Windsor House Bogota

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(Eating 'hot' dogs!)

Els writes:

Hola muchachos, como estan? Estamos muy bien, gracias. So what are we up to? Well, once we left the Finca in Caña Brava, on 24th November, we were keen to be off to Columbia, so engaged Sylvan, the Frenchman who took us and Lisa's friend Ricardo back to Merida, to drive us ...

Buenos diás! Cómo están?

Hi** nun endlich d** lange **sehnte Eintrag üb** meine „Arbeit" im Projekt!

Ich schreibe „Arbeit“ weil ich es nicht als echtes Arbeiten empfinde, was ich dort tue. Und in d** **sten Zeit war ich richtig froh, dort als Freiwillige zu sein und nicht bezahlt zu w**den, denn ich hätte mich fu...

1st September
Up early to see the gold museum. Cost like $1.50US, ridiculous! pretty bloddy awesome too with gold artifacts from all the indigenous cultures from Colombia. Spent about an hour and a half here before grabbing breakfast.
After breakfast, we toured the old town and plaza area. Pretty cool again, but lots of modern buildings an...

Today we got up early. We had yet another bad night due to some commotion in the room above us in the early hours that woke us up again. We mentioned this to the hostel who said that we could change rooms. We made a packed lunch, packed our day bags and headed for the Estacion de la Sabana which is where the tourist train leaves from, at 8-30am,...

Hola amigos!

Sorry for the delay since the last update... assuming there is anyone left reading this! I've been neglecting this quite badly but now I have a shiny new netbook I shall endeavour to update more regularly.

So, last time I was in Santa Marta. I proceeded to get a bus to Bucaramanga, a smallish city in the middle of Colo...

Although my time in New Zealand was incredible, when it got around to my last day I was ready to leave. I had squeezed it for all it was worth and I was ready for something different. And different is exactly what I got... The journey from Aukland to Bogota was long, seemingly interminable. First was the flight from Aukland to Santiago. I sat ne...

I've been struck by the odd parallels between Colombia and the United States. Violence and warfare have shaped both societies. Both countries spend significantly more on defense than on the people they are  supposed to be defending. In recent years both countries have been administered by charismatic leaders who espouse patriotism and win suppor...

iberia nos la juega, iberia siempre la juega, pero bueno, un par de horas con lo que tenemos por delante y viendo lo que está cancelando, pues nos lo tomamos con buen humor (el malo restante, es producto de la resaca del 31, vaya fiesta montaste raulito...tu casi habrías podido venir de empalmada, no?). al fin llegamos, nos habían aconsejado las...

Yeah - we arrive in Colombia - Bogota is a stange grey city and we had be warned and warned again by everyone we met how dangerous it was. Nearly everybackpacker we met had been mugged at knife point! and many of them just outside teh hostel so i was scared stiff to get out of bed. Needless to say the scare tacktics didnt work and we had a great...