Salento I hadn’t realised it was Friday, 13th until I started writing the blog. It was a terrible night. A pleasant camp with good facilities, but right next to a small holding with cows, chickens and roosters. To add to the cacophony, barking dogs all around the neighbourhood. The roosters…
Leaving Zipaquira After having breakfast in the car park, we were on the road at 09.00. The parking at Hotel Salinero was perfect. High enough for Poki to enter and under cover. The day started well. Unlike on other days when getting out of town proved a hassle, today we…
Barichara Our 2 nights at Camping Guaimaro were nice and dry. Up early, we collected one of Julia’s yummy sourdough loaves, paid our bill and after Julia had photographed us for their instagram account, we were off into the town of Barichara. Barichara was founded in August, 1742. It’s origin…
San Vicente de Chucuri to Zapatoca 38kms It did rain a little early on in the night, but we slept well and, more importantly, the tent was dry inside. Up at about 07.00, I enjoyed my porridge sitting on a bench with a view over the valley and surrounding mountains.…
Last night’s events When we set up camp yesterday, it was in a beautiful, tranquil spot. There was, however, a sign hanging in a tree beside us, saying don’t camp within 10 meters of the river. The flowing channel was about 30 meters away from us, a bank of about…
Medellin We had arranged to meet Mauricio for breakfast at 10.30. At about 09.45 Dennis left our hotel to collect Poki from the parking lot. I expected it to take about 15 minutes. After half an hour, I started to wonder why he was taking so long. After 45 minutes…
It’s an overused expression, but what a difference a day makes. What a day it was too. Saturday/Sunday night First we’ll go back to the events of the night. At about 1am we were woken by the most amazing storm. It seemed to go on forever. Crashing thunder and lightening…
Thursday A relaxing day. We were in very nice surroundings. A modern apartment with Poki parked right outside the door. Dennis quickly managed to get the last box back on the roof, we unpacked all the belongings we had bought with us and set everything up as we like it.…
POKI HAS ARRIVED! According to Maersk Tracking the Maersk Wakayama carrying Poki arrived in Cartagena at 05.42 this morning. Friday, 23rd August. In the morning I had a long WhatsApp chat with our shipping agent, Josue. After confirming the Wakayama had left Manzanillo and was due here on the 25th,…
Tuesday, 20th Yesterday was a day with little to report. I had extended our stay at our AirBnB and our host was coming to collect payment. At first he said it would be in the morning so we hung around waiting, then he said it wouldn’t be until afternoon. It…