Novelty Suites Hotel Medellin

... The boys used work with Pee Shea in Dublin.<br><br>We arrived into Medellin or "the city of eternal spring" as it is referred to due to its good climate. Hopefully no more pumping. This city is also the place where drug lord Pablo Escobar was born and killed. Pablo once controlled 80% of the world´s cocaine market and invested a lot of money into Medellin infrastructure. <br><br>On our first night out on the town we bumped into E.J. from the point. Needless ...

... br>After a while and a long ass walk, we made it to the botanical garden. It was not very botanical. There was not a lot to see. The best part was these kids following Sarah and I because we were speaking English. I finally stopped walking and looked at the kids and said "hi." They were thrilled. I told them I was from Orlando and the ran up to there other friends and told them I lived with Mickey Mouse and 12 kids yelled &#8220;HI.&#8221; They love ...

... than being accepted you´d probably be kneed in the balls for being so trite. <br> <br> And yet SEVENTY MILLION people continue to flock there each year. And while there they do and see the exact same things that everyone before them has done, they absorb the abuse of the arrogant locals and they come home and say how great it was. <br> <br> If one to suggest to any one of these 70 million tourists that next time they should consider ...

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... their heart desires to experience. April... Jon and I are doing the trek to Machu Pichu on April 5th. A 5 day hike through the Peruvian jungle to the lost city of the Incas. Greg Hurme and a few buddies are also coming to Peru at the end of April to do a different trip to Machu Picchu. A lifestyle changer I am sure. The middle of the month will consist of me strapping on a wetsuit and riding the epic left hand surf breaks of northern ...

... Seems odd but is a blessing so you dont see the crazy overtaking manouvers uphill on two trucks already doing 70kph! We eventually arrive in Medellin bus terminal at 9pm and book our onward tickets to Bogota. After this we haggle with a taxi driver and are delivered to the Hotel Capitolio. We are told we can have the last room. I dont care, I want a shower and bed!

... bus. The consistently mindblowing outlokk enabled me to keep my sanity, but sleep was out of the question even when darkness came and the road began to flatten out. In the absence of my guidebook, I am the epitome of a blind traveller and have no idea even where in Colombia Turbo is (in addition, I have had no point known what the exchange rate is, nor obviously mastered the language). Turbo was certainly lively when we arrived at about 9pm last night, with a concert in full ...

... memorable, but the scene was with many of those bars being packed to the gills. I ended up drinking Aguardiente out of a milkbox with some locals and just shooting the **** until 3:00 a.m. or so. Sunday was a similarly busy scene because Monday was a bank holiday. I met six or so English guys from another hostel early on and we whittled it down to about four of us on a taxi journey to find a good ...

... artist Botero and the huge Palacio de la Culture in the plaza. Other places I visited on the following day included Parque Berrio &amp; La Candelaria church , Parque Bolivar with the huge Metropolitan Cathedral (a rather uninspiring red brick building) , the pleasant San Ignacio church &amp; plaza and the Parque San Antonio. The Parque San Antonio is a mass of concrete and not particularly aesthetically pleasing but it is interesting for Botero's two "bird of peace ...

... working part time in the university and working on the cultural house she wants to set up for displaced indigenous groups. She didn't speak so much with emotion, but with some kind of reasoned clarity. As if she had already moved beyond the stage of passionate outrage. She didn't talk in a reactionary way, but simply explained facts as she had seen them. Nor was she supportive of the guerillas in the country like the FARC or ELN, who she thought had lost their ...