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En los Altos
... la capacité de Danny á enchainer des heures de routes avec une conduite pour le moins technique, l'oeil pret a réagir aux innombrables trous et aux parties de goudrons littéralement décrochés dans la pente, annoncés par des panneaux "fallo de borde", bien soulignés á la peinture jaune, mais qui ne sont visiblement pas destinés á etre reconstruits, du moins pas dans l'immédiat.
On arrive finalement au passage le plus haut de la route, au col ...
Merida
Veridi heil og sael, timi fyrir sma frettaupdate.
Eg er nuna komin i sidasta lidinn af Venezuela programminu en thad er sidasti manudurinn i Merida. Thessi baer er allt odruvisi en thar sem vid vorum adur en herna sa eg kaffihus i fyrsta skipti sidan eg kom til landsins! Thetta er haskolabaer thannig thad er svona adeins "evropskari" bragur yfir hlutunum herna og thad er meira ad segja nokkud oruggt ad fara ut a kvoldin eftir myrkur. ...
Mérida, Venezuela
D'Reis nach Mérida mit em Nachtbus het es paar Schtund länger duurt als vorgseh. Wäge de übermässig starke Rägefäll in den ledschte Mönet sind d'Schtroosse in de Bärge mehrheitlich beschädigt und vielfach unpassierbar. Drum mues me Umwäg fahre und irgendwo in dr Pampa dr Bus wächsle. Schliesslich sind mer vo Tür zu Tür über 20 Schtund unterwägs gsi. Erschwerend isch no drzuecho, dass ...
Crossing the Border to Venezuela
... given out, and the rest of the trip would be in the sweltering heat, only moderately made more bearable by the warm outside air streaming in. Even though we had left at 11:30am, our bus reached Merida at 7 pm, well after dark.
Fortunately, we had been warned about the tardiness of Venezuelan buses and had reserved a spot in a posada (´posada´ is basically a guesthouse). After a trip around the block, our taxi driver was able to finally locate our place, and soon enough we ...
Life at 4000 metres
... free of course), and today turned up at one of the local clinics (ambulatorio) with my fellow expats for my vaccination. The centre was part of the new health service that has been created here by the Chavez-led government (it was a CDI, a secondary level health clinic, part of the ´Barrio Adentro social health mission launched in 2002-3). Basically, it was amazingly well organised, clean, professional and efficient, and there was even a bi-lingual member of ...