Once upon a time, I met a girl from my university who told me she was from Malta. I gave her a timid smile as I quickly googled to figure out where “Malta” was. Malta is a small country located just south of Sicily and north of the North African Coast. It is an archipelago, …
“Cartagena is so hot! Good luck!” was the constant response I got when I told people I was going to visit the Caribbean city. I took their warnings with a grain of salt because I lived in hot, humid, Washington,DC summers all my life. They were right. Cartagena’s scorching climate was not a force to be reckoned with …