Russell Maddicks

• Gender: Male
• Industry: Communications or Media
• Location: Caversham : United Kingdom

About Me

After 12 years of adventuring in Venezuela I came back to try my luck in the UK. Although I try to visit Venezuela as often as I can it does tug at my heart strings some nights that I am too far from Choroni to hear the tambores on the malecon. Fortunately my job as a journalist in England allows me to follow Venezuelan and Latin American developments and keep my Spanish up to scratch. The UK is also a good place to do research and meet other like-minded Latin-America-philes for proper rum and salsa sessions.

Interests

• Venezuela
• Los Roques
• El Avila
• Merida
• Roraima
• La Gran Sabana
• Margarita
• Caracas
• Morrocoy
• Mochima
• Santa Fe
• Caripe
• Cueva del Guacharo
• San Francisco de Yare
• Cubagua
• Coche
• Los Llanos
• Sinamaica
• Canaima
• Angel Falls
• Choroni
• Chuao
• Puerto Maya
• Colonia Tovar
• Tepuyes
• Delta
• Orinoco
• Rio Caura
• I'm a keen walker and I love to get outdoors
• either hiking up a mountain trail or exploring hard to reach beaches. Cinema is another passion
• and I try to keep up with the latest movies from Spain and Latin America. My other hobby is collecting books on Venezuela - especially literature and natural history - the 19th and 20th century explorers who wrote such breathless accounts of their adventures -and anything related to travel.

Favorite Movies

• Amores Perros
• Scarface
• In the Mood for Love
• Oldboy
• The Emerald Forest
• Tokyo Paraguaipoa
• Sin City
• Un Chien Andalou
• Nueve Reinas
• Rosario Tijeras
• Los Olvidados
• Apocalypse Now
• Pulp Fiction
• Alien
• La Balandra Isabel Llego Esta Tarde
• Raging Bull
• Yo Hablo A Caracas
• Animal House
• Sexo y Lucia
• The Last King of Scotland
• Atame
• 21 Grams
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Taxi Driver
• For a Few Dollars More
• 300
• Kill Bill
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Favorite Music

• Babasonicos
• Calexico
• Happy Mondays
• Zapato 3
• Prince Buster
• Babylon Motorhome
• Aterciopelados
• Lee Scratch Perry
• Hector Lavoe
• K'Naan
• Gustavo Dudamel
• Molotov
• Miles Davis
• Amigos Invisibles
• Orishas
• The Specials
• Dimension Latina
• Senor Coconut
• Damien Marley
• Soda Stereo
• Bob Marley
• Simon Diaz
• Desorden Publico
• Zapato 3
• Oscar D'Leon
• John Lee Hooker
• Manu Chao
• El Carrao de Palmarito
• Celia Cruz
• Fulanito
• James Brown
• Juanes
• Billy Holiday
• The Clash
• Ismael Rivera
• Amparanoia
• ska
• reggaeton
• musica llanera
• salsa
• rock en español
• Blues
• joropo
• Los Buitres

Favorite Books

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Peor Que Tu
• The Dolphin People
• Rosario Tijeras
• Animal Farm
• In Patagonia
• Honey and Ashes
• Measuring the World
• Wilt
• In Trouble Again
• Canaima
• Money
• Illuminatus
• The Bradt Guide to Venezuela
• Thus Spake Zarathustra
• Los Pasos Perdidos
• The Raw and the Cooked
• El General en Su laberinto

My Blogs	Team Members
In Humboldt's Footsteps
Venezuelan Food and Drinks
Venezuelan Music
Venezuelan Indian