Las Lomas Hotel Rionegro

... on Saturday, and she was told it was not dry before breakfast.

So we headed to the fruit market, gathered up some wonderful smoothies, empanadas, papas and headed back to the hotel to consume our feast. Jody and Niamh were enjoying this style of breakfast. Afterwards we headed off, swimmers underneath our clothes in the hope that we would find a swimming hole. We arrived at the collectivo terminal which would cost $3.5mil pesos each, each way, a total ...

... We may have dropped some kgs since we left home but we can´t comfortably fit together on one of the smaller buses that they use. Ok for a shorter trip but not 7 hours! Eventually after being acousted by touts and speaking to everyone who wanted to know us we found a guy selling tickets for an 8.30am bus. Not to bad. We would be there in daylight at least. 2 hours later than ...

... I´m blown away! But to the point, Holy **** Balls. Rory and I decided to go rappelling down a 180 meter waterfall yesterday. I´m thinking, rappel, I´ve done that. It´s like coming down after rock climbing a wall, no problem. Wrong...way wrong. So, we drove about 20 minutes outside of the city. The waterfall looked absolutely amazing from the road when we got there. Ridiculously tall with tons of water gushing ...

... first, but after being assured by the owner that the noise would stop by six, we took the room. Right at 6, all the kids were gone. Apparently this day was some kind of festival (perhaps Corazon de Jesus, but no-one was really sure when we asked) and it must have involved water, and bathing.... every river or stream we saw that day was full of people fooling about, splashing around and drinking beer. As the day went on, many of these revellers were wandering along the ...

... and he must always be buddied up with the dive master or an instructor. He was a real trooper to work on this, as it meant giving up time (2 days)playing around with his buddies. He is very proud of himself. Tomorrow Mike and I are going to do a dive with him. It will be his first boat dive and his first dive where he is not practicing drills, but looking at things. We are going to a place where manta rays come to get cleaned by ...

... mood - wh*tever, Mérid* got * thumbs down from us. We se*rched high *nd low for * m*p *nd inform*tion, but none of the tourist offices were open; we spent * sleepless night *s * wild street p*rty r*ged in the pl*z* *cross from our grubby hotel; then three hours w*ndering the town *nd not * single photo - must be * first! Fin*lly, to c*p it *ll off the 'teleferico' w*s running when the mount*ins were tot*lly obscured in cloud, but w*s shut down *t the first hint of cle*r, sunny ...

********************************** All pictures are taken by my friend and travel mate Nadia. ********************************** Sunday afternoon, Nadia and I met in the bus to the railway station. Finally our trip to paradise will happen. Zurich Airport, check-in and a quick coffee at Starbucks with my cousin Isabelle and her boyfriend Beni who booked accidentally the same flight than we did :-) . They will stay ...