Journeys to and from Medellín, Colombia by Diego Santos: Last year I traveled to Colombia. To get there I took a plane to Cartagena and from there another plane to Medellín. Usually I carry important things with me on the plane but the airline I was flying with didn’t allow […]
The Art of Fernando Botero by Tim Ghazzawi: Gabriel García Márquez is Colombia’s most acclaimed artist. The Nobel Prize-winning author has had his writing translated into over 30 languages and, despite his death 5 years ago, maintains an immense readership around the world. I recently bought myself a copy of […]
A Weekend in Punta Gallinas by Tim Ghazzawi: The northernmost point of South America is called Punta Gallinas, which, when translated, means “Chickens Point”. As the story goes, the place earned its name after a ship carrying livestock crashed there and scattered the surviving chickens across the land. I’m not […]
A Game of Tejo in Salento, Colombia by Tim Ghazzawi: In Spanish, the word tejo means many things. In Colombia, the word tejo loosely translates to: “a game in which you throw metal discs at triangular paper pouches filled with gunpowder and arranged in a circle atop a board of […]