Monday, 2 February 2015

Enquanto o Ferry não sai…



Continuamos em Cartagena para resolver a novela da travessia para o Panamá. Como esse assunto tem consumido boa parte dos nossos dias, não temos muito o que escrever (mais tarde faremos um post sobre a travessia). De diferente fizemos apenas uma curta viagem ao norte da Colômbia. No dia 28/01 (véspera do aniversário da Liene) saímos de Cartagena para esticar um pouco as pernas. O destino escolhido foi o Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona… Ler mais

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Photo Upload: Pictures from Venezuelas Gran Sabana



Here’s a selection of photos from Venezuelas Gran Sabana, where we travelled 3 days on the dirt roads in spectacular surrounds and bush camped. The last photo is the most spectacular, click on it to do it justice.and finally….Venezuelas Gran Sabana O…

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Painting Tirana



Back in 2012 we visited the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, where we watched a film by Anri Sala called ‘Dammi I Colori’. This intriguing film documented former artist and Mayor of Tirana Edi Rama’s controversial project to inject a riotous array of colour into the countries Communist era buildings. Naively we knew very little else about Albania. In the film Tirana looked horrifically run down, incredibly depressing and fairly dangerous – […]

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The Frugal Frebruary Challenge



It’s a thing. That’s because we just invented it*. Here’s how it works: in February, you can’t buy any stuff. That’s it. That doesn’t mean you can’t spend money – you’ll have to eat – so buying groceries is acceptable. Paying your electric bill, phone bill or current debts is okay. You just can’t buy […]

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1er février 2015, nous sommes à Puerto Escondido. Il fait 35°C. Programme baignade.





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Carretera Austral



jcomments onThe last section between Puerto Montt and Cochrane of the Carretera Austral (Southern Highway) in the South of Chile was opened foremost in 1988. Nowadays this street leads to Villa O’Higgins close to the southern continental ice-field Ca…

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48 Hours in Paraguay



Paraguay with funny cops, world renowned, or at least in the neighboring states.  We gut pulled over for apparently not maintaining safe distance to the trucks ahead of us, which are definitely tailgating all other drivers in front of them.  This is where the full power of my never-ending gab comes to good use.  The […]

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