Finally we made this blog working!!it took a while but let's say we had 2 intensive weeks...
Mateo and I met each other in Frankfurt at 20:20. Our flights from Zagreb and Rome landed nearly at the same time, but one at the end, and one at the very beginning of the airport! Also, Mateo's mobile just ran out of credit, and basically it took me one hour to find him.
After a couple of sandwiches we headed for the gate. The hall was packed with turist and latin americans, chating and laughing and joking that gave us an idea of what was waiting for us in Santo Domingo.
At 22:50 the gate finally opened and with a Mateo's flamenco song as soundtrack, we got onboard!
The airplane was of course confortable, and we basically slept almost all the time, woke up only by the crew for a little dinner and breakfast.
Well guys, we don't have many pictures of our arrival because we were simply shocked.
We landed in Santo Domingo at 4 o'clock a.m. (dominican time) and righ outside the plane we got in contact with the caribbean clime: the temperature was about 27- 28 degrees the air was really humid, that we suddenly we had two wax masks stuck on the face and the body pressure collapsed! We weren't able anymore to carry the luggages!
Public phones here are quite different from ours: you have to dial the number first and then dial the number and if you do mistake you don't get moneys back. After half hour we were surrounded by taxy driver, security staff and walkers, all trying to show as how to use the phone... was like a fish market.
One our later, proudly, we made our first call!! The most espensive phone call ever!
At 7 we took the taxy to the capital, about 40 min far from the airport. In the car, the windows turned suddenly in to televisions, from where we could admire a world far far from our own ... this ...
Thanks God, our contact here worked everyting out for us. The most famous dominican in the world Marcos Diaz, well known for his many success as marathon (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_D%C3%ADaz_(nadador)) and his (Marcos don't be jealous) amazing wife Nathalia booked us two night in an hotel in the Zona Colonial most popular road
This area is sooo great! Was founded by Christopher Columbus's brother Bartolome Colombus in 1496, it is the oldest european settlement in the Americas and was the first seat of the Spanish colonial empire in the New World! Chusces, fortresses, Colonial stylish houses make of this place, the most fascinating part of the capital!
The second day Marcos arranged a tour guide (Ector right on the side)) that took us all around.
That was the first real contact with the New World ...
Cristopher Columbus's son house
At the beginning i have to confess we were a bit afraid of this huge, messy, overcrowled dominican capital, very far from our expectations. But as we discovered its colonial style roads and houses and churches, we felt like in a movie, and we loved it!
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