Another great meal. It was fish. Jane doesn’t necessarily like fish. So if it is served to her during our travels, she will eat it with tartar sauce. She travels with a plastic bottle of it. And she’ll even go get it from her suitcase, if I’m eating fish.
People wondered if it could be kept without refrigeration. I told them we’d know if we were still living at the end of our trip.
We tossed the rest of it out after our last meal … and survived!
Miscellaneous Cartagena pics. The streets get flooded when it’s high tide which I found bizarre, since isn’t it high tide twice a DAY?
The city is very eclectic and colorful. There are many artists in the city and their art is sold and displayed at night.
A fun city in the evening.
Pato saw an artist in his studio window working on this piece of art. He was gilding it with sheets of gold leaf and a dry paint brush.
We couldn’t discern what was in the center, until he turned it upside down and we discovered an man in a hammock.
Pato’s ears perked up when she her “We can ship.” She bought the painting and it arrived at her home in Colorado a week later.
The joke here is that Luis kept talking about a specific area of Cartagena we would visit. But he also talked about GET SOME MONEY. Since none of needed an ATM, we were confused; until we read the name of the area: Getsamani.
After being cold in Armenia and Bogota, I don’t want to complain about the hot weather. But this day in the city, it hit 93 degrees. And I actually sucked down this whole little ice cold beer. I haven’t drunk beer in about 50 years. It was delicious!
I couldn’t get enough of the street art everywhere.
The city park had monkeys.
They also had sloths.
City parks and possibly the home of Pablo Escobar, the famous drug dealer and head of the drug cartel in Cali, Colombia. But that kind of blatant crime has been gone for 15 to 20 years. The blatant drug stuff is happening in Mexico these days.
Embedded in a sidewalk are photos of the Miss Colombia winners for the past 70 years. I believe, the other two actually won Miss America.
After lunch we hit the most award winning coffee shop in Cartagena, San Alberto. Jane was a barista and Manager of Starbucks for more than 20 years, loves her coffee and is always in a search for the best coffee.
It was iced coffee in front of her. How fancy!!
Another church. Look at that door, compared to the woman!!
The late Fernando Botero, who was born in Medellin, Colombia, had a prolific career in which he produced paintings and sculptures of plump figures with rotund physiques and naïve, childlike expressions.
Tradition says that if you carress the breasts of this statue, you will return to Cartagena.
Since my motto is “Never visit a place twice”, we will see if the legend is truthful.
This painting was hanging in the room with the beautiful blue pool.
When I get some extra time, and am not on a mission to crochet a blanket with different colored flowers (my recently discovered hobby), I am going to paint this myself.
Hands and feet are the most difficult to draw, so should be able to handle this picture.
Last blog page is coming!!
Happy travels.
Linda Jeanne