Parque Colon Santo Domingo

Back to western civilization! There are no holds barred here and everything from the west is here (maybe not in abundance), so a holiday from our holiday has ensued.

English speaking TV in our room!! Fast(ish) internet!! Nice...

We even went to the movies to see 'The Avengers' in English!!

The old town is was quite low …

... , el llegar vivas meritaba algún tipo de premio…. El siguiente día visitamos el centro de la ciudad, la calle el Conde, el parque Colon y obvio el Faro a Colon... que tenía como atractivo el papa móvil!!!! Una nota curiosa del faro a Colon que ...

... remaining unsubjugated Tainos who were beginning to rebel against the Spanish. Anacaona was subsequently hung in a public square in Santo Domingo. Parque Colon , is of course a main attraction to the locals and tourist .It's a very festive site , ...

... us into a restaurant. Although it looks promising, we decide to do a little exploring first. Arriving at Parque Colon, we enter the Cathedral of Santo Domingo , or at least attempt to. Cecelia is rejected by the guard. Her shorts are too short for the ...

... stunned to have actually started our journey. We keep saying to each other, "woah, we've started!" And as we sat in the Parque Colon sipping our Presidante beers we couldn't believe that we are lucky enough to have 364 more days of this. We met up in ...