Posada Don Fernando Ensenada

... machines in the casino and the rest of us read and lounged around at our favourite spot.

At 3.30pm on the Lido Deck there was Bingo with a top prize of $5,000, so most of us made our way there to give it a go.......our last ditch attempt to win some dosh to pay off Tim's $1,000 bill. It was a bit of a long winded affair just to buy the tickets with lots of sitting around waiting, but eventually ...

... and Alan, the two owners, have been so good to me...helping me with my spanish (which is still pretty rough but getting better) and showing me around the city. They both have jobs outside of the hostel and merely started it because they enjoy the atmosphere of a hostel and are world travelers themselves. The hostel itself is a pretty small house...kitchen, living room and 5 bedrooms. When I first arrived all the rooms were plain white ...

... but decided to play it safe. I turned around, went over the border to the US (30 minute wait - 2 hours for cars waiting in line) and did the Mexico border again. What a pain! But I got it done. About 30 miles south of Ensenada, truly in the middle of nowhere, is a turnoff to a town called Erendria. After 20 km the road turns into dirt and goes through the tiny town. Past the town. on a cliff overlñooking the Pacific ...

... In Baja California you can't flush toilet paper down the drain nor drink the tap water, and the streets and houses are patchy and slummy. Your shoes will get dirty. You can also get a one-dollar beer, a two-dollar taco, and anything and everything to kill pain or aid erection in the mushroom farmacias-prescription-free, that is. And not once was I kidnapped.

... we went shopping! At Seaport (nice little area at the harbour) a Psychic reader managed to freak out Ry, but after the shopping she felt better (well, I think so). Unfortunately on sunday they left me already... As I had nothing better to do I rented a bike and got totally lost, but I still enjoyed it! On the last evening in San Diego I went out for dinner with 2 swiss girls which I had met at the hostel. Was nice. I hope I'll hear from them ...

... and Germany, we transferred to a small fibreglass panga and passed several huge barges laden with salt before reaching the open lagoon. Almost immediately we spotted two dark shapes just visible in the water not far away. Rather than approaching the whales, our guide switched off the motor and waited for them to come to us. And come they did - thus beginning their hour of playtime, interacting with the humans. Big mamma and her overgrown baby were obviously having a whale of a ...

... of most mexicans because of our caucasion quialities. We drove around downtown for awhile, trying to get to the big arch in the middle of tijuana. I have no idea what was there to see aside from an arch, but we never got there anyway before decing the traffic was too maddening to stand.. and decided to drive to la playa (the beach). The beach was about 10 miles of TJ, we drove right along the border. You could see the border patrol lined up all the way through, waiting ...

... beautiful sight of several Chortens and famous Trekking Peak Imjatse or Island Peak.We will be sitting at the bottom of mount Amadablam in sun room lodges having spectacular views of Peak 38 and Chhukung Valley. If we decide to have another extra day of rest we have chance to visit Chhukung and its magnificent valley with the outstanding views of Popular Trekking Peak Imjatse( Island Peak). Day -09 : Dingboche- Lobuche (4930m) - 5½ hours. The route past Pheriche slants ...

... old disused quarries, piles of tyres etc which should really be disturbing but are somehow beautiful, which really doesn't sound that fantastic, but with scale of the pictures and how they were shot I found them really interesting, spending a long time studying each one. His website is http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/ try having a look at some of the pictures as big as you can, you may get the idea. The other artist was Andrea Modica who always used sepia ...

... girls pretty dresses, but I couldn't help feeling it was going to be a hoot-e-nany (?) and they would soon start shooting their pistols up in the air. they didn't have any pistols of course, the security on the door made sure of that. On the sea front is the Sea Port Village - a kind of Marina, where I felt it was imperative i tried some Mexican food (which is never as good as the food I make at home) and some Rocky Road ...