Nice Mercedes

With a few hours to kill in Bogota before flying across the country to meet Fran & Phil, newly arrived from the UK - hope they've remembered the Yorkshire teabags - we head up to the posh end of town (Calles 90 to 95) to take in one more museum. 

The Museo el Chico is the old gaff of Mercedes Sierra de Perez, a wealthy philanthropist who bequeathed her beautiful colonial house and all its contents to the nation. 

Sitting in a lovely little park in a leafy suburb of Bogota it has the look and feel of a small National Trust English country house. There are a few interesting artefacts inside but it's the gardens and pretty courtyard that hit the spot for us.

All very cultured and civilised. A bit like Fran & Phil really.