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Sat, 28 Jan 2006 | By will | Views [15547] | Comments [11]
We did this trek in January 2006 and it is a good introduction to trekking in the High Andes. The route takes you from the wonderful Wax Palm valley of Cocora, through the Cloud forest and up to the unique Andean mountain environment of the Paramo.... Read more >
Tags: Trekking Route Descriptions
Tue, 17 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [3076]
Whereas my affair with the fine Aguila beer already has the feel of a lasting, dare I say life-long, relationship about it. My shallow trysts with the national hards drinks of Colombia will remain as just that, flirtations trysts and dalliances. So far ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1243]
The last week has gone thundering by and it is only a matter of days now until I board that jet that will take me back to Europe's icy shores. I'm spending a day in Miami with Hannah and Halland and despite this delightful interlude there is no holding ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Sun, 15 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1508]
No they are NOT two superheroes and YOU know EXACTLY what I'm talking about. I saw this cautionary banner as I was passing the fruit and veg market in El Centro today and I thought I would share it with you. For those of you whose eyes are not as good ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
Sat, 14 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [2077]
O.K. It's time for a little bit of a detox. The beer and Veg and two meat diet is starting to take it's toll. There has been a certain shift in attitudes among those around me, my new nicknames of "El Gordo" and "Sancho Panza", which ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Thu, 12 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [8702]
O.K. A few of my vegetarian friends have been logging on so as promised here are a few pin-ups to set your mouths watering. They will need to since all these are dried pulses, displayed to great effect in large barrels in most of the stores and part of ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1230]
The Rio Magadalena is a large, swift running and altogether impressive body of water let's make no mistake. If it hadn't been for the fact that I knew from the start, that my visit to it would be more of a token than a pilgrimage, then I'm sure I would ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 | By willlou | Views [2168] | Comments [2]
We celebrated Christmas on a beach on a lovely islamd off Panama City and had Christmas dinner, Panamanian style, in the evening at a good hotel. A few days later my sister flew back to England and we flew across the Darien Gap to Medellin in Columbia.... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1270]
The 'mercado', or 'market' is my favourite place of the lot. I want to hold a barbeque for all the family, to thank them for their kindness and hospitality before I leave. They do not own a grill and the 'cheap', tin, imported jobbies at the home and ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Fri, 6 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1322]
I've strayed down to the sprawling, heaving mass of El Centro a couple of times now. The guide books will steer you to Del Prado as the more likely tourist spot in Barranquilla but if you like it down and dirty and the gringos thin on the ground then, ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Thu, 5 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1252]
To be fair to the Spaniards they did rebuild the place and put it under the command of a certain truculent Basque called Blas de Lezo.(See statue.) This was a horse of a different colour for poor old Vernon. This prickly bastard was 39 years at sea and ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wed, 4 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1449]
This was a letter written by a sailor to his wife after the fall of Cartagena in 1739: "When I left you heaven knows it was with an aching heart to be hauled from you by a gang of ruffians but, however, I soon overcame that when I found that we ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 3 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [8095]
This week has been something of a theme week. I've been to Cartagena de Indias which was very much a part of the Spanish main and the site of much swashbuckling and derring do. It is still home to the Colombian Navy, Armada de la Republica de Colombia,which ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Mon, 2 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1012]
I gather however that Europe is undergoing some record breaking artic conditions. Well what a drag. The worst is probably saving itself for my return. In Atlantico it has been predictably hot. Scorchio. It's virtually unchanging at the moment. We might ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Mon, 2 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1006]
Well 2006 is upon us and the last Christmas lights are blinking tiredly and the street decorations wind-whipped and sun-bleached from their passage through a scorching December. There have been many, many parties over the holiday season starting with ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
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