On the road

Many people come to Colombia in search of the Colonial architecture of Spain.  Approximately 80 kms. to the north of Medellin, you will find the charming but bustling city of Santa Fe…
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One of the nicest drives you can make from Medellin is only 35 minutes in length. A trip to El Retiro Antioquia takes you along the winding Las Palmas highway as it snakes through the…
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Pirates!  Somehow the scourge of the seven seas - thieves, robbers, murderers, and the like have been immortalized and romanticized ad infinitum.  My education taught us of  Sir Francis…
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In the mid-1950s, a group of 11 or 12 Afro Colombians purchased a small plot of land, not far from Cartagena de Indias but isolated enough that they and their extended families lived a…
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Having lived the ''colonial life'' for two years in Cartagena, I was uncertain what to expect from her ''older sister'' Santa Marta. While the Spanish had made other attempts at…
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