The travel books warn you. The travel websites warn you. Signs in broken English taped to the back of rusting bathroom doors in bus stations warn you. Fellow travelers warn you over bad instant coffee in hostel kitchens. If we were staying at the Hilton, I’m sure they would give you glossy tri-fold pamphlets with […]
Travelling through South America conjures up a fair amount of advice from your fellow travellers. Most of it is inevitably cautionary: “Oh, you’re going to Colombia by bus, watch out,” “Starfish Beach? Well, the starfish are nice, but the prickly things they eat are all over the beach and get stuck in your feet. They […]
Medellin is, by all means, a modern city. After we overcame the intial shock of the sheer beauty of the city’s placement, within and along a valley and river amongst the Andes, it is Medellin’s level of urban development that hovered in the forefront of our minds. And it is Medellin’s history of urban development […]
Our next venture into Colombia landed us in Bucaramanga, Diego’s hometown. Bucaramanga is nestled into a plateau within the Colombian Andes, and by all accounts seems an idyllic place to grow up. Bucaramanga’s climate hovers at 72 degrees year-round, and the city is internationally renown for its vast array of parks (one of which Diego […]
