After a few months of Spanish lessons with Liliana Zambrano, the director of "Dive Into Spanish", my wife Jan and I traveled in April to Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The trip was fantastic.

Everyday I studied Spanish with an enthusiastic and talented young teacher. Her lessons covered Colombian history, traditions, food and places of interest. The lessons were taught in Spanish and ended with a daily grammar review.

Cartagena de Indias is a city in the north of Colombia, South America, located on the Caribbean Sea coast. Exploring this beautiful colonial city and its surroundings allows you to go back in time and enjoy the unique blends of cultures, the joy and kindness of its people and the variety of artistic expressions: food, music, dance, art and architecture. It is also surrounded by exuberant natural wealth, nice weather and paradisiacal beaches and islands, which is why it is considered "The Jewel of the Americas".