Sightseeing Day 354
Thursday February 25, 2010 – actually slept with a blanket over us lastnight which was the first time for a while. We also set an alarm this morning, but only for 9am! We were out the door at 10am for some breakfast at the little pattisserie a few doors down.
We then hopped in a cab to ‘Pueblito Paisa’ this is a replica of a traditional Antioquian town plaza on top of a hill with some pretty good views out over the city, however it was a bit disappointing.
Next we hit Museo Antioquia and Plaza Botero, then found our way through the streets up Calle Junin (a pedestrian walkway). Which lead us straight to Parque Bolivar and the Metropolitian Cathedral. By this time it was after 2pm and we hadn’t had lunch but we had bought a mini apple pie at breakfast, it was awsome tasted just like it would back home (now that sounds strange but quite often we will buy something and it doesn’t quite taste like it should e.g. A pastry with cheese & bacon on it – now the pastry should be savoury but you bite into it and it’s sweet!!!).
We headed back to the hostel I went to bed with a bit of a headache, Lee tried to watch a movie & Clare sat on her computer.
At around 7pm Lee & I hopped on the Metro to the pool for his last game of hockey with the guys. He did some of the gruelling training with them and then got placed into a 4 on 4 game with some of the mens players. He was exhausted when he came out. We said goodbye to everyone and hopped back on the Metro with Luca, Natalia & her boyfriend.
We didn’t get back till around 10.30pm so we quickly got changed and headed down to ‘Royal Thai’ for a late dinner. We were lucky they still seated us, Clare and I had asked the night before what time he closed and we said we would be late so he said it was okay.
Dinner again was fantastic. We had spring rolls and chicken satay for entree, Lee had the same, Clare had Pad Thai Gung and I had Chicken with Chashew nut. It was so good again we are coming back tomorrow for a late/last lunch!!!
After dinner we sat at a little place near the hostel that had a live jazz band playing, very nice sitting under the trees sipping on a Cuba Libra and tapping to the beats.