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CARTAGENA Colombia FIRST Impressions (On The Caribbean Coast)

January 19, 2025 by hollyGS

My alarm went off at 5:30am, and we were all packed and down at reception by 6:00am, where Carlos (lovely concierge) said he would call us a cab to the airport. We had a simple version of breakfast, fruit and coffee as we didn’t have time for a full breakfast. Our lovely server brought us over a treat from her personal breakfast, a sort of doughball (like a timbit for Canadians), it was lovely of her to offer. Our cab […]

Categories: Colombia, South America • Tags: backpacking, Beer, budget travel, cheap travel, pirate port caribbean, self guided, self guided walking tour, travel, travel vlog, walking tour

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GUATAPE and the GIANT ROCK!! Day Trip From Medellin to El Penol and Guatape

January 12, 2025 by hollyGS

Our 9th wedding anniversary! We woke up at 6am in hopes of catching breakfast really early. Our plan was to take the metro to Caribe station where the North Bus station was. From there we were going to go to booth #14 and book tickets to Guatape. I think we really could have done the trip ourselves, but it was our anniversary, so we decided to talk to the receptionist at the hotel (our friend Carlos) and see if he […]

Categories: Colombia, South America • Tags: backpacking, Beer, budget travel, cheap travel, self guided, self guided walking tour, travel, travel vlog, vegan colombia, walking tour

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FREE THINGS to see and do in MEDELLIN COLOMBIA!

January 5, 2025 by hollyGS

We woke up a bit later and headed down to breakfast. We were seated at a table where a monstera plant hung down and looked like a cool green wig on my head. I ordered eggs with homemade english muffins and Jives got the potato onion omelette with toast that came covered in a tomato paste. We then set out to the botanical gardens near Universite station. The views from the metro were really lovely. It’s nice when a metro […]

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Visiting The Most Dangerous Neighbourhood in the World (in the 80’s and 90’s)!!!

December 29, 2024 by hollyGS

We woke up and headed down for free breakfast in the restaurant on the main floor, for 8am. I ordered a sourdough toast with avocado and a boiled egg, and Jives got eggs benedict. Both meals came with fruit and coffee. We then headed out to the metro, walking down the steep 45 minute incline to the metro station. At the station we added 40,000 pesos to our metro pass and took the blue line to San Javier which is […]

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Heading From Bogota to Medellin, COLOMBIA (Medellin is Gorgeous!!!!)

December 22, 2024 by hollyGS

We woke up at 4am and had a quick coffee before some last minute packing and route checking. We checked out at around 5:00am and walked down the dark streets to Parque de Hippies where we waited for the first bus to the airport (M86 or K86) for our flight at 8:45am. The bus arrived at 6:00am, and we got on an already pretty busy bus (it would get MUCH fuller). The bus ride took about an hour and it […]

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The Perfect Day in BOGOTA, COLOMBIA!

December 15, 2024 by hollyGS

I woke up at 6:30am and worked on some planning for the travel day, made coffees and wrote in my book. Jives woke up at 8:30 and had a coffee with me. We then made breakfast with the eggs we bought at the market. We had scrambled eggs with delicious corn chips, melted cheese on toast with tomato and coffees. It was actually a pretty good spread! We then walked down to Marty station ( a little bit in the […]

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Quaint USAQUEN !! 🇨🇴 Bogota Day Trip To A Lovely Market Town!

December 8, 2024 by hollyGS

We woke up at about 7 30 am and had some cheese covered toast and hot water for breakfast. We then set out on a walk to try and take a bus to Monserrate, but it was Sunday so the main bus street near us was closed to cars and buses from 7am- 2pm. So we walked down the street with the locals on bikes, rollerblades and running. We checked out some lovely street art and then bought some coffee […]

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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA 🇨🇴 First Impressions (Is it Safe?)

December 1, 2024 by hollyGS

We didn’t leave for the airport until 2pm as our flight was at 10pm. We walked from our house, 30 minutes to the mall in the cold Canadian February weather. When we arrived at the mall, Jives bought some gum for the flight. He needs it to equalize the pressure in his ears on landing. We then headed to the GO bus stop to catch the bus for 2:49 but it never arrived. Eventually at 3:30pm they sent another bus […]

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LEAVING VIETNAM! Visiting a Secret War Bunker (American/ Vietnam War)

November 24, 2024 by hollyGS

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! We had a low start to the day, finished cooking up our eggs and toast for breakfast and had a few coffees on the balcony before setting out. We first set off towards the Independence Palace or the Reunification Palace, depending who you ask. It was about a twenty minute walk. The palace is historically incredibly important as this is the place where the Vietnam/American War pretty much ended when two tanks from the Northern Army drove through […]

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