Archaology in Cartagena...

Today it was still windy and chilly. Unfortunately, we all had a pretty terrible night's sleep.  The apartment next to us has 4 guys who came in around 3 a.m. drunken and loud; clearly, they had also picked up some women.  The sounds of furniture being moved seemed to go on for hours. Eventually, Michael got up and complained and the night watchman told them to quiet down, but they didn't.

Our expedition was down the coast to the old port city of Cartagena.  We did quite a bit of walking, trying to find the Roman amphitheater. But, we persevered.  First, we went into a museum that explained how  the town did not even know that the town HAD a Roman amphitheater until 1990! It had been buried under layers and layers of other civilizations,  as the amphitheater was built on a hill.  The museum did a good job showing the evolution.

It has a deep water port that was used by the Carthaginians, the Visigoths, the Byzantines, the Moors and the Spanish.  The amphitheater area had evidence of those civilizations, except the Carthaginians.

After the museum, we walked into the amphitheater which is still being excavated.  It was pretty impressive. Then, we walked up on the heights into the castle gardens where there was quite a large flock of noisy peacocks.  We did not go into the castle, and wended our way down the hill, not quite sure if we'd end up near where Mark parked the car.  As Nancy had taken a spill in the slippery marble shower in the morning, she was quite sore and we did not want to do extra walking.

Let's hope that the party guys are quiet tonight.  We have been told that they will be kicked out if they are noisy again.