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…
Whoever would have thought that staying fit in Medellín – a city of 2.6 million people – would be so easy? There are three operational words here: dogs,…
Jeff Paschke, a longtime expat resident of Medellín, writes a popular and very useful blog, Medellín Guru. His blog offers up a wealth of information and tips about…
Our first three months in Medellin have been busy. We’ve been preoccupied with getting our long-term visas and cédulas (a cédulas is a type of ID card that…
Two important and very great things happened in our adopted country of Colombia on Friday. FIRST, the city of Medellín finally demolished the Monaco building, the former home…