Sometimes living in Bogota, travel in Colombia’s more remote, peaceful regions becomes absolutely essential to wind down. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I took this option a few weeks ago when I decided to travel to Mompox, a sleepy colonial village that is characterised by stunning, crumbling architecture and an addictively slow pace of life. […]
Tag: Mompox and Aracataca
“I feel that I’m a native of any country in Latin America” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Whilst this statement may be true, Colombian literary hero Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo for short) was in fact born in the small town of Aracataca, a stiflingly hot and dusty place in the banana […]
How to describe Mompox? –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Mompox is like a snapshot; a village that, once you leave, must cease to continue. It feels like a chapter in a book or a moment in a film, and how can you fail to fall in love with a village that casts you as its […]
In High Fidelity, Nick Hornby’s protagonist spends a great deal of his time agonizing over lists: top 5 lists that organize his life into favourites, bests and greatests. It’s a gruelling way to live as anyone that has tried to categorize their favourite films, albums or children will know. Your lists can fluxuate depending on […]
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it” (Gabriel García Márquez) –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I once met Gabriel García Márquez’s biographer, who assured me (over a questionable plate of unagi) that Colombia’s best-loved writer was, in fact, the world’s best-loved writer. […]
Holy Week, otherwise known as Semana Santa, is fast approaching. With many Colombians having time off work during this period, plans to celebrate Holy Week are being made around Colombia. Holy Week celebrations in Colombia traditionally run from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday and this year it falls on the dates Sunday 1st April to […]