Zebrafish

Surf ´n´ Turf

You´d never have believed us, we could have lied and said we´d been surfing tubes in those waves, only we´d both managed to lose our cameras a week apart, so no photographic evidence, and not only that but I sat on my Palm computer so we were out of action blogging for a while.

Red double decker buses in the rain on a grey morning and for a moment we are not in Andean Bogota, but London. A Berlin jazz band staying at our hotel invited us to see them perform for their trade expo. All went well until a spotlight caught fire and a cloud of noxious fumes sent the front row dignitaries packing.

From the Caribbean to the Andes

On our arrival in Colombia our friendly cab driver pulling back on his cigarette in disapproval pointed out Bananas a prostitute bar right opposite our hotel. However Cartagena is simply wonderful, caught between boutique clothes shops and hustlers, the richly coloured colonial buildings soak up the heat and the narrow streets provide afternoon shade in the old walled port designed to keep out the British and French.

Sharks, a scorpion, jellyfish, biting ants, tigers, thieving monkeys, yellow snakes, spiders and a giraffe

Bull sharks swim in freshwater lake Nicaragua, the largest lake in Central America. They swim in along rivers from the Caribbean. With its closest point only 20km to the Pacific, Granada was a very important colonial trading town. Having been sacked 3 times by pirates and burnt to the ground it is now rebuilt and taken over by tourism.