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Schwarzwald

2010-06-15T14:54:00.010-05:00

When in between jobs, there is no better place to hide then in the Schwarzwald: a mysterious, fairy tail forest with huge pine trees and beautiful panoramas.

Snowboarding into the new year

2009-01-13T10:21:00.009-05:00

Make LLOV <3

2008-08-21T07:33:00.007-05:00

Lowlands 2008: stralend weer, prachtige muziek, goede sfeer en heerlijk loungen op het gras voor de tenten.

Bergjes! :)

2008-07-31T08:56:00.007-05:00

Eindelijk vakantie, op naar de bergen. Roel en ik gooien een tent achter in de auto en beginnen te rijden. In het Oetztal vinden we een prachtige camping naar een bergstroom in Solden. Midden tussen de bergen in een heerlijke omgeving.

Na 4 nachtjes camperen met toch regelmatig wat regen pakken we ons boeltje en rijden naar de dolomieten. Niet dat het weer hier beter is, noch het eten, maar het is er wederom prachtig! Dit keer toch maar een appartementje om de regenbuien in te schuilen.

De vakantie vliegt voorbij, 10 dagen is ook wel heel kort natuurlijk. Om de lange reis te breken maken we een stop in het romantische stadje Fussen om het Neuschanstein kasteel te bekijken.

En de vakantie is alweer voorbij, op naar t koude kikkerlandje!

Pinkpop!

2008-06-19T05:41:00.006-05:00

Eindelijk was het zover: Pinkpop! Met een onwijs goede lineup en nog fantastisch weer kón het bijna niet mis gaan!
... Totdat we na 3 uur rijden en een uur sjouwen op zoek gingen naar onze kaartjes... Gerold! Hoe durven ze! Gelukkig konden we nog kaartjes op de kop tikken, én hadden we nog een geniale plek voor het tentje op camping A :D
Metallica was natuurlijk een echte knaller op de eerste dag. Het apres-ski geluid uit de feest tent klonk verre van aantrekkelijk, maar een fles wijn in de tent maakte alles goed. En dat zorgde ervoor dat we redelijk knocked out konden slapen zonder last te hebben van alle ellende op t veld :)

Dag 2 besloten we om de auto dichterbij te halen. Een uur sjouwen met alle spullen was toch iets teveel van t goede. Na een heerlijke wandeling en een kort ritje hadden we een heerlijk plekje veroverd bij Snowworld. Gelijk een goede reden voor een fatsoenlijke toilet stop en een fatsoenlijk maal :)
Toppers van de dag waren Katey Tunstall, Groove Armada (superb!) en de Foo Fighters. Helaas Voicst en Amy MacDonald gemist... Lowlands misschien? :D
Weer een rustig nachtje aangezien ik zondag moest werken! Om 10 uur sochtends hing ik al aan de telefoon met IBM. We moesten toch nog de tent pakken en naar de auto brengen, en tussendoor even een stop om een belletje te plegen. Kostte de halve dag.

Helaas Kate Nash gemist, schijnt een geweldig optreden te zijn geweest. Maar wel op tijd voor Racoon. Alanis Morisette was geniaal! Saybia gemist, maar die had ik al op lowlands gezien ;) En natuurlijk de afsluiter Rage Against the Machine, wat een herrie B-) Uitgeput doch tevreden lagen we tegen half vijf sochtends in Amersfoort veilig in ons bedje ;)

Wat een geslaagd festival! Ondanks dat t bij lange na niet zo goed is als lowlands :D En dat is nog maar 2 maandjes weg!!!

Jazz's palace :D

2008-04-06T10:12:00.009-05:00

I know, I know, I'm already working a year, and I should try not to get boring... But I couldn't resist buying this beautiful house :D It's such a cute place, feel free to come over for a drink and a BBQ :)

Christmas dinners and New Year party's

2008-01-02T05:46:00.001-05:00

It's Christmas time! I have a very cute christmas tree, put up lights everywhere and my schedule is filled with dinners and parties :)

For New Year I joined my friends in Amsterdam: In the Passenger Terminal Arrival we danced the night away with 10000 people going wild :) The perfect way of starting a great year!

Thailand - Diving & Full moon party!!!

2007-10-30T01:10:00.001-05:00

Time flies when you're having fun! After the grand Angkor Wat it was time to relax on the tropical island of Koh Phangan. Unfortunately, the tornado hitting Asia was giving us a lot of rainy grey days, so the sun bathing had to wait for next year. Instead we took a diving course to get our Padi open water certificate. (H)

It wasn't the piece of cake I hoped it would be: the bad weather turned the ocean into the worst movie scene you can imagine, and my stomach did not agree... After 1-2 hours of puking my guts out I was very very greatfull to finally jump into the ocean and feel like a fish :D

After 4 days of hard work, we were true members of the diving scene. That had to be celebrated: it was full moon and entire Koh Phangan turned into one big party: the entire beach of Haad Rin was the place where thousands of people gathered, drinking buckets of cocktail and dancing the night away untill the Sun would rise! It was a great party, although the next day my stomach did not agree on the ferry: it was time to face the huge yourney of 24 hours of traveling back home.

At least I know for sure we spend our 4 weeks to the max :)

Angkor Wat - Cambodia

2007-10-29T05:34:00.000-05:00

Central Vietnam

2007-10-28T06:51:00.000-05:00

North Vietnam

2007-10-14T22:53:00.000-05:00

Luang Prabang - Laos

2007-10-02T05:36:00.000-05:00

Finally it's time to get out of the shitty Dutch weather (cold, windy, rainy) and fly to 35+ degrees Celsius and perfect sunshine! Luang Prabang is a beautiful town in the North of Laos with many influences of the French rule some decennia's ago. The old quarter is sqeezed in between the Mekong river and the Nahm Khan river, with temples rising up everywhere. From the hills there is a fantastic scenery over the rivers and forests.

Only one hour away you find yourself in the middle of the jungle with the possibility of riding elephants and swiming under waterfalls. Thank God for me, the mosquitos are not so bad as in Peru: i've only been bitten 8 times in three days ;) and only one of the bites has really grown to a huge bump...
A well, life is good in Laos!

Lowlands 2007

2007-08-20T12:43:00.000-05:00

Lowlands! Holland's best festival ever :D I wasn't sure it would be as good as I remembered, but it was even better!!! One long weekend of Summer time, relaxing on the grass listening and watching the best bands play their magic. It offered everything: waking up slow and easy on the smooth songs of Marike Jager, stunning everyone with the beauty of Saybia, radiating energy of The Funky Beat, and dancing the night away.

Life in Amersfoort

2007-06-20T00:58:00.000-05:00

It's been a while now that I started my life as a working woman. Man, I'm so tired from it! However, I do have a nice house, nice car, nice paycheck, and still have some kind of social life ;) Every day I try to beat traffic, not easy when you live in Amersfoort and work in Den Haag (just about 100 km of Dutch worst traffic jams :o )

I have my next big trip planned for October: 4 weeks of backpacking through Laos, Vietnam, Cambodja and Thailand. This time not on my own, but with Mark as my guardian angel ;)

Ciao!

Wedding Party

2007-02-20T09:22:00.000-05:00

Finally, after 10 years of dating, my sister and Lars are married!!! And what a great party we had :)))

To the end of the world and back again!

2007-02-13T09:51:00.000-05:00

It took me three days of busrides, but I finally got there: the end of the world! Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world, and man are they proud of that: you can read the slogan in every corner. Ushuaia is the gate way to Tierra del Fuego, Land of Fire, a beautiful national reservate with forests looking over the Beagle channel. It was also possible to go on the channel with a ferry, however when the last group came back from the trip and told me that the last hour they were all vomiting cos of the bad weather I declined...

So I climed up the Martial glaciar, a nice 3 hour walk from the hostel, from where you had a wonderful view over the town; at least, during the 5 minutes that the clouds would break, cos there was a heavy snow storm going on at the top! Really fun to fool around in the snow though. And what a small world we live in: on my way back I encountered my australian friends from Puerto Varas, with whom I shared my birthday applepie! We had a great diner together at the all you can eat parilla (=BBQ) restaurant for no more than 12 dollars pp followed by a visit to the Irish pub :)

Next day we took the plane north again to El Calafate, gateway to the Glacier national park. We saw the most impressive colorful ice bergs and rumbling glaciers. The following day I went back to Chile, a 5 hours drive to Puerto Natales, gateway to the Torres del Paine, where I planned to do a 7 day hike around the peaks of the park. I met up with two girls from Tjechie, Renata and Maria. After three beautiful but hard days of 7+ hours hiking through amazing landscapes, weather caught up with us: it started raining and didn't stop... After 2 rainy days we were soaked all through, with mud everywhere. The rivers began to swell to almost impossible sizes and made us jumped to at least 3 stones with our 20kg backpacks and a violent river underneath. When we arrived tired at the rangers office, they invited us to their warm and welcome shelter and gave us coffee and bread. We felt too comfortable, and after hearing the horror stories of the rangers of the situation of the following tracks, we took the catamaran back to Puerto Natales and a warm and dry bed ;)

Arriving back in El Calafate 3 days earlier than planned, allowed me to go up north to El Chalten, to visit the mountain range of Fitz Roy. The first hike I made there I met another friend: Tristan from Engeland. What a small world! We had a nice diner and a nice hike the next day. The winds were very strong at some points, but all and all the clear skies gave perfect views of the Fitz Roy.

The last days in El Calafate were very quiet: some hiking, some horseriding, visiting glacier Perito Moreno (which wasn't so impressive as the whole world seems to think). I flew back to Buenos Aires, tried to do some shopping there, which is quite impossible with high winter in Holland and top summer in BA. I missed my flight, which made me get rid of my last pennies, and arrived back in Holland on the 4thh of February.

Since then I found a place to stay in Amersfoort, moved all my stuff, and had a great bachelor party of my sister. I'm all set for the wedding this Saturday. But please let the weather be dry and sunny!

Hope to see you all soon, come and visit me in Amersfoort!

Los Lagos and Border (= Andes) crossings.

2007-01-10T20:42:00.000-05:00

Hola amigos!

Time´s going fast! I´ll be coming back to Holland in three weeks :S
Major reason for coming home: My sister (who is not suppost to marry) is getting married on the 16th of February!!! What a party that´ll be, and I´m definately going to be there to witness it!

Since Peru, Chile has been quite a culture shock: it´s almost like Europe! So organized, and so expensive... I spend Christmas in Santiago with a big home made stuffed turkey, thanks to the Irish Daniel, what a great evening we had! Unfortunately, the next day wasn´t so great for me: I thought I was safe in Chile, but I had the worst stomach ache ever! I had to lie in my bed for the entire day! At the end of the day I had to pull myself to gether to catch the night bus to Villarrica, 12 hours South of Santiago.

Villarrica was like coming back to Europe: green grass, lots of trees, lakes; the first thing I did was rent a bike and cycle for 4 hours, what a great experience after not touching a bike for 3 months!

Next day weather turned bad, so I thought I might as well get on a bus and try to cross borders through the not so traveled roads. That got me, after a full day of bus transfers, getting stuck in a small town called Puerto Fuy, with no busses nor ferries going further that day. It was a beautiful little town to get stuck in though! Next morning I took the first ferry to the other end of the lake Pirihueico. Getting off the ferry after 2 hours I had a pleasant surprise: no busses nor taxies, nor anything was heading towards the border... so I started walking with my too much luggage, arriving at the Chilean border 3 hours later (thank God the weather cleared up that day!). From there, the guards told me it was another 8 km to the Argentinean border... Luckily they felt pity for me, so they gave me a ride on there motorbikes ;) 5km past the Argentinean border I was lucky to get a ride to my destination 60 km further, San Martin de los Andes.

On the last day of the year 2006 I hurried on to Bariloche to celebrate New Year with a Lamb BBQ, the way only Argentinians can make it.
Bariloche is a great place to go hiking all round, so I climbed the Tronador glacier with 2 Israelian friens, Noa and Nadav. What a suburb hike that was! 5 hours of climbing straight up, with the last part tugging through the snow, but what a view you had! We spend the night at the refugio Otto Meile, returning the next day. Unfortunately after celebrating our return at night, I got a really bad sore throat the next morning... (still having troubles with recouperating from it) And while spending a few days in backpackers paradise El Bolson, I couldn´t really do much.

On the happy event of my birthday, still struggling with the cold, I took a nice relaxing boat and bus ride to cross the border back to Chile, all the way to Puerto Varas. Another scenic environment with a lot of German influences. A pleasant outing to Isla Grande de Chiloe made me undergo a lot of long busrides. But the islands with all there pastures and trees, looking over the sea growing salmon in it, and the real tranquil town with the best seafood restaurants one can think of, made it all worthwhile.

No I´m mentally preparing for the busride of the next three days... I´m taking the bus from Puerto Montt to Punta Arenas, no more than 28 hours trapped in the bus, before transferring to the bus to the end of the world, Ushuaia, another 13 hours... What a human would do to get to the end of it!...

Greetz!

From beach paradise to jungle adventure

2006-12-22T03:15:00.000-05:00

The beach of Mancora (far north of Peru at equator) was the perfect place to recouperate from all the traveling, mosquito bites and sandboard-injuries. White beaches, palmtrees, seafood and cocktails!

After a few days I felt strong enough to face the yourney to the jungle in the far east. First 2 night busses to get to Tarapoto by ´highway´. Next tranfering to a very crapy bus for an estimated 7 hours to the ´harbour´of Yurimaguas. Unfortunately the road was a very irregular sand road and (as I guess is supposed to do in a jungle) it started raining as soon as we left. Not just a little rain: soon rivers of water came pouring down from the mountains falling down over the cliff we were driving on... Thank god I took the bus, cos after a couple of hours the taxi´s had to wait for one particularly huge river to cross, and we just got over it... Unfortunately after 5 hours we came across a gap in the road: the bridge was torn away by the river and with bulldozers workers were filling the gap with sand and stone. After 4 hours an instable looking crossing was formed that helped us across. We all made it to Yurimaguas alive and kicking.

The next day boarding started around noon, with the promis of leaving at four in the afternoon; we didn´t part untill eight, starting the boat ride of 2 days and 2 nights to Iquitos, capitol of the jungle of Laretto. The way they ripped and hit the cows to get on board was terrible. One cow had its intentense (darmen) hanging out; they were incredibly thinny, didn´t get any water or

food at all. It made me sick, couldn´t eat beef for a week. The lowest level of t he boat was for cargo, the second level for 150 crammed people sleeping in hammacks, and the upper level for people paying for times as much. I got a safe warm cabin to sleep in , next to the fresh hammacks to hang out during the day. The local football team joined me, having the regional competition in Iquitos. Just my luck! It reminded of the fact that it´s impossible to have a normal conversation with a Peruvian male, not even when he´s reaching 50´s. They make these insinuations you really do not want to hear from them, and even when you say you´re insulted, they do not get it. It´s just the way they treat women...

It was so good to arrive in Iquitos! Together with Anna from Germany, who survived the second floor on the boat, we found a good bargain for a 5 days jungle adventure at Chullachaqui lodge, two hours up the Amazone river by speed boat. The lodge was a paradise! The jungle was the problem: people worned me that the mosquitos were bad, but experiencing it was worse than a nightmare: They sting through all your clothing, nomatter how much repellant you put on! After the first 2 hours walk they had eaten my legs and arms and everything! The next time I went prepared: 30 degrees and 99% humidity or not, I wore a fleece sweater thick enough against the mosquitos. They still stung through my pants though... Yup, jungle is survival. It was amazing though: so many plants and animals; enormous ants, iguanas, monkies, tarantulas, thousands of birds, frogs, and during canoe trips grey and pink (really pink) dolphines. It rained a lot, and after every rain you could see the river rising: it still had to rise 4 meters till high water, flooding all the area around. We went pirahna fishing; no luck though, but I did catch a smal fish to put on the bbq while camping :) We also visited a small village were people were living with what the jungle provides for them. Amazing how few they live with.
All and all it was a fantastic experience.

Back in Iquitos Anna and I went to visit Belen: a quadre of the city that starts floating with the rising water of the amazone, very impressive. The market at dry land was incredible as well. Not only reaching beyond 10 blocks in every direction, but the stuff they sold! All kinds of fish, pirahnas, alligotors, turtles ripped apart, all animals ripped apart, huge worms, snails, anything! And in between they happily sell underwear and hot meals and drinks...

Yeah, Peru is really an amazing country!
Since Iquitos I have done some die-hard traveling: I flew to Lima, from there took the night bus to Arequipa, from there struggled a day to cross borders to Chile. Next a bus cama (best class) promising to arrive in Santiago after 28 hours (2 days 2 nights). I had high hopes, since Chile is supposed to be organized. But of course, it broke down after 6 hours... Gave us the pleasure of a free 8 hours extra traveling! It was a beautiful trip though: the entire way was nothing but dessert with mountain ranges every now and then.

Now I´ve arrived in Santiago de Chile. So far I´ve spend a day just organizing and planning the rest of the trip. But Chile has the promise of another great few weeks of traveling! I´ll keep you posted ;)

Peru and Beyond

2006-11-30T16:19:00.000-05:00

Hola amigos!
Time flies when you're having fun, and it's hard finding time to go on the internet. Puno was great, lake Titicaca is huge and very beautiful. I made a tour to the islands of Los Uros, Amantani and Taquile, spending the night at Amantani island at a family there together with 2 South African friends, Riaan and Justin. At night we had to dress up in traditional clothing and go to a dance, very funny. However we decided fast enough that watching the stars there was much more interesting.

After Puno I took the night bus to Cusco; what a city! The center is very touristic indeed, but cos the town is so big, you can easily take a cab to find some great local shopping. I found a nice sleeping bag for 100 soles, necessary for my 5 days Salkantay tour to Machu Pichu (that place of ruines that every tourist visits in Peru). I experienced the true Peru feeling: I was supposed to leave on the trail on a sunday at 5am. I was all packed and ready to go, and waited... and waited... No one showed up untill 9 am telling that the trip was postponed for another day because of the elections that day.... So I got another fun day shopping and sitting in an Irish pub with the australian friends I made, Adrian, Margerita and Nick.

The next day we finally went hiking: it was quite a tough tour, the first three days a 9 hours hike with quite some steep mountains to cover. The first two nights where freezing too: the first just because it was so high altitude, the second because the horses with our gear didn´t show up at the camping place... We had only 4 tents with the 15 people, and no sleeping bags what soever... brrr! The next morning the bags turned up, unfortunately my backpack was ripped apart by the rocks... Thank god for duct tape!

The third day we had the pleasure of a hot spring to relax our sore muscles, fantastic. And we finally had a good meal, what a feast. The fourth day started off with an exciting truck ride: we were packed in the back of a truck, driving like crazy on steep cliffs with dazzling views. Arriving at the hydroelectrics for lunch (wasn't really anything to see there) we had the chance of taking the train to Agua Calientes (last town before Machu Pichu) or to hike for another three hours. So Craig, Carlos and I had a great time on the train ;)

Then finally, the last day, starting at 5 am with a hard climb of an hour and zillions of steps all the way up to Machu Pichu. But what a treat when you arrive at the top! The ruins are huge, and it once must have been a blooming city of the incas. For the fit people amongst us there was extra treat: the mountain next to the city could be climbed to get a great overview of the ruines. Took you just a small hour of another zillion steep steps... But again it was worthwhile. From the top it was possible to take an extended tour all the way round the mountain. Craig and I took went for it, while it was just starting to rain... One and a half hour later we were soaked all through, but content to have done the excercise. It did however make me miss the train back to Cusco, although it allowed us to enjoy a relaxing extra night in Agua Calientes, remembering the impressions of Machu Pichu.

After all the excercise, I was really longing for some relaxing beach time, so I´ve started the enormous tour toward the north of Peru. First a nightbus of 14 hours to make a stop to go sandboarding, I was sooooooo fast! However it might not have been the right choice of relaxation: my arms are both cut by the speed of touching the sand, and my toes got ripped by some shells and stone during the final incredibly steep descend. The next day I took another 18 hours of night busses to get to Pacasmayo to visit my australian friens on the beach, resulting in a very sour throat and head.

Now it´s really time to take some rest and let my body recouperate. However, it´s still another night bus tonight to get to paradise beach Mancora! Tomorrow I´ll do nothing but lying on the beach enjoying the ocean and the Sun... I definately need a week of that!

Bolivian altiplanos

2006-11-15T14:43:00.000-05:00

The Quebradas in the north of Argentina were great! Unbelievable how many colors are hidden in the rocks. I´ve walked part of the Inca trail, which goes from Tucuman Argentina all the way up to the north of Peru. The guide had a lot to tell and lead us to many caves with paintings: four hours of walking in the burning Sun.

From Humahuaca I hooked up with Paulo from Cordoba Argentina, to cross the border to Bolivia and find our way to the Salt flats. A four day tour from Tupiza would show us all there is to see of the altiplanos South east of Bolivia. A spanish couple and a Swiss couple shared our luxurious jeep. It was quite a rollercoaster ride that started at 6 am in the morning and ended past 6pm, but it was incredible. The altiplano is such a vast and dry never ending land, it´s scary to think what would happen if you would get stranded. With an average of 4500 meters the days are very hot and the nights are extremely cold.

The first day was die-hard driving through the puna. We ended at a very small and primitive town in the middle of nowwhere, and stayed at a families house. The surroundings are so dry that there was no water: the skins of the childrens faces were white of dehydration. A nine year old girl requested money in case of more pictures... At nine o´clock the electricity was turned down and candels had to lead the way.

The second day we saw a lot of lakes and the first pink flamingo´s. Half way we were all very glad to swim in a hot spring, although it was very cold to get out of it! The third day was the hardest: our jeep broke down so we had to change our tire and we became very late. Half of our group was sick of the height: we reached 5500 meters! Thank god for coca and herbes: drinking tea of it makes your head feel a little better.

The last day was definately the climax: getting up at 4am to see the sunrise at the salt flats. Unbelievable how huge the flats are : we drove for 3 hours to get to the other side of it!

At 2pm we arrived in Uyuni, to find out that the night busses to la Paz only leave at 8 pm, and there is absolutely nothing to do in that town! But I arrived in La Paz, it´s a crazy town, with markets spread out all through downtown and people and minibusses crawling in between.

Now I have reached Peru already: the Peruvians are much friendlier and honoust then the Bolivians and the food is also much better :D They have a great empenada for breakfast, lotst of soup, and rice and baked pasta and patatoes to go with it. You can get a whole diner with mate for 1 sol! At the moment I´m in Puno to see the Titicaca lake, so beautiful!

I´m planning of spending a lot of time in Peru, going all the way to the north and back again. That´ll keep me busy ;)

Salta

2006-10-31T10:27:00.000-05:00

After one week of traveling, (24 hours of traveling yesterday) I've gotten to the Northwest of the Andes, Salta. In the beginning, especially in Buenos Aires, it was really hard to get used to the rythm here: people don't really have breakfast, lunch is around 3pm, and the can have diner untill 11pm. In a lot of places there is a siesta from 1pm to 5pm, while in the meantime everything is closed and quite. At night everything comes to live untill early in the morning. Can't blame them though, 2 days ago it was 46 degrees Celsius during the day!

After one week of Buenos Aires, I was exhausted and in desperate need of oxygen. A five hour busride took me to Colon del Entres Rios. I stayed in a really nice hostal, very quiet and clean (just got one cockroach under my bare toes ;) ).
The first night in Colon I slept for 10 hours straight :) I went to visit Parque National El Palmar: a hugh palm tree forest, quite impressive, so many palm trees along the rio Uruguay.
From Colon, a night bus goes all the way to Puerto Iguazu in 12 hours, the biggest waterfalls you can imagine. Bus rides are really good here, like the touring busses of Holland, it just takes a while to get there. On the way through I had to wait for the nightbus at 23:30 at a gas station 10km from Colon in the middle of nowhere; the bus didn't arrive until 1:30am, and that with my nerves... During the ride, I hooked up with Camilla from Italy, with whom I'm now going around with, really cool.
The Iguazu falls cannot be described through words: first we went to the side of Brazil and later of Argentina. With the first view of the falls you go like: wow! Then you walk along and you see it's even 3 times bigger, Wow! Walking towards the end, reaching the Devil's Gorge, WOW, what a climax!

Not having anything to do there except admiring the falls, Camilla and I took the bus to San Ignacio to have a look at the biggest Jesuit ruines of south America. The ruines where indeed quite large and had this really old and serene feeling around, but really the most interessting part was the biggest cactus I've ever seen in my life, and a tree with one of the ruines coloms within the tree itself. So we took the 1 hour bus to Posadas: I had to push myself inside the bus, and even then they picked up more people on the way! From there we got on the night bus to Tucuman of 18 hours, and were lucky to catch the bus to Salta directly, ariving at midnight.

Main purpose here, except for the fact that it's really a beautifull city with views of the Andes, is to hike through one of the canyons, Quebrada de Cafayate. It is kind of hard to get there, but we'll see how far we get today.

Greetz for the sunny and hot Argentina!

Buenos Aires!

2006-10-16T08:27:00.000-05:00

Finally I´m here: Buenos Aires! What a busy town it is: People go on all night, it´s incredible. The hostel is in an outer quarter, between all local people, and about 15 minutes away from down town by a fantastic metro system.
People are great, very friendly and open. Which is a good thing, cos no one seems to understand english! My spanish course will start tomorrow, it´ll do good.

Washington DC

2006-10-12T16:46:00.000-05:00

Washington DC is beautiful. It´s unbelievable how much money the have put in these monuments, but it great to stroll around. Everything is much bigger than your used to: even the toilet paper!
The people are very kind and interested to tell all you want to know about the monuments. The hostel is an old victorian house, which makes you feel right at home.
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Ongelooflijk maar waar: m'n hele kamer in Delft is met pijn en moeite dan toch eindelijk leeg gekomen :D
Nu zit ik in een jeugdherberg in Washington, een heel gezellig huis met heel veel mensen. De laatste dagen heb ik verschrikkelijk veel rondgelopen, er is zoveel te zien! Het witte huis, Arlington cemetery, en natuurlijk de shopping malls ;)
Morgen nog de Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center, dat moet ook vreselijk cool zijn. En dan... Buenos aires!

Vaarwel Delft!

2006-10-03T05:59:00.000-05:00

Nog maar 1 week en het is zover! Vaarwel kamer, vaarwel Delft, vaarwel studentenleven. En dan op weg om de wereld te ontdekken :)
Eerst een stopover bij het witte huis (ik vlieg over Washington), en dan door naar Buenos Aires om in een week spaans te leren, en dan de grand tour door Argentinie en Chili. M'n hele hebben en houden op m'n rug, en gaan maar! Lol, dat wordt nog wat ;)