







A Conradian journey up the Essequibo River over the weekend has the Henryssons really wondering about the relative merits of the Guyana experience. We had rented a house in the jungle with the three families of Elin Katla's best friends. And what a splendid weekend! In fact, we can hardly recall other such brilliant mini-break. How we managed to led this house evade us for two sticky years in Georgetown will be one of the lasting mysteries of our stay in Guyana. 

Regina made it from NY just in time for Circo Suarez, which is in town these days all the way from Mexico. What could have been a routine entertainment became a full hilarity when poor Henry was hijacked on stage to try the world's smallest bicycle. There are unconfirmed news that local people who witnessed this event are still in shock from the side effects of uncontrollable laughter. Anyway, the Henryssons' ability to entertain Guyanese people runs infinitely deep and on Sunday Regina took Karen and her kids swimming at the Pegasus.

Home sweet home. Or whatever. Dear old Georgetown has greeted us back from our holidays with its unique brand of colonial charm and thigh moistening warmth. Fortunately, last weeks floods had receded when we returned (the houses of some of our friends let in more than 30 cm of floodwater) but blackouts, water shortages and prison breaks have all lifted our spirits this week. Elin Katla has not yet started school and thus spends her morning with her father at the coffee house playing cards, reading the New Yorker and listing to his lectures on pre-critical idealism and the relative benefits of espresso drinking. On the other front, Regina has realized that the Bob Geldof School of international aid is probably spot on. Hence, Bob’s First Rule of Working in Development (aka FRoWD): we all hate Mondays.
Þá fer Regína að pakka niður Gisele sandölunum sínum og halda til Grenada. Þetta er ströndin sem við verðum á. Namm. Reyndar var fellibylurinn Dean að ganga yfir þarna rétt hjá þannig að það gæti verið minna um pálmatré þegar við lendum. Ef við lendum. Flugsamgöngur í Karabíska hafinu eru brokkgengar þegar best lætur eins og lesendur þessa bloggs rennur kannski minni til. Það gæti tekið þær nokkra daga að jafna sig í sitt skipulega kaos eftir eitt stykki fellibyl. Hvað um það. Ferðasagan mun birtast hérna eftir rúmlega viku. Bestu kveðjur frá okkur öllum þangað til.
Regina is in the process of luggageing her Gisele Bundchen sandals, while the rest of the Henryssons pack their less glamorous beachwear. Yes, we are going to Grenada this weekend for a week! If we can make this holiday hurricane and flight disruption free it is going to be awesome. We are renting a cottage next to the Calabash Hotel, sharing the beach (see picture) and in short walking distance from the Hotel's Gary Rhodes run Michelin starred restaurant. Hurray! The saga of our Caribbean adventure will follow in due time.


Það er eins og að við höfum flutt inn í hús hennar... hvað sem hún hét nú aftur hexið í Andrésblöðunum. Risastór karta hefur búið um sig í skógrindinni okkar, leðurblökur fljúga um rjáfur og nú eru galdrasveppir farnir að vaxa upp úr gólfinu í svefnherberginu okkar eins og sjá má á meðfylgjandi mynd.
The Henryssons might as well have moved in with the Adams family. A giant toad lives in the corridor, bats are flying around the fan in the living room and now mushrooms are popping up in our bedroom.

The rigndi látlaust fyrstu helgina í maí og allt virtist ætla á kaf. En viti menn. Síðan þá hefur varla komið dropi úr lofti en í staðinn höfum við þurft að þola óbærilegan hita og raka. Það mun enginn taka eftir því þegar það byrjar að rigna aftur. Allir eru rennblautir og rænulausir hvort sem er. Sitt hvað gerist þó þrátt fyrir mókið. Það hafa til dæmis verið sett upp umferðaljós á nokkrum gatnamótum í Georgetown. Og það virka m.a.s. ein þeirra! Lakari fréttir voru þó innbrot í höfuðstöðvar SÞ. Tölvubúnaði og kexi stolið. Ákaflega óhuggulegt allt saman. Sérstaklega þar sem þetta á að vera ein öruggasta bygging í bænum. En þó frábært að enginn varð fyrir þjófunum. Afmælisveisla sem Elínu Kötlu var boðið í skyggði þó á flest annað þessa helgina, enda boðið upp á ævintýraferð á hestvagni um hverfið. Nú getur Elín Katla ekki beðið eftir sinni veislu um næstu helgi og foreldrar hennar geta ekki sofið því þau vita að sú veisla má síður vera síðri. Hugmyndir einhver – plís?????Páskadagur í Suriname
Hattadagur í skólanum - Páskaskemmtun

Easter-Mad-Hat-Day at Elin’s school today. The mother made some improvements on the hat that won such rave reviews last year. Elin could barely keep her head straight. Anyway, she needs to be sporty these days. Georgetown is lazytown no more with the Cricket World Cup in town. Henry played in Ralf Schumacher’s Europe XI (Ralf is here on behalf of the EU) against South-America in a (not-so) friendly football match on Saturday. However, no one seems to have noticed Henry’s crucial goal in the 5-4 win, due to serious cricket fever. The first game in Georgetown will take place tomorrow. Already there is some excitement. Two Irish sport correspondents have been mugged and an English BBC sport journalist has been made persona non grada for establishing the simple fact that Georgetown and Skegness have much in common. Apparently, the president of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, our dear old Barrat, is not amused and refuses to speak to the BBC. Thank god this very blog has escaped his attention up to now… www.flickr.com
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