Another sleepless night and I am stumped as to why I can not sleep, I wake from 2am onwards every 20 minutes waiting for 4:30 - 5am to come around so I can get up and do my exercises. The problem is I feel the lack of sleep now is affecting me both physically and mentally. It was my job today to catch lunch, the farm where I am staying has a dam stocked with Talapia (a Colombian freshwater fish). Using freshly dug up worms I took to the dam - unfortunately the fi...

Today I had to be up early as ChuCho was kindly giving me a lift out to Rionegro to my hosts place. We left the house at about 7am and made an hour stop in a small town just outside of Medellin - I wondered around and killed an hour waiting. Next we headed out to Rionegro - ChuCho dropped me off I thanked him and said our goodbyes. My host Elizabeth had to go into the town for a few meetings so I joined her and whilst she was in her meetings I wondered around the...

It is so so hard to sleep up here on the Caribbean Coast, if its not the Mosquitos, it's the noise and if its not the noise it's most certainly the heat and if your lucky the whining of a fan. I tried to sleep-in a bit today but couldn't get more then 20 minutes of sleep at a time so at 9:30am I got up and started doing some research and planning for Peru. Before lunch I had to go find an Internet cafe and print off my plane ticket for tonight's flight to Medelli...