Flavia & Gregory go LA

We have not left Cartagena on Saturday like it was planned. El Joshua was not ready to go on the day and Freddy the captain came to refund us the deposit, and so leave us free to go with someone else if we could find another boat. So guess what? The beautiful yacht I did not want to let go of was still free and so we are leaving today in total luxury! Mega colpo di culo! It is a Swedish middle-aged couple who are taking us and they don´t do this for a living - we have not quite understood why they are doing it, but hey! We will never ever have the opportunity to travel on such a first class yacht for this price ever again! The yacht is called Roxy, we are boarding it today at 4 pm and so we should be in Panama by Saturday.

Given the amount of days we have already spent in Cartagena, we decided to go and kill some time in Playa Blanca for a couple of days. We took a boat similar to Alcatraz, just a better one, and stayed overnight on the beach. The are a few basic places where you can hire a hammoc or do some camping (and even some rooms but a bit expensive), so we decided to stay at Hugo´s Place, which is a small place that Hugo from Medellin put up about 7 years ago. Really basic, no showers, toilet flushed with sea water buckets, but absolutely great! We loved it, the food was really tasty and we were just a few steps away from the sea shore, lying on the beach all day with vendors coming and selling coconut sweets, corn fritters and nice stuff like that. Then Gregory took the kayak and managed to end up at the bottom of the beach and Hugo had to go and rescue him because the wind was too strong for Gregory to come back on his own....

Here are the pics

Hugo and his place