Flash

Hi there,

just experienced something that i felt i had to blog about: yesterday
was the first time that i saw a thunderstorm here in La Paz. First
from inside a building, and then driving through the city by taxi. The
center of the storm was quite close, counting the seconds from flash
to thunder. And the lightnings felt quite close. I don't know, i guess
that is because i am at almost 4000m altitude, closer to the clouds.
But now to the most impressive part: When we stopped because two of us
had to leave the car, lightning stroke. To be more precise, it stroke
ten meters in front of me, into a tree. All the lights went out in the
neighbourhood and i saw a glowing part of a tree falling down. The
thunder was there immediately and REALLY loud.
Well, that's that. First time i experienced a flash that close. At the
time i was sitting inside the cab, so according to all physics
teachers i know i was perfectly safe (except for falling trees and the
likes). My two friends were standing outside of the cab and told me it
was quite scary for them. I guess so.

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Cheers
CGA

Die Grillsaison ist eröffnet

Hallo allemiteinander!

Nachdem hier in Suedamerika ja Sommer ist, wird natuerlich auch
gegrillt. War seit meiner Ankunft in Bolivien viermal Grillen
bei Freunden hier =)
Sehr gemuetlich, leckeres Fleisch und so. Natuerlich nicht die
gesuendeste Ernaehrung, hat aber saugut geschmeckt. Hehe. Und eifrig
getrunken wird natuerlich auch, ist teil der Lebensfreude.

Mahlzeit!

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Cheers
CGA

Bogota

¡Hola!

Just a short blog entry: yesterday i arrived in Bogota. I am being hosted by a nice friend of a friend and so far really like Bogota. I had a great view over the whole city, day and night view. About eight million people live here, more or less as much as the whole Austrian population. So it is a big city for me =) Also went to the Botero museum, a nice park and a huge university campus, through the old city, etc etc i have seen more or less all the places show on the pics of the wikipedia page, just on my first day here. Except for the hailstorm ;) but i heard about it...

In short, i am enjoying the life that i have again! Oh yes, and the first two weeks in Bolivia were grrreat tambien, Oruro carnaval was incredible, pics will follow when i get to it...

Hasta la proxima
CGA