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<\/a> <\/p>\nView from my hotel room balcony..<\/em><\/p>\n Tomorrow I take a short ride to a town further down the coast called Barranquilla where I will spend Friday night. I am avoiding getting to the "Colombian jewel in the crown\u201d..Cartagena, because I will be there for 5 nights as it is waiting for the boat so would prefer to see what else is along the coastline before getting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As mentioned yesterday, I elected to hang around Santa Marta today. I slept in a little, caught up on the hundreds of accumulated emails, wrote up the blog for the day, walked around and had a swim in the sea. There could be worse places to kill time and its a damn site better than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theamericas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t