It's CHRISTMAS!! We got up late and combined with a 6 hour time difference didn't waste time in having a good old phone around. After we headed straight to one of the nicer plaza's to a nice restaurant Liz clocked the day before. It had prime position at the side of the plaza, we were in major treat mode. Feeling nicely satisfied and feeling the Christmassy effects of the wine we headed out for a lovely walk around the city walls. In Colombia it is inevitable t...

Cartagena being on the Caribean coast promised hot weather. We were not there yet, we first had to negociate the unknown climate on our first posh Colombian coach. We played safe and packed for the Siberian temperatures normally associated with Venezuelan buses. Whilst Venezuela has 4p per gallon fuel costs to help them get it real cold, Colombia has altitude. The temperature did drop a fair bit but it wasn't until we stepped outside at our first pee stop that we...

Medellin has some good shopping areas just outside our door, I promised Liz a shopping trip to replace the stolen top. However Liz keen to dry some clothes that she hand washed wanted to go to the roof terrace for the time being at least. The clothes were draped over some chairs with Liz standing guard. Medellin is only at 1600m above sea level so feels far warmer, enough to top up our tans that have faided a bit in the high areas of Columbia. Having literally...

We took the overnight bus to Medellin, saving us a days accomodation whilst getting us north for Xmas. The journey took longer than expected, however we have had so many 'unexpected' delays they are no longer unexpected. We were stuck in a line of traffic at about 3am probally due to a landslide but I didn't see it as I fell back to sleep. The route was twisty so I slept with my arm wrapped around the half raised arm rest. Being in the aisle at the back next to ...

It was tipping it down when the alarm woke us up. The alarm has been getting far too much use recently but this time it was not to get an early bus, we were hoping to go on a walk. 'Hoping' as the current rain was an issue, however going by the din on the roof I couldn't see it keeping it up and decided to get ready. Liz on the other hand was not convinced and stayed in bed. Forget nuts when you look at bird feeders in Solento - they have Hummingbirds and 'nect...