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Did you know it was a fight over a flower vase that signaled the beginning of Colombia’s fight for independence? It’s absolutely true, and if you find yourself in Bogota you can visit the spot where it actually happened – the Vase Museum, or the…
Continue readingI didn’t go to Chiquinquira for a nice, relaxing trip, to see the sights and be a tourist for the day. I went along with my friend’s mum to visit a grave site. She wanted to visit her mother, who had died when she was…
Continue readingThe first time I visited Fomeque was at Christmas time last year. I’d just started dating K-Li and had met his family a few days earlier at a novena they were holding at their house. We were both so nervous that night. We walked up the…
Continue readingI walked by this hamburger cart in Bogotá the other day and it got me thinking about how creative people can be here in Colombia. This small space only just fits one woman, and here she sells hamburgers for $1,000COL pesos or about 50 cents…
Continue readingPower on. POWER ON!! Nothing. I looked at the black, lifeless screen of my smartphone – It was dead. I tried charging it, I removed the battery, I shook it around and looked at it with pleading eyes. Nothing worked. What was I going to…
Continue readingSometimes, the easiest way to find your way in a new city, or a new country, is to get in touch with people you know who are already there. If you’re lucky, you can sleep on their couch, or spare room (luxury!) and have a…
Continue reading1. Museo de Oro – free on Sundays
Continue readingBogotános love, and I mean love, their hot chocolate. They drink it at breakfast, after lunch, they have it for afternoon tea and after dinner. Seriously, they love it. And I do too. Hot chocolate isn’t just a drink here though, oh no. It’s far…
Continue readingTravel Colombia and you’re likely to be kept busy with attractions and incredible scenery and hospitable people. But once you begin to live in Colombia, like I did in Bogota, things start to change. Everything becomes familiar and you begin to form patterns in your…
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A few months ago, when I was looking to escape the chill of Bogotá, I decided to head to Villeta for the weekend, which is about 2 hours out of the city. It was there that I relaxed in the warm heat and swam in…
Continue readingSo, for a beach bum like myself, the weather can have a serious affect on my outlook on life. No sun? No reason to get out of bed. Right? Well OK, I’m not quite THAT dramatic. Although other people might tell you otherwise. In any…
Continue readingWhen I arrived in Bogotá for the first time and walked my backpack to a car that was waiting for me at the airport, I thought I was going to collapse. When I arrived at my destination and tried to walk up two flights of…
Continue readingYour phone is out of credit, there’s not a public phone in sight and you need to make a call. It’s urgent too, obviously. What to do?
Continue readingI am a self-proclaimed beach bum. Get me to a beach, with warm weather and calm waters, and I am pretty excitable. I have seen many a beach in my time too, but one of the most beautiful beaches I have seen was in San…
Continue readingBig well done to Colombia for beating Peru 2-0 in the selection today. Here’s hoping they make it all the way to Brazil!
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