Food and Cartagena

After what can only be described as one of the most awful travel experiences ever we arrived in the beautiful city of Cartagena. I feel like I´m walking through the set of a romantic film...leafy squares, balconies full of flowers, cobbled alleys, quaint cafes and stylish resturants (we can´t afford them so we just window shop!) and lovely shops.

I really don't feel like i am in Colombia, it feels more like a Spanish village. We´ve been here three days now and we´ve just been walking about soaking it all up. Will put pictures up later today.

The street food here is amazing and cheap. You can get fruit (mango, oranges and water melon mostly), kebabs, Corn patties, crips made from plantain and sweets on nearly every corner. There are also loads of bakeries and they smell divine - I cant walk past one without popping in to see what they´ve got! Mostly they sell different breads stuffed with sausage or ham or topped with cheese and yummy little biscuits with jam in the middle or nuts or coconut on top (I´ve had quite a few of them!)

Tim brought what he thought was a bagel this morning but it was bread stuffed with a sweet paste which looked a bit like caramel. You can't seem to get just plain bread here! Like Venezuelans, Colombians also like their cheese and ham but they don´t have sandwiches, instead they have things that look a bit like sausage rolls. They also have corn bread patties (look a bit like cornish pasties) that have all sorts of fillings, queso, carne, pollo. I had one yesterday that was filled with what tasted like a chicken stew! You never quite know what you´re going to get here, but that´s part of the fun and means i just have to keep on tasting!