Bogota blackout
I’ll be in Bogota in a couple of weeks, and it promises to be interesting.
We get travel advisory emails whenever we book international flights, and they’re usually quite boring: warning you that Paris has pickpockets, don’t display large quantities of cash on the street, stuff like that. But when I booked the Colombia flights, I got an advisory warning me of things like “Colombia has long been considered one of the most violent countries in the world … foreign and expatriate travelers are considerable targets throughout Colombia for acts of terrorism, crime and kidnapping … Bogota has one of the highest crime and murder rates in the world.”
Gee, no wonder our local contact there has arranged for a driver to whisk us from the airport to the hotel. Don’t expect any photos of Colombian street life on the blog. And room-service dinner sounds delicious, whatever it is.
And then, today, there’s this news story: Power returning to Colombia after nationwide blackout. Hmm. Room service by candlelight?
This entry was posted on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 12:07 pm. You can subscribe to comments on this post through its RSS feed.
on April 26, 2007 at 9:21 pm nick wrote:
I think camera boy might bow out on this trip. plus fishing season opens saturday. hugs and watch out…
on April 26, 2007 at 9:32 pm Doug wrote:
Damn, Nick, I was going ask you to come and keep the getaway car idling nearby at all times.