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…

I am sure I (and possibly you), could give more than 5 reasons Maduro should not be allowed anywhere beyond the fenced boundaries of a penal institution. Never the less, he is free to roam and annoying another of his neighbours. The guy is a little more than a thuggish…

Coming up to Christmas Americans, and some Europeans will (like Wildebeests on the way to their breeding grounds), be vacating their snow covered towns and cities for a couple of weeks of sunshine in the Caribbean. One of the more popular destinations for tourists in the Caribbean is Cartagena (Cartagena…

An esky of cold beer beside a hammock slung under a shady tree on a Caribbean beach makes for a better environment than cutting and nailing timber for a house frame on a concrete slab under a blazing hot sun. Sometimes… Coming from the South Pacific, I like to think…

Who Is Gioconda Belli? Gioconda Belli is a Nicaraguan author and poet who joined the leftist Nicaraguan political group, Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1970 during the Somoza dictatorship era. Despite the privations she endured during the Somoza era, and later under the Sandinistas, she not only maintained, but enhanced her reputation as a…

Coming from a town which heralded the start of the worldwide phenomenon of the modern crop circle, reports of extra terrestrial beings will always grab my attention. So, while I believe there has been no reasonable explanation given for the UFO activity in the town I grew up in, I…