We all stood outside the hotel at 9am, expectantly waiting for our city tour guide to arrive, for about 15 minutes before realising that no one had actually booked one.
Rearranging for the afternoon on of our number went in search of insoles whilst the better organised amongst us decided to climb to the church on [...]
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Cheesy Chocolate – Bogotá, Colombia
Art Attack – Bogotá, Colombia
It’s lovely when a 4 hour bus ride is considered short, but we’ve just calculated that Christmas will be a driving day, with 13 hours behind the wheel, and worse on New Years Day with more like 15 hours to travel.
Anyway, a relatively short 4 hour ride later we arrived back in Bogotá and after [...]
One potato – Villa de Leyva, Colombia
Leaving Bogotá we set off on a 3 hour drive towards the Colombian Highlands which slowly turned into a 7 hour marathon.
The first distraction, after just 45 minutes, was a Salt Cathedral, which I wasn’t too enthused about visiting, but it happened to be in the town of Zipaquirá where we planned to stop for [...]
Sun, Sand and Secs – Tayrona National Park, Colombia
From Cartagena we took a private minibus 4 hours out to Tayrona National Park, a series of beaches and protected campsites on the north coast of Colombia.
At the park our bags went on ahead on horseback whilst we hiked the 90 minutes necessary to reach the best beaches, away from the casual day-trippers who frequented [...]
Mud, Sweat and Fish – Cartagena, Colombia
A short flight up from the capital Bogotá is the Caribbean seaside town of Cartagena, neatly divided into the old and new towns by a mostly intact city wall. Inside the ring of cannons and towers is a beautifully preserved colonial town much improved by brightly coloured buildings, wooden balconies and flowers in every available [...]
Stress – Bogotá, Colombia
I’ve made it to Colombia, but was very much one of those days where everything conspires against me to make life a pain.
I’d already booked a taxi to Paddington relatively early considering the flight was at 10.30, but it arrived at the station in less than half an hour, suggesting I’d get to the airport [...]
