Sunday, March 2, 2014

South America & Falklands - 'rocket blog'


If you’ve managed to get through all my South America & Falklands posts, congratulations. I had - via email - advised friends of a quicker way to follow my travels. Sorry.
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In a hyperspeed world, why endure a boring, twenty-part blog? Advanced technology lets you scan seven weeks (8,397 nautical miles or 15,551 kilometres) of travel in exactly two minutes (five seconds per picture) with the new 'rocket blog' (patent pending). A picture from each stop, plus an 'at sea' day, Panama Canal transit, Chilean fiords, Magellan Strait, Beagle Channel and Cape Horn. Minimal commentary. No words requiring a dictionary. Superficiality plus (a speciality of retired TV reporters)! 

Now you can convince the writer that you've actually seen all his photos and read his endless, mind-numbing blah! blah! blah! Make him happy. Compliment him without doing the hard work of really looking at those irritating postings. This looks set to become the latest blogging trend. Mouses and touchpads ready? Go!


Bridgetown, Barbados - Minerva


Caracas, Venezuela - unexpected ice skaters


Coro, Venezuela


At sea - Minerva passenger exercises


Panama Canal - Curtis & Sharon wave from canal observation area


Manta, Ecuador - Plaza Civica


Moche, Peru - Aiapaec, god of the mountains


Lima, Peru - lottery ticket seller and shoeshiner await customers


Near General San Martin, Peru - desert outhouse


Arequipa, Peru - Latin romance


Arica, Chile - patriotic hobbyhorses


Valparaiso, Chile - intersection entertainment


Frutillar, Chile - sidewalk musician


Castro, Chile - Esso


Puerto Chacabuco, Chile


Chilean fiords - Santa Leonore


Magellan Strait, Chile


Punta Arenas, Chile - figure outside disco


Beagle Channel, Chile


Cape Horn, Chile - Minerva crewman


Ushuaia, Argentina - ‘selfie’ with Evita


Falklands - Rockhopper penguin snoozes


Puerto Madryn, Argentina


Buenos Aires, Argentina - Pope & Maradona