The city is pretty mad, the general idea of the road seems to be to drive as fast as you can in no particular direction and swap from lane to lane regularly. There are very few green men to tell you if you can cross and the kerbs are several inches high. I think the way to do it is to just jump off the kerb and hope the cars stop. There are zillions of little yellow taxis zipping around and they don't seem to stop unless they have to.
The hotel and embassy are in the north of the city and everyone at both is very friendly. I've had a wander around and thoroughly investigated the contents of the local supermarket! Contrary to reputation, the area is very safe, the embassy say you're probably in more danger in London! There are certainly loads of security guards in all the buildings and, at night, on every corner with a dog (although the labrador I saw last night seemed to be only interested in sleeping and didn't look very scary!)
Last night there was the most amazing rainbow, people were even coming out of shops to look. I had a walk around and there were people selling all sorts of things on every corner and, which seems very common here, there are loads of people selling mobile phone calls. Yes, I do mean mobile phone calls, people have mobile phones on chains on a box by the side of the street then people pay a small amount of money to make calls on them. Phone calls seem to be very expensive in Colombia so I guess many people can't afford their own phone and there don't seem to be many payphones, it's very interesting.
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