Blogs from Caracas, Capital, Venezuela, South America - page 4

The emotion keeps growing! Only hours are left for my journey to begin... I am making my bag with my sisters, my cousins pass by to wish good luck, i had for lunch and dinner one of my favorites foods and had my last Pilate s classes for weeks. It is very difficult for me to sleep right now, my phone rings constantly and the minutes passes by. Tomorrow is a day with a lot of work, a good friend is here and we will try to have lunch together (he is living in Norway) there are some things i need to buy and a children village to visit. The emotion keeps growing! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- La emocion sigue creciendo, solo faltan horas para comenzar mi viaje... Mi maleta esta casi lista, que bueno que tengo mis hermanas! ... read more

Good morning everyone! I am making my last arrangements for my visit to Kenya, as you might already know my plan is to spend a little bit over 2 months over there and help in the construction of a Grandparent Community Center for about 300 kids and 200 grandparents with 9 classrooms and a medical area in Massailand yeiiiiiii I am so excited I have only sleep about 4 hours a day It will take me some time to get there (will leave Venezuela at 6:20 am and arrive the next day at almost 11 pm), then I will take a bus for about 40 minutes to get to my volunteer house :) Will let you know how it was prettys soon! Regards Fred... read more

One of the greatest things about travelling is that you actually have time, time to live. Time to appreciate everything there is to appreciate, to do the things you want to do, to think about the things you need to think about, to just be, be yourself, without pressure, without judgement, just you. Touring Brasil was marvellous, spectacular.... Brasil is my heart. But also it was tiring... I began to feel sleepy all the time- I think it was because I was going to bed late, not too late, around midnight, but when I was going to bed at 10:30 I felt fantastic!! I also started to miss my family... well only a little (sorry guys, hehehe). More than that, I began to miss my friends, my life, rockcliimbing, my ex. I miss the wondrous life ... read more

I got to Caracas this afternoon at about 2 PM. My first encounter in South America (besides inmigracion) was my good friend from Newberry College, Alejandro. Thank God I had a familiar face in my point of entry. After dropping my stuff off at his house, we went to eat Arepas and have a couple of the local beers, Polar Solaras. Then we went to Valle Arriba to get some good pics of Caracas. I think I´m going to go for a run now. Don´t worry, Ale assures me I´ll be safe, as long as I don´t carry a wad of cash running like I do in the states...... I´ll probably make my next post in a few days. For now, enjoy the pics.... read more

Sunday 1st March After Saturday's last minute's rush pack when I squeezed too much into my tightly packed rucksack and double checked that I wasn't forgetting anything - the 'just in case' items - I headed to Heeathrow at 3.30 am with Jennie still in her dressing gown. Got there in plenty of time as no traffic on the roads and after check-in browsed through Duty Free where I had to bin my straw hat which had already disintegrated in my rucksack. 'Had the usual problems going through security with my replacement hip - they even offered my a separate room for a full body check! Travelling on Iberian Airlines vias Madrid where I had an 1.5 hours wait for transfer, then direct to Caracas. During the previous week I had e-mailed a few Hospitality Club ... read more