Cartagena is old world beauty in Technicolor
When my daughter and I arrived in Cartagena recently, I half-expected to see camellias dropping from the sky, gypsies selling magic carpets, and a hen laying a hundred golden eggs to the sound of a tambourine. This is, after all, the hometown of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who wrote masterpieces of magical realism such as “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
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