Lizard Man's Travels

This site is a journal of my travels and other adventures while I shift from doing postdoctoral research on tree frog ecology in Darwin, Australia, to research on digestive physiology of lizards and bats in Sede Boqer, Israel. Enough friends have been asking me for regular updates on this journey, that I thought this would be the best forum to keeep everyone up to date (including me).

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Colombian landings

Right, so if anyone had told me last year, that I would be in Colombia this year, I would have told him he was nuts. But here I am. The trip from Israel was pretty uneventful, if long. For some reason, I got stuck with a 13 hour, overnight layover in Barcelona. Now, Barcelona is (apparently) a nice city, with lots of interesting architecture, etc., but I got there just as the sun was setting, and had to leave at 9:00 the next morning. So I spend a lovely night in the airport, sleeping on a bench. At least that airport is pretty quiet overnight. There was a bit of a delay leaving Barcelona, which made the connection in Madrid pretty tight (imagine trying to hurry throught the security for a flight to Colombia...), but othewise it was okay. I can't say much about the in flight entertainment - most of the things were movies that were shown on the flight to Barcelona, or on the earlier flights I had to S. Africa. So that was pretty boring. Now I'm here, and trying to deal with jetlag, and my rudimentary spanish.

I haven't forgotten about the rest of the African trip, I just haven't written it yet. More on that will follow.

1 Comments:

Blogger wandering lizard said...

Cleveland, eh? Some pretty interesting cultural differences there, but at least you don't have to watch out for rogue elephants. I can't imagine why they thought you looked shady. Maybe it was the opposite - they thought you looked too normal, so you must have been carrying explosives. I wonder if you would have problems with the nitrogen checks after a week on Reserve duty?

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