The reason the Annual Slowboat Do was so early this year was because we had booked a cheeky week holiday immediately before Christmas to South America. My classes would be either cancelled or quiet so why not?
It was an interesting start.
We were up at 4.30am to catch our flight... I watched 2 films on the plane (unheard of) (The Lion King and Rocketman)...I had 3 beers (also unheard of)...and then like 2 exhausted pigeons we fell asleep within hours of boarding the ship....we missed dinner (absolutely unheard of) and I woke the next morning with conjunctivitis in my GOOD eye which wouldn't open, it was so swollen. You couldn't make it up.
Came away for a break after a crazy month of Slowboat organising, sewing stockings and a having a NEW KITCHEN FLOOR and on Day One I could hardly flippin' well see.
The very nice ship doctor (Marella Discovery 2) gave me some steroids and antibiotics and thankfully it had started to improve by the time we had sailed from Montego Bay to Santa Marta in Colombia.
SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA
Santa Marta is Colombia's oldest town, founded by the Spanish in 1525 and backed by South America's second largest mountain range.
We booked a TUI trip to Tayrona National park which was a 25 minute drive from the cruise port and it was lovely. There just wasn't a lot of wildlife action. But monkeys and birds weren't going to come and to greet us were they? It wasn't a zoo.
The park runs along the Caribbean coast. The thick rainforest with huge frothy coconut palms spills onto sandy beaches with huge egg shaped boulders and is backed by the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the world's highest coastal mountain range. A stunning contrast between trees and leaves and seawater and sand.
Of course.....👇
This was a pumpkin.
Small and green not large and orange.
(To give you an idea of size.)
The huge boulders looked like a combination of pumpkins, dinosaur eggs and animal faces.
There were great views from the top of our climb.
And we saw monkeys, ants and lizards.
I enjoyed a TIZER called Colombiana.
I brought the bottle home and used it for spinning for a while.
Because it had Colombiana on it !
And nearly got swept away trying to plank in a rough, wild, swimming-forbidden sea.
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