Blogs from Santa Marta, Colombia, South America - page 25

Warning: This blog is about me doing nothing for a couple of days on the Colombian Carribean. After a pretty tiring 18 hour drive from Bogota, we arrived in Santa Marta to be greeted by heat and humidity. With the temperature in the mid 30s, and humidity pretty high, the dusty city of Santa Marta was a bit of a shock after coming from Bogota, in the mountains, and off the air conditioned bus. At least it wasn´t as bad as a story I heard from a man who had been to Venezuela, who said that he had woken up one morning on the bus to find ice on his glasses - I suppose wasting fuel to cool the bus down when petrol is almost free is no biggy. I had caught the bus with Karina ... read more

Our final 2 weeks in Colombia sees us heading 5 hours further along the Caribbean coast to Santa Marta. At least it was meant to be 5 hours, as is the way with Colombia we were sat in a jam for two hours waiting for an accident to clear. This meant we arrived about 12.30 at night, with no idea of where to stay, brilliant. Fortunately we got chatting to an English guy on the coach who just happened to be travelling with a Colombian girl, so we headed to the same hostel as them and low and behold we ended up lucking out and getting a 4 bedroom room with them, sweet...or at least it would have been if it wasn´t for the fact that the room was about 40 degrees, with only two small ... read more

Ik was zojuist aan het tikken over hoe het was geweest in Cartagena en Mompos, totdat de stroom uitviel en ik opnieuw zou kunnen gaan beginnen. Maar dat ga ik natuurlijk niet doen. Cartagena was goed, mooi kust stadje met koloniale gebouwen in pasteltinten, veel vruchtensapjes, koffie en zon. We zijn nog naar de islas del rosario geweest waar de stranden eruit zien als in de folders: hagelwit met groene zee. Helaas, maar ik ga niet weer het hele verhaal herhalen van Cartagena en de weg naar Mompos toe (via Manage). Het is trouwens wel opvallend dat de teller van het intenet gebruik gewoon doorgaat waar ie gebleven was voor de stroomuitval hetgeen erop wijst dat het regelmatig gebeurt. Ofschoon Cartagena prima te doen was, was het in Mompos wel heel erg warm en vochtig (is ... read more

Adam and I bought a couch because, to be perfectly honest, we needed someplace to sit. I’m pretty sure the slipping pass to Chalmers for the game tying three only happened because Jors Adam and I were flapping our arms like Angels in the Outfield. Jerry, THE HEAT. It has arrived, in full force. To escape it we went to San Lorenzo this weekend, a nearby mountain town that I visited once a few years ago. Last time our accommodations were pretty sketchy, this time they were amazing. It was like a ski trip, freezing cold outside, at 2200 meters (about a mile and a half), communal eating, sitting around a fireplace to keep warm and bunkbed-filled rooms. Josh, Adam and I went with Ed, his lady Kirsi, their son Leo-Hey! her cousin and his wife ... read more

Although I think it's fairly empty saber rattling from a head of state with some real domestic problems on his hands hoping to distract his masses I won't let it stop me from personally declaring war on both Venezuela and Ecuador. If you've ever played Risk with me you know that's something to be slightly inconvenienced by. You know how awesome snow days are? What's even better is a Violent Transportation Strike Day. When the snows roll in you hope, but I had no hope of a free day until at like 8 at night I got a phone call telling me I didn't have to work. It was the best thing ever. Oh and the bus drivers are angry about something, who knows. I spent the day getting a massage. I hate it when people ... read more