Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

I went out on the balcony of our cabin on the cruise ship, while my friend Andreas was still sleeping. I was too excited to sleep because this would be my first arrival to South America ever, visiting Cartagena in northern Colombia. The fishermen in the small and rustic boats waved good morning to me, while condors hovered next to our ship. It was a new sight for me and I love experience something new still, so soon I will be ready to conquer all of South America. While entering the harbour it looked more like a cheaper version of Miami with all the skyscrapers. This pic was taken in the evening, so I can assure you that Andreas is not a morning drinker When we went off the ship we immediately found ourselves in a zoo with flamingos, anteaters and stuff like that.  So many impressions at once and suddenly a girl stopped and pointed over my head like in shock. I didn't dare to move until she said "look a monkey!", and I was so relieved it wasn't a...

I have never been to South America so I was excited to go to the island Trinidad (in North America) since it's just 11 km off the coast from Venezuela, so I would be able to see it in the horizon with my own eyes.  I was so close to being in South America but instead my friend Christofer and I would go up north again with our cruise ship, after our visit to one of the 23 islands that make up Trinidad And Tobago. The capital that we visited was called Port Of Spain oddly enough, maybe they should have renamed it since Spain hasn't been in charge of the country since 1797. I had three things on my to do-list; I was gonna drink coconut straight from the fruit, dance limbo since it's invented on the island and smoke a cigar, even though I despise tobacco. The name Tobago probably stem from the second biggest island in the country being shaped like a cigar. Well I failed everything except for the limbo part. Improvised limbo dancing under a tree We went ...