My First Days in Ecuador

I arrived safely in Manta, Ecuador on Friday night. We had three flights to take: Asunción (Paraguay) to Lima (Peru), Lima to Quito (Capital of Ecuador), Quito to Manta (West coast of Ecuador). Door to door, the journey took 20 hours. I’ve taken longer journeys before and been fine but …

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An Interview with Georgina Laidlaw

Today I have the pleasure of presenting to you an interview I conducted with Georgina Laidlaw recently. Georgina is well known within the blogging world for being the editor or ProBlogger. She has also blogged for some of the top blogs on the web such as CopyBlogger and SitePoint and …

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The Drunken Mind

It still amazes me how stupid the drunken mind is. This morning I woke up trying to piece together what happened the night before. A common problem on the final day of a stag do. We had been drinking for two days in Whitley Bay, the seaside town which lies …

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Quick Update

I’ve been in Lamai, Koh Samui since last Friday. Me and Chris got dropped in the town centre and whilst walking we found a cheapish place called Bonny Hotel. From the outside the place looks awful, an old grey blocky building that wouldn’t look out of place in communist Russia …

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Google Maps VS Nokia Maps

One of my favourite features of my Nokia N95 8GB is the GPS function. It has helped me on a few occasions, particularly when travelling somewhere I’ve never been before. The Nokia Maps application is pretty good. It’s a bit slow but it does a good job and I was …

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I’m Off To Koh Samui

I spoke to my friend Chris yesterday. We had spoke about spending some time in Phuket before heading of to Koh Samui but Chris was unable to get a flight down to Phuket so we decided to just meet in Samui. Before I came to Thailand I visited the Thai …

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How popular is your surname?

I came across this cool flash tool called World Names. It shows you how popular your surname is across the world. With my Surname, Muldoon, being of Irish descent, it was no surprise to me that the most Muldoons are in Ireland. The rest are in popular colonies of the …

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