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A 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 history nerd travelling The New World. ¿What could possibly go wrong? Join me on my way to The fabled lands of Ar Wladfa 🇦🇷 in 🇨🇴

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  • Fairgrounds 🎪 and Thunderstorms ⛈️

    Hola todos or should I say Bore da?!? Because this place is the most climatically similar to Wales I’ve been so far on this Journey. Both day and night the temperature ranges from low teens to low 20’s in degs C and this place has no shortage of rainfall either! In fact it gets the…

  • On the road again

    Hola todos! Today I’m writing on the bus between Manizales and Bogotá, the next blog or so is about my short stay in Manizales. That said getting to Manizales was quite the experience. It was a 12:30 bus out of of Terminal sur in Medellin and about a 6 hour ride to Manizales. I arrive…

  • Año Nuevo and speeding things up!

    Hola Todos. Feliz Año Nuevo! Happy new year! Blwyddyn newydd dda! 🎊 We’ve made it into 2026! Hope everyone has had a good Christmas and New year! This one is more of a general update blog as don’t think there is much point going over every day we spent in school as it is much…

  • The Guatapé Excursion

    Hola todos, for this backdated blog I will go over the events of a very cheap and fun tour I did of Guatapé, famous for it’s giant Granite Rock and colorful colonial Town and lake. I had sorted this tour via the hostel and it closed 109,000 COP which is around £22. This included a…

  • Comuna 13 – A tour of Escobar’s hood

    Hola todos. Here is another backdated blog post, this time the blog of the tour of Comuna Trece (13), which is known for being the old hood where Pablo Escobar run his cartel empire from. It used to be one of the most dangerous places in Medellín, back when Medellín was a global murder capital…

  • Christmas Away from home

    Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas, Nadolig Llawen! 🎄🎁🎅 (and happy new year!) I hope everyone has had a good Christmas day and is enjoying the Christmas break! This is the slightly delayed Christmas blog post to show what we got up to in Medellín over Christmas Eve and Christmas day. After class on Christmas Eve it…

  • Back to School!!!

    Hola todos. For this one I will sum up my time for the first week of Blink Spanish school minus Christmas day – will cover that separate. So Sunday was out of my hostel and moved round the corner to check into blink. Check in was quick and easy though and after that took care…

  • Things to see in Montería 🇨🇴

    Hola todos. The last 2 days I spent in Montería before heading to Medellín for Christmas. Expectations were rather low coming here however it has actually been a pretty nice short stop here. I will skip over night 1 here since that was still recovery from the stomach bug but eaten and had a few…

  • The Road to Medellín

    Hola todos. Little late but merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad, Nadolig Llawen 🎄 and all that jazz. Been very busy with Spanish school & Christmas here in Medellín and as such the next few blogs are retrospective. Vamos a empezar! After we left off it was time to leave Monteria and head for the city of…

  • The Holy Trinity

    Hola todos! como están? I wasn’t going to drop a blog today but I’ve had another episode that just had to be shared since it’ll be funny to read once we were past it. Today Im in Montería for 2 nights before setting off to Medellín. So what have we been up to? Absolutely sweet…