SLOW START

After a very stressful but also beautiful end of the year 2019 – the last weekend turned into a massive farewell party and I still can’t believe how many people and friends came out to say goodbye, thanks so much for this everybody!!! – we finally went on our end-of-year family holiday to Colombia. Stopovers in Grenada and Curaçao cut down the long arrival, and I mostly occupied myself with setting up this blog, reading, enjoying the sun and spending time with the family in the meantime.

Colombia has been great so far, beautiful landscape an cities, lovely people and great food - especially meat! I got to see quite a bit of the country through stops in Bogotá, Catagena, the Quindío region and Valle de Leyva. Check out the image section to see what all this looked like.

Also, I started to get familiar with my camera which I bought in the middle of the last year, as I want to get deeper into photography. I wish I had picked this up earlier!

Concerning my journey, the time of being alone in South America is getting closer, and by now I have organised a stay in Peru for March where I’ll be supporting a school in the north of the country that needs support in many different fields.

Also, just recently an opportunity to help in a house renovation project near Barranquilla (Colombia) turned up, so I’ll be heading up there for the second half of January. Funnily enough we spent New Year’s in Cartagena, not too far away from where I’ll join this first project - I’m getting excited!

By now, I think that I’ll be staying a bit longer in Colombia and make my way southward then through Ecuador, where Im planning to see a friend at the end of the month and hopefully can help in a project at the coast I have contacted a week ago. They are trying to establish self-sustaining farms and also clean beaches in their area, something I would love to get involved with - especially after I got into scuba diving during our stay in Grenada.