{"id":2343,"date":"2013-04-22T14:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T14:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:52:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:52:56","slug":"22-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"22 April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting with the Captain of the good Catamaran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombiapanamasailing.com\/the_cruise\/sailboat_cartagena_san_blas_panama\/jacqueline_san_blas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jacqueline<\/a> that was originally scheduled for today has unfortunately been postponed until 12pm tomorrow. This is not a bad thing as it has enabled me to get through emails and other administrative duties undisturbed and also miss out on the heat of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I went out of the hotel at about 4:30pm for the first time and the heat had materially subsided so as a result got to walk about 5 to 10km\u2019s of just \u201czig zagging\u201d my way around the streets of Cartagena and believe that I have now seen just about every street in the historic centre. Included in this wonderful evening of meandering was a 3 hour stop at the Cafe del Mar which sits perched on the city walls overlooking the Caribbean where a few beers, sunset and people watching was obligatory!!<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was at a small seafood place and then eventually got back to the hotel at around 11:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><em>More beautiful Cartagena street scenes\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"SAM_4533\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4533_thumb.jpg\" width=\"648\" height=\"857\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"SAM_4534\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4534_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>A common mode of taxi transport\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4539.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"SAM_4539\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4539\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4539_thumb.jpg\" width=\"647\" height=\"856\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"SAM_4540\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4540_thumb.jpg\" width=\"648\" height=\"857\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"SAM_4550\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4550_thumb.jpg\" width=\"646\" height=\"855\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4555.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"SAM_4555\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4555_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4558.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"SAM_4558\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4558_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>The Cafe Del Mar with Modern Cartagena in the distance!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4568.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"SAM_4568\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4568_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"SAM_4580\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4580_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><em>And even in this remote corner of the world!!! Talking about Saffer impacts, see <a href=\"http:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2013-04-19-00-born-in-the-rsa-and-big-in-the-usa\" target=\"_blank\">this interesting article<\/a>!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting with the Captain of the good Catamaran Jacqueline that was originally scheduled for today has unfortunately been postponed until 12pm tomorrow. This is not a bad thing as it has enabled me to get through emails and other administrative duties undisturbed and also miss out on the heat of the day. 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