UK4X4: sometimes you sound like a Venezuelan... how long where you down there for?
7 years...........Stationed in Las Morochas Ciudad Ojeda, Caracas and Maturin
I spent most of my time with the locals rather than doing the expat thing with the other managers form the company.
The work was all over the country, so I used to always take the long route back......via wherever looked interesting on the map.
I married a Venezuelan, my household language is spanish...my dog is bilingual.
Life in venezuela is one big adventure, you never quite know what will happen next.....take nothing for granted....
Hostage taking/ robberies hold ups, being arrested, strikes, blocked roads, traffic jams, no speed limit,police stops, army stops, invented regulations, corrupt Police.....
Beautiful country, beach's mountains, swamps, jungles, rivers, indiginous indians..Polar beer, only drink when real cold. santeria, freedom.
Bridges sitting in the rivers for 7 years never fixed, highways started by the last dictator never finished, poverty, unemployment, unions, lack of foods,
20 % have 80 % of the money....
Basicly a pretty interesting place..........I loved and hated it..
I met some some very wonderfull people, I visited some wonderfull places.
A traffic jam in venolandia becomes a party with music and beer everywhere,
La gaita at christmas, Tamboree at night in the fishing villages played on buckets..
I could waffle on for ages......yep a long time.
