IN MEMORIAM TON VAN BARNEVELD

1959-2007

ARTURO´S BOOK!!

Finally it will be ready in february! Paula is soooo exciteeeeeddd!!
Here you have the cover.
http://www.uitgeverijatlas.nl/result_titel.asp?Id=1799
All black with the colors of morocco´s flag
Enjoy it! and start bying!

CHRISTMAS

Christmas in summer time! It´s not real!!

how are they gonna dress father christmas??

Filling up our terrasse

Plants are coming!! We filled up our terrasse with
Jazmin de chile
Jazmin del cabo
Jazmin de mango
Pandura sombrilla
Oreja de gato
Anturio
La nolina
Orégano and Basilico for Arturo´s cooking!

Paraguayan Welcoming

Found on the map of Asunción
Tratar bien al turista conlleva el mensaje de la buena imagen paraguaya. Coayude en el esfuerzo por conquistar a los turistas que visitan nuestra tierra.
Taking care of tourists brings the message of paraguayan´s good image. Help on the effort to conquer tourists who visit our land.

JAGUA

Means dog in guaraní
Why do we talk about it?
Karasa, the clownfamily´s dog was pregnant.
A new member came to join the family!
There are 5 brown ones of whom we know the father -Killer-, and 2 grey ones of whom only Karasa knows...

OUR HOME

After 3 months of very nice vagrant holidays, we finally have our home!!
9th floor with views to the river (with some buildings disturbing it...)

OUR BIRTHDAY!!!

Of course we kept on meeting people, specially The BOUBÉE´s, who lend us their home for our great birthday party. Paula 3 November, Arturo 4 November.
We ate, drunk, laughed and of course blowed our candles.
23h55 PAULA: 29
00h05 ARTURO: 48, very well blowed, ¨las malas lenguas¨, were talking about viagra to face the blowing!!

BochínTeatroClown (Shelter family)

When they told us they were working outside the city, we would have never thought of a job as clowns!!

But it is not payasos working for kids, but clowns working in social projects for disadvantaged families, gender protection...

Their group is called BochínTeatroClown

Marisa, the mother who we haven´t met as she´s in Spain, Jorge, the father, and Aura the daughter.

Thank you for your amazing welcoming!!

We felt as at home, just to say we arrived on monday, and on wednesday they left again in charge of the dog, -Karasa-, the chickens, the house...

Trip and Arrival to Asunción

Panteón de la plaza de los Héroes. In memory of the soldiers dead on la Guerra de la Triple Allianza.
Paraguay fought against Brasil, Argentina and Uruguay, and lost 90% all of young males.
A flag is haul up and down every day.
It is said, that the unfaithfulness of the Paraguayans, is due to the fact of the need of population after the war...

We took a cab to cross the border, and then to the bus station.
Stamp out Brazil, stamp in Paraguay. (done by a little kid of about 10 years old)
Arrival to the mythical Ciudad del Este (of smuggling and gunrunning), and you see immediatly a huge change, in architecture, race, atmosphere... Very interesting!
4h30min to Asunción, if you don´t count the stops to pick up people who sell newspapers, sunglasses, chipa (traditional bread with a bit of taste of anisette)... but not with the purpose of tourist selling, (as there are not many...), and because you find it in every bus you take in Asunción...

At our arrival to the station, we called our shelter family who told us they were working outside the city, and would meet the following day.
We then went to the hotel La Española (of course) to spend our first night.
We had read on the newspapers there was a free jazz concert on the Brazil embassy.
Let´s go then!
At the way out, we stopped a guy to ask for a nice bar to have a beer.
Not only he brought us to the nice bar, but introduced us his friends and partied the whole night.
Viva Sebastián!!

FOZ DO IGUAÇU

After 2 days on the bus, we finally arrived at the magical border of Brasil-Paraguay! Foz do Iguaçu. Pousada do Laura managed by Luis. There are 2sides of the falls to visit, the Brazilian and the Argentinian. A great trip was organized by Luis on the argentinian one, with great walking, swiming, trekking all along, but we left it for future friend´s visits ;-)

We then went to the easy brazilian side, where we found our future:

Nice Mennonite German Friends

En Pousada da Laura

TRAVELING TO PARAGUAY

Bart and Caroline left to the island of Fernando. Our holidays in Brazil have finished!

We wanted to take a plane to Asunción, but they are quite expensive.

We read on the guide buses for long traveling in Brazil are chic. Let´s call it that way!

We then decided it´s good to see Brazil from the window of the omnibus. Our journey: Natal-Brasilia-Goiania-Foz do Iguaçu. Time: 70 hours.

We had the opportunity to see the amazing nature of Brazil´s inland. Vast and enormous lanscapes of big mountains and cactus trees. Adding to this magnificent scenery, the kindness, friendliness and politeness of brazilians. BRAVO!

PIPA

View fron the bed of our room

We started in Natal, and then went to Pipa-paradise to join Bart and Caroline.

In our 2room hotel you could only hear the beach and the wind blowing on the palm trees!

Having breakfast at the hotel!

TRIP TO BRASIL (NATAL)

26 September 2007

After some days in Calella (Costa Brava) and Amsterdam, here comes the big day!
Arturo doesn´t sleep at all, 2hours for Paula.
Checking, no window.
Row of 3, Paula in the middle, corridor for Arturo.
Paula´s neighbour is watching a movie on a dvd u could rent.
He offers her the headphones to share. He´s travelling alone and wants to make friends ;-)
Good talk all along the flight. He´s staying 8hours by bus from Natal, so ends up sleeping in our room!
Start of our amazing holidays in Natal and Pipa, heaven on earth