Flood recovery. Back to our ‘interesting’ night. It’s only now we have ralised how lucky we were to decide to pack up in the middle of the night and and in pouring rain, and move to higher ground. I had been making several trips to view the water level after…
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…
Tonight we are rough camping on a farm. We are set up about 30m from a babbling river. The banks are high enough above the river to give us some comfort, should the river flood during the night. While it’s a glorious afternoon there are serious cumulus clouds gathering from…
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…
Yes, a wonderful gesture last night from Maurico, to feed two complete strangers and introduce them to his friends. A most enjoyable evening. Medellin (pronounced Megine, the two ll’s creating a ‘g’ sound and the D is almost silent) is noticibly cooler, by about 5 degrees c. 1470m elevation though…
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…
Jen mentioned confusion between the sat-nav and google maps on her phone. More about that later. Our campsite for the night was adequate. However, the night was far from acceptable. It was so hot and uncomfortable in Poki. Despite the fan and the little aircon unit working flat out during…
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.…
A month ago tomorrow we flew from the UK. Yes, we knew we would have to kill time here. The alternative was, cancel the flights and re-book, without re-imbursement, closer to the arrival of the ship, and Poki. The commencement of picking up Poki. Rather than get a cab we…
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,…