@wwaycorrigan With the not-quite-post-pandemic «new normal» taking shape, IQuiz «The Bogotá Pub Quiz», Colombia’s favourite (pending independent verification) trivia night made a long-awaited live return. Cervecería Gigante, an old acquaintance but now with a shiny...
@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 There’s a saying amongst some cynical folk — so you can, of course, exclude Wrong Way — that Colombia would be a beautiful country but for its ubiquitous rubbish. In middle-to-low-income countries, dealing with litter is often well down the list of...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Well, it may have taken 19 months, but I finally managed to swap the Bogotá beat for some pastoral peace, of sorts. (I’m discounting, due to their brevity, this year’s day escapes on foot to Cota and La Calera as well as a bike […]
@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...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible new strange plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia … Some new sorts of microbes were attacking the bodies of men, but these...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘If you ever meet a woman … Just be yourself, Dougal. Be yourself, make them feel at ease and, the golden rule, always let them have their way. It’s easiest in the long run.’ That was the...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] On last week’s Bogotá Nights, we discussed insecurity in Colombia’s capital city and the country in general. One regular viewer, an Englishman who has been based in this country for nine years, told...
