Hola

Hello everyone. Welcome to my travelog. Having an amazing time experiencing the sights and sounds of South America. Have hundreds of brilliant stories to tell, and took some pretty good photos. Enjoy...

Time to visit the southern hemisphere

After the slightly crazy and emotional 3 week leaving party, we were finally on flight AF438 to Mexico City, whoop whoop.We arrived around 6:30 local time to a less than smooth passing through immigration, the Mexican Official literally picking holes in ...

... in, the man behind the bar said hola. A shockwave hit me right away and I realized that I was a real life foreigner. I could say hola back and then nothing else. When we were trying to order, we didn't even know how to say 'this' so we literally pointed ...

Hola familia, hola prima, hola tia.....the words I have longed to say since I was a little girl. If we lived in a perfect world I would have been going to visit my 'Abuelita' for the first time but as life has it she sadly passed away during Easter time ...

... bitters.  After lunch, I continued walking around the city. It can be rather exhausting as there are always people saying, `hola hola,` and you have to politely smile and return their greeting. The people are lovely though and even if they cannot ...

... started right outside our hotel at the local bus stop.  When passengers get on the bus, they are all greeted with a friendly, "Hola" and given a map and earphones to listen to the pre-recorded messages on the bus.  The messages are about each of ...

... everyone is doing well. feliz noches, Andy for those not hablaring español (i enjoy combining the two languages into nonsensical words) "Hola Perro" translates to "Hello Dog" and we say this whenever we see a dog in the streets.  People in Antigua ...

... town of Nogales at a campground. The next morning I finally did the border crossing and so I sayd goodbye to modern USA and Hola to Mexico. Unfortunately the officers gave a permit to stay for 30 days in Mexico only why I will have just a little time ...

... ; De volgende ochtend vroeg uit de veren om de bus te nemen naar La Paz, de hoofdstad van Bolivië. English version: Hola amigas y amigos! Our last days in Peru are counted! We booked our bus tickets for Copacabana (Company: Panamericano) through ...

... of guys thought I was the funnies thing they had seen on the fight to Iquitos... not sure all what they said but poco hola pucallpa was thrown around a few times!! The actual Iquitos was much busier.  (It is around 400 000 people)  I checked ...

... but I have forgotten the names of two spanish women - a girl with her mother that stopped for me and started yelling "Hola, chico!" cause I haven´t noticed them in the darkness. A moment later I have been going in their car trying to communicate in my ...

... underlig by, og absolut ingen taler engelsk, så vi er meget ude i noget "hello, do you speak English? NO, ja okay så - hola, una Starbucks por favor.. Vi har siddet på en meget funky sushibar og fået aftensmad, hvor temaet var "lad os kombinere alle ...

... on to Costa Rica. ummm you know what would have been really helpful...learning Spanish. and i mean actually learning it. More than Hola! My host family speak NO English. NONE. Also the woman at the centre speak no English either. hmmm yes, i don ...

Hola!  Como estas!  Estoy muy bien en la Madrid.  Ok, that's as far as I'll go with my Spanish for now.  I arrived in Madrid equipped with two solid years of Spanish 1 in high school since I didn't pass the first time.  But I ...

Hola! After 11 hours of sleep we commenced the tour with lunch in Lima and had the famous Caviche, raw seafood (mainly fish) with loads of lemon juice. IT WAS DELICIOUS! Definitely a culinary favourite so far! Cozza i think we'll have to add a Peru ...

... resulted in visits to several cafes to warm up) but at least the rain cleared and by lunch time it was warm and the streets were packed for the May day rallies. It was quite a sight! All too soon it was time to leave but we will be back Barcelona. ...

The most feared city in the world! At least that´s what we had come to expect reading all the horror stories on the internet. Needless to say we were disappointed by the lack of gunfights from our taxi to the hotel, but most impressed with the fantastic ...

Adios Philadelphia, Hola Madrid Other than the moment of panic when I realized all the people sitting around me had disappeared while I was wandering through Chicago with Harry Dresden, the flight from Philly to Madrid was smooth. After ...