‘Australia Day’ Day 324
Tuesday January 26, 2010 – spent the morning on the beach having a swim etc. Everyone started getting ready early (lots of young Aussie blokes in-house) so we went on a mission to buy some limes to go with the Canchasa we have been carrying since Antigua, Guatemala.
Mission accomplished we head to ‘Los Baguettes de Maria’ for some lunch, awesome baguettes, great liner for the stomach. Some of the Aussies have gone all out & made hand painted t-shirts for the big event & bought themselves heaps of booze as Jimmy has said the bar won’t open until later this arvo!
Everyone was nicely settled in and getting quite merry, the body paint & pens were out & people had some interesting things on their bodies!!! Then the owner decides to open up the bar early & instead of announcing to everyone that they need to finish up their drinks etc he gets his staff to put up signs saying ‘NO outside alcohol Sorry Mate’ & puts one of them on the door to stop people as they are coming in…….not very Australian of him!!!! As you can imagine a few of the guys started getting pretty vocal about it & throughout the night still had issues, but there wasn’t much they could do about it.
One of the guys had downloaded the hottest 100 so we listened to that while drinking. The owner put on a pretty good barbie for 15000, the only problem was we didn’t eat until after 9pm but all-in-all it was a pretty good Aussie Day in Colombia!!
We got to chatting to one group of 5 Aussie lads and did they get a welcome to ‘Taganga’. On their first night here they were walking home from one of the bars & the cops stopped them. They were taken back to the station on the suspicion of holding cocaine (one of the guys did have some on him). As the strip search started a bag miraculously appeared on the ground! The fine started off at 1000 Euro each but quickly dropped to 200US each which they paid (of course).
The drugs being held by one of the guys was never found. He was very careful at consealing it in his clothes while the strip search was taking place & then he was able to pop it (somehow) where the sun doesn’t shine so as to make sure it definetely wouldn’t be found! The only problem was that the bag had a small tear so the bottom half of his body got quite a hit, he found out this is known as ’shelving’. The remaining cocaine was flushed as none of the other guys wanted after that!!!