@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Wow, your Spanish is very good.’ ‘Well, I’ve been based here for over ten years.’ ‘Oh.’ That’s how the conversation generally goes when I meet a new...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A long-standing friend made an interesting and, I think, somewhat accurate observation about me recently. He noted how I spend a lot of time fretting about casually meeting certain people to the extent that if I...
@wwaycorrigan In a recent episode of The Colombia Cast podcast, the eminent economist and political scientist James Robinson, co-author of the influential Why Nations Fail, restated his view that geography plays no part in the economic development of countries. Looking at it from an Americas perspective from the time Europeans arrived on these shores, that […]
@wwaycorrigan OK, you might say ‘Oh here he goes again, throwing his toys out of the pram. Be grateful for what you have. Many locals would jump at the chance to be in your position.’ I understand that. What’s more, compared to said locals, other colleagues that is, I’ve had a fairly easy ride of […]
@wwaycorrigan An old friend once told me that in the world of gambling on horses, it’s best to be in one of two camps: The first is to know a lot about it, where you make an informed, «backed-up-by-facts» decision on your selection. The other is knowing nothing or...
@radiobrendan Colombia’s powers-that-be place a fair amount of importance, in theory anyway, on improving the level of English here. There was even a ridiculously ambitious plan from the government to have the country bilingual by 2019. Still on track with that guys?...
@radiobrendan ‘When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.’ It’s very difficult to argue against that one. As a species, we’re good at talking a good talk, but we don’t always follow it up with the appropriate action if and when...
@radiobrendan Taking into account the grand history of our planet, it doesn’t take long at all for us humans, judging by behaviour anyway, to feel that certain things are indisputably part of where we are from. ‘It is what it is, and that’s just that.’...
@radiobrendan Sometimes you have to accept that certain things are the way they are – at least for a specific moment in time. So while the Colombian banking system frustrates more than what I had been used to, you just have to deal with it. However, depending on your...
