Hi all,
Well after a very very early London departure on the nasiest easyjet flight eva (what did we expect???) we arrived in Madrid ready to catch our flight to Bogata Columbia. All started well, excited, sleepy. heading to the gate and and suddenly my credit card not there...hmmmm not a good start, not to worry Bee saves the day (by looking the rubbish) and the journey continues.
Arrived in Bogota in the evening and straight to our hostel and to bed. Starting to realise that learning Spanish may have been a good idea.
After a very early start (jetlag) we head out to see the sights of Bogata, 6am and so busy, people heading to work, real mixture of people lots of business men (not many woman) and they all have very clean shoes as there are so many shoe cleaners.
We were waiting for the airline office to open so just started to wander...saw lots of people heading to one building so we thought we would follow....mums you will be pleased to know out first sightseeing place was a church, beautiful and full, everyone seems to go before work.
Rest of the morning was spent wandering and resting and a trip to the gold museum, jetlag and a bit of altitude sickness was hitting us hard....by 2pm we were shattered hungry and wished we knew Spanish! We are leaning it slowly, Bee´s picking it up really well, my head hurts everytime I try (I blame the altitide sickness)although I have nailed Si - yes not even an option anymore.
After a late night of 7pm we got up early and flew to the Carribian coast - Cartegena, we decided beach time was needed and wanted to bus up to Santa Marta after an jumping in the taxi and having a fight with the taxi driver (him yelling and me in spanish and me yelling at him in english and Bee with her ´can´t we just be friends´face on) we took an interesting ride through the slums got to the bus terminal and jumped on a 5 hour bus drive to Santa Marta. Countryside is amazing really started to feel like we were finally starting the adventure...
So we are in Santa Marta now - about to head to Tayrona National Park to have some beach time and then head up for a six day trek to the lost city...little bit anxious especially as knee still hurting - for those who don´t know I had a jagerbomb related accident on the sat before leaving london, left london limping, not ideal!
We will update this as soon as we get back as I am sure we muppets will have some stories to tell
Adios
Bee and Beej xxxxx
