Stu´s reaction

Stu reading the blog...and before beer.

Stu´s birthday

The beer experiment was very much at the centre of this 16th July, Stu was very eager to try out various combinations and locations and views as you can see, making it a terrible birthday altogether. Given the occasion, we checked out of the youth hostel and checked ourselves into a rather nice Posada, with a pool and cable TV and most importantly its own generator. While the rest of the town ( including our former hostel) slipped into darkness due to a powercut, and people stumbled through the cobbled streets of Paraty using candles and torches like in the olden days, we just had a steam sauna and a caipirinha at the bar of our posh hotel.

Happy Birthday Stuart!!

As you can see, Roeser is an adequate substitute for the tropical climate of South America - however there is still nothing quite as good as Mr C in Luxembourg.

Hope you have a great birthday, I'm sure you can get hold of a decent cocktail over there...we'll stick to our brown ale and cider. Cheers!

Love

Peggy & John
xxx

Happy Birthday from Misslebecca

Stu,

next pint is on me,

hugs and kisses

Misslebecca

Big Brother´s wishes

Do you emember the river Tay?

Unfortunatley I have no embarassing shots however could talk at length about Stu´s

fetish for obscure food and drink and the impact it has once the bowel cycle has came to the last part of the journey. apparently best experienced with the daily paper preferably a sunday as this is the biggest read as it takes in the whole weeks news.anywaybecause of stu wiser years a pic of yoda wouldbe suitableas will a trip down memory lane with the tay me and mags send a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY and a wee pic that he does not need reminding of in which direction to gohere is happy birthday in another language

"Happy Birthday" Afrikaans Veels geluk met jou verjaarsdag! Albanian Urime ditelindjen! Alsatian Gueter geburtsdaa! Amharic Melkam lidet! Arabic Eid milaad saeed! or Kul sana wa inta/i tayeb/a! (masculine/feminine) Armenian Taredartzet shnorhavor! or Tsenund shnorhavor! Assyrian Eida D'moladukh Hawee Brikha! Austrian-Viennese Ois guade winsch i dia zum Gbuadsdog! Aymara (Bolivia) Suma Urupnaya Cchuru Uromankja! Azerbaijani Ad gununuz mubarek! -- for people older than youAd gunun mubarek! -- for people younger than you Basque Zorionak! Belauan-Micronesian Ungil el cherellem! Bengali (Bangladesh/India) Shuvo Jonmodin! Bicol (Philippines) Maogmang Pagkamundag! Bislama (Vanuatu) Hapi betde! or Yumi selebretem de blong bon blong yu! Brazil Parabens a voce! or Parabens e muitas Breton Deiz-ha-bloaz laouen deoc'h! Bulgarian Chestit Rojden Den! Cambodian Som owie nek mein aryouk yrinyu! Catalan Per molts anys! or Bon aniversari! or Moltes Felicitats! Chamorro Biba Kumplianos! Chinese-Cantonese Sun Yat Fai Lok! Chinese Fuzhou San Ni Kuai Lo! Chiness-Hakka Sang Ngit Fai Lok! Chinese-Mandarin qu ni sheng er kuai le Chinese-Shanghaiese San ruit kua lok! Chinese-Tiociu Se Jit khuai lak! Chronia Polla NA ZHSHS Croatian Sretan Rodendan! Czech Vsechno nejlepsi k Tvym narozeninam!! Danish Tillykke med fodselsdagen! Dutch-Antwerps Ne gelukkege verjoardach! Dutch-Bilzers Ne geleukkege verjoardoag! Dutch-Drents Fellisiteert! Dutch-Flemish Gelukkige verjaardag! or Prettige verjaardag! Dutch-Frisian Fan herte lokwinske! Dutch-Limburgs Proficiat! or Perfisia! Dutch-Spouwers Ne geleukkege verjeurdoag! Dutch-Twents Gefeliciteard met oen'n verjoardag! Dutch Hartelijk gefeliciteerd! or Van harte gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag! English Happy Birthday!

Vill Gleck fir dain Geburtsdag!

Greetings from the boys back home!

Happy Birthday for Big Hungry Scotsman

There once was a young lad of Perth,
Who by cycling did lose lots of girth,

He then met a Feller,

"You're great" he did tell her,

"I'll move from my country of birth!"

So to countries low he did go,

Away from the rain and the snow,

Where the teaching is easy,

And relationships breezy,

But we miss him back here, he should know.

Now all over the world, they take trips,

And of much local beer do they sip,

But like all Scots abroad,

While back home it just poured,

Stu's deep in Brazil...with the squits.

---Next time you're back in Europe, I'm going to have to make a proper effort to visit you. It's been far too long.Mahinda

Ísla Grande, Brazil

These are the modest boats with which you arrive on the island and on which they take you on a trip, like the one for snorkelling in the Blue Lagoon. By the way, they don´t really eat you, only have a wee nibble.

More monkey business

This week we visited ´Brazil´s most beautiful beach´ called Lopez Mendez, on the island Isla Grande. You have to take a boat there from the main part of the island and it is like taking part in a holiday programme. The boat looks like a sailing boat, Brazilian music is playing loud and all the ladies are sitting around in bikinis (I didn´t notice myself, but Martine mentioned it later in the day). Anyway, back to the story, Martine went for a call of nature in the trees and was met by some little friends who were wondering what she was up to. Standing at about 20cm plus a stripy black and white tail, they look at you just as you are looking at them, as if they are asking themselves: Why this funny looking creature with white skin and no fur is peeing in my garden. Why does she look scared when I´m only 20cm tall and she stands at 1.65m? Why is her even bigger friend reaching for a shiny square thing that flashes light? Why is he white and red?´ Martine was very brave though while a group of monkeys formed around her. She didn´t move once as they came closer and closer. Yes she is very brave indeed and was not stuck to the spot due to being in the middle of the call of nature, or marking her territory as you might call it...

Click on this-Iguazu for you

Click on this and hopefully, it will take you to Iguazu Falls on You tube. Enjoy!

Iguazu Falls

Okay, extra pair of trousers, extra pair of socks, underwear, Fleeze, Poncho, Raincoat, Cap, woollen hat, gloves, no need for sunscreen, do you want another cup of tea? God, it´s freezing in Iguazu, and we are supposed not only to go close to the falls but go UNDER them with a boat.
For three days, we have waited for the weather to clear, but as it hasn´t and as we hit a record of sleeping with 5 covers plus sleeping bag the previous night, we ´ve decided to head for the falls.

As we arrive: sunshine all over the place, we take off one layer after the next, why did we not bring sunglasses and sun screen? Somoene must have told someone up there we were coming today.

As we get on the boat, everyone shout: have a nice shower! Smile! The boat takes us around the corner and suddenly you see the biggest waterfalls, it´s just fascinating. Whenever you think you´ve seen it all, there´s another big one around the corner. We´re sitting on the boat, our belongings and shoes in super waterproof bags, jeans rolled up, suddenly the captain cries:´No more cameras, put a cameras away!´ I take our my super cool bright yellow poncho and put it on top of my raincoat and my cap, just to get ready for ´the shower.´ Everyone else looks scared seeing me: Is it really that bad? The boat takes off, we get closer to the falls, get a bit of a sprinkle, but you get a good idea of the amount of water coming down and the noise it makes. Okay, ready? ´Stu, have you got the poncho covering your jeans? Ready? Ready? ´We go closer, get another wee sprinkle, aaaand, thank you, now we can go back....

Ok, in hindsight, maybe we were overly prepaired, but we DID get wet feet coming off the boat onto the wet stairs. Thank God we had our extra pair of socks!

Santa Maria de Catamarca

No laangem Sichen haten mir Santa Maria de catamarca endlech fonnt: am Norden vun Argentinien, hannert geien Hiwwelen, an do wou d´Beem Plaaz fir de Steps gema hun. An deser Geigend reent et net vill, wat dann och direct en Problem as fir d´Wirtschaft an dÁrbechtspalzen an der Geigend, well der gin et der net vill. Eng Staadt dei ganz aanescht as wei dat wat mir bis dohin vun Argnetinien gesin hun, an awer as eppes dselwecht: d´Leit sin immens leif.

Mir waaren ennert anerem do fir en Projet vun enger letzeburger ONG kucken an filmen ze goen, an sin direct superleif vun der Famill vun der Directrice empfaang gin. De Projet dreit ronderem eng Schoul dei geschaafen gouf fir den Leit aus der Geigend d´Handwierker an d´Traditiounen vun der Geigend nees kennen beizebrengen an Konschtobjetén, Artisanat hierzestellen fir Touristen an ze wessen wou di verschidden Elementer hirkommen. Et war immens interessant, et sin Leit, virun allem Fraen vun all Alter dei an deser Schoul sin an super Biller, Keramik, Bijouén an Metallsaachen hirstellen. Een vun den interessansten Atelierén war wuel den vun der Woll, wou eng 15 Fraen de Stuart net mei lass gelooss hun an beschwat hun sou dass mir zum Schluss nach bal eisen Bus verpasst hun, hien awer en scheine Schal kaf huet:). Den Atelier gouf vun der Marguerita an d´Liewen geruf, virun enger 5 Joren, wei di argentinesch Economie zesummengebrach as an d´Famillen am Duerf keng Arbescht mei haten. Hei hun d´Fraen eng Arbescht fonnt, wat och nach eischter ongeweinlech war, well et nach eng zimlech patriarschesch an machistesch Gesellschaft hei as. An awer: matt denen Machinen dei mir zu Esch Sauer vlait eischter an der Duchfabrik gesin oder soss an engem Musee, maachen si Ploveren an Schaler, aus Lamawoll: 30 Stonnen Arbescht fir en Plover. Domatt kennt Suen an d´Duerf, mee nach vill mei, schengt et.

Iwwerall sin mir leif empfang gin, sin bekacht gin, well eis Quick Zoppen eischter aarmseileg ausgesin hun an hiren Aaan. Eppes as secher: d´Temperaturen um Termometer waren mei wei deif do uewen, mee wat dei mei déif sin, wat d´Leit mei waarm sin, schengt et.