@wwaycorrigan As I’ve always said, it’s better (and more profitable for me!) to actually come to IQuiz “The Bogotá Pub Quiz” for real. Of course, for those not residing in Bogotá, physical attendance at the city’s top trivia night is next to(...)
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Una alcaldesa que culpa a todo el mundo de su ineptitud y que no reconoce su paupérrima gestión. La movilidad en la ciudad es nula, eternas horas en trancones, el servicio público inseguro, colapsado, sin mantenimiento, sin soporte, tomado por los vendedores, los habitantes de(...)
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@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Friday the 13th. Considering all that’s happened since, some superstitious types — not me, I hasten to add — might deem it quite portentous that this was the date of the initial, tentative encounter(...)
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@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] As the old adage goes, ‘never say never.’ So while I have let it be known that over the years I’ve grown quite tired of freelance English teaching since I first started such work in 2012, I(...)
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@wwaycorrigan Considering I’ve had seventeen — that’s not including extended trips back to Ireland — house moves in Bogotá since I started living and working here in early 2012, one would think that I’ve become a master of the art of decluttering. OK, as a(...)
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] One trend I’ve noticed in Colombia’s low-lying lands — lower than Bogotá that is — is that even rather small towns have a more sinister side to them compared to their loftier equivalents. I refer(...)
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@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Being alone in Colombia is such a waste.’ That was the reaction of one Facebook user to my recent post, ‘Set on singlehood‘. What particularly caught my attention was the inclusion of(...)
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@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] So the last bastion of conservatism and right-wing populism in Latin America has fallen. Colombia has chosen a leftist president for the first time in its history. The rains that fell incessantly on the capital(...)
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@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A few weeks back, on one of my pueblo escapes from Bogotá — to La Paz, Santander, precisely speaking — I had an interesting conversation with a man about Colombia’s less well-off. He was of the opinion(...)
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La historia ‘Soy hijo de un policía’ publicada en el en la página digital del diario EL TIEMPO, el 11 de mayo del 2021, en medio de la protesta social, fue galardonada con el premio de periodismo Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, que concede el Concejo de Bogotá en la(...)
