20 July 2019 15:00
This morning we went on a city tour with our taxi driver from yesterday morning, Aley. He is a super friendly guy and did a good job with the tour. It was long so he needs to work a stop for street food into his tours. He said that he has only been doing the tours for a couple months. He spoke only Spanish, but he would repeat or talk slower when needed. Emily got a lot of practice with him. I was able to get the gist of some of it. We’ll post a picture of his information in case anyone is going to be in Cartagena. I used the whatsapp to text him. It worked well and was easy to just pick the country and put in his number. We have kept it and are thinking of a trip he offers to a national park about 40 minutes away later in the week one morning.
Cartagena is a large city with many different neighborhoods or barrios. I like the people and their attitude towards each other. The people here love being Colombian and even more so from Cartagena.
Aley took us through several different barrios on our way to some of the sights and told us a little about them.
The sights were interesting and Aley was knowledgeable about them. Aley also takes pictures so we did not need to use our new selfie stick.
La Popa and the Castillo de San Felipe provided us with some excellent views of Cartagena.
After visiting Boca Grande (big mouth) I find that I like the neighborhood we are in better. The beaches there were packed and there were people selling stuff. Our beach even when busy and with the lady that offers massages to Emily, is better.
I like that we have knocked some sightseeing off our list. For as long as we have been here it didn’t seem like we had seen much, mostly busy with classes. Most likely our trip tomorrow will be icing on the cake though!
Possibly tonight we may go to a trendy area of town and check out some clubs. Hopefully Emily paid attention to my Spanish CDs on how to ask someone to dance if she is wanting to do more Salsa!
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We opted to do the trendy town another evening, she probably wants to work on her moves and asking someone who can dance to join her.
It’s Saturday and a holiday here so it will probably be nuts there. Another evening may be more our speed and we have to get up early tomorrow for our snorkeling excursion.
We went in to the old city tonight to walk around some and get dinner. We stopped and had Italian at a place Emily just pointed at and asked “how about here?” It was very good and had been a place a famous writer enjoyed that Emily was familiar with. She probably posted who in her blog. It turned out well. I have not had any bad food here yet. The first place was good but everyplace else has been better for what I have ordered.
Traveling with Emily! 