Hi Base Campers!
I have read a few posts here and there in your thread, trying to figure out the trek idea - it's a really neat concept!

I'm hoping to give continuation to The International Team after Jean-Pierre. First and foremost I need to find some breathing room from a lot of stuff so that I can actually become more active on the forums here.

Just wanted to say hi in the meantime! :3

This was a very nice greeting, Fossaw.
acpartsman is very good at that, too.
flodisar - as you may have picked up, Fossaw - will be our host captain when he has brought his ship in order
- which means that he has formally been granted the title of captain of The International Team.

The Bristish/English class distinctions have influenced your mother quite a bit, it seems.
In English books you often meet this phenomenon, which is a bit foreign.
Which impression has the TV-series 'Keeping up Appearances' made on you?
I take it that there is some truth to it upon which the exaggerations build.
I loved those programs, the best being those where
Mrs Hyacinth landed herself in impossibly embarrassing situations.

'Yes Minister' and 'Yes Prime Minister' ran on Danish TV. They were among our favorites
along with 'Keeping up Appearances', 'Faulty Towers', and 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'.
I don't know how your experience with British versus Danish humour is. You must have a good insight into of both.
I find that the two of them swing immensely well together and the disrespectful US variety as well.
In my experience Swedish humour is more foreign - strangely enough.
My dentist worked for two years in Sweden and her jokes were poorly understood she told ....
- but the Germans whom I thought were not champions of humour actually had some good ones.
In Hamburg-Altona (Altona was Danish at some point) for example I met this one on a foot path along the Elbe:
Vernünftige fahren hier nicht med dem Rad.
Anderen ist es verboten.
Sensible people don't ride bike here
For everybody else it is forbidden.
So I revised my view

Little Mermaid,

C'est sûr qu'avoir un animal représente certaines contraintes. Personnellement, ça ne me gène pas de devoir balader Louloup, ni de ne pas pouvoir le faire garder (même avec des amis qu'il adore, il s'échappe pour me retrouver). Par rapport à ce qu'il m'apporte, je trouve même que c'est 'pas cher payé'.

La seule chose qui est dommage, et à laquelle je n'avais pas pensé quand je l'ai récupéré : C'est que je ne pourrais pas retourner au Chili tant qu'il sera vivant. Il y a une quarantaine de 40 jours dans ce pays, et ils sont vraiment très strict au niveau de la douane (on ne peut même pas faire rentrer un morceau de pain). Le laisser dans un chenil autant de temps, c'est tout simplement impensable pour moi.
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It is certain that having an animal represents certain constraints. Personally, I do not mind having to walk Louloup, or not being able to keep him (even with friends he loves, he escapes to find me). Compared to what it brings me, I even think it's 'cheap to pay'.

The only thing that is a pity, and that I had not thought of when I got it back: That I could not go back to Chile as long as he was alive. There are about forty days in this country, and they are really very strict at the customs (you can not even get a piece of bread). To leave him in a kennel for so long is simply unthinkable for me.



flodisar,

Bienvenu au Base Camp ! C'est vrai que c'est un concept très sympa. J'espère que quand tu auras plus de temps, tu nous feras visiter un peu ton pays.
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Welcome to Base Camp! It is true that it is a very nice concept. I hope that when you have more time, you will make us visit your country a little.

Seems as if this is a stumble-over-things-day: