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Cartagena
CARTAGENA: Colombia continues to amaze.... (click "Show all 20 thumbnails" above to see the fotos) Cartagena is a spectacular beach city preserved with colonial Spanish architecture. My brother Asif & I spent a fabulous 5 days here getting to the know the city and its magnificently friendly people. In sum, Colombia has firmly established itself …
Happy Christmas!
This isn't a 'proper' blog entry but rather a Happy Christmas to all our family and friends, with some suitable photos that we've taken recently in Colombia.
Happy Christmas! Feliz Navidad! Gelukkig Kerstfeest!
Peter and Els
Sleeping with cockroaches - almost
Els writes:
We had been told that Bogotá is a ghost town over Christmas, so decided to fly to Cartagena. After the cold of the Candelaria it was wonderful to feel that tropical heat and once again smell that typically tropical scent. We had contacted the owner of a hostel in the Getsemaní district, who promised to find us a place if they …
Boat Dancing under the Coconut Caribbean Sunshine
... We could kick our way up and stand taller than everyone else for just a fraction of a second, we made mud waves, we splashed our hands down and watched the bubbles come up, we dunked each other; we were 3 year olds all over again. The line started to rack up around the small pool, so we felt like we should leave. Walking slowly down the departure steps, we saw the lake where we could wash off.
Waiting for us were your classic, dark-skinned Colombian women ...
London to Cartagena - November 2012
... a trip to the Van Gogh Exhibition (so colourful – I loved it), eating lots of Dutch cheese and, finally, a nibble on a few 'magic truffles’ (perfectly legal, mum!). The latter ended with me giggling uncontrollably one minute, then crying inconsolably during a scene of Legends of the Fall (Brad Pitt looked rather sad for a few seconds, so I’d convinced myself that the woman he loved had died – she came in to shot about a minute ...