Caracas

I guess we must be getting used to life in Latin America, as we both hated Caracas the first time, but now we agree it's not so bad! Once you get used to the frenetic bustle and the heat it's actually quite a nice place, and everything seems to make more sense. Now we know, for example, that you need to look out for a centro de communicaciones for Internet access, or that an arepa is a meal in itself, or that passion fruit is the nicest type of fruit juice (don't listen to Katherine, pineapple's not all that great ;-), or that Cosita Rica is the best telenovela, and so on and so on.

We've just been running around trying to get ready for Ecuador today. We bought some (expensive!) APS film for Katherine's camera, and we're about to head to the "American Bookshop" to buy an Ecuador guide book (hopefully).

Our flight leaves at 12.45 tomorrow lunch time, but we're going to get there really early to sort out all the stupid departure tax and passport stamp stuff - leaving Venezuela is a costly affair!

So with a bit of luck we'll touch down in Quito, Ecuador, some time tomorrow evening...