An important day, for the following reasons. 1st. It’s my grandson Jaxon’s 11th Birthday. Happy Birthday Jaxon I hope you are having a blast and we look forward to seeing you all and giving you a BIG hug, in South America soon. 2ndly. And very importantly for us, Poki was…
Progress We are faced with difficult choices. Stay in the cool, relatively comfortable environment of our room and vegetate, or head off out into the furnace and struggle in the heat and humidity? Yesterday we struck a compromise, go out “after the midday sun”. So, with nothing much more to…
At 6.15am I sneaked a look at the computer to see what the rugby score was. We are talking All Blacks v Argentina, here. Would we walk it, or face utter humiliation? Big sigh of relief to see the scoreline. 42 – 10. Whew! After quickly checking out the Aussie…
So, we are in new premises. Different. Better. Bigger. Smarter, but we are sharing. Not a problem so far. I’ve asked Jen to extend our stay here. Better the devil you know…:) We can also self cater, which makes life so much easier. Now, the good news, at least we…
Arriving at our accommodation. Jen mentioned in yesterday’s entry that we arrived in the rain. That would be an understatement. However, today dawned the complete opposite. Lovely and sunny and all that was left were puddles ankle deep in the road down to the hotel. We have now been in…
Developments. Jen received a message yesterday morning from IVSS, the UK shipping agents, telling us that the new anticipated date of arrival for Poki, into Cartagena, is now… wait for it… 25th August. A week earlier. Hallelujah!! Retail therapy. Much of yesterday was spent exploring more of the city. It’s…
A mixed bag of a day and not a lot to report so, we’ll fall back on some history of this place, to make an entry worth reading, hopefully? We’ve been in Colombia 11 days already!! Santa Marta was the first Spanish city in South America and is Colombia’s oldest…
As Jen mentioned, our new temporary residence is nothing glamorous, however the sleeping quarters are larger and brighter. Wifi is better too. The aircon works fine and we have a shared kitchen to prepare and cook food. What else could we possible wish for…? Just one thing…Poki..:) It’s a 3…
Montezuma features in today’s blog. Oh! it was a long time ago but his deeds live on, in microbia. A juice cocktail with the previous night’s meal started to impact during the early morning, and the day ended in a blur, for us both. It wasn’t till Jen, who wasn’t…
A little history. The Spanish landed in South America around 1500 and by the mid 1550’s had colonised much of the territory known as New Grenada. Santa Fe de Bogota was it’s capital. Enter Simon Bolivar, of aristocratic Venezuelan origin. He had returned from Spain and with the help of…