Social time in Cartagena
Admin | Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 10:57AM We were busy trying to sort out few things. Greg went to buy a sewing machine so we should (we?he?) be able to do some canvas work ourselves. Greg was also trying to fix the fridge and freezer wiring which had a big voltage drop. He bought some wood for our new outboard motor. Our papers were finally processed 2 days ago, after 10 days ...and we are going through an official agent as there is no choice here. It takes only 4 lines to write that but it took a week to do it. Updates on the new inflatable? The one we wanted to buy wasn't as we originally planed in Curacao and our dinghy was heavier and didn't have some of the features we wanted. So today, we decided to buy the one we wanted but it is waiting for us in Panama (Marinewarehouse).
Emmanuelle worked hard with the boys and finished another set of evaluations (60% of their work is now done). Clea also did some schooling but was very motivated this week to do some beads work and she is now offering some bracelets to her friends.
Cartagena, cultural but also social spot. We met few other boats and had enjoyable evenings drinking the local beer...which is from SA brewery!
Yesterday we went to the gold museum. Some of the craft was amazing.
We are now in the process of clearing out (hoping it won't take another 10 days) as we are missing clear blue water and want to get going. We did some provisioning today, so we should be fine for 1 month of exploring around before reaching Colon (Panama) and getting ready for the transit of the canal. We are going to stop for few days in the Rosarios (Colombia) then in the San Blas (Panama).
We will be off line for a little while...
Reader Comments (2)
Hi Merlinians! Wish we could be in Columbia to sip a brew and see the gold with you!
Sounds great. Greg - glad to hear you are improving your sewing skills!