Posts Tagged "medellin"
Posted by Runaway Brit on January 6th, 2012 ~
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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…
Posted by Runaway Brit on January 4th, 2012 ~
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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…
Posted by Runaway Brit on December 28th, 2011 ~
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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…