Maria from Kitchener, Canada Via El SAlvador

Cartagena From the Street

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September 13th 2007
13:00,Thursday, September 13. It is not raining, not pouring rain, not torrentially down pouring ... its a deluge! So fierce in fact that the spray of falling rain reaches halfway into the restaurant and splashes my screen. El Bistro is a refuge with good coffee, strudel that's really struessel and lots of the ever suspect ice cubes in water! While sitting here in El Bistro a man with grey curl ... read more

South America » Colombia » Cartagena

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more