Wednesday 20 February 2008

CARTAGENA...COLOMBIA

LIVERPOOL 2 MILAN 0...no one messes with us in EUROPE -the DREAM is alive and SIXTH one is on it´s way-glad to get that off my chest! and now let´s go and thrash the AUSSIS at SCG as the LANKANS are taken care off-GREAT week being the RED and BLUE supporter!
Now in CARTAGENA-COLOMBIA since 18th-been looking for a boat that will take us to PANAMA via SAN BLAS ISLANDS in the CARIBBEAN SEA-found one today-GERMAN captain-he is very funny as far the GERMANS go!!!-105 year old boat made in HOLLAND-we went to see it - looks safe enough - it´s got enough lifejackets!!!-hopefully sailing on midday 23rd-40 meters length-8 meters width-sailing boat called STAHIRATTE-its a real backpackers kind of boat and has been doing this route for many years - it is also recommended by other travelers so that´s allright then!! -Captain needs to find 4 more people to make 14 to sail for sure on 23rd-he seems sure that we will sail on time-when we left home we hoped to enter one country via sea so PANAMA may be it-It is 5 days sailing to PANAMA including 2 days stop at SAN BLAS ISLANDS.
CARTAGENA-old and new town-has real feel of COLOMBIA - walking through streets gives you real buzz of being transported back some 100 years-was attacked by pirates so many times that ruling SPANIARDS then built wall around the whole town and that still exists today-a real PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN stuff-very hot well in to 30´s - now we are back in shorts and t-shirts till we finish our JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY
Slight change of plan -we were going to spend last 3 weeks in US west coast but now we will only spend one week in LA and the other two weeks we are spending in HAWAII-makes you sick doesn´t it!
Can´t believe only 12 weeks left though!-but we are gonna keep traveling as many countries as possible -we love traveling and that´s what we gonna do now!
We are already thinking of places like NAMIBIA-BOTSWANA-CONGO-TIBET-MONGOLIA also ALASKA & ANTARCTICA hmm!!!! mouth watering!!

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