15th September 2018 In Cartagena, you're in a bubble, especially if it's your first destination. It lures you into a false sense that the rest of Colombia is also this vibrant palette of glorious colour. Once well outside the city, the reality that I'd forgotten came quickly back as we passed rubbish laden shanty towns. Colombia is still developing; an easy sentence to write as a comfortable British citizen (and I don't for a moment want to be condescending and dickish). I fo