@wwaycorrigan As most of you regular readers of this blog may have realised, it’s not one that tends to engage in hyperbole. So, in honour of that, here’s the understatement of the year: The coronavirus crisis is having a negative impact on many sectors of the...
@wwaycorrigan While born and raised on a farm in the west of Ireland, it would be quite a stretch to say that my upbringing was one where I lived completely off the land in some sort of idyllic, symbiotic relationship with nature. No. For one, we rarely directly consumed any of...
@wwaycorrigan There really is no greater an emotive topic than death and the pain and suffering one’s passing inflicts on those left behind. (OK, romance heartbreak might come close at the actual moment of hurt but this generally diminishes with time.) We never really come...
@wwaycorrigan There has been much comment in recent weeks about a coming great change in how we humans conduct our affairs once we get through this coronavirus chaos. It’s a belief that a return to the status quo before the virus crisis is practically impossible. Our...
@wwaycorrigan In a previous episode of The Colombia Cast, the ‘Colombianised’ British-born historian Malcolm Deas said, in response to a question about his love for Colombia: ‘One doesn’t love countries, one loves people and dogs and cats and that sort of...
@wwaycorrigan When it comes to quaint colonial towns and villages, Colombia has a plethora to offer. Indeed, you could pretty much spend your whole life going from one to another, exploring the idiosyncrasies of each. Some say that there’s not a big difference between them. Once you’ve seen the ‘big’ ones — big as regards […]
@wwaycorrigan ‘Help, help! We need more help to put out this fire!’ ‘Don’t worry, I’m here.’ ‘Great!’ You lend a hand, doing the best you can to quench the intense flames. Then, the person who pleaded for your assistance, getting...
@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 «The world has never been better and very few of us know it.» That was the hook for a talk given by the ‘celebrity’ cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker in Bogotá recently. It’s also the thrust of his latest book, Enlightenment Now. No one can...
@wwaycorrigan Bienvenidos a Medellín – ‘Bangkok light’. So ran the title of one of my earliest Google blog entries. I wrote it after spending a month in Colombia’s second city where I worked in the Greek-owned Arcadia hostel in the «gringo infested»...
