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Sunday, April 06, 2008
City of Eternal Spring
It’s a lovely day outside, birds are singing, a nice breeze comes through the open windows, and everywhere we look it’s green with mountains in the background. We are in Medellin, city of eternal spring and our home for the coming 6 weeks. With rainy season in April. Haha, nice timing of us. But it’s nothing like the muggy tsuyuu of Japan. It just means that the whole day it’s nice fresh sunny weather with only a couple of hours of a good shower in the afternoon.
We’re staying with our friends Andres and Adriana and their baby girl Maria del Mar. Lucky us. They live in the best part of town, have a really nice apartment, and this afternoon we will join them to visit the farm where Andres’ parents live. They have cows and horses. I will learn to ride a horse for the first time!
Food here is wonderful, we just had lunch with home-cooked frigoles con arroz (beans with rice), chicharon (=deep fried fat that I personally don’t enjoy, but everybody else certainly does!) and patacones (fry banana). We’ve also been enjoying various types of arepas. Yum.
The jetlag is wearing off and we’re pretty much settled into the local rythm of waking up at 6am. This morning M and I took a walk to explore the area. There’s some steep and hilly roads here so that was a good excersize. Yesterday we went for a stroll as well and took Maria del Mar with us. Visited the (very up-market) supermarket and discovered many Dutch cheezes!!!
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Comments:
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Hi Brechtje,
Good to read you’re really getting into the “cuisine locale”! When I lived in Nicaragua we often had frijoles con arroz (y crema) which the local Chinese served as flijores con allos (y clema). i wonder whether the Dutch cheeses are any good - when exported they’re often too young to have any proper taste :-(
hasta la proxima
Peter -
Oh how exciting! And yum cheese!!!
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oh B!! M!!! You are really there!
I`m so excited for you:D
keep the postings coming!!!
wahay! -
Heel erg fijn dat je nu ook gaat paardrijden! Geniet van al het moois en ga in galop op dat paard !
Ik moet wel even opzoeken wat het eten precies is !
Liefs,mama