Yes, a wonderful gesture last night from Maurico, to feed two complete strangers and introduce them to his friends. A most enjoyable evening. Medellin (pronounced Megine, the two ll’s creating a ‘g’ sound and the D is almost silent) is noticibly cooler, by about 5 degrees c. 1470m elevation though…
Jen mentioned confusion between the sat-nav and google maps on her phone. More about that later. Our campsite for the night was adequate. However, the night was far from acceptable. It was so hot and uncomfortable in Poki. Despite the fan and the little aircon unit working flat out during…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Arriving at our accommodation. Jen mentioned in yesterday’s entry that we arrived in the rain. That would be an understatement. However, today dawned the complete opposite. Lovely and sunny and all that was left were puddles ankle deep in the road down to the hotel. We have now been in…
Developments. Jen received a message yesterday morning from IVSS, the UK shipping agents, telling us that the new anticipated date of arrival for Poki, into Cartagena, is now… wait for it… 25th August. A week earlier. Hallelujah!! Retail therapy. Much of yesterday was spent exploring more of the city. It’s…
A mixed bag of a day and not a lot to report so, we’ll fall back on some history of this place, to make an entry worth reading, hopefully? We’ve been in Colombia 11 days already!! Santa Marta was the first Spanish city in South America and is Colombia’s oldest…