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2006-04-06T06:47:00.000-06:00

By Corine

No ola and chao anymore, it's back to hallo and doei. Yesterday, 5 april, we arrived in Holland at 11 in the morning (Argentinan time: 6:00 am). Maurice was picked up by his parents and Marjolein, I got a ride from Rikkert in my old citroneta (which is now his!). Kristin left the house really clean and tidy for me. When she left for Berlin she had problems leaving the cats here :) Later friends came for beers, Bas cooked for everyone. I thought I would be knock-out by midday, but fel into bed at about 1 o' clock in the night. At 9:30 this morning I was already drinking coffee with Rikkert. Now I am organizing my house again, doing the mail, taxes etc. I am used to be here again, though it is still strange to hear people talking Dutch on the streets. And in the supermarket my first reaction is still Spanish :) Our last remembrance of Argentina was the champagne breakfast we had with friends, just before we jumped into the taxi to the airport. I wonder what they are doing now.

The very last pictures

2006-04-01T09:40:00.000-06:00

By Corine

Ofcourse! For who´s interested in pictures of our hostel, some excellent pictures and even a movie at http://www.hostelaleph.com/

The dictatorship

2006-04-01T09:30:00.000-06:00

By Corine (who continues the former blog on a different computer, because of sudden virus-attacks)

Ok, were where we? Ah, the remembrance of the dictatorship on march 24! Well it was announced with some street ´parties´ the night before. Movies, a festival, demonstrations. We saw all sorts of posters on walls with sentences like ´never again. People handed out special papers. On the day itself, a lot of streets in the center were blocked by the police for the demonstrators. They marched for a couple of hours through the streets and ended up in the famous Plaza de Mayo. This is so close to our hostel, that we heard all the noise. Unfortunately we didn´t find time to go there because, for some unclear reason, we had an appointment with two families right at THAT time, to have a look at the car. While we were selling the car, the ´mothers´ did their speeches to thousands of people on the square. The president promised them to find out what happened to their children. We some of this on tv. When we were finally off to go, pouring rain started and everybody went home.
Before, I said that the Argentinians really like Maxima (though she was a nobody here before she married our prince, according to some taxidrivers...). But they definitely don´t like her father. Last week, when I talked with our Argentinian friend Carlos about this he told us that Zorreguitea lives right around his corner!! His mother even bumped into Maxima once in the supermarket, ha ha. We went to have a look. Thanks to a friend of Carlos (¨... my friends are big fans of the royal family, it really means a lot to them if they know where the parents of their princes lives ...¨), the dumb guard of the apartment complex told us the exact number of the flat where Zorreguieta lives. The funny thing is that his street, Uruburu or something, is named after a former dictator .... We felt like ringing the bell and have tea. But we left, feeling surprised that the guy lives in a flat, instead of a big villa.

No more photo´s

2006-04-01T08:48:00.000-06:00

By Corine

Yesterday we went kayaking in the Tigre, a real cool river-area (sort of a Delta) with a jungle atmosphere. It smelled like a rainforest, you could hear crickets, and from the water you can see beautiful roots, big waterplants, little houses, palmtreas, etc. The river itself though, was not so cool: plastic bottles, dead fish, oil, the occasional sewing tube ending in the river. So Maurice felt pretty unhappy when his canoe tipped over ... And if this wasn´t enough, it happened when we crossed a wide river with a lot of boattraffic. Maurice couldn´t manage to get back in the boat (and the kid that was guiding us, didn´t really know what to do), so he had to swim all the way to the shore. I think we have great pictures of this trip. But if the pictures DID survive the Tigre-water, we can only show them when we are home. The camera is dead for sure, so no more pictures from now on.
The homefront asked us if we heard anything about the Queens visit, and about the remembrance of the dictatorship. Well, we didn´t see the queen. But I feel petty for her. She is visiting Argentina. But the Argentinans decorated a whole theater for her with ... tulips. Then she is going to visit ... the Anne Frank museum. And then she is going to visit ... a Dutch colony in the north of Argentina. According to taxidrivers the Argentinians really love Maxima and they think Willem Alexander is very beautiful :)

Spending some...

2006-03-30T15:53:00.000-06:00

Yup, the cash is in the moneybelt :)
We got paid in full in bills of hundred, straight from the old sock under the bed :P We started spending immediately, for who wants to be a walking target with all that money on her/him? We couldnt put in on the bank without a hassle, so we´ll have to keep it with us...or leave it at the hostel...where somebody actually just broke into a room of a guest and took her stuff :( So we said no way jose, and split it to spread the risk.
I just left Corine with some hairdressers which were recommended by two really nice gay guys from some fashion boutique here in San Telmo. They were working on some fairly old women tho, making em look really young again...hope its not the other way around with Corine :-P
By the way, I put a lot of new photo´s online, so chek em out!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28978646@N00/sets/72057594068271758

Show me the money!

2006-03-27T09:21:00.000-06:00

We did it! We sold the car for 8000 pesos!! We finally had 3 interested parties, of which one wanted to pay at the spot :) They told us thats the argentinian way, but we are dutch so....we told them that Christian, the guy who was first to get in touch with us, would have first choice. It was a hectic meeting in that last evening of car showing. A family of 5 people were there to evaluate the car. Some far away uncle came for a test drive and that was it! No need for mechanics or second opinions, great! Same with a vegetarian mother and vegetarian daughter (Maria y Maria) who raised horses for polo on a farm just outside BA. They loved the car straight away. Even after we did 2 testdrives :P In which one I couldnt pay attention at all to the driver, because one of the family girls was talking in poor english to me all the time. She kept telling me how nice it was to be able to talk to a nice person in english, after she just flunked her first exam since the holidays :-P Anyway, they all figured out how the car worked ofcourse....
We just finished our last round of paperwork. Ofcourse we were going in and out of buildings again (stamp here, pay there, come back). Now we will call everybody and collect the money, which is not yet in our pocket :P

Extra, extra: We just got mail from the first guy that he cannot go along with it, so now we can tell that nice family that they may buy it! They will be so glad, and for us its nice too, since we know the family through Dana. And Dana works behind the bar of our hostels restaurant. Pffff....its all about knowing people here...haha

Car stress in BA!

2006-03-22T10:16:00.000-06:00

(by Corine)
Spending our last 2 weeks in Buenos Aires now. Found the best place in town to stay, a relaxed room with a balcony and really high ceilings. The whole place is really cute and every day I see something new (art on the wall, a rack of self made clothes for sale, a roof terrace, a pile of cool movies and books, a nice lamp, etc.). We are also in the middle of the Tango area, San Telmo, with older houses, and little shops and cafe´s with a romantic atmosphere. The weather is not so hot and humid anymore. I like BA much better now :)
BUT......... besides all this, we are working!! We have two more days left to sell the car. Already a few people had a look. But they are only ask questions about the papers, they don´t even get IN the car! So today we are gonna sort this stuff out.
In the worst case we don´t sell the car and loose 2.500 euro´s (1.250 each). We are gradually getting used to this option ...

Road fiction

2006-03-22T10:05:00.001-06:00

Pff...were now emailing the embassy about this guy from our log that we helped out...so we believe(d)...we lost all track of him after we lend 330 pesos to this guy. And its all so strange, since we offered him more and he refused. He even visited us some times after that and emailed with us...maybe to keep us soothed while planning to flee. Its pretty desillusioning, but at the same time very amazing to have met this guy. So full of stories (might be prepared, might be made up on the spot) and so believable (might be acted, might be lying pathologically). I still remember all of his stories. I still wanna believe they were true :]

By the way, he said his name is Fabian van Maarn (dude where are you?)

last chance

2006-03-18T14:49:00.000-06:00

We actually went to Cordoba to meet Robyn and Marcelo. They were the first to react to a forumpost in which we tried to sell our car. They even took us into our home so we could arrange for everything. They were so warm and kind and invited us to visit their family. The case was that Marcelo's family needed to be involved in the buying of the car. Thats how it is in Argentina, especially if they all want to lend u some money :P So yesterday we went along and were kindly taken in by their family in some tiny village called capilla something. On the last part of the road (which was a good dirtroad) Marcelo tried the car. But he went around 80 km/h and that got me so scared! At that speed I lost control when I had the accident. So I told him that, but he misinterpreted what I said and went even faster...OMG! Corine and Robyn were talking in the back of the car all the time and hadn't noticed a thing! Anyway, we finally arrived at his family's restaurant and had italian aperitives. Cinzano, Fernet and some other liquor thingy I actually liked were served with soda and lemon. Yummy! A little boy with a little tummy prepared us some great pizzas (which he always took the first piece of, ofcourse). And Marcelos mum was cooking all the time and serving her famous tortillas. We had a great time and ended up sleeping in their newly built house. Nobody lived in it yet for it still had a lot to be done in the kitchen. And thats very tipical of Argentina, that they start building stuff and stop if the money runs out. It seems that everybody spends any money coming in immeditaely. They wont put it in the bank anymore, thats for sure! So a lot of houses just have one story with support sticking out for the next one. Crazy!
Sadly tho, the next day, after a quick inspection of the car by some cousin, we heard they wouldnt buy our car :( Their cousin had told them because it is an imported car they would have trouble finding cheap parts. I never experienced any such trouble tho, having bought many parts here for reparations. So that sucked, but hey, what can you say?
So now were on the move again, heading for BA where we hope to sell our car. We still have some interested people that want to see our car, so lets try to cut a deal!

Footbalfreak

2006-03-17T12:04:00.000-06:00

Talking about straydogs ... Last night we bumped into a Dutch guy who had been wandering the streets all day, confused and in shock because he had been robbed of absolutely everything but his clothes. They even cut his pants to take things out of his pockets. We drank coffee and borrowed him some money. Gradually he calmed down and started to tell us the amazing story of his life. He turned out to be full of amazing stories. One of them is that he´s a footbal fanatic and he invited us for a famous match in Buenos Aires in the Holy Boca-stadium. I don´t know much about football, but I have heared enough about the Boca-stadium (it breathes, trembles, people can sing scarying softly for 20 minutes) to know that its´s an the experience of a lifetime.
His biggest problem right now was: how to arrange money. His family is transferring money to my bank now. So later today we can 'pin' it from the cashmachine (thanks heaven for internetbanking!).

Great ... ehhhm, fog...

2006-03-16T17:27:00.000-06:00

Driving back south, we saved the best route for last (Cafayate to Tafi del Valle). A great route through big valleys and canyons, with hairpinroads and that sort of stuff. After a few cactusses and hairpins, we drove into a huge cloud of fog. Besides an occasional cow suddenly appearing on the middle of the road, we saw nothing but grey mist. Aaargh!
Next morning we appeared to be in a beautiful area, reminded us of a rainforest. Luckily, the rest of the ride was beatiful after all (with a bit of fog, but hey...that is extra cool in a rainforest!).
Right now we are in Cordoba. The couple that wants to buy the car is really sweet! Tomorrow they take us out on a little trip. They like the car!

aaaaah, that dog!

2006-03-16T17:13:00.000-06:00

Had a great hike to some waterfalls (near Cafayate). A place you could only reach by car or a tourguide, so it was nice and quiet. The trail was totally unclear. Jumping on and from rocks, climbing, and jumping over water and avoiding huge cactusses it felt like an awesome adventure. Especially, because a stray-dog followed us all the way!! When we parked the car for the hike Maurice gave him some chunks of bread. The dog probably thought he would be with us from there on :) He climbed even the steepest slopes. Sometimes he slipped into the water after bravely jumping on a wet rock. But he didn´t make one sound, just kept on going. We gave him the name 'Peligro', which means 'danger' in spanish. Back at the car, five hours later, we gave him a whole bread and plenty of hugs. The poor dog begged us to get into the car. Our hearts tore apart when we drove away cause the dog ran after us, faster and faster, like the car .... I can still see his face with his ears flapping in the wind. Eager eyes. Aaaaaaaaaah .... Maybe we should have kept him, and sell him eventually with the car.(flashback to`Sophies choice`). We feel bad .... (and hope he is not still running).

Quick update

2006-03-13T18:50:00.000-06:00

Geee, our blogs are so old! We already hit te northern town Humahuaca (yup, still with the Fiat Uno!), and are back on our way to Cordoba. A couple there mailed us they are seriously interested in buying our car. Wel, whatever happens, we are planning to paraglide in Cordoba. And if the car doesn´t make it, we´ll take it paragliding with us and sell the video (ha ha, thanks Like!).
So what happened in the meantime? After El Bolson, we camped in a national park full of blue lakes and mountains (I still don´t uderstand why some people use a noisy generator to burn a lightbulb in front of their campervan ...) . Then Bariloche, a place where some nazi´s made their new home after the War (they say). That could explain wy it´s full of chocolate, St. Bernhard dogs, and wooden cottages. At night really great performances (for free) at the square.
Then we drove to Mendoza (something like driving from Holland to Spain), but chose the alternative route, hoping to see some volcanos. We slept in obscure litlle towns (again, the movie U-turn ...). And a big part of the road turned out to be a ride in hell; the concrete was falling apart, leaving big holes (sometimes filled with rain). High speed was 30 km an hour ...
In Mendoza Maurice got robbed of his bag. Luckily no passports or expensive stuff in it. But we lost our chargers and handy accessoires (iPods, camera, phone, etc.) . (and ofcourse that made it extra difficult to upload photo´s on the blog..). Besides the robbers, Mendoza is a great city! They have the best icecream so far, and the best pasta, and the best wine (it´s ofcourse full of ex-italians). We did an ehm... experimental winetour (long story). And there was a parade with beauyqueens who threw fruit and vegetables to us (even a pumpkin!) .
After that up north. In Tucuman I did a tai chi lesson (from the brother of the Latin-American champion Kong Fu!). Finally Maurice experienced that Tai Chi is not a dull girls sport, and a master can really throw you on the floor (oops, did it hurt honey?). Humahuaca was the most northern town we reached. It looks and feels like a town in Peru. Lama´s, dark people, more indian looking (with big heads), shops with coca leaves, coloured blankets, panflutes ...
We left for Yujuy (great pizza!). Then Salta (nothing special, but nice to see locals relaxing in the park on a sunday afternoon). One of the best expriences was a night in a nearby town (ALWAYS try to spend the night in the middle of nowhere!). A few gaucho´s drove by and saw a few guys with a guitar (next to us, while eating at the pub). They hit the break, got out of their car and started to sing, clap, shout, laugh, and all of that gypsy-stuff. More and more beer came on the table. More and more people gathered around them (we, as foreigners, were especially invited, and they even dedicated some songs to us). We tried some coca leaves (cool!). And we all clapped like experienced flamenco-gypsies. When the place closed, a dramatic goodbye followed (a big speech of the singer, aplause, hugs, kisses from everyone to everyone). They explained us a night like this is quite a normal thing in the north, wow!

El Bolson

2006-03-03T15:02:00.000-05:00

El Bolson was a town we almost drove thru. But we stopped the car and I had a feeling we should check the place out. Im glad we did. Had a great time at the hippie festival there. It can be compared to a goa trance festival back home but at a very nice spot in the woods next to a beautiful river where people bathed and kids played. People were really into the lunar calendar there. Makes sense to go with natures cycles instead of that ticking clock speeding you up. If you wanna know more about that go here: www.tortuga.com.
Here´s a pic of Lo, a former manager who worked with top tech companies and decided to quit and do what he wanted to do most: write books and make music. He lost all of his possessions when his house burnt down. All of his writings were gone so he literally had to start from scratch. I surely like his writings!

dinner time...pfff

SMS?

2006-03-02T21:58:00.000-05:00

BTW, can you try to sms to this number? Hope it works....
(You can try to use http://sms.ac for free sms´ing but that too might not work)

0054 92944 596 001

Its the direct number to call us too, but calling might be expensive...check with your phone company

Im kicked out now!!!!

We´re alive!

2006-03-02T21:46:00.000-05:00

Yes we are alive and still driving, even tho I managed to drive the car off the road after we got back from the Torres del Paine trip. Yes, it was me again, having done over a thousand kilometers on dirtroads I managed to lose control over the wheel on a strait part, just 2 km before the pavement would start again.

But this blog is dead as hell if I´m goin to back track our days, so let me do a quickie:

We saw penguins at last somewhere on the eastcoast, which gave us an insight into the weird ways of nature. Chek it out on this blog, its from a guy we met there. He does a 140 km p7h with his bike on the dirtroads :P
http://bmwdog.blogspot.com
After that we went back to the west coast (still avoiding dirt roads ofcourse) and visited the loveliest town so far called El Bolson, a true hippie village for the free minded spirits. I got told at some gasstation I should be able to buy some grass there (even tho I didnt ask for it but hey I´m Dutch). I asked the tourist info ´hey where are the hippies´and this girl took out a map and said ´here!´. So the same night we ended up camping a weekend long at some hippie trance festival. WOW!

Shite the internet shop closes again. I just did my insurance thingies cause they broke into our car, so thats for a next time. Stay put and come back more often, I will breathe some air into this blog :)

sloMo

Still around

2006-02-20T21:55:00.000-05:00

Aha, errr...where were we? So much has happened the last weeks. But we couldnt or didn´t feel like blogging, so lets try to recall some of the highlights...

After taking the ferry to Puntas Arenas we stayed there one night to go budgetshopping for more camping gear at the zona franca. Its a tax free zone were you can get imported goods. After driving in and out maybe 10 times we finally managed to get our stuff together :P Afterwards corine got a guy from an auto parts shop to assemble a new rearview mirror in our car. Ha, he even walked a couple of blocks around the neighborhood to got it all sorted out. If I haven´t mentioned it yet, the folks I met so far here in south america are very friendly and helpful.
But then we landed in Puerto Natales and found our hostel the Erratic Rock. It is run by Bill and Rustin, some wayback friends from the former US of A who lived their dream and started their own hostel. They do a good job at it and we gotten some nice info about the National Park were we wanted to do some hiking on the ´W´ in the national park Torres del Paine (towers of pain).
With our homemade soup we finally drove off and went for 3 daytreks, so Corine wouldn´t have to carry any stuff. (She still needs to take care of her repetitive strain injury.) After a night in the car (to much rain to put up camp) we managed to find a camping and go for the east part of the trail. But how glad we were to have bought some rain pants the day before! Many people struggled carrying fully stuffed backpacks and many people coming back showed disappointment when we got closer to the Torres. But it was beautiful anyway! What a site!

Shite, its twelve o´clock midnight and we have to leave the internet cafe...so I will finish tomorrow!

In between

2006-02-20T21:24:00.000-05:00

IT WORKS!!
Just to spread the word: we have a mobile number (yes finally) here in Argentina. To call us at the lowest rate possible (€ 0,15 per minute), use the instructions below. They are taken from www.teledump.nl. To call from another country you have to find a similar service or dial direct.

For people calling from the netherlands first dial:
0900 1533
then enter the number for argentina with our number:
0054 92944 596 001

That´s it! Hope to hear from you :)

Moving but never leaving

2006-01-27T00:20:00.000-05:00

Its true what they say about the burocracy in Argentina. We didn't get the papers for the car on thursday, not on friday, but after the weekend on monday at 21hrs. Luckily we already got the groceries for the journey. We also said goodbye to everybody in the hostel again. People didn't believe we were ever getting out of Ushuaia and had already lost faith. But we did it! We finally left! But didn´t we forget something? Sure, my camera battery and charger :P Ashamed we turned around and I rushed in and out of the hostel as not to face people again %]
Heh, on the road at last...iPod tunes soothing our ride, nice! But then we suddenly realize we forgot our brandnew 160 pesos (44 euro´s) airbed for 2 persons with builtin pump. Not only that, we also forgot to pay for the last 2 nights. So we must still find a way to balance that with the staff. It will probably work out, since we gotten pretty close in those 2 weeks.
How about it Emilio? LOL
So we just decided to stop thinking about it. In the darkest hour we did 30 km/h on some unpaved road with enourmous potholes towards Rio Grande....pffff. But we got to sleep on the beach...in our car that is :) I repeat: in OUR CAR!!
Wake up time! Lets go and do that W thing close to Puerto Natales! After all we heard about getting in to Chili, we prepared for the worst. But what a slow moving cue to get out of Argentina, unbelievable! Again
surprised looks when the officials at the border heard we bought instead of
rented our car. Every time a superior is consulted about our situation and our car papers are thoroughly checked. But then we still had to get into Chili. Strangely tho that was no problem at all!
But what a road. It seemed like the moon! Corine drove 30 to 40 km/h for a long time at first and...POOF! There we were with a smoking used fiat uno 8/ Corine immediately lifted the hood ofcourse, and started to fill every possible reservoir with water. And it helped! Then I could have a go (despite my driverslicense still being in the mail). Luckily for us the road got increasingly better and I could go as fast as 80 km/h. That way we also didn't feel the bumps and potholes as much :) It was so exciting! I finally regained my Colin McRae rally instincts :P I do have to say that the rearview mirror fell off after 2 hours....

to be continued

Foto`s & comments

2006-01-19T17:28:00.000-05:00

Reminisce,
originally uploaded by moco2go.

Eindelijk kunnen we (lees Maurice) plaatjes op het weblog zetten. Als je op een plaatje klikt, kom je op de rest van de foto´s terecht (en we hebben nog veel meer op de ipod...).
En op veler verzoek (duh!): Je hoeft nu ook niet meer een `member` te worden om comments te geven.
Oh ja, op die foto zie je Ushuaia, het zuidelijkste puntje van Argentinie, vlakbij Antarctica (vandaar de jas). Vandaag hebben we een auto gekocht en morgen rijden we richting noorden!

Daar gaan we weer

2006-01-11T22:50:00.000-05:00

Ook lekker zeg. Van die k*t toetsenborden hier die je browsers doen reloaden als je aan het mailen/bloggen bent.
Maar goed, nog een keer dan.
Waar waren we?
Owja, die stinkstad. Verkeer als in New York, gebouwen zoals in Barcelona, en gaten in de weg als in Mexico. Maar wel een boel toffe verhalen gehoord van travellers over alle must see´s in Argentinie (tnx voor de hostel tips btw Barb!). Nog ff naar een ghetto geweest met als enige trekpleister 3 toeristiese straatjes met kinderkleurende bouwvalletjes genaamd la Boca.

We hebben ook nog 2 keer kunnen zwemmen in een oud YMCA sportgebouw, echt een raar iets zeg! Dat zwembad leek wel een martelplek, zo diep onder de grond en met die schimmige uitstraling.

Maar genoeg van die stad. Gelukkig kon ik Corine overhalen om verder te gaan (we wilden wel naar Ushuaia). En dus hadden we na een dagje in de moordende zon en een paar reisburo´s later al weer een ticket naar Rio Gallegos te pakken. 600 pesos voor pak em beet 4000 kilometer om maar richting Ushuaia te komen, want het was niet mogelijk ivm toerisme om direct een vlucht te boeken. Komen we daar aan, blijkt het een ongelofelijk gat te zijn. Dus weer naar de balie: "Gaat er toevallig binnenkort een vlucht naar Ushuaia?" En ja hoor, stijgen we binnen een week al weer voor de 5e keer op. Begint echt normaal te worden voor ons :P
We zijn gister aangekomen in Ushuaia, en waren al bijna de backpack van Corine kwijt. Gelukkig konden we iemand zo snel zo ver krijgen om snel efkes in het vliegtuig te kijken. En ja hoor, die was bijna richting Buenos Aires. Pfff.... So far so lucky.

Hostel gevonden voor iets te veel maar wel een kamer voor twee. Vandaag weer een ander hostel te pakken en een hiking guide gekocht. Gaan we morgen schoenen halen en echt hiken! JOEHOE!
Owja, net wat telefoonnummers gebeld van auto´s die aan de weg in de verkoop stonden. Chek! Gelijk een proefrit gedaan in een te dure bak, en later nog een in een voor een wat realistieser prijs. Schijnt max 3 dagen te duren voor overschrijven. We gaan nu uitzoeken wat die bak (een Kia Pride) doet op het net qua prijs etc. Dik idee hoor, rondcruisen in onze eigen bak.

Man, ik zit al iets te lang achter deze puter weer, dus tot de volgende keer!
Hasta luego!

Daar zijn we dan

2006-01-06T20:31:00.000-05:00

Het bleek veertien uur vliegen! Dat hadden we niet gedacht. Dan maar zovel mogelijk slapen. Gelukkig hadden we drie stoelen ipv 2. Ook omstebeurt op de grond geslapen. Al die winterlaagjes kleren konden in Buenos Aires meteen uit. ´s ochtends om 8 uur was het daar al 24 graden!
Het hostel is een beetje vaag. We slapen in stapelbedden met 3 verdiepingen. Maurice heeft al bloed op zijn hoofd van het *bonk* opstaan tegen het bed boven hem. Ik heb ook een bult. We slapen in rare opengeknipte lakens, die meer aan een soort toga doen denken. De airco doet het niet echt. En er lag in ineens iemand in Maurice zijn bed. Toen hebben ze iemand anders uit de kamer gezet, die niet betaald bleek te hebben of zo. Gelukkig hebben we leuke Canadese roomies.

Maar we zitten nu dus in Buenos Aires!!!!! Het is pas dag 2, waarvan we de eerste vnl. als zombies hebben rondgelopen en geslapen, dus erg veel hebben we nog niet gezien. Maar samengevat is het erg warm en luidruchtig en er is veel smog. de gebouwen zijn groot en hoog. Op straat vol je af en toe druppeltjes water van alle airco´s die buiten hangen (er hangen hier net zoveel airco-apparaten aan de muren, als schotels in de Bijlmer. De mensen zijn ontzettend aardig. En het weer is fantastisch. We zijn al verbrand. En zondag verwachten ze 40 graden Celsius. Gelukkig hebben we een kortingskaartje voor het zwmbad :) Vandaag een proefles Spaans gedaan. Ik denk dat ik hier een cursus ga doen.

Hasta la proxima!
Corine

Details details...

2006-01-03T17:30:00.000-05:00

Goedkoop bellen met de rest van de wereld (en vice versa) is een kunst. Maar let op.
Bellen naar Argentinië:

- vaste lijn 0,10 euri via dit nummer: 0900 1777
- mobiel 0,15 euri via dit nummer: 0900 1533

Ok, we hebben nog geen nummer waar je dan naar toe kan bellen, maar dat komt eraan %)

chek,

MoFono

Mo & Co

2005-12-27T11:50:00.000-05:00

klaar voor de start?

Nog wat voorbereidingen...

2005-12-27T10:45:00.000-05:00

Dus voor ons is het einde van de winter in zicht :) Maar in de tussentijd houd het onze koppies koel. Nog snel ff wat dingetjes regelen hier en daar, waaronder deze blog.
Ik probeer ondertussen wat leuke geoblogging technologie aan elkaar te knopen. Hopelijk kan ik daarmee op onze reis dit blog wat opleuken. Zou het niet leuk zijn als onze route op de kaart te volgen is met foto's op locatie?

Owja, nog iets leux....ik heb een iPod video gekregen van de company kerstman, een week voor mijn uitdiensttreding....fijn! Kunnen Corine en ik in de tent lekker filmpjes kijken :)

TekMo

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2005-12-27T10:08:00.000-05:00

Nog een week, dan kunnen we gaan! Op 4 januari, 17:10 om precies te zijn. Eerst nog een artikel schrijven. En de boel inpakken. En nee, we hebben echt geen plan, we zien wel :)

Corine