At the end of the first month of traveling I had a nightmare: it was the 1st of August instead of the first of July and I was panicking. As always happens, the future is never as we imagine and the 1st of August I was more relaxed then ever. The fact that 2/3 of my… Continua a leggere 2 months on the road
Visiting Mompos or Mompox, charming colonial town
One of my Dutch friend from the Salsa band told me “Mompos is the best place I’ve visited in Colombia!”. When someone says this about a place, I always wonder what happened to him/her in there. So I went to check out Santa Cruz de Mompox myself. Anyway, I found 5 things true about Mompos: nobody… Continua a leggere Visiting Mompos or Mompox, charming colonial town
Visiting Ninos en Contacto project in Barranquilla
“Oh yeah, you’ll be like a star there…” said my friend Tatiana with a grin before I left Amsterdam. And, indeed, that’s what happened when I visited her project in Barranquilla 🙂 After I injured my knee on the Ciudad Perdida trek, I was forced to rest on an hammac reading, writing and drinking for… Continua a leggere Visiting Ninos en Contacto project in Barranquilla
1 month on the road: Panama and Colombia
I had a terrible nightmare last night. In the dream I checked the iPod (my source of date, while my source of time is the camera) and find out that it was the 1st August instead of the 1st of July. I then panicked realizing that all my concept of time was wrong, and 2/3… Continua a leggere 1 month on the road: Panama and Colombia
Panama Canal
When I first read about the Panama Canal as the biggest engineering work ever, Ithought it was an exaggeration. But once in Panama, a not-to-miss visit to the closeby Miraflores locks changed my mind big time 🙂 The amount of work and effort required to escavate, isolate and flood the 77km lenght of the canal… Continua a leggere Panama Canal