Day 254 – Wednesday 31st May 2006

Waking up again a little fragile, it was straight into the sea to clear the head. The cooling water worked its magic yet again, and that together with the fruit juices made me feel almost human again.

By early afternoon I was 99% human, having sweated out the rum and I was ready for a few beers on the beach with the Swedes to relax. Pulling a chair from a beach side restaurant and putting into the waters edge, we were able to sunbathe, sit with feet in the sea & drink a beer all in one. Add to that some fine Colombian totty on the beach and it was the perfect day!

It was to be the last full day I spent with the Swedes as they were flying back home from Caracas on Sunday and wanted to make sure that they were in the general vicinity of Caracas (Venezuela) for the weekend, so they had a 20-hour bus journey booked for the following day.

To say adios we of course had a few drinks in the evening and went into Santa Marta again, back to Puerta or Puerto (Still can’t remember which it was!). We bought ourselves a bottle of Gin (random choice but we all fancied a change) and proceeded to get drunk. We soon got talking to a group of Colombian girls and were sharing the bottle around. Everyone ended up pretty sloshed and we all had a decent time. The two girls we originally talked to were a Colombian and a Venezuelan, and they had introduced us to numerous friends of theirs.