Las Palmeras*** Playa el Agua

... ve been here and told people that I am from England there has been an unusual lack of “David Beckham” conversation… here they seem more keen to talk about the Beatles, it’s a real step back in time to come here. The beach itself is beautiful and the sea is the perfect temperature. A great place to relax with a cocada in one hand and a book in the other.

In the night time I have stayed in the hotel to drink my ...

... I am so glad, it is imense!! (to follow).

My Spanish is coming along nicely. I was speaking with the cleaner of Tita in the morning of leaving and wanted her to slow down, so I did......."muy desayuno, por favor", she must think he is crazy asking for very breakfast! I will not forget now how to say "mas despacio"!!!! But this was fun tambien.

... De resto a comida é meia bomba e com o mesmo gosto, principalmente no café da manhã, onde o pão tem gosto de maçã, a maçã tem gosto de queijo, este com gosto de geléia, e assim por diante...
Fora do hotel fomos em algumas feiras, shoppings e apenas em mais uma praia (Playa el Agua), pois o tempo estava caído. O bom mesmo foi aproveitar a praia do hotel nas belas cabaninhas com colchões, bebendo cerveja ...

... Aldaar 1,5 gewacht waarna we alsnog naar Porlamar konden vliegen. Ik had inmiddels uitgerekend dat het 1u locale tijd zou zijn bij aankomst (ipv 17:00)... Op zich geen probleem ware het niet dat ik nog geen slaapplaats had... godver!! Al mijn medepassagiers hadden een vooraf geboekte vakantie en werden bij aankomst dan ook keurig opgehaald. Sta je dan... 1u ´s nachts op een vliegveld in een land waar je de taal niet spreekt... godver!! Reste mij niets anders dan een taxi ...

... most of the capitals: big, populated, noisy, polluted  and dangerous. I didn't really like it so much, there's not a lot of things to see or visit. We made an attempt in going up the Avila mount, but we got caught in a huge storm, so the teleferico stopped and we waited more than 2 hours... to eventually give up! Some parts of the city are quite nice though... we went to las Mercedes on the 23rd at night, which is almost ...

Heute war es wieder mal soweit.. keine frischen kleider mehr zum anziehen.. uhh... leztes mal brauchten wir 3h... im vergleich zu heute war das blizschnell.. wir sind nun seit 5.5h im Wasch-Salon. so en seich do zum waesche!

... that if the FARC and the ELN were no longer there, there would be no need for the paramilitaries... indeed less drug money in US bank accounts.....and fewer weapons sales. The only losers from all of this are the Colombian people, who have been suffering for decades. He said that recognizing the FARC as a terrorist organization hasn't and won´t really achieve anything...other than more extremism, more kidnappings and more fighting. Felipe ...

After Canaima National Park and Angel Falls, I was headed to the famous Isla de Margarita, an island in northern Venezuela, in the Caribbean Ocean.

I got there with a ferry from Puerto La Cruz, which was just about the most classy ferry I've ever stepped on board on. It was more like how I'd imagine the cruise ships to look like - but then they must look even better. On the ferry I got to know a few Venezuelans who shared a table with me ...

Ehm ... videla jsem plaz...na prvni pohled uplne normalni plaz, zadny prirodni skvost ale ujde to, da se tam lezet, neotravujou stovky plazovejch prodavacu (jen desitky, coz je tak akorat, aby se ke cloveku vcas dostalo, co potrebuje) ...takze si tak lezim, odpocivam, az je mi najednou vedro jak na plazi byva zvykem...jdu se teda zchladit, tesim se osvezujici vodicku...a co nevidim, kam oko dohledne, voda je zelena, plna nakejch slizkejch ras. To teda fakt nechapu ...

... for the girls was 40,000 Bolivars (approximately 10GBP) and that it cost 10,000 Bolivars (approximately 2.50GBP) to rent a room in the hotel for an hour. All in all pretty damn cheap, so it was no wonder that they were intending to stay there indefinitely, or at least till their funds or the girls ran out. With the mystery of the hotel clientele solved and the bar closing for the night we hastily retreated to our room as the Venezuelan women lunged towards the remaining men (and women) at the bar.