Original post in English here –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Por supuesto cuando te mudas a otro país esperas encontrar muchas diferencias culturales. Para comenzar el idioma y aun, la forma en que se saludan o despiden, así mismo como interactúan con la familia y la comida, puede tomarte un tiempo para acostumbrarse. Sin embargo […]
Tag: Moving to Colombia
For the last year, in Colombia, many of my conversations with fellow Brits or people from the States have, at some point, turned to what people’s expectations were or what their friends and family think of their trip to Colombia. Having returned for the UK for Christmas, I’ve dealt with this once again, but first-hand. […]
Para el post original en ingles haz click aquí. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Si eres un lector frecuente de Colombia Travel blog, sabrás que Colombia es un país lleno de sorpresas, lleno de lo raro, lo maravilloso, de gran belleza y a veces completamente extraño. Una de las sorpresas más grandes para la mayoría […]
You can find an english version of this post here: https://seecolombia.travel/blog/2013/10/why-i-love-colombia-a-farewell-letter-by-paul/ –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Incluso con un aguacero cayendo sobre Bogotá, dejar Colombia no fue nada fácil. El momento, ahora lo sabía, había llegado. Ahora me empezaba a aferrar a los que serían mis últimos recuerdos de Colombia. Un episodio que no quería que acabe. […]
La versión de este post en castellano aquí : https://seecolombia.travel/blog/2013/10/el-adios-de-un-ingles-que-ama-colombia/ –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Even as the rain dragged on in Bogota, leaving Colombia wasn’t easy. I found out I’d been offered a job in Berlin via a Skype call. I tapped my pen on the desk. I slowly lowered my gaze down to my interview […]
Bogota is a city replete with international cuisine and attractive cafes to while away your time in. The most popular areas to find these places in are the north of the city, around Zona Rosa and Parque 93, and downtown in the cobbled streets of La Candelaria. For the more adventurous people travelling to Colombia, however, […]
There are times when learning a language that you’re stunned at the similarities. For example there’s an old Spanish proverb (“A caballo regalado no se le mira el diente“) that literally means “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”. Who’dathunk it? –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– There are times, however, when you’re left baffled by […]
Have you gone totes cray-cray? According to Education First´s survey of 54 countries whose official language isn´t English, Colombia comes in 50th place for the level of English spoken. So… if you’re going to Travel to Colombia, you´ve got to hablah a bit of Es-pan-ol, to even think about coming here, right? –> Colombia Dolar […]
Dear Economist Intelligence Unit, –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I recently read with keen interest your liveability survey but was shocked and upset to find Bogota ranked as the worst Latin American capital city to live in. As a proud adopted rolo, I am well aware that I am perhaps sometimes a little bit biased […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Sometimes I like to think that, after nearly a year in this beautiful country, I´ve gone pretty native. I´m pretty handy on the old chicken bus, (even if I do say so myself), I´ve started doing all the things in this list, and I can even make a pretty […]