Sea, sick and a flying carpet

We are on the coast of Colombia, about 100km West of Venezuela. A positive note, the chaos in Venezuela has bottomed out, and instead of millions leaving, a small trickle is going back.

We moved 5 hours along the coast from Cartagena to have a beach with surf, so that the kids could do surf lessons,which at $10 per hour are at a different price point than the ones they had in Israel and Australia.

"Could" being the operative word. The conditionalty had to be activated for three of them as they have Montezuma's revenge, aka gastroenteritis. To top that mother has it too. 😫. So we've had two days for them in a poor way, let's hope there is not a 3rd day.

The sole surf 🏄‍♂️ student left standing was Lennox, and he's done really well. The surf here is bigger and stronger than he experienced up to now, and despite a few knocks from his own board and kissing the sea floor hard, he is still standing and making progress.

I spent the time planning and booking the next phase. 7 attempts to book a flight from China to Vietnam before it worked. ( They want all imaginable details on all six of us, and each time it fails, it is back to square one, took literally hours).

The most curious part is that Mongolian airlines offers for an additional price, that I can " carry a carpet in flight." See screenshot. I'm not sure what to expect...Read more