Medellin, didn´t see much of it.....

MEDELLIN

Our 5 hour busride was not very comfortable, due to the blasting airconditioning. This must have pushed Yvonne over the edge towards her illnes (massive flue). She felt terrible upon arrival in Kiwi run hostel ¨The black sheep. We arrived on Friday the 18th of April.
What we can tell you about Medellin is that it is a very modern city with a very efficient metro system. It tries to shake off it´s image of drugs trafficking capital of the world (thanks to the late Pablo ¨El Patron¨Escobar, who died in 1993). We paid the centre e very quick visit. Yvonne´s situation worsened, so we rushed back to the hostel. Yvonne spent most of her time in bed, with headdache, muscle pain, and couching her guts out.
By sunday, the day we had booked a 15 hour bus to Cartagena, we went to a nearby clinic. Yvonne could bearly walk and since she had the symtoms in Brasil we feared for Malaria or Dengue fever. The clinic was very modern and efficient. Yvonne was put on a drip, a pain killer to ease her headache and body pain, while the doctor investigated her blood sample. Fortunately the results were good: No malaria or dengue fever and her resistance was normal, just a severe virus...... The drip eased her body ache for the rest of the day. At least we could take another freezing cold bus ride.....

I spend the weekend peeling fruit (the only thing Yvonne could eat) and watching every possible football game on the massive flat screen in the hostel. I had to make do.....

Unfortunately we missed out the supposedly great nightlife of Medellin. Well better luck next time.....

Off to Cartagena, the famous Colonial city on the Caribean coast of Colombia.

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