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Anastasia and George: November 2010
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Thursday, November 25, 2010. We have spent almost two weeks in Ushuaia. The first week we were thoroughly relaxing in Ana´s home, not really thinking about anything. One day we have learnt that a famous hitch-hiker and a writer Juan Villarino. It was a third time we meet her! We were chatting when Juan and Laura walked out. We greeted them, shared our almost-cold-by-then mate and chatted for a bit. We agreed to meet that night. It was our first truly vegetarian meal in a while. The days were passing by o...
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Anastasia and George: Guiria-Miami
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Saturday, March 12, 2011. When we told our host Kira that we were leaving, she broke into tears. She really did not want us to leave! She hugged us, we exchanged emails and she hopped on her motorbike and was off. We started walking to the highway and as we were passing an idling truck we asked the driver if he could give us a lift out of town. He said:. He is in your heart! 8220;Where are you going? 8220;Guiria” or “Carupano”, depending on the direction. 8220;Ok, you may pass”. Soon enough a car stopped...
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Anastasia and George: January 2011
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Sunday, January 30, 2011. A new hitchhiking strategy in Brasil. It has been over a year since we had to learn a new language, but here we had to start over again. Portuguese is not very different from Spanish. The difference is something like between Ukranian and Russian. A lot of the words are similiar, but pronounced with a different accent. If both people talk slowly and listen, a dialogue can be maintained. We did so and wow! Luis was not a talkative person. Moreover, he did not like to explain&#...
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Anastasia and George: December 2010
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Friday, December 31, 2010. New Year in BsAs. The house has its own blog. And the photos there truly show the spirit of the place. This is a kitchen, for example:. The place is huge, there are six rooms (three of them are workshops), two bathrooms and two staircases leading to a terrace on the roof with lots of plants. We are living in our own room, which is built as a house of its own on the terrace! Thursday, December 16, 2010. Maxi and his family received us with open arms. It will not be far from ...
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Anastasia and George: March 2010
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Friday, March 26, 2010. Half way through Colombia. From the first day of being in Colombia, we met more kindness and hospitality than in all of Central America combined! Bus driver buying us a meal, vacationing family inviting us for a picnik, merchants refusing to accept the payment for a litre of youghourt, families inviting us to stay the night, people on the street starting up friendly conversations. A descriptive name for a youghurt store, isn´t it? In Salento, we met Tom, with whom we crossed the S...
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Anastasia and George: July 2010
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Friday, July 30, 2010. We have entered Bolivia along the shores of the lake Titicaca, and noticed no difference from Peru. The same half-finished buildings, same traditionally dressed people on the streets and the same freezing temperatures. Copacabana, our first Bolvian town, blew us away by the tourist crowds. Every restaurant was ¨touristico¨, which translates as ¨same shit, just very expensive¨. Next morning we headed to Santa Cruz. This was when we have encountered, for the first time, the Boliv...
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Anastasia and George: Guiria
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Friday, March 4, 2011. About every other person we talked to so far asked us:. 168;And why don´t you take the ferry? There is a ferry, it runs every Wednesday. The problem is that it is the only one, and the monopoly it enjoys allows the ferry company to fix the price as high as they like. When we inquired at their office, a fat man (most population in Guiria is fat or very fat, men and women, including most children, but excluding teenagers for some reason) behind the desk smiled and said:. He looked st...
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Anastasia and George: September 2010
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Thursday, September 23, 2010. During our last few weeks we have hosted a lot of people through CouchSurfing. Our guests were mostly French, and most of them new to the CouchSurfing concept. Among our guests were exchange students from Valdivia, a main-stream travelling couple, a group of 5 (4 girls and 1 guy) law students, and a professional paraglider pilot. All of them from France! Thursday, September 2, 2010. Living slow in Valpo. Valparaiso is a city of contrasts - colours, smells, and most important...
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Anastasia and George: The End
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Sunday, March 20, 2011. We spent one more day in Cincinnati in the company of Libby and Bill. This lovely couple gave us a driving tour of the city and took us to an exhibition of the newly discovered artefacts that Cleopatra herself has touched. Once a driver sees us, he starts checking his blind spot, trying to avoid eye contact with us. Even if there is nothing there, he still repeatedly checks his rear-view mirror or just appears to be very interested by the scenery to his left. He starts loo...After...
