by Jonathan Evans | Jan 21, 2010 | Colombia, South America
So, from Bogota we spent a couple of days in lovely colonial Villa de Leyva, about 4 hours north. On the way I got my first taste of Colombian bus drivers. In the cold light of day it’s one thing to sit here typing away and say that they drive like lunatics....
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 20, 2010 | Colombia, South America
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Bogota. Very much like Colombia itself, its reputation precedes it. It’s huge (9 million population), hard to travel around, some areas are total no-go areas for the average backpacker, and it’s cold, even in summer...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 15, 2010 | Colombia, South America
One thing that I have been asked a lot is whether or not Colombia is a safe place to be. For sure it does not have a good reputation for safety, and everyone has heard of FARC, Pablo Escobar and the fate of Ingrid Bettancur. So, it has a violent past, does that mean...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 6, 2010 | Colombia, South America
Having spent a very nice Christmas and New Year with the family, yesterday I arrived in Bogota. One of the first things you I like to do when arriving in a new city is try to figure out roughly where things are and how to get around, so when Laura gave me a Tourist...
by Jonathan Evans | Nov 19, 2009 | Argentina, Food, South America
Argentina is proud of its European heritage – it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that they, on the whole, consider themselves more European than anywhere else in South America, and to be fair they probably are. Except in the North there is very little...
by Jonathan Evans | Nov 13, 2009 | Argentina, South America
Well, I’ve done a year – 364 days and 23 hours ago a big Iberia plane landed from Madrid at Ezieza Airport containing a slightly shellshocked & drunk me. I often end up drunk on long distance flights. It helps to pass the time, and its very social. On...
