SmaviesAdventures

Merry in Merida Merida Cathedral, one of the first in Mexico So we said goodbye to Dante and left  Cartagena  bright and early in the morning.  Cartagena  is a really odd airport from the international side. First of all we had gone through passport control as is normal and received our colourful exit stamp (it's blue and orange) but then we had to stand and wait for a while before security checks could occur. What happened next was a soldier came past and asked us how long we'd been in  Colombia  and where we'd been before allowing us to pass through and have the security check. This would be normal if it hadn't occurred after passport checks. But anyway that happened and then we looked around the really small airport. Callie, our new dog friend We left  Cartagena  fairly early at about 9:00 am and had a connection in Panama City, a  country we had intended to visit before changing our itinerary. But the airport is huge there ...

Don't Meddle with Medellin Parque Botero We've just had a week in Medellin, now we arrived late at night after a long bus journey, the story of our lives. But we're relieved to have a nice apartment in a nice part of town. Sometimes it varies when you've booked something online. Nevertheless it was a lovely large apartment. Metropolitan Cathedral On our first day we went to the main square to go and see the metropolitan cathedral, statues etc. On our way to the square we seemed to go through the 2/3 block radius of motorbike shops, where they had their wares and such everywhere, pulling apart bits of bike on the side of the road, painting scuff marks on tyres black again. Less well off people raiding the bins of these motorbike people for more scraps to sell on. In fact we came across a whole market of re-claimed items a lot of which seemed to be one shoe. I hadn't particularly noticed a band of one legged people in town, but I did see a lot of peo...