Medellin looked really cool, it was a real shame that I only had time for about one day there. We arrived at about 8.00am and there weren't any beds for me to sleep on so I went to the TV room, watched some TV and booked my flights doing my Caribbean Island hop. After I had my room sorted, I put my stuff away and headed out on a walk around the city. It was a lot bigger than I had imagined, I asked some man for directions and he said it was too far to walk and recommended I get the metro to where I wanted to go. I walked for about an hour and only made it about one third of the way so I did get the metro. I went to the botanical gardens, had a look around then went to the Park explora, similar to the science museum in London but cost a lot more to get in, too much by the sounds of what they had on display so I gave it a miss. I walked back about half way, past a few squares, went to the Plaza Botero, a square full of crap Botero sculptures. Sorry I keep saying how crap they are, it is just my opinion and I don't like them at all, I know some people like them quite a lot, just not me. On the way to the next metro stop I went through the busiest market I have ever been too, it was ridiculous, the same stuff again and again and again, then some chicken fast food. Before I went back to the hostel I got some food from the supermarket that took me about an hour to find, I cooked myself some dinner, drank some rum and beer, watched some films then got ready to go out with some of the people to 'zona rosa' the pink zone, where all the bars are. The hostel we went to was good too. I didn't the most of the bed though, went out that night. And didn't get to bed till gone 6.00am and had to check out at 12.00 so had to get up around 11.00am to shower and sort my stuff out. We went out that night, the plan was to end up in a club called 'Carnival' but I never go that far as I was abandoned in some bar whilst blowing my nose. I went in for under a minute, got some tissue and blew my nose, when I got out everybody was gone. I waited half an hour or so but nothing so I headed back to the hostel, I didn't have the address or anything so it took me and a driver about forty five minutes to find and about $8,000 Colombian pesos even though I only had $5,000, luckily my driver was a nice guy otherwise I would have been pretty screwed, we also had a chat about Cartagena and other places in Colombian and the Caribbean. He gave me some good advice, to always take an address of somewhere to go with me just in case, I will definitely take that advice. I don't believe those fuckers leaving me though, on my own, somewhere I don't know at all, with near to no money and drunk, with no idea where the hostel is, nice one!