Posts Tagged "medellin"

Meet the Escobars – Medellin’s Most Unique Tour

Meet the Escobars – Medellin’s Most Unique Tour

It’s a rainy Tuesday afternoon: thunder is raging overhead and I am sitting in the lounge of a 64 year old man. He sits opposite me, looking older than his years. He is dressed casually and wears a US Polo Association cap on his head. He is blind in one…

Medellin: From Murderous to Marvellous

Medellin: From Murderous to Marvellous

Let’s get the grisly facts out of the way. Medellin is Colombia’s second largest city and—thanks to the thriving cocaine trade in Colombia—was once famously known as the ‘murder capital of the world’. During the 80s and 90s, Medellin was under the control of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and…

Open Wide! – Visiting the Dentist in Colombia

Open Wide! – Visiting the Dentist in Colombia

After having Lasik surgery in Vietnam, I am very happy to have cosmetic procedures during my travels. Perhaps this is incredibly vain of me, I don’t know. But with prices in the UK and Sweden being so high, many things are financially out of my reach. It had been a…