Its 9:45am and we have been travelling all night. We have just survived the icicles of the overnight bus from The Andes to the coast. Then we squeezed into a big old battered 1950’s car, to brave the check points on the 3 hour journey from Venezuela to Colombia, and that is where it happened. We found another mum. (more…)
I am coming to terms with this immense sense of freedom, and it feels pretty damn good! It has got me thinking about life and perspective and I thought I would share it with you (plus a couple of travel snaps!).
Our original plan was 12 months in South and Central America then a month in NZ then a month or two in Dublin before we plan the next big year of travel.
A week ago we started to realise a problem with the plan… with our style of travel there will not be enough time to visit everywhere we want to visit here in Central and South America in a year. There is (more…)
In the queue for immigration in Caracas the thing that made us stand out as tourists was our flip flops, skirt & shorts. City Venezuelans dress well, despite the heat everyone wears closed shoes and long pants.
The influence of the US is apparent in Caracas, people covet designer labels, have massive American cars and three out of four eateries are junk food outlets peddling deep fried chicken, burgers, pizza and pasta.
Before we came here we heard a lot of warnings about Venezuela and in particular (more…)
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