Deutsche Bahn Colombia

Reading all the Spiegel-Online stories about the strikes of Deutsche Bahn (sure, this isn't new), I was really happy to be at the other end of the world - until strikes reached me here as well, here by the bus drivers of Santa Marta. It wasn't the first one I had seen in the small caribbean town, but the first that affected me, because today I wanted to go to the fishers' village Taganga, around 30 minutes away.
Actually there were still a few buses running, but besides the fact that I didn't want to rely on the hope to find one back to the hostel in the evening, I didn't think they were safe either: police had to escort each of those few buses, since the striking drivers tried to stop them. Therefore, I preferred to stay at the hostel pool.Baca lagi