TO PARAMARIBO, SURINAME!
Farewell Georgetown and off to Paramaribo with the marvellously-named, Gum Air
Meanwhile, we liked this ad - look at the level of mobile/broadband 'cover' over Guyana - if you're not on the coast, don't even think about it...
This chap was sitting on a wall until I asked him whether I might take his photo
We're off
The border between Guyana and Suriname is demarcated by the wide Atlantic estuary of the Courantyne river
There are two airports here, a big one a long way south of Paramaribo (we'll be going there to fly out) and a dinky Zorg en Hoop which is a hop into town
Quick cab ride and here's our home for three nights, the Albergo Alberga, in Paramaribo
Time for a short walk to get some bearings - the Roman Catholic cathedral-basilica of St Peter and Paul is the biggest wooden structure in the western hemisphere apparently, consecrated in 1885, and restored in 2010. Very fine, but closed...
A local
and then meeting some more locals and sampling our first Paramaribo beer, or 'Parbo' as they call both it and the city
Meanwhile, we liked this ad - look at the level of mobile/broadband 'cover' over Guyana - if you're not on the coast, don't even think about it...
The border between Guyana and Suriname is demarcated by the wide Atlantic estuary of the Courantyne river
There are two airports here, a big one a long way south of Paramaribo (we'll be going there to fly out) and a dinky Zorg en Hoop which is a hop into town
Quick cab ride and here's our home for three nights, the Albergo Alberga, in Paramaribo
Time for a short walk to get some bearings - the Roman Catholic cathedral-basilica of St Peter and Paul is the biggest wooden structure in the western hemisphere apparently, consecrated in 1885, and restored in 2010. Very fine, but closed...
A local
and then meeting some more locals and sampling our first Paramaribo beer, or 'Parbo' as they call both it and the city
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