In the seven weeks we've spent in Colombia - on its idyllic beaches, in its cloud-shrouded forests and on its nutty buses - we've both fallen in love with this beautiful, raucous, colourful, overwhelmingly welcoming country. It's extraordinary to think that barely a couple of decades ago, many Colombians were effective prisoners in their cities and towns, unable to venture out into their own country, gripped as it was by violent guerilla warfare, drug murders and kidnapping - it makes the heart-warming welcome you receive as a foreigner in Colombia all the more touching. As with any country, of course, Colombia certainly has its fair share of quirks... Fruit v. Stodge - who will win? It would be a fib to say that South America provides the kind of refined culinary wonders you might get, say,
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