Getting started again

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As usually, moving to a new city is pretty busy on the first days. After the fun Pride of the weekend, I spend Sunday and Monday getting my bearings and setting up camp. I went to Vodafone again – their service in Australia was great – and it looks like the Kiwi version is just […] Read More

Beach walk

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I expected my last day in Sydney to be sunny… but it wasn’t meant to be. It was cloudy, and by the time the bus dropped me off at Coogee Beach, it started to rain…. Desperation! I walked a bit along the beach, then sat a bit under cover in one of the park huts, […] Read More

Cruise visitor

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Ingrid, who is working with me for the European Union, is a true Weltenbummler. I lost track of all the trips and cruises she has done. Caribbean, up north, Canada… And now, she’s boarding a cruise ship for a 17-day trip from Australia to New Zealand and back. She’ll be on one of the massive […] Read More

Tassie

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Hobart, to be precise. I arrived in the afternoon in my hotel. I figured, this time no Airbnb. I’m only staying for four nights, and the places on Airbnb seemed to be not so central, or private cottages somewhere far out. My hotel, the Welcome Stranger Hotel in the center of town, is a funny […] Read More

The hills of Valpo

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Yesterday I walked around Cerro Alegre, my neighborhood all afternoon, up and down the streets. I stayed on the hill and took something like 250 pictures. After a quick pizza, I was calling it an early night, and didn’t go out anymore. I had the prefect night in my hotel, the bed being a huge […] Read More

Mercado de las Pulgas

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Matías made me a list of the seven things I have to do while in Buenos Aires, including his favorite Brunch places and special sights you would not necessarily find in a guide book. So we’re working on that list, and we went for a Saturday morning brunch in fabuleux Café Le Blé. It reminded me a […] Read More

Montevideo in the sun

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This is the result from the afternoon walk through sunny Montevideo, pretty much the same places as yesterday, just with blue skies. The buildings in the centre are impressive, even in their run-down state. It wouldn’t need much to polish it up just a bit, without turning it into a fake Disneyland. However, it all […] Read More

The heart of Montevideo

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Today I met up with the two Canadians we had met in Temple bar the other night. They were here in Uruguay to get some US Dollars, to exchange them for Argentinean Pesos at the ‘blue’ (e.g. unofficial) rate of 1:10 instead of 1:6. This way you can shave off 40% of your costs… It’s […] Read More

A different kind of Rio

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So finally I went into Santa Teresa today… despite the low hanging clouds (I wish I had blue skies for the photos!). I nearly would have lived in Santa Teresa. There was a nice place for rent on Airbnb. In the end, I chose Ipanema, because of the beach, and because it seemed more busy, […] Read More

Up the Lapa steps

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I remembered vaguely reading about a guy who had decorated some stairs with some tiles, the ‘Lapa steps’, and was using donated ones from around the world… I wasn’t too excited about that, not being able to picture the whole thing, but I was around, so I thought I’d try to find them in the […] Read More

Discovering Downtown Rio

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Took the Metro today to get to the centre of Rio, finally. Well, the Metro is currently being extended for the 2014 World Cup – my hosts wonder how they’ll ever gonna finish that on time – so you have to take a bus to another Metro station as the Ipanema one is closed due […] Read More