I think we were both fairly content to leave Cartegena, even though it´s an incredibly beautiful city with more quaint colonial houses and balconies that you can shake a stick at, it felt time to move on. We decided to head to Taganga, a ´fishing village´just outside the sizeable town of Santa Marta. What may have once been a fishing village seems now pretty geared to international tourism, diving and backpacking in particular. Our belief that we are perhaps t...

We arrived in Cartagena on the Caribbean coast in the north of Colombia on Monday having taken 3 flights and travelled for 21 hours from Buenos Aires, remarkably with our bags also making it although they got a direct flight where as we had to go via Sao Paulo. The first thing we thought on arriving in colombia was boy it´s hot, Buenos Aires was fairly cool and actually cold on some days. We´re now north, but not that far, of the equator and it was sweltering....

Chicos, 3 weeks in Buenos Aires, two weeks of Spanish class and one fantastic capital city later..... the good: meat, beautiful, cheap, abundant and fattening ice-cream. (see above for description) great bus system. buses are regular, quick and cheap. 20 pence for up to an hour´s journey. shame on London. oh, and they also have a great music system for them too - lots of Queen - fantastic, who doesn´t love Queen? markets. for everything, food, clothes, ...

Hello Readers. We´ve updated flickr so that those of you that want to can see all the pictures we´ve taken to date (www.flickr.com/photos/steve-ali), also added a selection on this site. Look out for the Cabo Polonio and Colonia Pelligrini ones in particular. Haven´t resolved our camera issues although the mobile is acting as a useful replacement. Spanish is going well although it´s pretty hard going. We will do another blog (is that the right terminology?)...

Hola Still in Buenos Aires and really enjoying the city. We have had three straight nights of partying though so we are feeling pretty tired having kept up with the youngsters. A normal evening in BA is dinner at 11, bar at 1 then a club from 3 till 6. There are loads of places to go and they are all pretty good but it pretty much knocks out the rest of the day when you do not get to bed until 6/7. We are moving out of our hostel tomorrow to move into a homesta...