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Pork Souvlaki ...  
   

Pork Souvlaki ...

... good pork, though the pita wasn't that great, excellent crispy fries, and the Greek salad was missing some feta. A reasonable approximation of Greek food ... of course, never having been to Greece, who's to say I even know what Greek food should taste like? Drink of choice tonight was feijoa juice, another one of those fruits commonly found in South America, but not really anywhere else. Closely related to guava, the juice is also a bit gritty, but seemed a fair bit thicker - nice, but not really a refreshing beverage.
Christmas in Colombia

December 25th 2011
Geo: 6.23578, -75.5799Merry Christmas from Colombia! So far Medellin hasn't been the most exciting of places, owing to most cafes, restaurants, and stores being closed as a result of the holidays. Searching for some life in the streets, I headed over to Cerro Nutibara, a park high atop a hill with a recreation of a typical Antioquian town. Paisa is a person from the region, and the recrea ... read more
South America » Colombia » Antioquia

Colombian Flag 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
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