Bye Bye Boring Bogota

Well, the title says it all! We wouldn't hurry back to Bogota unless they were giving away free money (lots of it) or if all our friends & family emigrated there. 

There's really not much to say about the last few days as we didn't really see anything we liked and really just passed time until our flight to Cartegena, our next stop for the next 11 days.

In hindsight, we think we picked the wrong hotel. It was way in the North of the city and was really a business hotel so when we asked for local attractions, trips and places to see, they were not really forthcoming and most of the Trip Advisor top ten things to see were museums which we're not really that interested in.... Not ten anyway!

So, Tuesday we walked around a few local shops and watched the end of Liverpool v Chelsea League Cup game then ate at our hotel in the evening whilst still trying to work out an itinerary for Wednesday.

Wednesday's plans fell through late Tuesday night when the hotel told us that we'd need to leave really early to visit the coffee plantation we had arranged to see. We couldn't as we had other plans that we couldn't move so cancelled the trip.

Instead, we took a cab late morning to Zona Rosa, an area in central Bogota that had been recommended to us and had a look around.

It was an upmarket area with loads of designer shops and we were hoping to watch the Spurs semi final cup game but no venue was showing it so we ended up in a sushi restaurant for lunch.

As travellers, we have no money for designer goods and certainly have no room for anything larger than a paperclip! So, we turned our backs on the pricey stores and went to the cinema!

"The theory of everything" is the life story (so far) of Stephen Hawking. 

We'd been so bored that we decided to see what English films they had on and it was this one or The Hobbit.

Lauren cried when we'd watched the trailer so I knew I was in for a wet afternoon and how right I was! She bawled all the way through, along with most of the other people in the cinema! One lady behind us was fully sobbing & wailing at one point!

To be fair, it was an emotional but brilliant film. Whether you subscribe to Hawking's theories or not, seeing the devastation that ALS had on his body and how that in turn impacted his family and relationships was awful. The acting was amazing and we both left the cinema really moved.

We then had a few drinks in a few bars and, with a 6am start the next day, we made our way back to our hotel to catch as much sleep as possible!