..Not always restaurant meals ... one night we bought supplies and barbecued at the hostel. A great evening in spite of discovering the steaks would probably have been better stewed; none the less very tasty fare. The claim it only rains for an hour each day up here was found inaccurate as three closely spaced one hour long downpours challenged male prowess at the BBQ; various techniques were employed to stop the tropical rain drowning our embryonic fire...all turned out well and a lovely atmosphere for our meal on the eve of Sue's birthday... Clockwise from bottom left >> Andy, Kate, Paul, Sue, Mark, Marion.... in the background some of the other visitors to the hostel....
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...tough but tasty :-)
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08/Jul/2012, Santa Marta
Today we arose at 6am and were off for a walk as the sun came up half an hour later. Already people were on the beach playing and splashing this sunny Sunday morning. A culture where hiding from the mid day sun is an art, no signs of the locals roasting themselves like tourists often seem to do. The city is completely different without so many street traders or stalls in operation, the churches and cathedrals were bursting with litanies and sermons bubbling onto the streets through wide open doorways. A stop at one of the small cafes frequented by the locals gave a substantial standard menu breakfast: meat soup followed by scrambled eggs with plantains and washed down with sweet milky coffee...
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..one of the early morning street traders ready for the rush on buying reed baskets and sombreros ...
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... the fuel polishing was completed yesterday. This morning the earlier blockage suffered in the fuel line from the keel tank was sorted out and cleaned through. One issue spotted when checking the re-assembly work done by the fuel polishing contractor was that had failed to re-connect the fuel bleed back line from the fuel injectors; had we not spotted the error then running the engine would have resulted in pumping fuel straight into the bilge...
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... Pedro (Moana) cutting up some stinking squid to use for bait to catch a Barrucuda. Sophie looks on, pretending she doesn't mind the smell....oh, and we didn't catch any Barracuda, the local fishermen told us it was the wrong bait for this part of Colombia.
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