San Gil

The end of the Colombian journey

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February 15th 2009
Firstly I apologise for the complete lack of recent blog updates. This is down to a mixture of laziness on my part (Nina), us both having too much fun to sit in an internet cafe for too long and some technical issues (two attempts at writing that have both been wiped by two different computers!). We are now in Argentina, the beautiful land of steak, red wine and football but in order not to ... read more

South America » Colombia

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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