Villa de Leyva, Colombia 30th May to 3rd June 2012. Wednesday 30th May We have leisurely breakfast and then get a taxi to the train station, this should be a 20minutes journey that ends up being much longer as there is a student protest in the centre of Bogota which is holding up all the traffic. The bus station is very large as you can imagine for a capital city, but we have done our research and know which bus company will take us to Villa de Leyva - goo...

Bogota, Columbia 25th May to 30th May 2012 Saturday 25th May Flight from Cartagena to Bogota left at 10.50 and arrived at 12.17. Before landing we could see some of the great sprawl that is Bogota City, all 1700 square kilometres of it. Taxi to our Hostel was very straight forward, at the airport there's a taxi office you tell them the name and address of your destination, they calculate the fee and hand it to the next available taxi in the queue. Th...

Cartagena in Columbia Tuesday 22nd May 2012 Flight from Panama City to Cartagena took just over 1 hour, it left and arrived on time, through customs in no time at all. Arrived at Hotel San Roque at 13:30. checked into our room which is not numbered but named - Spiritu Santo (Holy Spirit). It's up in the attic, just off a spiral staircase (no getting drunk here and staggering home) with an en suite bathroom and a new a/c unit. The hotel looks nothing from the o...