Ultimos Posts 1. 29/08/2006 10:14 - Exclusivo: la pareja feliz Hola from Coch abamba. It´s official, a Jacobs has finally got married. Marioly and I had a wonderful day, combining the best o f Bolivian, Catholic , English and Jewish traditions including lots of folk dancing, a reading from Corinthians, a best man, wedding speeches, Israeli music and the breaking of the glass, and we even make the Society pages of Cochabamba´s Los Tiempos newsp... 2. 13/04/2006 16:25 - Full circle Two weeks into my Bolivian adventure I was invited to a wedding by a friend of a work colleague of my friend Andrea where I chatted to a pretty architect called Marioly (as well as quite a few other pretty girls!). Little did I know where it would lead. Anyway, it feels like I have come full circle as with a little more than two weeks to go until I return to the UK I was attending ... 3. 26/03/2006 22:33 - Broken noses and sinking ships The title is not meant to put off potential visitors to this part of the world and neither is it a fair reflection of my family's trip to South America... but I can hardly not mention these episodes. A few weeks ago, my parents, uncle and aunt were fast asleep one night on their Gallapagos ship cruising between the islands when they were shaken from their slumber by a huge crash. T... 4. 02/03/2006 15:04 - Bombs, buckets and hosepipes The title just about sums up Carnival, which after four days of celebration, ended on tuesday (well, not quite for us, it was Marioly's mum's birthday yesterday and about 50 guests popped over during the evening). While most people know about Carnival in Brazil, the next biggest Carnival on the continent is probably in Oruro, about 4 hours from Cochabamba. Marioly was not keen to g... 5. 24/02/2006 18:00 - No more paperwork please! I cannot take any more, please not another "tramite" or document... Such is the never ending Bolivian bureaucracy (and with which I believe the British Embassy is in connivance.) So just how complicated can it be to get married in Bolivia and for my betrothed to get a visa to come to live in the UK? Well, not only do I need my birth certificate, passport, a declaration that I am si... | Estadisticas Ver Codigo HTML Posicion del Blog en Nuestro Ranking Hits Semanales Hits Mensuales |