Day 11 - 8th January
Caracas - Venezuela
The reports regarding Caracas were not good - pollution, traffic jams, muggings, poverty, etc so most people decided to give it a miss. However, "Crocodile Quigley", his mate "Jungle Jill" and "I'm up for anything - Bren" decided to hire a car and hit the "Bundu". We couldn't get a self drive car, so we took one with a driver....
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Brenda, Jill & our young driver.... We learnt a lot about the flloods & mud slides of 2 years ago & were amazed to find that on the coast road, along which we drove, 20,000 people had been killed in one night - many lay buried beneath our feet! In addition 1/4 million people had to be evacuated! |
The spot from where I took the photograph had been a town - it had been completely destroyed & flattened - you can see the sides of two blocks of flats still damaged after 2 years |
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Bren & Jill standing in front of one of the boulders that had been washed down in the mudslide! |
A marina being rebuilt |
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Left - During the sweet
course, our two superb waiters produced a bottle of champagne remaining
from the previous evening (the 8th bottle), and served it containing fresh
strawberries - you can see we enjoyed it!
Right - We then retired to the Atrium for a musical interlude.... |
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Needless to say those girls soon had the normally tranquil and refined Atrium musical quiz in an uproar!!
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We never could understand why they didn't invite us back? |
End of Day 11
