We had arrived in town the morning before. Nursing hang-overs, we were slow moving but wanting to make the most of a beautiful afternoon. We were in tourist mode — snapping pictures, visiting the town’s various churches & museums, enjoying a tinto here, a rum there. Town square is lined with lovely old paisa buildings with their brightly painted woodwork and balconies. There are two, however, that stand out as exceptional and exceptionally intriquing. Their windows were wide

This was my third time on horseback. The first two were little 20-minutes jaunts outside Parque Arvi. For this ride, Juan & I (and excellent guide, Carlos) rode for 2-hours through back paths and roads and along the flood plane of and through Río Tonusco in Santa Fe de Antioquia. With my bulky (and outdated) Canon 50D strapped around my neck and shoulder, we set off. Lessons: Need a smaller and more versatile camera for field work Manual settings are nearly impossible to adju

Here are images from our friend’s country house/farm/finca about an hour and a half south-west of Medellín in a place called Nicanor. To get there you have to take what first appears to be an unpaved mountain road. You soon realized, however, that it is actually an old railroad bed that crawls along the edge of the mountain. Past the finca, you come to a couple of old buildings, which serve as the bus station now, but were previously the railroad station. (Incidentally, we ha