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Tag Archives: casa amarilla
The Footloose American: Did you know Hunter S Thompson Travelled Colombia?
I won’t lie, as a budding journalist I long harboured a desire to write in a gonzo fashion such as was made so irreversibly famous by the late Hunter S Thompson. Holed up in my rented room in Washington Heights, … Continue reading
Bogota Sign Shop
Sent on an errand today by my good wife I found myself down in the Bogota Sign barrio. Here, signs of all shapes and sizes are made on the spot. My goal was to find a small stamp “pagado” for … Continue reading
Magangue, Bolivar: Home to La Gata
As the second largest economic centre in the department of Bolivar, Magangue is a bustling, chaotic, stifling and confusing city on the banks of the Magdalena River. Economically important for the fluvial connections into the wetlands of the Mojana and … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Journeys, la Casa Amarilla
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Are you the Mono?
It has always struck me how polite the average Colombian is and the extent to which they will be almost over slavishly obsequious in their servile flattery. Enter a shop, a hotel foyer or a restaurant that is staffed by … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Journeys, la Casa Amarilla
Tagged a la orden, banking in colombia, blogging about Colombia, bogota the athens of south america, casa amarilla, colombian customs, colombian education, colombian spanish, colombians are polite, customs in colombia, hotel, la casa amarilla mompos, mono, polite people in colombia, what does mono mean in colombia?
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