Hotel Casa Lola Cartagena

... cool and when we're at the marina we have AC but out at anchor we wont. Even with the AC running it still about 94 degrees outside. Were pretty luck that way. The other boaters here at the marina dont have AC, which sucks during the day but its fine at night. no problem. We have made pretty good friends here at the marina since we've been here, The one boat has a piano inside their salon! IT IS SO COOL. The table comes out and out comes a real life piano that plays so well. I ...

... D) "umocio" me u mulj, uhvatio za noge i "parkirao" u kut gdje me docekao drugi koji me kao "izmasirao". u meduvremenu nas je treci lik slikao nasim aparatima te nakon nekih 15ak minuta smo morali ici van i na kupanje u JAKO smrdljivu rijeku gdje su nas cekale tete s plasticnim posudama koje su nas "okupale", htjeli mi to ili ne. teta me odvela u zutu, odvratnu vodu, rekla mi da sjednem te mi skinula gornji dio kupacega bez oklijevanja te ga oprala i ...

Must have breakfast at Casa Suiza if you like eggs and potatoes for cheap.
On the corner of the hotel is La esquina del pan. Fresh juices and pastries super, super cheap. And delicious. Lunch was at La Mulata, a busy, well run place with a set menu and delicious choices. Also cheap. We think we like it here in Cartagena. Did we mention the women here are ridiculously sexy?

... So, I went for it. It was meant to leave at 2p.m. Of course, we are on Colombian time, so it did not quite go down like that. I was picked up later only to go and wait another considerable amount of time for our chiva to arrive. (This process of waiting is a big part of the tour process in Colombia. I would estimate that 30% of your tour time here is spent waiting for something or another. Quite humorous. Slightly annoying.) What is a chiva?, you ask. Well, a chiva is a ...

... definitely be denied a role. My seven-second shower fight was, for that reason, not a modern play and would probably miss the Becketty finesse. If it was not a play, so it must have been real life. Seven seconds of real life! That's something. I hold the soap in my right hand and try to rub my left arm, armpits, chest, belly, making a few circles around the bellybutton before the soap slips out of my hand. With my left hand I manage to catch it before it hits the floor and start washing ...

... is a new one across the water with high rises etc. We stayed in the old city. I traveled and hung out with the boat passengers. The street food is awesome. You could buy coffee from vendors all over the place for about .12 ... The meal shown in picture cost $5 for the two meals and drinks. The group ended up splitting up as two stayed in Cartagena that were with Britney, Pasquel the Swiss went his way as did the Germans. I ...

... pockets so he was not left completely skint. For every bad highway cop, there's a good one on the beat.


After this we jump in a local bus and head on out to the beach with Carmen - Mapi to join us later. This far northern coast of Peru has some wonderful beach spots, and the friends of friends whose place we are staying in welcome us into their waterfront beachhouse and thrust a cold beer in our hand before we have even dropped our bags. This kind of hospitality is frequent and ...

... Boot zurück nach Cartagena fährt, wird es gegen Nachmittag dann aber immer leerer und abends sind nur noch ein paar hartgesottene "Hängemattenschläfer" dort bei einem Bierchen in den Strandbars zu finden. Am nächsten Tag sind wir dann zusammen zurück nach Cartagena gefahren, um noch eine Nacht dort zu verbringen und am nächsten Morgen ausgeruht und stressfrei nach Barranquilla zum Karneval zu fahren.

Cartagena A fairytale of a romance, legends and sheer beauty, Cartagena de Indias is an addictive place that can be hard to escape. Founded in 1533, Cartagena swiftly blossomed into the main Spanish port on the Caribbean coast and the Gateway to the north of the continente. Treasure plundered from the indigenous people was stored here until the galleons were able tos hip it back to Spain. As such it became a tempting target for pirates and, in the 16th Century alone ...

... area. I immediately got the feeling that $15 USD of the monthly $22 USD sponsorship payment goes for keeping together the office - a very fancy building with a whole BUNCH of people working there, each and every one with brand new tools and equipment, EVERYONE with their personal computer, etc.

After meeting all the people, we then went to another building run by Children International, located in Loreidis' neighbourhood. There I got to see the dentist's ...