Apartahotel Catalinareal Cartagena

... I'll make sure to post pictures soon and vidoes as well, because words dont explain it. There is just so much to learn and so much to see. Everyday is a new experience. I've almost fallen in the water 4 times, and thats just when we are at anchor. The weather here is HOT. like it feels like you sit in an oven for a couple hours and then Jamie asks you to go scrub the deck of the boat or help him install a new engine part and its just the death of me. But at night its nice because ...

... se u hostel oko 1.

jedan dan sam isla na kupanje u blatu vulkana. navodno je to pravi vulkan, ali izgleda kao nesto umjetno napravljeno kako bi se zaradivale pare na turistima :D uglavnom, isla sam tamo organizirano s austrijancem davidom . to veselje smo platili nekih 15 dolara. kad smo stigli do vulkana, ubacili su nas u to blato/mulj, sta god. posto sam ja bila prva, nisam imala pojma sto se dogada. lik koji je stajao unutra (tj. koji radi ...

... to the subject. Fantastic mojitos, great live band. Got a seat right in front of it and my feet moved by themselves to the salsa for a few lovely hours.
Headed over to Mr. Babilla, the one of the cool clubs around, and finished the night table dancing and reuniting with friends we'd met the night before on the chiva.
After passing out in the cab and fake promises of a cheeseburger I drifted off to sleep.

... all your senses.

Yesterday, I began the day...by sweating. Also by doing a little shopping around town. My plan was to take the City Tour in the afternoon. I asked if this was really worth it or if it was cheesy and lame and was told it was worth it as you could get into both the Castillo San Felipe (a Spanish built fort) and El Convento de la Popa (convent high on a hill overlooking the city) as part of the tour and save yourself the expense and hassle of working out the ...

... waste the other contents of my backpack. There are some hairs sticking on it, and its surface is not as fine as it used to be. That's about all I can say about the soap-character, admittedly it's not much. The gravity, my other adversary on this sprinkled venture, has an even simpler character. At least, to us earthlings it reveals only one side of it: "go down" I think maybe the soap could have made it into a modern play, at least it would have a chance to slip through, but the gravity ...

... to Cartagena, cost about $50 total. Cartagena is an old colonial town that still has the original wall around the city that is about 500 years old. Stayed at a hotel but was like a hostel with air conditioning, private bath, t.v. kitchen, for $17 a night for three nights. Just looked around town and went and listened to Salsa music. The old town used to be a port to sell and trade slaves. The city is divided by the old city and ...

... looking a bit down on his luck. Turns out Eric was mugged last night at the bus stop getting into a taxi. 2 guys sandwiched him in the back seat and held his head down with a metal rod, relieving him of everything he had including his backpack with $5000 of photography equipment and the shoes he came in on. OUCH! We buy him breakfast and he is surprisingly mellow and philosophical about the whole ordeal. The local police have been a great help and even gave him 10 Soles out of their ...

... genommen haben, hatte ich die unfreundliche Vermieterin mit Hilfe meiner grandiosen Vermittlungskünste (es konnte mal wieder keiner von denen Spanisch) soweit, dass sie mich umsonst in meiner Hängematte auf der Veranda hat schlafen lassen :) Der Strand "Playa Blanca" ist superschön, aber tagsüber recht voll mit Tagesausflüglern und Beachboys, die einem alles mögliche verkaufen wollen. Da um halb vier das ...

... little apart from a trip to the famous Boca Grande beach with its unnaturally warm water. Much to our great sadness, and yours (particulary Damien), our beloved overworked camera suffered a fatal lens seizure so we have no photos of Cartagena to share with you and won't have any until Guatemala when our identical replacement arrives with the sisters. Can't wait for that new camera to arrive.....

... a young girl in Colombia I've been sponsoring. When I started sponsoring her 2 years (since 2005) I never thought I'd get to meet her so soon - and now the day was here! I also sponsor Yeimi from Guatemala, which I had went to visit in Guatemala the year before. For those who want to read my story from the two visits, check here.

I sponsor her through Children International, which has an office in Barranquilla, where I was made welcome and shown all around ...