Friday, February 18, 2011
- Flight at 9am, woke up at 6:30am in order to leave the hostel at 7am
- Easy flight; sat next to an older American woman living an hour outside New York; she, her boyfriend and I shared a taxi into town; fabulous views coming into the valley of the city, so many houses built up on the hillsides
- Arrived at hostel just before noon; able to check in
- Took metro into the city center to get lunch; 1:30pm, found a restaurant serving regional food
- Got a bit lost and end up on the Plazoleta de las Esculturas with all the Botero sculptures
- People at restaurant were so friendly, ordered a mixed plate of local food, got a free shot glass
- Started pouring rain so I wait until it lets up a bit to leave
- Museo de Antioquia; ended up trying to translate and English note for one of the guys working there
- Wandered around the plaza; back to the hostel at 4pm
- Sit around talking to people and waiting for Julia who turns up around 8pm
- We walked to Zona Rosa for dinner to a place serving pasta, I only brought some money since I was concerned about my safety, didn't want to risk my camera (turns out to be fine); pasta with Bolognese sauce and parmesan
- Taxi back after dinner
- Hang out and go to bed around midnight
Saturday, February 19, 2011
- Woke up at 9:30am, can’t find Julia, so spent a bit of time at the hostel and headed out at 11am to go to the metro cable
- Took the subway across town and transfered to a cable car, at the top there is another cable car
- I thought that I’ll get even better views of the city but it turns out it goes 20 minutes into a National Park, soaring over the trees, amazing
- A man offers to take a photo of me; he and his wife (Gilberto and Toto) are from Medellin and are taking their 4 year old daughter and her 13 year old cousin to the park
- We end up going to the hotel for lunch together, they pay for me
- Walk down to the lake, kids go on the paddle boat; 4pm we get a bus back to the metro cable
- They offer to drive me back to my hostel since they are parked one metro stop further; such a nice couple
- Julia is at the hostel, turns out her wallet was stolen (or she misplaced it but she isn’t sure)
- After the man comes to open her locker we head to Zona Rosa for dinner, I notice a sign for the opening of Snog, a fro-yo place I loved in London, random that it is opening in Medellin
- Picked a Thai restaurant recommended in Lonely Planet; some guy comes up to us to offer help, Colombian living in New York, but we turned him down and got a table the two of us, drinks were 3 for 1 so we ordered a passion fruit margarita; a little too salty; food is ok but definitely not Thai
- Walk around for bit, taxi back to hostel
- Early to bed for me since I’m not feeling good
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