DATELINE March 28, 2020, Medellín, Colombia. Cheers to all! Hope everyone is staying safe, healthy, and hunkered down. Here’s the latest from our little corner of the coronavirus…
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DATELINE March 21, 2020, Medellín, Colombia. As recently as a couple of weeks ago we were going about our business like everyone else: working, walking our dogs, eating…
Colombia’s biggest carnival is held in its fourth largest city, Barranquilla. It’s also billed as the second-largest carnival in the world next to Rio in Brazil. That might…
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…
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.…
“¡Cuando un silletero pasa, es Antioquia la que pasa!” – Crowd chant at the Parade of Silleteros, 2019 Medellín Feria de las Flores It means: “When a silletero…
We’ve been hearing about Jardín, Colombia, practically since the day we moved to Medellin. We had a picture in our minds of a fantastic old colonial square with…