Blogs from Venezuela, South America - page 3

Curaçao, Dutch Antilles Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Arrived at 8, enjoyed the sailing, lovely, colourful and prosperous A governor had migraines, decided that the whitewash was the reason for his problems and made a law that all the buildings had to be “not white”; imagine lovely Dutch buildings in pastel colours all different, lovely. Curacao is built on 2 sides of a small harbor with a floating pontoon moveable bridge. We are docked between these old and new sides within short walking distance of the pedestrian pontoon bridge. We walked the old side for an hour this morning, came home for a drink, I had to drown ¾ of a liter of lemon tea and wash some clothes: very hot. Terry is reading Shibumi for a little break( thank you MF). We are going back out ... read more

In The Morning We go to the Library Of Congress, the most biggest library in the world that I have ever seen before. So later we go to the Gift Shop and I didn´t buy anything In The Afternoon We go to eat something in a big place and I just eat a hamburguer, potatos and something to drink, later we go to shop and I didn´t found what I was looking for, is a game that is call Invizimals, the game is for the PSP and the game when you buy ir it contain a PSP camera, so that´s why I want to buy the game and is not just that I want the game because of the camera, also the game is pretty cool. So later we go to the Air And Space Museum ... read more

For our Carnival week, Erin, Allison, Dereek, and I headed to Margarita Island. Only a 3 hour ferry trip (if everything is working properly - needless to say, it was not) from the mainland, Margarita seemed almost like a different country. It was clean (the garbage was picked up), the taxi cabs were marked with actual signs and they all charged about the same rate, and there were a lot more imports - I actually saw Hersey's Kisses and a kind of cookie that I bought in Kosovo and was pretty sure was from Turkey. Needless to say, we loved it from the moment we got there. Add to that the fact that we were staying at an all-inclusive hotel on the beach and we were in heaven. Our plan was to do nothing but lounge ... read more

We arrived in Merida on Friday evening after a short flight from Caracas. Woke up on Saturday at 04.45. The lady in the next room was having a very loud orgasm. When she finished she had a chat with her partner and went back to sleep – as did I. Now that made me think. Was this episode the result of her partner booking through one of the main local tour agents – they are called Fanny Tours, or was it as a result of the 180 earth tremors a year they get in Merida. Our new guides Ramon and Toro informed us that Merida lies on a major fault line in the earth’s crust – a fact that our travel agent managed to omit. Merida town is a bit rough and ready. It’s bit like ... read more

Day 443 Thursday 27th December Our alarm went off at 4.00am, which is just the most ridiculous time to start a day. Our flight isn’t till 7.30 but the woman at the hotel suggested we should take a 5.00am taxi to the airport, we both thought this was way too early but being a local we thought she knew best. We finalised our packing and got ourselves together just in time as our taxi arrived ten minutes early. The airport on Curacao is on the other side of the island but it was still only a twenty minute drive. The taxi drive once again cost us 70 guilders ($40), which is pretty steep but it got rid of some of that currency. Of course at 5.15am the airport wasn’t operating but there ... read more