Hostal San Blas Cartagena

... how to do things, where stuff goes, and what not. When Jamie and I are not working on a project or cleaning we usually just spend the afternoons wondering around town or hanging out at the marina bar with the other locals and other boaters. Most of the other boaters here are all from the states, some from Canada, some from Europe, some from South Africa. There are SO SO many cool people here, and this one couple JB and Michelle are just the coolest people ever. Jamie met them ...

... eto, toliko o karibima kada kazu da je ljepse na jadranu :D

ne znam jesam li spomenula da sam u medellinu bila izgrizena od pjescanih musica ili kako se to vec na nasem kaze. rekli su mi da idem doktoru, ako mi nateknu limfni cvorovi, sto se i dogodilo u subotu navecer tako da sam u nedjelju isla na hitnu. bolnica nije uopce bila losa, nisam cak ni dugo cekala (manje od pola sata) te je teta doktorica bila fina, ali ju skoro nista nisam kuzila iako ...

Ahh. Wake up , wander the the corner, order up a fresh juice and a pastry filled with meat, or cheese, or chicken and cheese, or sweets....Anything you like. Best way to start the day. Visited the Totumo de Lodo today, the mud volcano.
We paid 25.000 without lunch each to be picked up and taken, and a beach picnic after, then return to our hotel. We'd gone grocery shopping the afternoon before and picked up a ...

... different colors, even better when the paint is peeling a little bit (the age, character of the place exposed). It is just a fantasy walking through Cartagena...a soggy, sweaty fantasy. I love the energy of Cartagena too.

I am not staying in the inner walls but in the neighborhood of Getsemani. Getsemani has charm but is certainly rougher and not catering to the tourist crowd. (Well, to the cheap traveller/backpacker crowd.) Here there are juices carts, men playing cards and ...

... it since now I am secure this is not my life. This was the thing I have escaped from. Like a good prisoner, the memory of my old prison fulfills my heart with joy. From the outside, that prison looks very, very pretty. Now I can see what it is: It's just a laugable episode, an unsignificant interval between juicy organic activities. I resolve every aspect of the problem and that should have raised endorphine levels to induce a feeling of satisfaction and relief, just like it does with ...

... them so they can shoot from the safety of behind the wall. They had sandbags piled high in the back of the building facing the neighborhood and airport with machine gun nest . I thought it would be a good picture but they thought other wise and wanted to view all of my pictures and then warned me not to do it again. Place is small and in the jungle. Went hiking and got lost and at one point almost stepped on two snakes while ...

... s door with begging bowl in hand, they can be thankful that the domestic examples of these behemoths were built shoddily enough to be pushed into an early death in the nation's wrecking yards. If this old dirty linen (oversized, inefficient, undesirable products) of the US car industry currently on display in Peru draws reflection to the present day conundrum (the production of oversized, inefficient and undesirable cars) than only a short sighted fool would give unconditional bail-out ...

... Verhältnisse recht teuer. Wir haben uns natürlich erstmal eine Dusche gegönnt nach sechs Tagen Salzwasser und nicht waschen und sind dann losgezogen, um die Stadt zu erkunden. Für den Tag nach unserer Ankunft haben wir uns mit Hernando und Maria zum Grillen verabredet. Wir sind alle zusammen einkaufen gegangen - Fleisch!!! Harnando hat für eine ganze Armee eingekauft und wir haben uns den Bauch ...

After the lost city trek we spent one last uneventful night in Taganga before heading to Cartagena. It was our intention to only spend a couple of days in Cartagena and then hop on a boat and sail to Panama. Unfortunately finding a boat to leave on time so that we could be in Guatemala on the 21st (to meet Eimear, Lorna and Noirin) was proving difficult. A lot of our time was spent down at the Marina ...

... and four times in Taganga in Colombia. So I felt I had accomplished filling in my diving quote for the trip.

But once on the boat and reaching Islas del Rosario, I immediately started regretting my choice. Oh my! It was just GORGEOUS! The waters were so cristal tear, you wouldn't believe it. So clear, I just wanted to jump off board and start swimming! Of course I didn't, but man, did I want to! I can't remember ever seeing water so clear as it was in ...