Cartagena, Colombia 🇨🇴

Today is the day that Polly arrives, so I am very excited. I get up and enjoy a chilled breakfast before packing up and checking out of this hostel. I grab a taxi over to the San Diego area of town, mainly because it is too hot to walk. The new place is really nice but as the room isn’t ready I decide to take a walk to the sea, figuring the sea breeze would be nice. I walk through the gateway in the walls and across the road to the sea, planning to then walk along the shore to the beaches. I couldn’t take the heat, no shade and no breeze, so I retraced my steps back to the hostel and sat reading underneath a fan until the room was ready. It is frustrating how much the heat is affecting me, and I really hope the coast offers some respite but I doubt it.

I manage to figure out where to get a collectivo to the airport from, which means I only pay 50p for the 20minute journey. Polly’s flight is slightly delayed but she comes through soon enough, looking the same as when I last saw her 9 months ago. It’s really lovely to see her and it doesn’t sound like she has had too bad a flight. We get a taxi to the hostel and then quickly head into the old town whilst she still has some energy. It’s not a lot though and after an hour of walking we go to a typical restaurant for seafood which we both enjoy. Polly is losing the jetlag battle after being up for 24hrs so I let her go to sleep.