Data & Stuff

All,

The data joys must stop, I’m taking a break away from it all.  In true explorer style, I’m not quite sure where I will be.  I organised the first leg just 7 days before I go.

Starts:

Monday 5th October:  Birmingham – > Mexico City

Hit list:

• Belize – Cay Caulker
• Costa Rica
• Panama – It’s got a big canal right?
• Ecuador – Quito’s Old Town / Galapagos Isles
• Peru – Machu Picchu
• Chile – Easter Island

These are just some ideas, my research books are coming – and no doubt I’ll see where the world takes me.  I’d like to hit more countries in Central America, but there is talk of avoiding Honduras and those surrounding it – I’ll be watching what the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office say.

So where else should I be looking to go in Central/South America?

Edit 1: OK – Just struck off some central locations, and going to skip straight into South America I think.  Bolivia is being mentioned, but so many choices!

Edit 2: Choices keep changing, if I can’t get to Easter Island I’ll probably head down into Argentina – Perhaps patagonia way?

If the alien race was to visit the UK, where do you think they might go?  The bright lights of London, perhaps upto Edinburgh for some history or maybe in the delights of Wiltshire.

Thanks to the Guardian Datastore we have the list of every crop circle in the UK, for 2009, with grid co-ordinates.  So it’s a perfect opportunity to see which places the aliens love to visit:

So it looks like Wiltshire has a lot of activity, which we can focus in on.

Thanks to the Guardian for the data, in both cases above you can click to see the map in more detail.