It's hard to believe that we are now in South America and it is easy to find one word that sums up our day in Cartegena, Columbia. And that word is: enchanting. This is the first time the Queen Elizabeth has visited Colombia and the locals were clearly delighted we came. We went for a wonderful ride in a horse-drawn carriage all around the old town. The houses are wonderful bright colours and they have flower clad balconies. But life here is not lived in the houses. It is lived on the street. You couldn't count all the fruit sellers, and the vegetable stalls, and the bags, and clothes, and cigarettes, and bottles of brightly coloured liquids and the fresh fruit juice vendors and the pots and pans and anything else you could think of. It's
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