Cartagena Stories


Meandering around a magical walled city

Cartagena has indeed been as ‘bonita’ as I expected. This walled city by the sea (it was heavily fortified by the Spanish in the 16th century to protect their rich new discovery from pirates), with its criss-cross of cobbled streets, and palm-tree fringed confines, is indeed like a faraway and magical world of its own. Basking in the sun, it’s a warm ...


Scuba Diving Columbian Style

Scuba diving from the small village of Taganga is touted as being close the cheapest anywhere in the world. For $35, me and Steve got two dives and a couple of hours at a private beach complete with a diving board (sort of) into the ocean. Not too bad. It was just the two of us diving yesterday so we took the small boat. They never even checked if...


andrew looks like a drug dealer

or so it would appear as he was approached on five separate occasions by a private entreprenurial distribution technician (read: drug dealer). all this occurred in a span of several hours as we toured the old city. apparently i don´t have the same look, and no one offered me any coke. however this is not that big a deal, as i suspect that andrew may ...


Sorry Mom!

For the record, I took at least 30 seconds to think about the decision. But when Steve proposed that we hop on a sailboat for five days and sail down through the Carribean to Columbia, there was nothing I could do. So, we woke up at four in the morning on Monday, met up with travel companions, and booked it across the ithmus 4-wheel drive style in s...