by Jonathan Evans | Apr 24, 2010 | Colombia, Food, Photos, South America
What’s This? Lunch in Colombia. That’s fried egg, rice, beans, avocado, fried mature plantain, sausage, ground beef, chicken and deep-fried pork rind. What you want me to say – it’s wonderful.
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 14, 2010 | Colombia, South America
South Americans are not quiet people. The streets are filled with a mixture of shouting, traffic, the thud of a reggaeton track booming from a passing car, sirens and of course, the incessant beeping of car horns. When I lived in Europe and drove regularly, I have...
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 3, 2010 | Colombia, Food, South America
So, we’ve made it back to Colombia – in fact we’ve been back here for over a fortnight. It all started with a mammoth bus day from Otavalo in Ecuador, up to Ipiales where we crossed the border, followed by the worst bus journey so far, up to Popayan....
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 18, 2010 | Colombia, Peru, South America
We’ve spent nearly 3 weeks all told in the Amazon region, half in Colombia and half in Peru. I have lots of notes and photos that will one day find themselves onto the blog, but at the moment by and large I’m limited to public internet access or my iPod...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 17, 2010 | Colombia, South America
They don’t call it the rainforest for nothing. It sounds like a train coming – it’s perfectly dry and simply overcast and all of a sudden you hear a noise like a strong wind coming. It gets louder and louder, the sky turns instantly darker and within...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 8, 2010 | Brasil, Colombia, Peru, South America
A quick update from Leticia – got back here last night from a few days in Puerto Narino, which is 70km up the Amazon towards Peru. Tomorrow we’re getting a fast boat from Santa Rosa (an island across the river in Peru) to Iquitos (also in Peru). To buy the...
