There's something about my trips to the Caribbean that don't quite match the archetypal holiday away in the tropics. The first time I was in the region was a number of years ago in Cuba when, as chance would have it, there was a cyclone. Here in the Colombian Caribbean city of Cartagena things are not so different. I have been well informed that it is winter here, despite the considerable heat and stifling humidity, due to the fact that there happens to be a lot of water falling from the sky. Ridiculous amounts in fact, in tropical storm proportions.
So our one day holiday by the sea has been somewhat scuppered before our journey to El Salado today. Before we head off proper we have to go and collect some materials from the market here in Cartagena. Our journey will take at least 4 hours in jeep and is supposedly an arduous one.
Nick is back in Bogota teaching the last day of his first set of workshops, the feedback was good when I was there, the kids seemed really happy.
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