Fernando Botero

Guerrilla Gardeners and “Doing it for Love”

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsJune 19, 2013December 19, 2020

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsAugust 23, 2010April 12, 2011

The only risk is wanting to stay

Before I left England, I should have made myself a t-shirt. It would have read something like this: “Kent, but I lived in Liverpool. “27, yes, it took me a while to save. “It’s supposed to be six months, but I spent four months in Ecuador, so I’ll probably still be here at Christmas…” The […]

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsAugust 23, 2010September 30, 2012

Striking gold in Bogotá

When I was at university, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold and thought it was brilliant. Since then, I’ve been meaning to read more of his work (particularly Love In A Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude) but other novels somehow always got in the way. I have felt […]

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsAugust 19, 2010April 12, 2011

The legend of Bogotá

I was in Santa Marta for a few days before I hiked to the Ciudad Perdida. There I met a skinny, 26-year-old Colombian lad called Diego. He was on a short holiday from his home in Bogotá, where he lives with his brother, Juan. Now, when Diego heard I was planning to skip the Colombian […]