Picture update

This the common room at the hostel where everybody gathers to drink the free coffee during the day and help themselves to the beer fridge in the evening. Even though I´m now living down the road this is where I spend most of my time.

This is this John and Nicole, the Australian couple who I work with at the Bavaria brewery.

This is the view from the wedding reception. You can also see something of Bogota in the background.

Here is the happy couple, Dave and Margarita. I just saw Dave and he´s quite annoyed about the behaviour of his bride´s family at the wedding. As well as everything I´ve already mentioned, many of them turned up late - hours after the service. Among the latecomers were an aunty and uncle who had their five-year-old daughter with them. She had got herself all dressed up in ribbons and bows to be a flower girl at the service. The grown-ups seems totally unconcerned as they breezed in, but the little girl couldn´t hide her disappointment at missing her moment. Funnily enough, the relatives all turned up in time for the food and plonked themselves down in the best seats. Incredibly they didn´t leave any room for the bride and groom, so they popped back to their flat for a cup of tea while everyone else stuffed their faces. Much later on they got some cold left-overs.

I´m not sure what caused this moment of hilarity.

I just bumped into the Swiss hippy (aka the Bolivian Baby Slayer) and he´s abandoned his mission, which is bad news for God´s creation. His plan to ride down through the continent to take part in the universal battle of good and evil was somewhat hampered by the fact that he had chosen a Yamaha 500 as his steed. Which didn´t have an engine. So when Christ´s 1000-year reign fails to happen you know who to blame - the mechanics of Bogota, who, as Frankenchrist said, are nowhere near so good as the Swiss.