing part. And after one of the smoothest bus changes in history I´m in Esteli by dinner time. Fall into the arms of Juanita. When do you go home? 10 August 2008 at 20:11. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Rebecca Tully: One last anecdote
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When we were in the bus close to Yali a while ago, the bus had to stop for a bit because there was an ox in the way. Why? This way of life is so different. From mine, and most English rural life to boot, that being part of it has made it harder for me to contemplate fairness, or poverty, or charity. It's just on a totally different scale. And it's hard to imagine that oxen man, however hard and grinding his life is, would want to swap it for my London turmoil. Hey ho. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Rebecca Tully: The Bus.
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I have become more aware of what people are saying these days. First sign was when I heard on the radio in a taxi that a chicken bomb had exploded somewhere in. I checked with the guy, but yes, I wasn’t hearing things. I think I cam across a little surprised, so the guy started explaining how sometimes people hide explosives in things when they want to make a bomb ‘. Yup, I’m aware of that concept, I’m from. I just think that our terrorists have moved beyond the size of a chicken already. If you are bore...
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Rebecca Tully: Coffee 8: Politics, and a Conclusion.
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Coffee 8: Politics, and a Conclusion. So, the country’s poor. But its widely thought, and reported every day that the big wigs in the government (who incidentally are most of the revolutionaries who fought for the rights of the workers against the dictator Somoza in the 70’s) are creaming cash left right. But this place is full of NGOs, and trade certifications, and volunteers, and international organisations donating money for infrastructure… it doesn’t fit. So it seems to me that, as ever, hard cash on...
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Rebecca Tully: It wasn´t Canyoneering
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It wasn´t Canyoneering. Wikipedia describes canyoneering and canyoning as technical descents, so I don´t think I can tick either of them off the list but I did climb down some quite big slippery old rocks at the mouth of Somoto canyon and then swim in my clothes when I didn´t have a change of clothes with me. Danger is now my middle name. Or Indiana Rebs, someone else suggested. This was verified by a quick look. In the Footprints guide on our return to Esteli. Good heavens I´m. 1 August 2008 at 13:54.
