Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

18 Mar 2013

Second sabbatical

Cartagena de Indias

Cartagena de Indias

The cool interior of a colonial house looking out through open shutters to a bright street, a carved armchair and a gilt mirror beside a black, yellow and white chequered tile floor.
A man in a white cook's uniform sweeps the pavement outside an ochre-yellow house with a turquoise arched door, white-railed balconies and bougainvillea above.
A bright yellow colonial building with white colonnaded balconies along one side of a brick plaza, potted palms at its arcade and a bronze figure standing in the foreground.
A narrow street in the walled city, wooden balconies overhanging from both sides and a deep red house in the foreground, with a church tower closing the view at the far end.
A restaurant courtyard seen through an ornate iron gate, potted palms along a terracotta-tiled walkway and a canvas awning over tables beneath old brick arches.
Gold lettering reading “Brujas de Cartagena” fixed to a weathered, mottled blue wall beneath a black lantern.
Seen from above, a mustard-yellow corner house with white balconies and red tiled roofs, a yellow taxi and a parked motorbike on the street running away beside it.
A sunlit yellow colonial house with white shuttered windows and a small balcony, framed by the dark arch of a passageway looking out onto an empty street.
A plaza shaded by trees with the stone flank of a church on one side, two bronze statues in the near foreground and a domed church tower rising at the far end.
A quiet street of yellow and white houses with barred wooden windows and bougainvillea spilling over a wall, a man cycling past carrying a yellow bag.
A row of houses painted cornflower blue, yellow and coral along a narrow street, magenta bougainvillea over the blue roofline and a hand cart left at the kerb.
A street corner in San Diego, an orange house with green shuttered windows and a plant-filled balcony, three people walking along the pavement beside it.
A street of white and yellow houses with magenta and blue shutters, flowering creeper spilling over a tiled roof, a man in a blue shirt walking away up the middle of the road.
A dim interior wall hung with postcards and prints, a tall mirror reflecting a man in a yellow t-shirt, and a lit shelf of books beside a Paulaner sign.

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