To get to Playa Blanca we had to take a forty minute boat ride. We organised and paid to go with one tour company and ended up waiting an extra forty minutes past our scheduled departure time as we had to wait for the boat to be full of passengers before it would leave the port. Before we left I bought some suncream as I knew the combination of sea and sun is usually sunburn. However, this prompted Simon to comment on how, apart from his face, he no longer burns!...

The cheapest way to get to Cartagena on the Caribbean coast was to fly. Si wanted the isle seat and I was in the middle next to a Colombian lady who was petrified of flying. As we began our descent to land there was a little turbulence and she ended up holding tight onto my hand. Trying to comfort someone without speaking their language was quite funny and Simon, sat on my other side, kept talking about the plane crashing and falling to our death as he knew the w...

After discovering that we had both totally blew our budget in the USA, we were glad to be heading to South America for some cheaper living. On the plane we were seated next to an American man and his dog. Although a little odd, he was friendly and taught Simon his first and possibly most important Spanish word - cerveza. (It means beer). Despite being a night flight neither of us slept particularly well. Luckily customs was quick and easy (even though no-one s...