Today I had to be up early to make my way to the bus station and on to Ipiales. At about 8am I said my goodbyes to Carolina and headed into the city where the bus terminal was located. I found a company and brought a ticket to Ipiales - now the first thing I discovered was this was not a big bus like I had requested and secondly the bus ticket said to Pasto - the town before Ipiales. I went and asked the guy at ticket booth and he just wrote in Ipiales. I started...

Today was to be my only day in Cali so I wanted to do and see as much as possible. In the morning Carolina, her sister and I went to the markets and I brought a few fruit and vegetables. I was hoping to have a bit of a look around but neither of the girls really wanted to so we went back to the house. After lunch we were to go to town but once again it was very hard to get the girls motivated, I said I would go by myself and that would be no problem but Carolina ...

Had a nice sleep-in today and a relaxing start to the day. I studied Spanish a little, sent some emails and then decided to go for a bit of a hike around Rionegro. Elizabeth had told me about this hike up the hills surrounding her farm so I went off in search of it. I found it easy enough and the walk was wonderful winding up through the hills, past beautiful old cottages and green Forrest's. I headed back down the hill around lunch time and made my way back to t...

Another sleepless night and I am stumped as to why I can not sleep, I wake from 2am onwards every 20 minutes waiting for 4:30 - 5am to come around so I can get up and do my exercises. The problem is I feel the lack of sleep now is affecting me both physically and mentally. It was my job today to catch lunch, the farm where I am staying has a dam stocked with Talapia (a Colombian freshwater fish). Using freshly dug up worms I took to the dam - unfortunately the fi...

Today I had to be up early as ChuCho was kindly giving me a lift out to Rionegro to my hosts place. We left the house at about 7am and made an hour stop in a small town just outside of Medellin - I wondered around and killed an hour waiting. Next we headed out to Rionegro - ChuCho dropped me off I thanked him and said our goodbyes. My host Elizabeth had to go into the town for a few meetings so I joined her and whilst she was in her meetings I wondered around the...