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A visit to the German embassy

Pos: here
Loc: Chaguarama/ Trinidad
Acc: Michel and Nevine’s house

Today alloy was my “taxi driver” – thanks! I first visited the German Embassy and had a nice chat with ambassador Stefan Schlüter, Ulrich Kinne and Claudia Tietze. Getting inside the embassy is almost like entering another country, with security check and no electronics to be taken in. We decided on a small press conference tomorrow at 4 pm at the kayak center. As I was already in the “diplomatic quarter”, I also wanted to apply for my Suriname visa, but they had some holiday and closed. So tomorrow…

My pleasure of the day was a visit to the hairdresser to cover my gray hair and to make me ten years younger again :-). Thanks to Jenny and Ricky “sponsoring” a free visit at the salon where their daughter Melanie was doing a great job on me. ready to tackle another leg of my trip then! Some food shopping and – packing from a well stocked supermarket finished the chores for today.

Another pleasure was some listening to a local steel band at night, which Glenn was organizing. As he is very much into the local music, I appreciated the chance to see a bunch of young people playing a really great sound on instruments made out of oil drums. Amazing! If I wouldn’t have been that tired already at night… it was way after my sleeping time at the beach at darkness…