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Mon, 28 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Views [1594] | Comments [1]
There are a variety of ways in Colombia, not unlike any other place on the planet, where you can inadvertantly put temptation in someone elses' way, creating thereby a degree of unwanted attention to one's person or property. This can consist of pulling ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
Sat, 26 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Views [781]
Today the hard-drive on the laptop gave way. On the first boot of the day it was making a noise that could compete with a Colombian coffee grinder. After trying to install Windows and, with a rising sense of panic, using all the rescue utilities and boot ... Read more >
Tags: Packing & gadgets
Fri, 25 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Views [793]
The family have advised me to spend as little time as possible on the streets of Soledad and when I am on the streets not to speak Engish. This is a place of abject poverty where a thirty-eight is often the only tool for making the rent or getting food ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Sat, 19 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Views [658]
Today the water dried supply dried up. Apparently this is not rare in this barrio and it can stay off for as long as five days. I have only seen running cold water in Colombia so far but that is no matter, Barranquilla is as hot as hell and very humid.... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Fri, 18 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Views [948]
The Venezuelan I met in the customs and immigration queue did not exactly fill me with confidence. "You should listen carefully since I will only have time to tell you once before you are sucked up into this whirlwind, which is Colombia, senor...... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Views [909]
What a difference a day makes. After sleeping the sleep of the righteous I awoke in the breeze of the airco not entirely sure where I was. Fortunately this is not a condition entirely alien to me. Halland and Hannah, being the hard working folk the are, ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Views [675]
Not at all the romantic business of epic novel. The last minute double whiskey with Richard in the The Happy Flyer Lounge nearly cost me the flight. I thought they always called you in plenty of time. Unfortunately this is not true of Delta Airlines. ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Views [683]
This Morning’s sun broke over the tram terminus and the Olympic stadium like a fire. A cold morning though. Autumn on a dying world. Scraped myself up off the bed early though; feeling the Dedalus factor. Stephen that is, not the myth. I must have been ... Read more >
Tags: Packing & gadgets
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 13 Nov 2005 | By bigfish | Views [632]
O.K. Let’s give it one more go. I’ve tried these travelblogs before and they always seem to get screwed up somehow. Gambia and Senegal never got edited and the partial blog of Trinidad, Tobago and the Southern Caribbean just evaporated on the server.... Read more >
Tags: Packing & gadgets
Wed, 29 Dec 2004 | By solbeam | Views [1798]
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entire hostel in Cartegena was woken up and all the rooms were
systematically searched on the morning of the weekend that Bush visited
Uribe in Cartegena last month. Snipers patrolled the rooftops and
police and military (readily equipped ... Read more >
Tags: columbia, history & politics
Fri, 24 Dec 2004 | By solbeam | Views [3627]
After enjoying our evening English sessions so much, I was invited to
move into the house to share in a season with one of the most carinoso ,
loving and fun families I’ve ever encountered in my travels. Now, I’m
quite conscious that here in the ... Read more >
Tags: family
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 | By solbeam | Views [1248]
There comes a point, along the path of every traveller, when in one
neck-stiffening and heart-palpitating moment, you come to a course
changing conclusion enlightened by a single flashing revelation... Um. Pretty, yes. But the enlightenment I´m ... Read more >
Tags: Budgets & money
Fri, 10 Dec 2004 | By solbeam | Views [905]
On to Arecifes Beach in the Parque Tayrona... To find me, follow these simple directions: Life`s too fun.
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Sun, 5 Dec 2004 | By solbeam | Views [2740] | Comments [2]
The heat has exhausted me and I slide under the shade of a
palm-thatched hut on the beachfront. Small, tanned, naked children roll
around on the sand floor absorbed in their individual imaginations. I
smile, again admire the world that those under ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
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