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101 Reasons to love Cuba
1. Coffee addict? No problem. 2. It’s amazing how a funny immigration official can improve even the dullest two-hour airport detention (Never be a British journalist with a Colombian visa) 3. Tell someone you’re British and he might just reply: “Ahhhh, the country of Ali G.” 4. Cubans find Victoria an easy name to remember. […]
Mud, ponies and very fresh coffee: Why you could easily get addicted to Salento
May 27, 2012
Suddenly the narrow, dusty street filled with children on scatty ponies, screaming and laughing as they tried to avoid my camera. I was perched on the back of a farm truck, laughing too. This is why I love Colombia’s coffee district. This is why I keep going back. It’s supposed to be a travelling ‘no-no’, […]
Pereira: Prostitutes, sex strikes… and does Simón Bolívar feel liberated when he’s naked?
April 23, 2012
Every country needs one poor town to be the butt of all its jokes. And while people in Bogotá can be pretty stereotypical about ‘lazy Costeños’, not even the laid-back, fun-loving folk of the Atlantic Coast have it quite as bad as the good citizens of Pereira. Pereira is an otherwise ordinary Colombian city. It […]
January 6, 2013
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