It’s late August, we’re little over 1 month out before we set off on our Big Trip. It’s time to give a short update on our visa struggle. After Ms. Rice successfully received her Peruvian visa in July, things took up some speed in the beginning …
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The quest for craft beer – South America (2)
After our first post about the Peruvian and Bolivian craft beer scene, we will continue on the remaining countries we’ll visit in South America. We’ve been in touch with the Peruvian craft beer association, who actually told us about the South American “Cup” of craft beers, …
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In our final part of the trilogy of planning for South America (Peru-Boliva and Chile-Patagonia), we’ll be in the Northern area of Argentina and Uruguay for almost 2 weeks. Our first part of the Big Trip will be getting to and end, yet we still plan …
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The quest for craft beer – South America (1)
One of our passions is beer. It’s true, we’re beer geeks. Being able to live in Belgium helps a lot: classical Trappist beers, beautiful Geuze beers, and plenty of changes in the craft beer scene, you name it, it’s all there in our small country. Small …
Lees verderPlanning Chile & Patagonia
When we started looking at the map of South America and started our research about Chile, we realized two things: it’s a beautiful country with lots of things to see and do, but the darn place is oh so stretched (4,300 km) . Thus, we took this into …
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Where do you start? The three most common sources we’ve been using this far are: Books: there are plenty of good ones (Lonely Planet, Frommer’s, Trotter, ….). Buy one if you want to take it on the way (heavy though) or keep as a souvenir, …
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The Visa hassle – Update Peru
We’ve been talking in one of our first posts about the Visa hassle for South American countries (details here). Mid June, we provided all required documentation electronically to the Peruvian Consulate of Brussels. An interview was planned on July 11th to finalize everything. After waiting for …
Lees verderPlanning the Big Trip – South America
We’ve talked about the big picture of the trip (see more details: Planning the Big Trip) and how we’re currently getting ready (Check our post on 3 months left). But where are we actually going within South America? Or even, why South America? After living …
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