Another Exito - 3rd April 2009

Seeing that yesterday we visited the wrong Exito I go online to find there are 4 of them in Bogota alone.

We head out early to the North Exito. Once we arrive we quickly realise its still not the one we visited last year.

We want to visit the same Exito we did last year as it has a relatively big shopping mall too and a cinema (which I am told by my gatita we must go to as last year we didn't go to the cinema so we must oblige of course).

Anyways our visit to this supermarket was fruitful as we found ingredients I need for the Caracoles (garden snails) for Easter which we commonly eat in Easter (in the South of Spain). My gatita is not looking forward to this but I assure her that it's worth it. The recipe requires a lot of ingredients which I have now found.

I did search extensively online for the Caracoles but they simply can't be bought in Colombia so the alternative are clams instead which I bought two packs of. I must add I did bring a jar of spices for Caracoles from Gibraltar jejejeje which I bought at ransoms.

On our way back in Taxi we did spot (to my demise) one of the largest shopping centres in South America, Santa Fe Shopping mall. To my demise as I am sure that my gatita as any hot blooded female will more than willingly want to go to, so I might as well hand her my wallet when we go there (watch this space jejeje).

We do ask the Taxi this time around to drop us off at the Park 93 simply as its only two blocks away from the apartment because yesterday the Taxi driver found it difficult to take us to our doorstep much to my amusement was watching the taxi meter go up and up (although its very cheap). We travelled a fare few miles, around 30 minutes and it only cost me 9500 Pesos which is roughly £2.70. However, considering that the taxi meter is marked with a minimum fare of 25 and 5 out of 10 taxis have tampered with there taximeters it's only right that one must find ways of making it work for you. I simply hate being conned no matter how cheap it is. Not that they conned me but lets just say it is better to minimise the chances of a rouge taxi driver trying to take advantage.