Hotel Real Almirante Padilla
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Cruisin Colombia
... no fridge so the beers were warm. What grated was that we were paying customers and had nothing more than a firepit, a grate and some pots and pans while the owners had a fully functioing kitchen hut right next door with gas stove, oven, fridge and freezer, none of which was available for us to use. On the flipside there was a forest of palm trees on the grounds, coconuts galore for me to attack, 2 or 3 mango trees dripping with ripe fruit and fishermen walking the beach selling giant ...
Sun, sightseeing and Spanish lessons
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When we met Amaury he instantly put our minds at rest, he spoke really good English, was friendly and extremely patient with us. Over the week we gradually learnt more verbs and adjectives and how they changed depending on the person who was using them. It was tough going but we picked up sentences and began to speak in slow, deliberately constructed conversations. We had instruction for 3 hours ...
Hola Caribbean
... so bad.
After getting cleaned we went back and got changed into our dry clothes and were given a bit of water melon and a small coffee, this time it was included in the price of our tour. This is also when we were told we had to pay for all the added extras and how much they were. Our tour guides English was a lot better when she was explaining this to us than it was on the bus there. It worked out as about €1 for each of the things so it wasn't so bad in the end but ...
Carthagène la fabuleuse!
Découvrir des endroits aussi authentiques que les petites îles perdues des San Blas implique forcément des transferts en bateau dans une mer déchaînée, des longs trajets en bus sur des routes pourries, bref, des galères qui sont indispensable quand on veut découvrir des sites qui sortent un peu de l'ordinaire. Et j'avoue que même si les grandes villes ne sont pas forcément ma tasse de thé, j'arrive ...
Church crawling the streets of Cartagena
... had been availing of to a large extent. So she wanted to charge us an extra 50,000 pesos ($25). We argued that the remote was in the room and that an extra charge was never mentioned when we moved rooms so we wouldn’t pay it. She said that the remote should have been removed beforehand and that she would charge only 25,000 pesos ($15 or so) instead but we still refused. Over and over we kept saying the same things in Spanish so she got her son to translate. It ...
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