Until you travel to a different continent it can be hard to appreciate how ingrained you are in your own culture. For me there’s no better measure of this than the music. I’ve mentioned salsa as an example quite often, since to begin with I couldn’t differentiate the quality of what I was hearing and subsequently wrote […]
Author: Paul Fowler
Paul is an Englishman with a longstanding love of travel, tea and quality beer. His first trip was to Bosnia & Herzegovina and it was there, wading in some waterfalls near Mostar with just a litre of cheap beer and some bread in his belly, that he was bitten by the travel bug. After many more trips and a spell working in London, Paul relocated to Buenos Aires for some months before moving to Colombia. He's been here, knocking back 'guaro', for about 2 years now.
In a country abound with opportunities for adventure it’s quite a thing to be crowned the ‘Adventure Capital of Colombia’. But then San Gil is quite a place. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Offering opportunities for an abundance of adventure in Colombia, including rafting, biking, sailing, abseiling, climbing, caving, swimming, rappelling, paintballing, kayaking, hydrospeeding, paragliding and (incredibly) more, […]
You may remember a while ago on our humble Colombia Travel Blog that our beloved JL posted something about the potential for tourism in Colombia, and the need for an identifiable icon for Colombia. Well today we’re focusing on icons too, but in a completely different way. From dancing queens to the just plain mean, […]
As a former student of English Literature, my appetite for books verges on voracious. From the confusing absurdism of Samuel Beckett to the meandering imagery of Gabriel Garcia Marquez to the gritty realism of Raymond Carver, I often like to enjoy a good wander through the corners of some of our great writer’s minds. Unfortunately […]
If I had to collect a list of 3 things that would impress locals if you already knew about when you visit Colombia they’d be salsa, aguardiente and Carlos Vives. Yup, even more useful than knowing the language. Seeing as I’ve written about salsa and aguardiente here on our Colombia Travel Blog, I think it’s nigh […]
I’ll just come clean and admit it; when I first came here I wasn’t the biggest fan of salsa. It was ok, I thought, but I preferred dancing to music that I could actually dance to. How things change. Now when a club only plays a selection of Western music I get a little bit […]
I don’t know if you’ve been over to See Colombia Travel‘s homepage, but there’s a great deal going on there. One of my favourite sections is undoubtedly the photo section because not only does it give me a good opportunity to look at some beautiful photos of Colombia, but it brings together a small artistic […]
I remember before I came to Bogotá wondering about how expensive it would be and how far I could go with what I’d be earning. I searched the internet frantically for information but found it to be unreliable or out of date. With this in mind, I’d like to share with you a little information […]
To conclude what’s become known around the office as ‘Medellín Week’, we’ve decided to round up our trip with something of a photo essay about our time at Medellín‘s Fería de Las Flores 2011. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– We don’t have photos of some of the awesome concerts that took place earlier in the […]
Continuing our Medellín-themed week, we at Colombia Travel Blog have decided to plunge head-first into the murky waters of the ‘Top 5’ tradition by presenting you with our Top 5 Things About Medellín. It was hard to narrow it down, but we did our best. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– The Weather Notoriously there’s a rivalry […]