Plaza Rosa Hotel Medellin

... sized boxing gloves. Pa was intent on staying up that night so as to catch the Villa game but got dogs abuse when he was woken with 80 minutes gone. Also Ger was well and truly put in his box when the Pool beat Utd the next day. No more Cantona masks!!!<br><br>On our last day we decided to attend a Colombian league football match between Atletico National and Santa Fe. While standing just outside the ground, waiting to go in, a man from the top terrace had ...

... tons of plastic surgery and beautiful people. Trust me when I tell you, you would love it here. You can even go hang out in the Park de Pablado. This place is a big square where people sit in and drink and be social. You go but your beer in the bars around the edge and sit with your friends and relax. Anyway, I went home after the Sox lost and went to bed. I was woken up at 4:00am by people yelling outside my window. So, I got up and walked outside ...

... are dead. Since 2002, President Alvaro Uribe has taken tremendous leaps forward to dismantle them. But you didn´t know that because you were too busy reading your "Paris on a Shoestring" guidebook. <br> <br> So next time you´re considering a holiday, perhaps you should pull your head out of your own ****, do some ****ing research, visit a beautiful country that few people have been to and stop being an insular ****. <br style=""> <br style="">

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... next to calving glaciers and wild mammals is not for everybody, but I can think of a few of you that ache to see this Paradise. June...Come catch a Boca Juniors game in Buenos Aires or sleep in a hammock on a Brazilian beach around a campfire. I don´t know what is in store for June, so if you want to come down and snowboard in the summer or make your own schedule, I will be happy to comply. Of course, this is my projected itinerary. Who knows ...

... The city is set in a valley crested by pretty green mountains and boasts great weather, a tight 60-75 degree range explaining its nick-name as the City of Eternal Spring. Natural beauty, weather, food/lifestyle, friendly people, and gorgeous women - all are in abundant supply. Medellin &amp; Colombia are still refreshingly non-touristy - largely in part to the ill-reputation earned in the peak ...

... and it is possible to get to Panama from here - as I had been told in Bogota. So it was that I wandered around until I found the small busy port. I was pounced upon by a young lad (probably about eight years old) who helped me check-in my bag but it transpired that I had missed all the small overloaded boats making the trip today. Instead I have bought a ticket for an unknown destination (no one could translate) which departs at 8.30 am tomorrow. A prospect I find quite ...

... including seeing the sun rise back at the British guys' hostel. Random good times. Monday was slow. I checked out some of the city, had a Cuban meal that wasn't bad, and just read my book. Or maybe I was slow. Either way, I wanted to stay at least another night, but I learned on Monday that getting my Brazilian visa in Bogota was going to take much longer than I thought, so I took off for: Bogota, Colombia

... into the highest areas of the city in the hills which used to be notoriously violent &amp; dangerous in the past but today have been under regeneration such as for example the building of the huge "Spain Library" near to the metro cable car station. Medellin has a zoological park which I decided to visit despite reservations over keeping animals in captivity - they had plenty of interesting animals to see such as bears , chimpanzees , an asian elephant , a rhino, hippos ...

... on - even down to the poorer sections of society who are supportive of military spending over progressive social policy and welfare. She agreed that yes, for people travelling around the country, getting to their well paid jobs in city centres, it was undeniably safer. For the rich. However at what cost? The government has been spending unprecedented amounts on arms and military, and have been giving large amounts of money to paramilitaries to "disarm"...which in ...