@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Considering Cúcuta is my most-visited Colombian city — with Bogotá being home — it’s been a bit of an oversight that I’ve never written a dedicated piece about the Norte de Santander capital....
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Ten years ago today, sat in Bogotá’s popular Cranky Croc hostel and based on advice from an Indian friend I knew from my Belfast days, I started a Google-hosted blog. Google blogger, my acquaintance told...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Much has been written about various «new normals» in our lives in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. The enforced pause on people’s modus operandi has led many to re-evaluate their situation. Getting...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] When it comes to explaining my continued reluctance to get the Sars-CoV-2 vaccine to those who have no issue with it, it’s like we’re on a different plain, nay planet, altogether. Where I see the...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A glance at most reports into the levels of crime and violence in Colombia shows that the country has gradually been getting safer since the turn of the millennium. The headline-grabbing one — and the easiest...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Strange as this may seem considering my current less-than-robust financial situation and lack of a steady income, but I have become the chief moneylender for one barrio friend over the last number of years. It...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In my younger, more foolish and impressionable days when money was easier to come by, I had a tendency to impulsively buy clothes and footwear, then shortly afterwards realise I didn’t really like them....
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Earlier this month, the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported that accidents at London Tube stations have increased because some passengers are too afraid to hold onto the escalator handrails. This is apparently...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Be it for good or for bad, nothing lasts forever. So I shouldn’t be too surprised that this day has come. In fact, in my soberer, self-critical moments I’ve realised that it could be a positive...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to/watch on YouTube an audio version of this blog entry here.] After almost ten years based in Bogotá, one might have thought that I’d be fluent in Spanish by now. The fact is, I speak the dominant language here mostly in social settings, where...
