Around the block

How long is it possible for two minor girls to survive on a strict diet of cheese doodles and french fries? One can consider our trip as an experiment in human nutrition. Well, naw, it´s not really that bad. We cook most our food ourselves, and apart from the lack of milk, sugar, egg, wheatflour,etc due to the price regulations, we eat very well. However Lily has a tendency to pass out immediately after we come home from outdoor life at 6 p.m. and so misses supper. I have felt more worried about the lack of regular friends. To Alice it doesn´t matter, she is in the stage where she acts as a project manager, mostly walking about, examining and looking for things and removing them from one place to another, and taking them from one person to give them to another, and then back again. But unfortunately, even though we have met some nice couples with children (veneuelan-spanish and venezuelan-norwegian) Lily has not met any regular friend to play with. The language differences have not been any major obstacle for the beach games, and she has played with several small girls there. But these have been short contacts. We have stayed in our flat for a fortnight now, hopefully more regular friends will appear. Otherwise, what else. Emily has felt ill for three days but is now almost completely well. We are very fortunate that we have our cool, comfy and well equipped flat during such circumstances. During her weakest days, she could at least venture down to the pool or the beach with us.

Emily writes: Oh what a cloudy morning, says Palle hopefully, only to find the clouds passing faster than all his calculations. But after 2 hrs he goes again "Rain probably will fall this afternoon". But rains fall mostly at night, cooling the nights, and leaving only traces on the dirt roads, but not sparing our days from the scorching sun.