Our fancy apartment

Christmas in Colombia!

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January 10th 2009
Well it was our first Christmas away from home, away from the usual excessive eating and drinking, the delicious food and Christmas parties...in the land of rice and beans we were really worried that our Christmas dinner might be a sad $2 plate of chicken stew, fried banana and a huge pile of white rice and some sort of beans. So we decided to splash out and rent a nice apartment for a few days wi ... read more

South America » Colombia » Santander

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more