Checked
into the hostel Happy Buddha (room 101) and take a double room for COP110,000 about US$60).
It’s pretty good. We have to spend a frustrating few hours trying to use the
Web to book flights to Cartagena and back down again to Bogota and finally give
up and walk to find a travel agent who does the job for us. Still takes
forever. We take the Metro (it’s quite new for Medellin and you can see that
all the locals are glad to have it as rush-hour starts) to see the Botero
sculptures. (Why did he portray all the women with huge breasts and buttocks
and the men with such small penises?). On the way back Christine gets off at
the right stop but I don’t manage to get off before the metro car door closes-trapping
me inside as the train moves off to the next station. I try to hand-signal a
plan to meet again to Christine as we look helplessly at each other through the
train’s glass door. Then I turn and look at all the other passengers and ask
“Hablo- Inglese?”. They all shake their heads but look with
Christine
and I manage to meet up again and we head back to the Happy Buddha. We are both
very tired.
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