A mini bus with wings!

You may or may not be pleaesd to hear that we have now arrived in Providencia and do have internet access.  We flew from Cartegena to San Andreas without incident although we did have to be patted down by rubber gloved police before climbing the aircraft steps.  We then patiently waited for our 30 minute connection to Providencia but no gate was showing even though we were getting near to take off time.  Eventually the girl who had checked us in, tapped us on the shoulder and escorted us to a door in the corner whilst ushering another dozen or so passengers on to a very small aeroplane.  We turned out to be a flight of two pilots, 18 passengers and one dog!  Unfortunately 8 of the18 were from one very noisy family.  As Providencia is part of Colombia we assumed that there would be no form of immigration so we allowed all passengers to get off first.  This was not a good idea as each passenger had to produce evidence that they had paid 44,000 peso to enter the islands and passports.  The passport details were then painstakingly entered into the computer by one girl with the details being read to her by another.  Her typing skills did not extend to words per minute, she barely hit ten key strokes per minute.  We recommended a Pitmans typing course.  It took 30 minute to process the fight, with the dog taking the longest!  All our cases had to be physically searched by the police but they were so tired of waiting for us to go through, that one bag got a cursory search and the other (with the gin) was waved through. Eventually we reached our hotel, but that is another tale!  On the basis that pictures speak louder than words, we will try to post a photograph a day.