And there we were; done. 14 months. 23 countries. Countless destinations (well, not countless but at this moment in time I can’t be arsed). We packed up and caught a taxi at 8:15, suffered protracted check-in but generally enjoyed a simple flight through to Bogota first, then to Madrid (I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey […]
Cartagena was not quite what we had expected, very touristy with it being virtually impossible to walk anywhere without being pestered by hawkers. We decided to head up the coast for a while to Santa Marta for a final chance of ‘holidaying’. We found a nice hostel with a pool and a bar and hardly […]
Welcome back to Cartagena – here’s the second gallery, which is also the very last of my galleries from our round the world tour. It’s been a lot of work over a long time bringing all of this to you – I hope you’ve enjoyed our tales and photos!
Duly suffering for my excesses and lack of sleep we said our heartfelt goodbyes to our many amigo’s and hopped on the minibus for our transfer back to Cartagena. This was a tough journey for the shell of a man my recent exploits had left me but I made it and was delighted to check […]
Early breakfast and a quick wander to the ticket office scored us the onward travel to the first colonial city in South America – Santa Marta. This weighty title isn’t really backed up by the city itself as very few people have said anything nice about it. We did however find out about a certain […]
Jewel of the Caribbean coast, we visited Cartagena twice – the gallery beyond the image covers our first pass through the city.
We arrived and the taxi was simple and cost what we expected to pay. For our first Cartagena stint we were staying in the red light district of Getsemini in a non-air conditioned room. This proved annoying – the only hope of any real sleep was to whack the fan on full which to its […]
Galapagos to Quito and onwards to Bogota by bus – 400+ miles in an upright seat for over 24hrs, next to a missonary intent on spreading the word! At 4.30am the bus dropped us off at the border and then dissappeared, leaving us to guess which direction Colombia was in the pitch black of night. […]
Medellin was a beautiful city though we didn’t see a great deal of it as our time there was short and the weather a bit on the ropey side for some of it. What we did see we enjoyed and I would happily pop back one day for more.
We reached Medellin and were glad to see the back of an exhausting bus journey. We hopped in a Taxi to the Arcadia hostel where we’d secured dorm beds for the first night and a suite for the second. The place was lovely – perched up a hill on the edge of a nice modern […]