{"id":2251,"date":"2013-04-19T00:45:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2013-04-21T00:45:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T00:45:41","slug":"19-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"19 April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short run of just 100km to Barranquilla today and although short in distance it was long in time, not because roads were bad but because I got caught in a torrential rain storm just before getting into my destination.<\/p>\n

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The storm I rode into\u2026<\/em> <\/p>\n

Navigating the 10km\u2019s of roads in Barranquilla to my hotel was like navigating a river system because the internal town roads haven\u2019t been designed to accommodate the quantum of water that came down so the traffic backed up and were moving one by one through rivers of water that were rushing down the streets\u2026.It was an interesting experience!!<\/p>\n

Barranquilla is another large industrial town and is developing rapidly as a result the industrial activity. Large office and residential skyscrapers have been and are currently being built. 2 interesting facts about Barranquilla is that it was the first city in South America to build an airport, and secondly, the second oldest airline in the world still in operation (today called Avianca) was started there,KLM being the oldest.<\/p>\n

I am spending the night at the Hotel Sonesta Barranquilla which is new and a great business hotel.<\/p>\n

On route to Barranquilla\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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Short run of just 100km to Barranquilla today and although short in distance it was long in time, not because roads were bad but because I got caught in a torrential rain storm just before getting into my destination. The storm I rode into\u2026  Navigating the 10km\u2019s of roads in Barranquilla to my hotel was […]<\/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-2251","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