Hotel Mar y Mar Santa Marta

... me alone up here?!?!" He had already headed down below but I was able to manage steering the boat and I kept it at 90 degrees and when the Autopilot came back on he said I did such a good job that I only got us off track by around 700 ft. So that was cool. We keep trucking along and finally made it into Santa Marta around 430 to anchor for the night. (The other boats that we are sailing with kept calling us on the radio to asked if we turned ...

... on my back and my backpack on my chest, we set off to the next trail. This trail was beautiful, hot, long, and no place for me with all my ****. Now the girls took off fast and Ed stuck with me. He is a younger guy and is also a scoutmaster in England so he was being very nice to me. He even carried my little pack for a while. A few times I found myself alone in the woods yelling for people to slow down. I kept telling myself that I needed to push through and that I was not ...

... they're called here? or is that just the states?) and a few mountains off in the distance. The bus took about 3.5 hours (I took the non-express) and so I arrived in Salamanca about 8:45 or so. I briefly met up with Katie Phillips and Taylor Winn (both Wake students on the Salamanca program) at my hostel and we headed to meet everyone for dinner. We ended up eating at a fancy-schmancy place that cost everyone but me quite a bit of money. I luckily had arrived so ...

... I went out and dropped 50 euros on a nice, warm jacket (peacoat) for later. I'm still thinking I'm going to need something to put over my clothes during October. I want to find...errr...it's called a vestido larga here. I don't know the english word but it looks like this: http://media.kohls.com.edgesuite.net/is /image/kohls/495552_Bordeaux?wid=230 ...

... places. My memory fails me. The night mostly consisted of me getting free drinks from everyone I talked to...which seemed odd since 21 isn't that important overseas.<br><br>Friday morning we had one class at 11. It was a little rough. Luckily it was only an hour. After a nap, I took a walk and checked out the university of Valladolid. The campus is absolutely gorgeous. There are some really old, ornate churches with incredible ...

Salamanca go in the morning for some siteseeing on salamanca. Hang out in square. See Church. Look for frog. Lunch on the steps. Naps and pool for the afternoon. Sue stays with kids and Ev, Julie and Tom Listen to music on the square drinking beers. 13.50 for 4 beers, coffee, and drink. Not in Switzerland any more.<br><br>           <br>

COLOMBIA IS LOVELY As I write this, I am covered in very very itchy mosquito bites, but otherwise completely safe and sound in Colombia. It wasn´t orginally on the itinerary because we were worried about border crossings, but we talked to a bunch of people and found out that it was totally safe to cross to Colombia, so we headed out yesterday and arrived last night. Santa Marta is a colorful and clean colonia city teeming with two of the ...

... on the floor of a 2 storey wooden shack. But we had the best night as I think we were all so happy to have made it in one piece. The rum came out and the stupidest Spanish card game called Burro (Donkey). We also got talking to the army unit that is based there. These poor boys are stationed in this lonely place for 6 months at a time and they swooped on us girls like they{d never seen one before. I was described as a ...

... two english and two polish travelers. An amazing guide, an excellent cook and a young porter went with us.<br> On the first day, we are driven to a small village where the entrance of the trail is located. We began the hike through deforested areas with large expanses of grasses broken by trees. Cows and chickens were a common sight. We went during the wet season, so everyday in the late afternoon it rained. The humidity and ...

... the best nightlife in Spain. There are various bars and discotecas all over the city. I'd say our group as a whole chose Camelot as our favorite discoteca. We also enjoyed O'hara and the Irish Rover, although the Irish Rover seemed to cater more to the tourists than to the locals.<br><br>Of course, I must not forget our main reason for traveling to Salamanca: to attend classes at the university. The University of Salamanca is Spain's oldest university and one of the ...