March 2003 – Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia
Elephants, Ko Samui
Hello. After a longer pause than usual here is this issue of JAB. Our recent travels have reminded us that travelling and working are not always compatible; we’ve either been without power sockets to plug in Mr Benn (the name for our laptop) or Internet access has been a boat and bus ride away from our accommodation.
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Tags: bukit lewang, indonesia, ko samui, malacca, malaysia, orangutan, pulau samosir, sumatra, thailand 
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Monkey, Ubud, Bali
February 2003 – Bali & Thailand
Hello. After finishing the Australia and New Zealand Supplement and Tramp News last month, we treated ourselves to seeing something of Bali. Dragging ourselves away from the coast, for the first time since Rotorua in New Zealand, we headed inland to Ubud, the cultural centre of Bali. Highlights included forest monkeys and Balinese dancing, including some vigorous firewalking, performed by a religious group that included our homestay owner.
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Christmas Dinner, Azafura Sea
January 2003 – Australia & Bali
Hello. We haven’t done a great deal this month. Mostly, we’ve loafed around our friends, Helen and Peter’s house in Nhulunbuy, in the Northern Territory of Australia, enjoying the comforts of home.
Christmas dinner was fish and prawns this year. The Barramundi we caught ourselves on a fishing trip in the Azafura Sea in Peter’s tinny – well, I didn’t catch the fish, but I was in the boat when it was landed so I consider it a moral victory over nature. A stickleback remains the biggest fish I’ve ever caught. Either way it was quite unlike the usual roast dinner we enjoy at home but there at least Tesco can slaughter my dinner for me.
Posted in Around the World in 12 Issues, Travelling Tags: australia, bali, indonesia, nhulunbuy No Comments »December 2002 – New Zealand & Australia
Sydney From the Ferry
Hello. We have crossed the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand and landed back in the English speaking World. Some of our old South American habits died hard and we spent a few days marveling at toilets that can handle toilet tissue and at people queuing in line. Shocks came with the price of cigarettes, transport, rooms and, well, everything really compared to SA.
Posted in Around the World in 12 Issues, Travelling Tags: australia, new zealand, nhulunbuy, rotorua, sydney, whitsunday islands, woolongong No Comments »November 2002 – Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina
Iguacu Falls, Argentina
Hello. It has been a busy and at times exhausting couple of weeks since the last issue. We have left Salta, in the North of Argentina, and travelled quickly across the country to Paraguay. I can’t say the capital of this country, Ascuncion, has much going for it; the city seems to shut down at eight in the evening and is run down with deteriorating buildings.
Posted in Around the World in 12 Issues, Travelling Tags: argentina, brazil, ciudad del este, iguacu falls, paraguay No Comments »October 2002 – Peru, Bolivia, Chile & Argentina
Hello. We have left Cusco for the last time and made it to La Paz. So goodbye and good luck to Fiona, Shawn, Marlo, Guillerme and Jane at South American Explorers, Andy and Tatiana of Cusco Weekly, the bar staff at Paddy’s, the Irish pub, and Gary, our landlord in many guises.
Train Graveyard, Uyuni
In La Paz we investigated the many markets of the city, witches, coca, and made time to shove lots of ice cream down our throats. Travelling south, we enjoyed a railway service that puts British Rail, or whatever it’s called now, to shame before heading to the spectacular reflective salt flats of the Salar de Uyuni, crossing mountains and deserts into Chile.
Posted in Around the World in 12 Issues, Travelling Tags: argentina, bolivia, border, chile, salar de uyuni, san pedro de atacama No Comments »September 2002 – Peru & Bolivia
Bolivian Girl, Lake Titicaca
Hello. We are back in Cusco after renewing our stamp and crossing the border (twice) into Bolivia to visit the islands on Lake Titicaca. I lost my Peruvian immigration card and didn’t get an exit stamp from that country so the Bolivians sent me back ($5 fixed the problem with minimal time and inconvenience). Dee got through easily, with a cheery shout of “Ireland for the Irish” from the border official.
Posted in Around the World in 12 Issues, Travelling Tags: bolivia, copacabana, isla del sol, lake titicaca, peru, puno, uros islands No Comments »July 2002 – Peru
Hello. The Inca Café where we post JAB is going to shut soon so I’ll make the intro short and sweet this month. We’re still in Cusco, Peru, catching up with the backlog of work created by our email problems (which seem to be solved). We’re also tweaking the site a little and next month we hope to produce a special Latin America Supplement to JAB. Adios.
Machu Picchu
August 2002 – Peru
Posted in Around the World in 12 Issues, Travelling Tags: cusco, inca trail, machu picchu, peru No Comments »June 2002 – UK to Peru
Sea Lions, Islas Ballestas
This is the first issue of JAB produced on the move, using I-net cafes. After a few days in Lima, JAB moved down the coast to Pisco, and over the Andes to Nazca before renting an apartment in Cusco with a view of the mountains.
The physical part of JAB is the laptop; this delicate piece of equipment, which we call Mr Benn, has already crossed mountains and deserts, flown in a light aircraft and ventured into a speedboat to view seals and seabirds in the Pacific Ocean.
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