With Susan’s mom visiting from Texas last week, we had the pleasure of visiting Finca Los Girasoles- a flower finca (farm) in Santa Elena – with our driver/guide…
Transformation is a complicated word here. For most visitors, the words “barrio transformation” conjure up Comuna 13, a district in the San Javier barrio (neighborhood) that has become…
As we look forward to another adventurous year, it’s fun to look back and see which of our posts resonated the most with our readers over the past…
People ask us: “What’s it like to spend Christmas in Colombia?” Now that we’re finally spending the whole month of December here, we’re getting a broader picture of…
We first visited Comuna 13 in Medellín, Colombia back in July 2016. That was well before we made the decision to relocate here from Boquete, Panama. (Click here…
Is it really possible that we’ve been here for a year? On Nov. 22, 2018, we moved to Medellín, Colombia after living in Boquete, Panama for 3.5 years.…
There’s just something about Madrid. It’s not just because it’s Europe’s third-largest city and the capital of Spain. Maybe it’s because it’s seriously OLD (founded around 800 AD!),…
It was a dark and stormy night . . . . Well, not really. When we first visited the world-famous La Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires, it was…
Versailles Palace is on the to-do list for just about every visitor to Paris. Most people make a day trip of it, since the village of Versailles is…
We’re feeling a little nostalgic today. Thanks to the magic of Facebook memories, we got reminded that exactly one year ago today, we struck out on one of…