Here is Donato at 3 months [View Full Entry]

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As I still had not met Daniela (we had some problems communicating with each other, as my cell phone with the Movistar chip from Ecuador does not work here, and as she was in Tierradentro where there is no internet) and was still hanging around in Popayan, I decided to go to an Andean music concert at the Colliseo in Popayán. Not that I am particularly in favour of Andean music (actually wçquite sick of the bands in our Pedestrain zones at home playing El Condor Pasa), but it seemed like the appropriate thing to do in an Andean country for [View Full Entry]

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The journey from Pasto to Popayán led through beautiful landscape quite distinct from the regions I have seen so far in Ecuador. At times I felt like in Africa: the bus was filled almost entirely with black people (descendants from slaves brought to Colombia centuries ago), black people were walking in the fields and sitting outside the houses along the highway, and skinny white cattle were searching the dry steppes for something to eat. As we descended further towards Popayán the landscape turned greener and towards the evening was illuminated in fluorescent green and yellow, with a rainbow above it, very [View Full Entry]

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My parents came to see the baby in January. Here a couple of photos. [View Full Entry]

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My three month visa in colombia expires on thursday, and as of yet ive written nothing about this country. Im in the city of Popayan sort of in the south. Its another one of south americas white cities with its all white colonial centre, pretty nice although ive spent only about half an hour looking around in daylight. ill be leaving here early tomorrow morning in order to get down to the border with ecuador. So, Colombia started three months ago when i crossed the border into Leticia in the extreme south east of the country. Leticia is colombia´s gateway to [View Full Entry]

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Here are some more photos of the little guy [View Full Entry]

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I have posted some more photos of Donato [View Full Entry]

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Here are some photos of Donato taken just after he was born on Nov. 21st, 2007 here in Popayan, Colombia. [View Full Entry]

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After saying goodbye to Christian in San Agustin there didn't seem like any reason to stay any longer, so the following morning we headed off to our next destination. After walking into town with all our bags we decided to take a car to the crossroads out of town to catch the bus heading to Popayan, by doing this we would save ourselves a bit of money. After making it to the crossroads we saw our bus heading into San Agustin to pick up other passengers before stopping for us....the bus was already full so we hoped that most of those [View Full Entry]

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On the road to Popayan a sign on the gate of a huge fiels read “prohibido cazar armadillos” … translated “hunting armadillos not allowed”! Have yet to see a live armadillo …saw that dead one in Leon that cost less than a pound of red beans and did not go to the Zoo in Cali… An armadillo was not seen there either. The highway into Popoyan took the bus down a steep grade. Cows were in evidence all along the way. The country side looked neat and verdant. The streets of the city are clean. In this town the street [View Full Entry]

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