Cartegena is hotting up!

Buenos,

It´s nothing but sunshine here on the Carribbean coast. Every morning you´re already in a sweat when you wake up, and it´s not till the sea breeze kicks in that you start to get some relief in the shade at least.

After a long haul flight of 40 hours in trinsit from Melbourne I made it to Ecuador, and after two days spent mainly in our exclusive ´Love Den´, Trent and I headed out again on a (10 hours for two one hour flights) trip to Cartegena, Colombia. When we first arrived we were freaking out, and even the taxi driver told us it was a dangerous place to stay. Walking down the street with all our belongings on our back, the first hostel we went to was full, and then being ushered silently into the next one we found, one room with a celing fan, no seat on the toilet and a pipe out of the wall with cold water for a shower. Trent and I sat down and just had to concentrate on breathing for a while.

Now, three days later we can walk around town with smiling faces, driping with sweat, casually brushing off the street vendors trying to sell us all sorts of touristy crap, used to ignoring the sounds of taxi´s horns reminding us that we are in fact walking, even climbing the murella and talking photos of monuments.

You´d feel pretty safe if you didn´t realise you were in Colombia.

So now we just need to concentrate on avoiding getting ourselves into a war, and watch out for the miracle fishers.

Hasta Luego

p.s. According to Colombian pesos I´m a multi millionaire!