• 29th July
    2011
  • 29
New audio tour of Cartagena, Colombia as seen through the eyes of Gabriel García Márquez. If you’re a fan of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “Of Love and Other Demons,” you might be as excited as I am about this tour. García, in his books, describes Cartagena befittingly as a city of “amethyst afternoons and nights of antic breezes.” “When night falls in Cartagena, the city seems to rewind 2 centuries. The narrow streets are lighted only by antique lanterns, and the breezes carry the eerie echoes of horses’ hoofs on cobblestone,” writes the lucky LA Times reporter. “But in Cartagena the night’s sinister whispers are often drowned out by romance- or at least by the soul-stirring percussion of sultry nightclubs (García Márquez, my audio guide informed me, was inclined to binge on rum and vallenato, a type of folk music). The audio tour next let me into the funky Getsemaní neighborhood, which pulses after dark with salsa and reggae.” I miss Cartagena, but plan on taking this audio tour the day I return. :o) http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/01/travel/la-tr-marquez-20110501

New audio tour of Cartagena, Colombia as seen through the eyes of Gabriel García Márquez. If you’re a fan of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “Of Love and Other Demons,” you might be as excited as I am about this tour. García, in his books, describes Cartagena befittingly as a city of “amethyst afternoons and nights of antic breezes.”

“When night falls in Cartagena, the city seems to rewind 2 centuries. The narrow streets are lighted only by antique lanterns, and the breezes carry the eerie echoes of horses’ hoofs on cobblestone,” writes the lucky LA Times reporter. “But in Cartagena the night’s sinister whispers are often drowned out by romance- or at least by the soul-stirring percussion of sultry nightclubs (García Márquez, my audio guide informed me, was inclined to binge on rum and vallenato, a type of folk music). The audio tour next let me into the funky Getsemaní neighborhood, which pulses after dark with salsa and reggae.”

I miss Cartagena, but plan on taking this audio tour the day I return. :o)

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/01/travel/la-tr-marquez-20110501

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