Spent yesterday on a trip to Playa Blanca- it was indeed a lovely beach and a great place to spend a few hours. I grabbed some breakfast from a street seller on my way, like a mobile bread stall, after I’d got mine he picked the little table up and carried it off in the direction of the old town. I tried coconut bread and yucca bread- both very nice. It turns out there was no rush to get to the port area- was told to get there for 8.30….my boat didn’t set ...

I'm sitting writing this on the terrace at my hotel, listening to the salsa-type (?) music from the bar on the corner at the end of the road, feeling happy that it feels quite a bit cooler now at 7.30pm- it's still close but nowhere near as hot/humid as during the day. I've enjoyed the past few days here in Cartagena, they were a bit more 'productive' than my first day's wandering though I still took it easy and didn't cram too much in- think it would be quite ha...

So I'm at the end of my first day of this, my travelling life for the foreseeable future! And what a nice first day it has been! It was spent wandering around the old town of Cartagena- I had thought of following the walking tour in my guidebook but soon seemed to have strayed off the walking tour route and not wanting to have the book permanently in my hand I decided to just wander. It was the perfect place to do this and the perfect thing to do after over 24 ho...