Medellin, Colombia 🇨🇴 

I have been back in school for 4 days. My Spanish is still frustrating me, between a horrendous memory and lack of sentence structures, I feel like I am getting worse. I really enjoy taking classes both from the practice perspective but also it puts some structure into my days with class in the morning followed by homework in the afternoon, usually over a coffee.  I then catch up with friends each evening.  The weather in Medellin is frustratingly wet, so quite enjoy my simple routine without feeling I should be seeing more.

On the last day we even get a traditional food tasting session, with a lot of the food represented from the coastal regions which is where I am headed next. Colombian food tends to be fried, often with cheese and failing that loaded with tons of sugar so it can’t my sole diet – sure is tasty though. Pictures of samples below, washed down with Agua de Panela which is a sugarcane juice.

I fly up to the Island of San Andres this evening, so after a traditional almorzar I take a taxi out to the airport and fly VivaColombia without any incidents to the island which looks closer to Nicaragua than Colombia. I am a bit nervous that it will rain for my stay but my taxi driver to the hotel reckons the rains have passed and I should have good weather. Fingers crossed.