@radiobrendan This blog tends not to do blatant advertising, but there are exceptions to that from time to time. And when it’s for a fun and, um, worthy cause, you could say that it’s almost obligatory to do so. You see, a few months back I had to make a ‘dash’ home to...
@radiobrendan It’s fairly well known that the Irish are migrants. Coming from a small island, yet at the same time close to a host of the world’s old superpowers, it was pretty much inevitable that we’d wander outside our shores to see ‘what’s out there’. Indeed in...
Muchos tenemos la idea de que el hot dog es de origen americano; pero investigando para escribir este post me encontré con la sorpresa de que realmente fue una idea que nació en Europa, por allá en 1904. Y aunque la hamburguesa es más popular a nivel mundial, yo si...
Desayunar como rey, almorzar como príncipe y cenar como mendigo; frase popular pero muy cierta que pregonaba mi madre. Eso mismo dicen los nutricionistas al señalar que el desayuno es la comida más importante del día, porque como bien lo insinúa su nombre, se rompe el...
@radiobrendan It’s now almost two years since Bogotá’s SITP (Sistema Integrado de Transporte Público, Integrated Public Transport System) buses started rolling out. Unlike Santiago de Chile, authorities here went for a gradual process of replacing the old private,...
@radiobrendan There is no doubt that Colombia’s image has changed, in a positive sense, over the last number of years. Not only has this happened from an external perspective, where this naturally stunning country was once seen as a war zone and best to be avoided, but also internally. Many Colombians now have a desire, […]
@radiobrendan Times, in a financial context, are tough. Well, in many ways they’re tough (relatively speaking that is), but for now I’ll keep the focus on the money side of things. And on that score, they’ve been made even tougher by a visa oversight on my part. Hence the Colombian government will be taking even […]
La semana pasada me encomendaron la importante misión de llevar a conocer Bogotá a una ciudadana peruana que estaba de paso por nuestro país, debido a su trabajo, pero que iba a sacar tiempito para hacer algo de turismo. Entonces, me di a la tarea de tratar de mostrarle lo...
@radiobrendan It has been, and continues to be, a turbulent time in Bogotá. OK, the cynics amongst you might ask when have things been otherwise, but in a political sense anyway it has been more topsy-turvy than it has been for some time. In brief summation, we’ve seen the city’s mayor Gustavo Petro shafted from […]
Rellena, morcilla o ‘camarón africano’, es uno de los manjares populares que siempre me hacen romper la dieta cuando estoy tratando de cuidarme en la alimentación. Se dice que se debe disfrutar sin preguntar cómo se prepara, porque uno se puede arrepentir de averiguar esos detalles. La disfrutan desde presidentes hasta obreros, pasando por reinas […]
