Tourists driving in Colombia is not common, but it happens. There are hire car centers in airports and locations around the major cities. The rules for tourists driving in Colombia are basic. You need a license issued in your country of origin. …

Personally I am not an Introvert( I am not a party animal either), but I know of a few bloggers who are, and it has me wondering, why introverts are great bloggers. This post is totally unscientific, I have no Uni. degrees or training in psychology, or any other medical…

February 21st. 2022, Australia is opening up for tourists again. If you’re thinking of coming on down and swimming with sharks, or cuddling a koala (and having it piss on your arm), you might want to consider the rules and check out the current political landscape. The message coming out…

It was late in the afternoon when Alvaro’s wife answered the door of the apartment (where she is employed as a housekeeper), to receive the tomatoes she had ordered from the store up the road. “I asked for tomatoes” she said, “you are delivering me strawberries” The delivery guy, who…

A digital nomad visa is a special permit that allows you to work and travel abroad while working online. The visa was created to make it easier for remote workers to move to different locations and work there without having to worry about immigration formalities in each location. In many…

Coffee time! Mid-morning, the dog walkers, the joggers, the yoga meditators and muscle work-out freaks have all gone home, so I headed across to the park, coffee in hand and settle on a bench shaded by about 3 trees. I placed the coffee beside me, lit up a cigarette, then…

Kids look at us in much the same way we look at animals at a zoo, only there is no cage to protect us. Sometimes we wish it were otherwise. Their antics annoy the crap out of us because we know it is all about them, and they don’t like it when we interfere. Picking them out of a puddle of mud, where they have been happily splashing about, tasting handfuls of soggy dirt…

The last two of 7 in this series of the Poets of Colombia. №6 Pablo Cáceres I have no photo of Pablo whose story is also very brief. He was born in 1950 in the city of Cucuta in the department of Norte de Santander, home to quite a few…

In this episode, I have also included Peruvian poet Martin Zúñiga as №5. Although Martin is Peruvian he is one of Latin America's most renowned poets. His work has been published across Latin America, the USA, and Europe. №4 of a series of 7. Nancy Gómez.