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IntervalWorld.com INTERVAL WORLD Summer 2015
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Sunset
casts a noticeable
calm over Cartagena’s Old Town. The
motorcyclists slow down and follow
the rules of the road more diligently.
The throngs of people shuffling to and
fro on the sidewalks disperse. And
many of the little cars that scurry along
the narrow roadways like mice in a
maze during daylight hours retreat to
unseen nocturnal sanctuaries. This
final detail is the most important,
because at this point of the story I’m
actually sitting in the street. At a
rickety, unbalanced high-top table
with my wife, Michelle, and a couple
of cold Aguila beers.
The makeshift patio seating is courtesy
of a handful of somewhat anonymous
establishments — a pizza joint, a
very
casual
steakhouse, a hole-in-the-wall bar, and a
couple others — all opposite the Plaza
Fernández de Madrid. We had been on our
way to dinner at El Burlador de Sevilla, a
popular, not-at-all-anonymous Spanish
restaurant, but the sight of the tables set up
on the street in this less-touristy part of town
was simply too tempting to pass up. It was
also made clear that by sitting at any of the
tables, we’d be able to order food and drinks
from
any
of the nearby eateries.
BY J.B. BISSELL
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