@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Oh for feck sake, not another WhatsApp voice message.’ Through gritted teeth, that’s generally how I respond upon receiving a WhatsApp voice message. The joy of text The intensity of this...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] I do find it somewhat perplexing — and occasionally amusing — how self-proclaimed freedom-loving liberals demand that others follow their path. At times, this is seen in a passive-aggressive manner. However,...
@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 to locations in what is called tierra caliente, literally […]
@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...
@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...
@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 that one couldn’t objectively class the majority […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A few weeks ago on BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show, there was a discussion about lifelong singletons. Considering my relationship status and general outlook, the topic piqued my interest. Not in it to win it While there were few nuggets of wisdom from […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] It used to surprise me somewhat how even the most insignificant and sleepy of Colombian towns had at least one hotel to host the occasional passer-by. I’d often wonder how the owners made money from the...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] In an email newsletter earlier this year from the conservative Colombian journalist, Ricardo Galán, in customary reproachful fashion, he berated Bogotá’s cyclists for daring to use roads, as he put it,...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] A Venezuelan friend once told me of a saying in her country: ‘The Colombian can never lose.’ This seems to have come, for the most part, from the days when Venezuela was the ostensibly richer, more...
