A month ago tomorrow we flew from the UK. Yes, we knew we would have to kill time here. The alternative was, cancel the flights and re-book, without re-imbursement, closer to the arrival of the ship, and Poki. The commencement of picking up Poki. Rather than get a cab we…
POKI HAS ARRIVED! According to Maersk Tracking the Maersk Wakayama carrying Poki arrived in Cartagena at 05.42 this morning. Friday, 23rd August. In the morning I had a long WhatsApp chat with our shipping agent, Josue. After confirming the Wakayama had left Manzanillo and was due here on the 25th,…
An important day, for the following reasons. 1st. It’s my grandson Jaxon’s 11th Birthday. Happy Birthday Jaxon I hope you are having a blast and we look forward to seeing you all and giving you a BIG hug, in South America soon. 2ndly. And very importantly for us, Poki was…
Tuesday, 20th Yesterday was a day with little to report. I had extended our stay at our AirBnB and our host was coming to collect payment. At first he said it would be in the morning so we hung around waiting, then he said it wouldn’t be until afternoon. It…
Progress We are faced with difficult choices. Stay in the cool, relatively comfortable environment of our room and vegetate, or head off out into the furnace and struggle in the heat and humidity? Yesterday we struck a compromise, go out “after the midday sun”. So, with nothing much more to…
We’ve now been in Colombia for 3 weeks. Another week to go before Poki is due to arrive. I’m not sure how we’re going to entertain ourselves. I think we’ve visited all of the tourist sights here in Cartagena. This morning the doorbell rang. It wasn’t early, but we were…
At 6.15am I sneaked a look at the computer to see what the rugby score was. We are talking All Blacks v Argentina, here. Would we walk it, or face utter humiliation? Big sigh of relief to see the scoreline. 42 – 10. Whew! After quickly checking out the Aussie…
Dennis advised, yesterday, that I had spent the morning trying to sort out accommodation and arrange a meeting with our shipping agent. Good News – A meeting with our Shipping Agent We went to visit Summit Cargo Logistics, our agent here in Colombia. Our taxi driver had trouble locating the…
So, we are in new premises. Different. Better. Bigger. Smarter, but we are sharing. Not a problem so far. I’ve asked Jen to extend our stay here. Better the devil you know…:) We can also self cater, which makes life so much easier. Now, the good news, at least we…
Last Night Last night, after dinner, we sat on the beach watching the crashing waves. After about 30 minutes the lights flickered and then went out. All along the beach was in darkness. After 10 minutes or so, the lights returned to one of the neighbouring properties. Then soon after,…