This post is part of a series called Dominican Republic Dec 2017/Jan 2018 In late December 2017, we decided to go spend New Year’s eve celebrating a friends’ birthday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. So after finishing up the Colombia Cartagena trip, we came back to Dallas, and then took off to Punta Cana via…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia Dec 2017 Cartagena Part 2, Colombia Dec 2017 Next part of Cartagena to explore was the market; so we took a taxi to Mercado Bazuto the ride cost us $5 from Bocagrande. Most taxi or uber rides in Cartagena cost us between $2.80 and $5 one…
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Cartagena Part 1, Colombia Dec 2017 After a short business trip; we decided to explore Cartagena, Colombia, since we had liked Cali and Medellin earlier. We flew to Cartagena via Miami, and when the plane landed in Cartagena, the people in the plane started clapping. We had experience this before in several parts of the…
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This post is part of a series called Sicily Oct 2017 Sicily 05: Palermo, Cefalu Next day, we left Agrigento and decide to take a long scenic drive to Palermo, passing several interesting places. We drove west from Agrigento along the coast to Mazara del Vallo, via Sciacca, Menfi, and Castelvetrano. Nice scenery along the…
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This post is part of a series called Sicily Oct 2017 Sicily 4 – Agrigento We walked from our B&B in Siracusa over to the parked car. On the way, we had to cross the fish and vegetable market that was just starting to come to life. Saw the way sea-urchins get processed; the exterior…
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