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Woah, what a title! So many different levels! What? Have I been abducted? No, I just thought, you know... sometimes along comes something that's pithy, terse and succinct, and that's too damn good not to use. Oh come on! You'd have done the same. Anyway, it's better than this entry's working title "Colombia, Backpack, Graham". Hmmm, is it too late to start again?

FARC off.

Graham Perkins
2006-08-21 12:41:33

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up there in my mind with Guadalajara ("Would you like me to lapdance?") and Rio ("BRA-ZEEOO!!!") as my all-time favourite cities. I've started thinking about coming back here for a few months' work in between Japan and getting a real job. (Uh-oh, does anyone else picture my 'real job' interview like I do? "Hello! Yes, I'm 57 and finished my degree before you were born, you little whippersnapper. Experience?
Puente de Occidente
Just outside Santa Fe de Antioquia. One of Latin America's first suspension bridges.No, but what do you think about this lovely leathery tan? It's all paid for!")

Had a great ten days in Medellin although the excess did half kill me. With the exception of Monday and Tuesday nights you're really never far from a party and plenty of clubs with different music nights means you can always find something you like. (Incidentally the music genres around in Colombia can be categorised as the following: salsa, merengue, vallenato, tropical, lots of reggaton and UB40's Red Red Wine, which they can't get enough of.)

After a week or so, the guys I'd arrived with were ready to go up to Cartagena, Colombia's most beautiful colonial city on the Caribbean coast. I'll be on my way there at some point but for now was itching to get away from all of the gringoes in Medellin because, nice as it can be spending time with them, I can pretty much do that at home.

I decided to go to the nearby town of Santa Fe De Antioquia, a beautiful colonial town that's extremely popular with Colombian tourists getting away for the weekend. And not a foreigner in sight (except this one)!

A Police-Style 'E-fit' Reconstruction... Full Image
of my adoptive family in Santa Fe De Antioquia. God, I'm sick of losing cameras.
The place is really pretty laid-back, and quite reminiscent of Antigua, Guatemala as far as the architecture's ...