Eleven of us left the hotel in Panama City at 8:00 A.M. to go to the airport. The first flight was from Panama City to Bogota, Colombia. The flight lasted long enough for us to be served a hot turkey and cheese sandwich and a chocolate marshmallow dessert. Neither was worth finishing, but the free white wine was good.
When we arrived in Bogota, we discovered that our connecting flight to Cartagena had been cancelled, so we had to get booked on another flight. Luckily there was room for all of us in an earlier flight. Actually, that was better because we would have less time to wait in Bogota. When we boarded the plane, we discovered that it was a a Boeing 787 Dreamliner! This was the first time that I have flown on one of these.
It only took us an hour to fly to Cartagena. We were met by our guide, Alex, the bus driver, and a female rep from Grand Circle. We went to our hotel in the heart of the old city where we were given a room on the first floor. Alex then took us for a walk in the old town showing us several restaurants that he considered to be good. Some of us stopped to eat dinner at one of these restaurants. Both Paul and I had pasta. Mine was mushroom and chicken linguini in white sauce with cheese, and his was seafood linguini in marinara sauce. Both were delicious. Alex went home, and we the walked back to the hotel.
We flew on the Boeing 787, the Dreamliner.
Garbage collector in Cartagena, Colombia
Statue in the town square of Cartagena, Colombia
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/01/travel/la-tr-marquez-20110501/2