Havana to Cartagena, Colombia

Today we got chatting to a lovely English girl name Merrily who was staying at the same Casa as us. She was a very interesting girl, and we chatted with her for quite some time.

After this we headed off out into Havana to a small square we had found just yesterday afternoon, via La Bodeguita Del Medio. Yesterday I had bought a Montecristo Cigar to have a crack at and today was our final time in Cuba, so this was as good a time as any. So standing outside La Bodeguita Del Medio  I decided to go and light it up in the bar.

We wandered around for a little while, and then made our way back to the casa to get our taxi to the airport. Merrily was heading to the Viazul bus station to get her ticket to go to Santa Clara tomorrow, so we shared a taxi with her as it was on the way to the airport.

Our taxi driver had no idea where he was going, which was interesting considering he was a taxi driver. We were not exactly killing it for time, and unfortunately he took us to the wrong terminal. We kind of suspected it wasn't the correct terminal when we were on our way, and I asked him to make sure and he assured us it was right. Along the way we picked up some random guy (collective taxis are a big thing in Cuba) and dropped him at the terminal - he went and found out for us that it was the wrong place, and told us the right terminal.

The driver took us there and dropped us off - we went inside the terminal with our backpacks, and were about to get them cling-wrapped for the flight to Colombia when we noticed that Nikkis backpack wreaked of petrol. It was absolutely doused in it. Soaking. We assumed it must have come from the boot of the dodgy Lada car that took us to the airport. We did all we could with a bottle of water and a packet of tissues to clean it as best we could, got it wrapped, got checked in and got on the plane for Bogota.

We finally arrived at our final destination in Cartagena on a street called Media Luna at around 2am. We are staying at a hostel called the Mystic House Hostal, and it looks not too bad, however the room we are currently in has no window and is quite claustrophobic.

Should be interesting to see what Colombia offers up!