The arrival
Hello dear ones,
in my first entry I will tell you about some of my arrival in Buenos Aires:
went off on Friday, 07/24/2009 by 5 clock in Offenburg. But despite the early Stundevsind we (my family and I) arrived safely and on time in Frankfurt airport. There I met up with some Mitfreiwilligen of the Evangelical Church in Baden. Together we went after extensive farewell, through security checks. At the gate we have still more volunteers, this time by the GAW (Gustav Adolf plant) taken with which we are already the last preparatory seminar have made. The flight was pretty uneventful ansich. We are 13 hours from Frankfurt to Buenos Aires directly. I have read in the time almost a whole book. Namely "My name is Luz," a book that plays in the period of military dictatorship in Argentina and is about a girl whose mother was killed as an infant and then the daughter of an officer was given. It was really shocking, what happened here. Gabs to eat pasta twice.
were at some point we finally passed the 13 hour flight and we landed safely in Buenos Aires. Our welcoming committee were several men with white coats and masks, watching us as we pass in front of a thermal imaging camera went. In addition, we had to specify exactly where we are located in the near future and even on what place we were sitting on the plane. All this of course is the swine flu due even if Argentina influenza A, as they say here probably exported than imported. But Argentina is finally also the country with the second-most deaths due to the swine flu.
But I'm so not a big worry, since they had in most cases runs smoothly, and here there is also enough good hospitals.
A first very typical experience for Argentina, was already the bus ride from the airport to our accommodation. We had 16 volunteers in our plane and were picked up by a minibus with 19 seats. This all sounds quite normal, but bear in mind is that we had almost all the three pieces of luggage there. This was apparently in the planning irgendiwe forget, so our luggage in the bus then stood up to the head. The best was then ncoh a comment from the bus driver who just said that we should not hesitate on the seats and not on the luggage sits, so the police are not complaining. The images which you can see on the right. Finally, however, we are still all arrived safe and with our entire luggage.
So much for the check-in, I'll be in touch again soon.
Greetings
Lukas
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The spirit of Sandwood Bay
In September I wrote something about the spirit of Sandwood Bay. For this I was able to find out during my tour of coincidences or something.
And although there was this "spirit" really, it was James McRory-Smith, who lived as a hermit for 30 years in Strath Chailleach. In the Bothy, a book is a biography of this interesting people. It is a sad story, Smith was a recluse after he had lost his wife and had apparently lost his footing and went throughout Scotland.
He then just as the home Strathchailleach chose is already extraordinary. Up to the nearest shopping venues are good 20km walk. The winters are cold and violent storms. He had to go out every day to be able to stand and peat to dry and then use this as fuel for the fire.
Today we see the traces left in the McRory Smith Bothy has. Among other things, various wall paintings, as seen in this picture:
He supplied himself with to find what he could and he allegedly poached from and to a sheep or wild game with his old Enfield .303 rifle. (The gun is not confirmed until today, no one has ever found).
Among other things he collected driftwood on the beach at Sandy Bay Wood, this will then early in the morning, so there were reports of the sighting "of a strange shape" to Sandwood Bay through the fog. He is said from time to solitary camper to death have shocked when he was caught as he was looking through the backpacks for usable reserves.
The Bothy could still be visited by hikers, McRory whether Smith was an inside was more dependent on his mood or the gadgets. If he felt disturbed, he should have ever chased the-Wall or curse at other times, visitors were faced with closed doors.
crashed in a storm parts of the Bothy one eventually, which was then also a time when he had to leave the Bothy for health reasons. He then lived in a trailer at the old port of Kinlochbervie and died shortly after. The Bothy has been prepared by the Mountain Bothy Association again and can once again a focal point on the way to Cape Wrath and Kearvaig be used.
In talks in Kinlochbervie, he was briefly described as "He was a character." Roughly translated, "Strangely Owl "or rather" Characters ".
In September I wrote something about the spirit of Sandwood Bay. For this I was able to find out during my tour of coincidences or something.
And although there was this "spirit" really, it was James McRory-Smith, who lived as a hermit for 30 years in Strath Chailleach. In the Bothy, a book is a biography of this interesting people. It is a sad story, Smith was a recluse after he had lost his wife and had apparently lost his footing and went throughout Scotland.
He then just as the home Strathchailleach chose is already extraordinary. Up to the nearest shopping venues are good 20km walk. The winters are cold and violent storms. He had to go out every day to be able to stand and peat to dry and then use this as fuel for the fire.
Today we see the traces left in the McRory Smith Bothy has. Among other things, various wall paintings, as seen in this picture:
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murals in Strathchailleach |
He supplied himself with to find what he could and he allegedly poached from and to a sheep or wild game with his old Enfield .303 rifle. (The gun is not confirmed until today, no one has ever found).
Among other things he collected driftwood on the beach at Sandy Bay Wood, this will then early in the morning, so there were reports of the sighting "of a strange shape" to Sandwood Bay through the fog. He is said from time to solitary camper to death have shocked when he was caught as he was looking through the backpacks for usable reserves.
The Bothy could still be visited by hikers, McRory whether Smith was an inside was more dependent on his mood or the gadgets. If he felt disturbed, he should have ever chased the-Wall or curse at other times, visitors were faced with closed doors.
crashed in a storm parts of the Bothy one eventually, which was then also a time when he had to leave the Bothy for health reasons. He then lived in a trailer at the old port of Kinlochbervie and died shortly after. The Bothy has been prepared by the Mountain Bothy Association again and can once again a focal point on the way to Cape Wrath and Kearvaig be used.
In talks in Kinlochbervie, he was briefly described as "He was a character." Roughly translated, "Strangely Owl "or rather" Characters ".
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leave after a breakfast in the morning at 07:00 I Websters and make my way to Sandwood Bay from there Cross Country to Cape Wrath to come. As it is still very early , I walk a little by the tranquil port town.
Waterfront building is also a poster on the exercise mode on the training area of Cape Wrath. As previously announced are also here to no exercise dates in the coming days. So it goes a road up to Oldshoremore.
The beautiful beach, take place in the otherwise kitesurfing competitions, invites you to a short break. So hurry down the road taken to the beach.
After a few more miles of paved, narrow streets to reach the path to Sandy Wood Bay. From here on it is about 5 km to the beautiful beach. The path is laid out nice and in very good condition and, despite the deep Torfmoor right and left quite dry.
So down to the beach, fought through the dunes and the beach ran deep and the water. The beach looks a bit like a South Seas beach, the water looks really inviting. The water temperature of something above 10 ° C is rather less welcoming.
Strangely, there is also a strange smell, a strange odor of decay. What from a distance looked like a gray rock, emerged from the vicinity as beached whale. I'm going for a porpoise.
farther After a pause, it goes further north. A correct path is not visible, so follow I am a wildlife trail. However, it was still before the broad outflow of Loch Sand Wood cross. This was indeed intended 20m wide, but it so flat that you could overcome it with dry-shod boots.
So I've turned up the flanks of the hill. The climb is exhausting, but straightforward.
Then it happened
, while descending through a layer of peat exposed down I fall down and slide away unhappy, while I break one of the two trekking poles. My foot gets a little off, but I can see only half an hour later. Because of my foot then begins to ache, I decide the day once in the nearby Bothy "Strath Chailleach" to end. After half an hour, the Bothy is reached.
was in the Bothy it dry peat, that is only once a peat fire in the fireplace ignited and hung up to dry the wet clothes on. The fire radiates a comfortable temperature, the peat burns very hot and gives off a pleasant Torfgeruch, the visitors to Scotland is well known.
even fix dinner cooked and then relaxed the day, in the hope that the foot is fully up again tomorrow in order.
leave after a breakfast in the morning at 07:00 I Websters and make my way to Sandwood Bay from there Cross Country to Cape Wrath to come. As it is still very early , I walk a little by the tranquil port town.
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The new port, Kinlochbervie |
Waterfront building is also a poster on the exercise mode on the training area of Cape Wrath. As previously announced are also here to no exercise dates in the coming days. So it goes a road up to Oldshoremore.
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the beach at Oldshoremore |
The beautiful beach, take place in the otherwise kitesurfing competitions, invites you to a short break. So hurry down the road taken to the beach.
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beach of Oldshoremore |
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beach of Oldshoremore |
After a few more miles of paved, narrow streets to reach the path to Sandy Wood Bay. From here on it is about 5 km to the beautiful beach. The path is laid out nice and in very good condition and, despite the deep Torfmoor right and left quite dry.
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Sandwood Bay, on the south side |
So down to the beach, fought through the dunes and the beach ran deep and the water. The beach looks a bit like a South Seas beach, the water looks really inviting. The water temperature of something above 10 ° C is rather less welcoming.
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Sandwood Bay, beach |
Strangely, there is also a strange smell, a strange odor of decay. What from a distance looked like a gray rock, emerged from the vicinity as beached whale. I'm going for a porpoise.
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dead whale |
farther After a pause, it goes further north. A correct path is not visible, so follow I am a wildlife trail. However, it was still before the broad outflow of Loch Sand Wood cross. This was indeed intended 20m wide, but it so flat that you could overcome it with dry-shod boots.
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hole sand Wood, Wood Sand Bay |
So I've turned up the flanks of the hill. The climb is exhausting, but straightforward.
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Looking back over Loch Sand and Sand Wood Wood Bay |
, while descending through a layer of peat exposed down I fall down and slide away unhappy, while I break one of the two trekking poles. My foot gets a little off, but I can see only half an hour later. Because of my foot then begins to ache, I decide the day once in the nearby Bothy "Strath Chailleach" to end. After half an hour, the Bothy is reached.
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Strath Chailleach |
was in the Bothy it dry peat, that is only once a peat fire in the fireplace ignited and hung up to dry the wet clothes on. The fire radiates a comfortable temperature, the peat burns very hot and gives off a pleasant Torfgeruch, the visitors to Scotland is well known.
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from peat fires in Strath Chailleach |
even fix dinner cooked and then relaxed the day, in the hope that the foot is fully up again tomorrow in order.
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