Author Archives: Nick and Juli

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: 74 days after the quarantine began in Colombia, Juli and I are STILL locked down in the country-house near Medellin… Despite the length of time, we are both well and staying positive, although of course sometimes we feel the boredom. In June Colombia is entering a different phase of the lockdown, so calledContinue reading “Armenia, the coffee growing region”

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Juli and I are both safe and healthy and are locked down in the country house near to Medellin (see blog 1 for pics). The whole of Colombia is under quarantine until April 13, although this may be extended. As things stand Colombia and South America in general appear to not be asContinue reading “Playa Costeño & Cartagena”

To give everyone a break from hosting us in Medellin we headed off for a two week trip to the Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Juli has travelled in this area before, but only for short periods, and after a couple of weeks of learning Spanish grammar I was keen to practice/escape. Suffice to say we wereContinue reading “Santa Marta & Minca”

After 10 days of exhausting unemployment in Medellin we thought we could use a mini-break. So on 1-2 Feb we decided to take a trip to Santa Fe de Antioquia with Juli’s mum Olga and best-friend Paula and her boyfriend Danny. Santa Fe is about a 1hr30min drive to the north-west of Medellin, on someContinue reading “Santa Fe de Antioquia”

Hola familia y amigos! Welcome to our first blog post! Bear with us, we are new to this blogging thing… We arrived safe and sound on Jan 21st and enjoyed a quiet start to the trip in Juli’s family’s country house on the outskirts of Medellin, near a town called Guarne, Antioquia. This is upContinue reading “Arriving in Colombia”