Los Angeles (13/3/07 – 15/3/07) This was a bit of a let down. Santa Monica beach at about 10am. I think the weather might have had something to do with it. The bus [more...]
Overlooking Canaima Lagoon This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of [more...]
What to say about Venezuela? This is the second time that I’ve been here (if you want to know about the first time, which was also very memorable but for very different [more...]
Poster of Ernesto Guevera This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of [more...]
Havana (25/2/07 – 1/3/07) Cuba is an interesting place. The first thing that one notices is the apartheid. This is not like the apartheid that poisoned South Africa [more...]
Hi everyone, an update on my many (mis)adventures… Since my last email, quite a bit has happened (like, a few people being added to this mailing list…), although [more...]
My farewell/graduation speech for my Spanish Course at the Don Quijote Language School in Guanajuato, Mexico (apologies for the very bad Spanish) ante todo, quiero decir [more...]
Dear All, I thought it would be good to update everyone on my travel adventures… Firstly, I have been able to connect my laptop to the internet. So if anyone is [more...]
Buenos Dias everyone, welcome to the first installment of the Daniel Yeow / Nick Sheridan 5-month Latin American Odyssey. Firstly, if you would for any reason at all not wish [more...]
Mexico City (11/1/07 – 14/1/07) Mexico city was, for a while, the world’s most populated city. It is still among the top 5, although its precise ranking is often [more...]
Preliminaries The Plan This is the plan. We probably won’t stick to it, but this is the general route which we will by trying to take. I should probably include that [more...]
Every year about 90 countries send teams of their six best high school students to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad, a grueling mathematics competition [more...]
Thank you Jules. I too would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all to what is sure to be a very exciting and productive youth summit. For those who don’t [more...]
There were actually three distinct adventures in cake. First there was Peter’s cake, which we constructed for his birthday. Then there was Peter’s second cake, [more...]
Perspectives on The Weird Plays from newbie, actor and deity – Daniel Yeow What man can claim to understand the manifestations of God? Who the hell knows, but I had to try [more...]