Eurobuilding Express Maracay

... central courtyard garden, free hot water and internet and lots of pretty birds eating the mangoes of neighbouring trees, including large groups of parrots. And....they changed our dollars at a rate of 4.5, more than twice the official rate! Suddenly things did not seem expensive any more.

We really liked Puerto Columbia. A quiet fishing port during the week, it is transformed each weekend into a happening place with salsa music everywhere, often coming from ...

... excited I was to leave this continent for a while.

This 23 day trip has been nice and relaxing and I would recommend it for seeing some of the most gorgeous beaches ever. But it did feel just like a 'taster' of all these countries so you never really got a feel for anywhere before you off travelling again.. and the travelling part was reeeally tough going and you generally needing a day to recover - which on this kind of travel meant you had one day to ...

Hello, We're lagging behind on entries, so I have to play catch-up. We reluctantly dragged ourselves out of Merida, and forced ourselves to continue to Henri Pittier National Park. An 11 hour night bus took us from Merida to Maracay, where we grabbed breakfast before continuing to the Rancho Grande via por puesto (a kind of small bus). The whole point of por puestos is to drive as fast as you can, regardless of the number of ...

We have breakfast and go to the bus station to check times of busses and buy seats on a direct bus. We stop at the Mercado Principal on our way back to the Posada to do some shopping. This could be our last city for a while! We have the front seats upstairs on a double decker airconditioned coach. Sounds good but the front windows are covered with curtains, the glass behind blacked out and enough leg space for a midget! Poor Alexander! Even when he stands up ...

... reaction to some mozzie bites - his whole ankle swole up and was hot and bruised. Carmen translated what the old man was saying but his hand actions gave it away a bit!! Anyway peteīs now much better thanks to Ibuprofen, antihistimine and hydrocortisone! Saturday night in Choroni- It seems that when Venezuelans head to the beach they like to drink a lot, an awful lot! Everyone was out on the street with beers or rum it was pretty funny to watch. We sat down ...

Iīm writing this from an internet cafe in a fishing village in one of Venezuelaīs National Parks where Imo and I somehow arrived last night after escaping Caracas. Arriving at the airport was not as scary as we thought it would be, though we were immediately swindled out of some money by the official money exchangers, who we decided it would be sensible to get bolivars from at first, but it turns out the rate fixed by the government here is ...

... a guy we met from Bulgary gave us a tip about a site run by some friends of him which made it easier, you can find hostels everywhere and be sure to some quality, and we even booked one of them online before we even got there. Itīs quite hot, I will put that in the links section if anyone needs it. PS. I have seen there is no link section in this blog, or I didnīt find it. Anyway, to make it easy, here it goes: http://www.minihostels.com/ till next post!

... what the hell have you got?? We have meat and chicken, with rice or chips ! We order a mixed grill... 4lbs of meat with a couple of chips in the middle come out.. Some of the cuts seem a little dubious, but we are too hungry to care. We invite one of the other passengers over to join us, who seems to be on his own. His name is Andrew, he is Irish, but living in France now. We have some beers (not on the company) whine and whinge about the situation we find ourselves ...

... when you climb on a bus in South America....and hope you like SALSA, LATINO and MARENGA music. Every bus is equipped with the state of the art sound system that will blow the boot off any car. The buses here are super cute though. Big Thankyou to my French companions. My French and Spanish Tutors.

... bus is full, so this means waiting around and stragetically placing your ass on a nice seat cause itīs gontta be there for atleast 10 hours. However, this is only the truth for local and non AC buses. We werenīt so fortunate. Thank god the air was fresh and driver was doing 90mph. On a sad note, I am beginning to hate Salsa and Merengue. It seems that the driver decides if there is music and our driver decided that it was a good idea to pump music till 5am.