The 1000 Day Holiday

Parque Tayrona is an amazing coastal national park on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The plan was for plenty of swimming, eating, drinking and general merriness to celebrate my birthday.

Oh and not to forget to recuperate from the strenuous 6 day trek I had just finished..

First thing was to smuggle the booze into the park. I had packed away 2 bottles of Ron for my birthday. And with a smooth bait and switch the policeman searching my bags didn’t spot it. No point paying a bribe if you don’t have to! All of the others also managed to smuggle a bottle each. Maybe we were all extra clever.

To begin the evenings festivities we made cocktails. Beach version pina-coladas. Then the guys surprised me with a birthday flan with number candles and a disco bottle of vodka

It wasn’t long till the disco bottle was mounted, I received my birthday tattoo and life was just that little bit longer…