Hotel Stil Cartagena We docked in the harbour in Cartagena and with a Canadian couple from Vancouver’ went looking for a hotel. This was not easy because it was a holiday weekend and most of the inexpensive hotels were full. We finally found one that had 4 twin beds airconditioning …
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We are staying another full day on the island. It rained in the night and this morning it has stopped raining but there’s still a lot of cloud about.There is snorkeling equipment on the ship and a shallow reef a short swim away. Also our captain says we can take …
So we’ve set sail…well. ..not really. There’s no wind so the Captain has started the engines and we are underway.Tonight we will sleep on the boat. I hope that at some point there will be enough wind to actually sail.This is an antique sailing ship built in 1903 in Holland. …
Bill and I were first to get our room. It was a stand alone building with windows on three sides. We spent an hour or so lounging in hammocks talking with the other bikers taking the same boat.Then we went for a swim in the ocean.Just a day for relaxing …
We all had to take our luggage and panniers off our bikes. These were loaded onto a fishing boat and taken to the sailboat. Next we were loaded into a fishing boat and taken out to the sailboat. There were names on the bunks below so we found ours and …
This time our passports were checked by the military, then
The police pulled the whole group of riders over and checked our paperwork and did a half hearted search of the luggage on each bike.It didn’t take too long and we were on our way again.