Memory of Latin America

[gerbie]

Last month I made a trip to a part of Latin America. I started my journey in Montevideo, Uruguay, then continued travelling via Colonia and Paysandu to Argentina, where I visited Santa Fe, Rosario and Buenos Aires before flying south to Ushaia and Calefate. Back north from Bariloche I crossed the Andes into Chile, where I visited Valdivia, Valparaiso and Santiago.

It took me just about a month to do so. I wrote a little story in my LJ, nearly every day, though some days twice. Just for those of you who were away as well in August. Or for those who have missed some or all of these stories. Perhaps some of you even want to reread them. The rest of you can ignore this post.


http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=gerbie&keyword=Latin+America+2004&filter=all

Comments

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to say hello, and tell you that I really enjoyed looking through your South American memories. I think we definitely share the same love of travel ...

I visited some of the places you saw back in early May, and wrote about it pretty extensively in my LJ. And I went to Patagonia a couple of years ago, too ... those travelogues are archived in my traveler_mark journal.

Take care ... hope you're able to enjoy many more travels.

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Read some of your stories, very nice indeed. We have more cities visited in common than the ones in my last trip. I have worked in Austria and Italy, so I did enjoy reading about your European trip. Shame you only stayed so short in my capital (Amsterdam).

Funny that state of mind influences the perception of a town as well. Valparaiso and Santiago are completely opposite imho to the way you describe them. I loved Berlin, but do agree on Innsbruck. Good to read your stories.

Should you want to read more, E-mail newsletters and some stories and pictures, all at my travel website: http://welcome.to/gerbie7

Thanx for responding here!

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the note ... if you don't mind, I'll add you to my friends list, and I'll keep reading of your travels, as well.

I've actually been to Amsterdam a number of times -- it's definitely one of my favorite cities. I quite feel at home there, in part because most of my maternal ancestors are Dutch. (The family name on that side is Van de Graaff, and they lived in Den Helder until the early 20th century ... but I don't know of any close relatives still remaining in the Netherlands.)

Take care ...

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

I already added your travelogue to my friendslist, please do feel free to do so, though I'm not sure when my next travel stories will appear.

I do assume you can cope in Dutch as well then, with your Dutch blood and your travel experience?

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

Thanks ... I've just added you. All of my travel stuff these days is only in my main pitamakan journal, however ... the traveler_mark LJ is just a repository for old travelogues that mostly predate my LJ. But feel free to look at or add either journal.

The main LJ has my stories from this year's trip to Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina ... you can look at the entries from April 27 to May 11 for that. There's also a fair amount of other travel stuff in there from the last year or so.

Dutch? het spijt me ... nee. I know almost none of it. My great-grandparents emigrated to the US nearly a century ago, and they died before I was born. No one in my family can speak the language now ... and I'm afraid I've never felt the need to learn, since the Dutch readily speak English better than most Americans can. :)

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

I'll have a look at those entries in your regular LJ as well then. Saw some great pictures already in your recent entries, I'm very jealous, as I am a crap photographer myself.

[amureija.livejournal.com]

Hey ... can you tell me, if it is expensive to travel around in south america? What about the flights? thx! =)

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Depends on where you want to go and how you want to travel. I was lucky to find a reasonable flight to get there and back, the flights in Argentina I arranged at the spot. More expensive if you're a foreigner, but still not bad for European standards and impossible to avoid as buses are not as frequent in winters and take ages in Patagonia.

Day to day life is cheap. In Uruguay and Argentina, but also in Chile, it is not difficult to live for 20-30 euro's a day, food, lodging and other expenses included.