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By MOANA
October 17th 2007

Départ de Puerto LaCruz vers TORTUGA

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Départ de Puerto LaCruz à 07h05 ce matin - vent nul - à moteur Message reçu de France à 09h00 - Tout va bien merçi pour la météo, la houle est déjà ENE au 3 sec de 1 à 3 pieds et il n'y a pas de vent. La brume est toujours présente. Nous avons passé l'île de Borracha et nous l'avons laissée sur notre babord, la route est à 330 degré mag. Un peu d'histoire pour nos papiers d'entrée et de sortie : Mercredi dernier, la responsable nous mentionne que le coût pour nos papiers est de 85 000 bolivars [View Full Entry]

By MOANA
October 14th 2007

Maremares, la marina et le complexe El Morro

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les condos

Nous sommes arrivées ici à Maremares depuis le 11 octobre, une marina dispendieuse, mais un hôtel avec tous les services. Hier en arrivant nous avons fait les papiers de douanes encore une fois pour une entrée dans le Vénézuéla car c’est indépendant de l’île de Margarita où il nous a fallu faire nos papiers de sortie. En arrivant près du quai, nous sommes reçus par le dockmaster et son assistant qui placent et attachent Moana. Les gens sont souriants et nous avons droit à la visite de tous les services. Nous nous sommes aussi promenés en dinghy à travers les différents [View Full Entry]

By SomersetCat
October 14th 2007

First Blog, About time!!!

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New colours

Greetings from HOT and, most of the time sunny Venezuela, often with afternoon showers, but don’t bet on a breeze. The Mare Mare Hotel and Marina is a bit fancy as far as most cruisers are concerned, however it has very pleasant surroundings, a pool, gym and spa, restaurants and air conditioned bars. Every week or so a convention. We retreat to the bar when the boat gets up to 80 inside, however if we want to stay more than an hour it is long pants time as they have the A/C cranked. Security is constant, guards passing the boat every [View Full Entry]

By unpaidbill
September 18th 2007

SIESTAS, FIESTAS, SEMESTERS....sorries

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Malaria or Dengue?
PLC

In this episode: Winter in the bar, constant contrasts, plumbing the unfathomable - the Venezuelan toilet system, security, the effects of too much gravity, the Marina and the Development, Puerto Ordaz, Caracas revisited, another rum factory, the bus, the neighbourhood (there it goes), getting published and more grammatically strangled pithiness. At least my español is improving and I have ñ on the keyboard! yes, the time is slippping away...I've got no idea any more about anything ...but my conscience has been prickling lately so it must be close to blog o'clock...I've been keeping some no [View Full Entry]

By unpaidbill
August 19th 2007

Enjoy the Falls?

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Pollo Embarazada??
Canaima...how good does this look?...tasted even better!

Come back in the trip? Return to Canaima and the fabulous Falls... So we got to Puerto La Cruz (PLC) and got a berth at a marina…have we been there?…....Michael wanted to shout us a trip...very nice gesture.....so we went and saw the delightful Keigla who squeezed us into a 3 day excursione to Canaima…it started out with her squeezing us into a kamikaze taxi at 4am….an old shitbox chevy with the back seat from hell, you know, riding the bum-cracking bar in the middle or cramping in the lopsided sags on the sides….and a driver who, to be fair, probably [View Full Entry]

By kikkoman
August 15th 2007

Beaches, snorkelling and sunburn

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Toilet paper
Venezuelan bolivars are worth so little we almost ended up in a Weimar Germany situation with piles of banknotes

The last two days have been awesome...We woke up at the crack of dawn on Tuesday to start our drive down the coastal highway..some lovely views and beaches on the way...venezuelans drive pretty fast for the crappy roads so we had to be a bit careful since the highway went through hills and was full of bends and hairpin turns.. after stopping at a couple of beaches, we landed up at playa colorada, a slightly touristy beach, but with safe parking for the car, and jumped into the water...after spending a few hours on the beach, we got a fisherman to [View Full Entry]

By unpaidbill
August 13th 2007

JOE WAS COMING....

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thru my back window
Margarita

JOE WAS COMING TOMORROW TO MEET WITH OYSTERS AT A FART PARTY What I meant to say was I’M COMING WITH MY GIRLFRIEND AND MEETING THE OTHERS AT THE FESTIVAL Ahh language!…If one is, as I am, verging on the bereft when it comes to speaking espanol…even on the computer I can’t find the bizzo that should go over the ‘n’…then conversations on the telephone are nigh on impossible!…however, as some testament to endurance over competence I did manage, this morning, to get us into a marina….fortunately, as we approached this enormously expa [View Full Entry]

By kikkoman
August 13th 2007

Bad day

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We spent the entire day today trying to organise stuff...Everything is really really expensive, like boat tours to the islands and stuff, and is obviously twice as expensive since we´re now drawing cash out of ATMs at the crappy exchagne rate. We spent most of the day trying to find a cash point that worked, and once we did decided to hire a car since it would be impossible to see all the little beaches along the coastal highway without one. Car hire was at the airport in Barcelona, a nearby town, so we had to get a bus there. Was [View Full Entry]

By kikkoman
August 12th 2007

The Caribbean coast

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Coastal views

We woke up to a boiling hot day, and stole a lot of toilet paper from the hotel we were in since they werent very nice to us. We then exchanged some dollars that we had for bolivares at about 3500 per dollar, almost 1500 bolivares more than the official rate. And that still probably isnt the true value of the dollar. Graeme confessed to me today that he suffers from panic attacks. This gave me a panic attack. And Caracas isnt really the place for panic attacks. So we decided to leave it, since we were constantly on the edge [View Full Entry]

By LobsterCheeks
July 3rd 2007

Pete Does Football

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the Jose Felix Ribas barrio
Situated on the eastern hills of Caracas, this is one of the largest areas of slum housing in South America

We were back in the big, bad city of Caracas, where the Dragoman tour ended. But I enjoyed it so much, I decided to stow away on board for the next leg towards Brazil! So it was goodbye to the old passengers, and hello to the new ones. Sally, Suzie and Tony were also staying on board, as far as Rio. On our way out from Caracas, we saw the slums on the outskirts, which was quite a shock. Hundreds and hundreds of basic cinderblock and brick buildings crammed together, literally on top of each other using every single available bit [View Full Entry]

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