The talent we discovered, an interesting scene, in French Guiana.

In French Guiana, at the top of South America, we stopped in small town called Roura and discovered this very interesting scene. Occasionally you hear the chirp of the monkey or a small child in the background, but the rest of the sounds are comin…

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The problems with my knee and shipping Blac.

I wrote this last week, but didn’t publish it. We are in Belgium now.It’s been 2 weeks since I went to a Venezuelan hospital to get my knee looked at. They didn’t do much, they took x-rays, poked it (it doesn’t hurt to poke it), and injected me via inf…

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In Venezuela!

We crossed into Venezuela 2 days ago. The border immigration process for us (Brazil, Santa Elena) was very straightforward and our timing was good (we didn´t need to wait), but customs (to do the car paperwork) closed at midday on Sunday and we were told to return to the border the following day. H had to stand in a queue for 6 hours to get Blac processed. He said that aside from the queuing it wasn´t difficult.
Now we are stocking up on some groceries, things are cheap but what is available is a bit random. You can´t exactly go with a list. I´ll write more later.
Aside from that I might not be able to write very regularly in Venezuela… we´ll just have to see if the internet is as sporaticly available as other things. 

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Helping out some sloths in Suriname

The other day, when I was thinking about what else I might like to see in Suriname, I decided I’d like to see a sloth. You know, those animals known for hanging upside down in trees and moving very slowly. I had seen a wild one years ago in Costa Rica,…

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Feeding insects in Suriname

The first thing I am doing each morning here in Suriname is showering and then coating myself with insect repellent. There are mosquitoes everywhere, and plenty of other biting insects too. From the mosquitoes you could get malaria or dengue, but neith…

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