Posada Cara Del Sol Merida
Bocono, La Pedregosa Alta Merida, Andes, Venezuela
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River Deep, Mountain High
Peter Writes:
One of the things we'd been most looking forward to in Venezuela was meeting up with Lisa, a friend from various yoga holidays a few years ago. She had shown us pictures of her amazing finca (farm) near the town of Mérida, in the foothills of the Andes, and so we were keen to go there and see for ourselves. In any case, Mérida …
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Crossing the Border to Venezuela
... border city of Cucuta, again well preserved by the frigid aircon. Cucuta was described as a scruffy place, and from the looks of it, that may well be accurate. Fortunately, most suspicious characters apparently like to sleep in, so we weren't harassed too much at all. Equally convenient was that despite the horribly early hour, the casas de cambio (exchange bureaus) at the bus station were already open. Trading in Venezuelan currency is clearly big in this city, and we had ...
Our expectations for this trip
... have some arguments on the way.
-I expect each of us –including me- to make some sacrifices… TO THE GODS!
Fears:
-I fear that it won’t be like it was 10 years ago…
-What will it be like without a trailer?
-I’m afraid we might have a greater struggle getting along, now that there are 6 prominent opinions in the family!
-I’m afraid of falling behind –i.e. not meeting my goals.
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My Name is Juan
... me being an extranjero (foreigner) is that no one here can even say my name properly: to Claret and a few other's I'm 'Evan', to others 'Ivan' and to most 'Juan': so now I just tell people my name is Juan because it's easier it seems than getting them to pronounce "U and AN" in the same word!
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Anyway, with two new girls here and the students from the university we had met wanting to go out, on Monday we all went out. The highlight was undoubtably "Don't Look Back in ...
Mérida: Beautiful place, but what´s with the rain?
... sheer amount of US and even British music getting played. The one thing I didn´t like is the machismo culture: last night a guy asked us to move over slightly for him so he could see the girls dancing, before asking me in English which of then I´d like to sleep with (not the words he used). In that same bar, there was in the exact style of a no smoking sign (although smoking is allowed indoors here still) with a red bar across it, a picture of a girl ...


