Wonderful – Bogota!
Sad – goodbyes.
We landed in Bogota in the early evening, and after a long
wait for our baggage, we took a cab with a rather chatty cab driver who told us
that he worked in a carwash outside of NYC in the early eighties. Then we
checked into Abadia Colonial Hotel, which was very pretty and comfortable,
though cold. (Our verdict – the hotels need heat in Bogota. They are always
freezing, which is why we spent some time snuggling and reading under blankets
in Bogota during our first visit.) We hopped back out in another cab – to Zona
Rosa and more specifically, Zona T – clubs and restaurants.
We walked around, again, amazed with the clubbing scene.
“We’re not dressed cool enough to get into these clubs,” I fretted to Wayne.
After popping in a few shops, we decided to go to eat. “Let’s go to Wok; Andres
[our Colombian friend we met on the trek] says it’s great.” Indeed, they had an
entire vegetarian section, but somehow, we ended up not eating off that menu,
as due to a language snafu (Um, my Spanish isn’t that great.), we ended up on
the 3rd floor: Japanese, which normally I hate.
However, they had a ton of yummy vegetarian things on the
menu, and with four small bottles of warm sake, everything is good. We spent
hours laughing, talking, sharing our dreams, eating, drinking. It was so nice
to really spend so much time, with so much free time, outside of the streets of
work and other BS, to bond and get closer.
All those sakes later, we were tipsy. We walked around a
while more. We felt boring for not wanting to visit clubs, but really, we were
tipsy enough and fairly tired. We hopped in a cab and headed for our hotel.
In the morning, we headed out for a run, during which I took
a bunch of photos of the anti-violent and revolutionary street art. Then we
headed up to Chapinero to look around, but we clearly were not in the cool part
of the neighborhood, and we hopped in another cab to Zona Rosa. All the shops
were closed , and we found an overpriced restaurant to have eggs Florentine and
eggs Benedict in, and drink mimosas. Wayne bought a hoodie (And warning to
those going to Colombia: if you want to use your credit card in a store, you
need to bring ID. Argh.). Then, we hopped in another cab to Candelaria and
wandered the streets, looking for ice cream. Eventually, we found a place and
got a banana split.
After I got my bag at the hotel (Wayne’s flight home to NYC
was later in the evening; I was flying to Leticia for an Amazon trip that
afternoon.), I began bawling. I know I’ll see him a week, but this trip has
been an amazing reconfirmation of what a wonderful relationship we have, and
how much I love him. It was SO hard to say goodbye.
1 comment:
I love the street art.
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