Sunday, December 20, 2009

Latin America road-trip

Las Bovedas, Cartagena

Past November a business trip took me in just 11 days to six countries: Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and USA (technically, it was seven as I had a short stop-over in Panama City).
The mandatory juicy & greasy burger for lunch, South Beach, Miami

Incredible enough, the careful but extremely tight schedule worked out perfectly, and the meetings and flights happened as planned..the only two hiccups were a missing dinner with Justin, Borja and Diego in Miami as it took me two hours to clear customs there (urrgrg) and the stressful flight to San José without the mandatory yellow-fever shot that is required in Costa Rica when travelling from Colombia. (don't ask me how I got into the country ;-)

Getting ready for the Desfile de Balleneras, Cartagena

The highlight of the trip was the opportunity to meet good friends along the way: Paulo, Carol and Jakob in Sao Paulo, Francois & Karen in Santiago, Diego and Daniel in Miami, and specially to be able to hang out with Anton in Cartagena in the just by pure coincidence THE weekend of the year in Colombia, the crowning of Miss Colombia. The national event there. (we made it incognito into the Colombian yellow press... ;-)

Impressive view from Diego's apartment, Flamingo Blg, Miami Beach

Santiago and the Andes

Getting introduced to the new Walewski

With the mandatory sake maracuja caipirinha at Spot, Jardins, Sao Paulo

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