Make sure to take our other Colombia Quizzes to test your Colombia knowledge: –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Personality Quiz: Which Iconic Colombian Are You? Name that Colombian Fruit! How much do you know about legendary Colombian Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez? Have you read his books, biographies, our 87 Facts about Gabo blog post!? […]
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–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– 2014 has been an amazing year for See Colombia Travel: our blog has had more visitors than ever before, with over 370,000 users logging on, and reading over 750,000 Colombia Travel Blog posts.We have had visitors from countries all over the world, logging on to experience the joys of […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Gabriel García Márquez es la figura más emblemática de Colombia: un gigante literario cuya actitud relajada e informal encanto costeño lo han hecho un héroe para millones de personas. Tuvo una vida muy peculiar. Así que aquí esta el Top 5 de See Colombia Travel con nuestros momentos favoritos […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Today marks the first day of Bogota’s annual International Book Fair (FILBO). The festival will run for two weeks between April 29 and May 12, and takes place in Corferias, a large convention centre in the neighbourhood of Quintaparedes (Corferias address: Cra. 37 #24-67). Since the fair began in […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– When I first pulled One Hundred Years of Solitude from the shelf in my local bookshop, aged 14, and quickly parted with the princely sum of eight pounds to take it home (mainly because I loved the sound of the author’s name and the cover-art,), I could never have […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Gabriel Garcia Marquez will forever be remembered as a man of letters; a literary icon almost without equal, and the originator of the Latin American literary ‘boom’ with whom he is synonymous. However, what many people may not know is that music was as much, if not more, of […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Colombia’s most iconic figure: a literary giant whose laid-back attitude and casual costeno charm have made him a hero to millions. He’s had a pretty colourful life as well, so here are See Colombia’s Top 5 favourite Gabo moments: 1. “Turn this car around!” The […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Yesterday probably the greatest living Colombian turned 87 years old – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (or Gabo to his friends). What a life it’s been: from the little town of Aracataca to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gabo has retained his massive popularity in Colombia thanks to his easy costeno […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– As a cynical European, I always understood Magical Realism as crazy Latin American folklore, a literary device that had no real connection to the world. My British skepticism couldn’t grasp the concept, the idea of magic being present in the mundane, real world, of normal, realistic settings going hand […]