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A Hard Life

I remember reading once that in order to maintain reader interest, a blog should be updated at least 3 times a week. Well, you may have noticed that I’m not quite there! Since moving the blog from Vox to jontyjago.com I’ve wanted to write much more, but...

Close One?

Was watching the local news yesterday and was a little bit freaked out to see a brief item about a bus crash having killed 4 people here in Ecuador. Nothing particularly unusual about that, but what caught our attention was that the bus had come from the Peruvian...

Best Laid Plans

There are times when it simply just doesn’t work out. We got to Ecuador last Thursday and found a nice relaxing hostel in the historic centre. Friday we just mooched around, Saturday we took a trip up to the Cajas National Park which was beautiful – it...

Travelling Without Moving

I haven’t had chance to look at this properly, but it looks wonderful – Google have teamed up with Russian Railways to allow you to travel the Trans-Siberian railway. When I have my proper computer back I’ll take a more detailed look, so let me know...

Emergency Numbers

Wallet Garden is a very simple and neat idea, which could come in very useful for travellers (and non-travellers alike). Create an account using an email address and password and it allows you to save the emergency numbers and web addresses for your bank. No important...