After breakfast on the catamaran, a very sticky, shaky and relieved 13 of us were taken to shore by Luis in the boat’s dinghy. It felt like we were still at sea for about 8 more hours and I found myself holding on to things genuinely believing the ground was moving – Colombians first impression of me might have been a little strange. Our first impressions of Colombia were of a beautiful Cartagena.
The old town of Cartagena is absolutely gorgeous and we spent three days wondering around absorbing it all. Colombians are crazy about fresh fruit and every corner has some one selling lovely fruit- from fresh mandarin juice to mango (with salt on!). We discovered a fantastic little place with amazing juices and amazing pastries – lots of fruit we don’t know, I quite liked the lulo juice but maracuya (passion fruit) was the absolute best. What with the fruit, pastries and men selling coffee from thermos flasks everywhere, we were in heaven.
The local food is interesting – well according to our translation of the menu it included parakeet eggs for breakfast and some sort of ‘gold fish dessert’! This may just be a sign that our Spanish needs some work. We had fun exploring the local supermarket and it's amazing fruit and veg section.
New mystery fruit for identification! Peels like a banana, looks like passion fruit, tastes very sweet.
The biggest avocado we had ever seen.
We visited a beautiful church dedicated to San Pedro Claver a monk who begged from door to door to give money to the slaves until his death in 1654, and whose remains are still on display.
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