Archive for July, 2010

Taganga

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Coming over the hill from Santa Marta you can see that Taganga isn’t a large place. It really is about 4 to 6 blocks along the beach and 2 or 3 blocks deep, not much else. So far I have walked pretty much all of it. It has a bit of a different vibe to it, kind of a low scale area with lots of tourism. The prices are similar to parts of Cartagena, at least for food and rooms.

I had diner with Will and Claire at a resturant called Pacha mamas. I had a fillet mignon with a blue cheese sauce and it was really good. It was raining a bit so we had to move from our table to the bar, then these people finished so we moved to another table under the tent thingy. Didn’t do much after, the room I am staying in has air conditioning, and I am directly under it. It was GLORIOUS!!! Was planning on staying here just the one night but now think I will stay a few more. The aircon changed my mind.

Tomorrow I will explore the town some more and do some diving. Hope the diving is good!!!

More later…

Bookstore hunt

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Woke up really early today and we got 4 new roomates last night. So I went out in the common area to work out, problem was the pool didn’t open till 8 so I just sorta paced for a while, got my ipod an book out and read till the pool opened then read in the pool for about 2 hours. Finished the book I was reading and decided to find a bookstore today to exchange the two books I have read already.

Looked around in old city for a bookstore for about an hour, found one (Abaco) and it was really nice, had a coffee shop and lots and lots of books in Spanish. Found the small shelf of English books and the prices were extortionate, like $18 for a paperback… so no new book for me. Found a used book booth inside the clocktower gate. They do exchange so I tried to trade my two books for two others, but they wanted money as well even though my two books were worth a lot more than theirs. SO NO NEW BOOKS today. I will try the next town.

More later…

Good news, i traded one of my books for one of another girls books at the hostel, so at least i have something to read for now…

Lazy day pt 2

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

So I decided yesterday was kinda nice, so i signed up for a second day of antisocial movie and tv watching. Took a break from SOA and watched Repo men. It was a entertaining action movie. A bit more gore than I care for but, that’s how it is now days.

Exercised and swam for a bit, had a bite to eat and then returned to my cave to finish the sons of anarchy. Finished it about 5pm and went to old city with my camera again. Still no luck on the sunset front, did catch a couple shots I liked. I even captioned two of them before I took the shot. Tried to hide in the cave again when I got back but abbi made me get up and go eat with her. We ate here at the hostel returant, we both had the spag bol and it was better than I expected. Afterwards went upstairs to the bar for a bit but just wasn’t feeling it. Might go looking for a book store tomorrow? Or I might just lie in bed again??? Who knows.

More later…