Blogs from Capital, Venezuela, South America - page 3

A slightly misleading title because this is really things I've learnt in Venezuela and Argentina but it isn't quite as catchy a title! Also apologies for those looking forward to this last week but was travelling and from now until May don't expect much as I have a wedding to prepare for then recover from! Venezuela hasn't changed much in 4 years...apart from Chavez's grafitti which is much bigger and shinier than before Banking isn't easy in Caracas...it took my friend over an hour to withdraw about 100 dollars in cash, from his own bank account, involving numerous phonecalls and emails to authorise himself to take out his own money. The Caribbean is always warm...even on a cloudy day I was loving the Caribbean Sea more than the air around me! I love seafood soup...had it ... read more

Maailmalla jälleen! Tien päällä jälleen - vuosi ehti vierähtää edellisestä turneesta mutta nyt on taas päästy asiaan oikein toden teolla. Edellisellä keralla kiertelimme Andeja, Amazonia ja Atacaman autiomaata, tällä kertaa pysyttelemme rantojen tuntumassa eli ‘Por la costa’ - Pitkin rantoja. Matka alkoi samaa reittiä kuin viimeksikin, Madridin kautta lento Caracasiin jossa nyt olemme muutaman päivän totutelleet kuumuuteen ja kosteuteen. Lennot sujuivat tällä kertaa suorastaan erinomaisesti, ajoissa matkaan ja lentokin kesti vain vaivaiset 9 tuntia, oikein pikataival siis. Kentällä suoriuduimme pitkästä maahantulotarkastuksen jonosta ja tullistakin suosiollisesti, tavarat löysivät tiensä samaan paikkaan kuin me vaikka jonkin aikaa erossa niistä olimmekin. Ensitunnelmat Caracasin Simon Bolivar lentokenttä sijaitsee reilusti varsinaisen kaupungin ... read more

Hey Guys! Wow! I´m here, I made it to the South American continent - I can´t believe it, it just seems strange that looking out the window now I´m actually looking out on South American people, land, birds, trees.... Strange feeling, but maybe it´s just the jet-lag...! Here I am in Caracas, after a mammoth 20.5 hour door-to-door journey, which generally went well actually apart from an hour´s delay leaving Madrid. Feeling a bit jet-lagged to be honest, and a bit disoriented, but really excited about what´s gonna happen over the next 4 weeks, and really excited to be able to write about it in this new blog, which I think I´ve now got the hang of. Just spending my first 2 nights here in Caracas - I think I mentioned that it ain´t the safest ... read more

It´s taken me 2 and a half weeks to get round to this, but finally the promised blog is underway! As I write I´m sitting in my hostel in Córdoba, Northwest Argentina, but rather than giving a blow by blow account of my journey to get here, I think it will be significantly less painful if I write something more akin to a highlight reel of the past two weeks. So here goes! The first stop on my South American itinerary was Caracas, Venezuela, a city somewhat preceded by its insalubrious reputation. Most of the reading I had done was full of warnings to be on my guard at every turn, to sleep with one eye open and the like. Initially I wrote this off as nothing more than the usual over-cautious travel writing to which ... read more

Hi, this is my first entry for s America. I flew from Belfast to new York for a few day then on to Caracas. And to be honest I wish I never went near the place. I booked in to a hotel called hotel visavila (an over priced one) for two nights. To be fair the hotel wasn't that bad I think it doubled as a love hotel. Me and my girl friend got of the plane and was immediatly hounded by black Market money changers but was kindly assisted by an airport cop around the airport safely and put into a taxi to our hotel. I was scared shitless no lie and my girl friend was too. With the two of us with almost no Spanish it was a very dawnting place. It may have ... read more