Apr 8, 2011 - Tunja - Colombia

April 7, 2011 Today I wanted to get to a town called Tunja.. It is a university town. One in five people is a student. Should be cool. The first thing I did was check the tyre pressure. A little low [5lbs] but good to go. I should mention the reason why I don’t want to buy a new tyre is that this one is bald. Really really bald. To put HER in my living room with a bald tyre is much more appropriate that to put her there with a new one. She only has 350km’s to go. And now, in Tunja 220km’s. When I fueled up I also put in 10lbs. The front...

Jul 18, 2005 - Colombia - Tunja

A quick stop off for breakfast and to visit some of Colombia's finest churches and the Casa del Fundador Suarez Rendon - a house built in the 16th century with amazing painted ceilings that have lasted over 400years. Then its off to one of the numerous chemists that frequent all of South America for the latest Dodley incident...from the symptoms and its best I don't go there, Dodley ends up with the choice of an injection (imagine that being offered in Boots!) or 4 horse tablets in one go... Suffice to say the tablets are swallowed and my...

Nov 20, 2004 - Tunja

Take a step back from all your expectations of Latin America here. This is a little piece of Europe, transplanted into the mountains at nearly 2900m, so just as cold. The city is up on hte hill and quite pretty in the old colonial style. It has big plazas( still called Bolivar) and quaint buildings all around. They havn`t quite caught up on the big cities, but that makes the place all the nicer. I just couldn`t be on the bus to Bogota nay longer- I will head there tomorrow and meet Trudy I hope.