Things We Won't Miss About Venezuela

• Inadequate plumbing - having to put used toilet paper in a bin next to the toilet is horrendous
  
• Lumpy pillows
  
• Inept street vendors - why must we haggle over prices for everything?
  
• Shady street money-changers - we don't have any dollars, and we wouldn't change them with you even if we did!
  
• President Chávez's addresses to the nation - simultaneously broadcast on all TV channels: all well and good, but not when we miss the first innings of the fourth World Series game because of it...
  
• Ferry 'schedules' - yeah, right
  
• McDonald's (just for Tom, this one!) - why is it so expensive (more so than USA) here?
  
• People trying to short-change us - just because we're tourists, doesn't mean we can't add up
  
• Ubiquitous Bólivar - I'm sure he was a nice chap, but it all happened a long time ago! Get over it (Venezuelans would kill me for writing this)
  
• Cold showers (I don't mind, but Katherine has an aversion to the things) - strange but true: only the better hotels bother with hot water
  
• The sun (Katherine tends to melt when exposed to high temperatures)