Greetings from Bogotá We drove down from Mykanos yesterday in preparation of a jaunt. Correction, Adriano drove down yesterday with me in the passenger seat as co-pilot, although ‘co’ wasn’t called for. Adriano gained his licence earlier this year, learning to drive in our Jeep and taxi. It had never interested him before and he […]
Greetings from Bogotá. If the last letter was mainly about animals, this one is definitely about people. We have just had a delightful visitation, long in the planning and even longer in the hopeful expectation of its manifestation. The two couples in question were Fran & Jones, British Aussies who now live in Costa Rica, […]
Greetings from Mykanos. Or maybe it should be ‘Greetings from Animal Farm’. We don’t have any pigs here, although we do at Rancho Grande, but we are awash in avian inhabitants including geese, turkeys, ducks, guinea fowl and chickens, quite apart from the huge number of colourful birds that nest and live in the surrounding […]
Greetings from Bogotá. It has been a long time, I know, since I last accosted you with my musings and I must apologise for what undoubtedly looked like laxity. I haven’t forgotten you or been overly idle but have been grafting away at my book, ‘Passion, Pleasure and Peril: Learning to grow coffee, and live, […]
Greetings from Mykanos and, although it is now very old news, Happy New Year. It has been a busy Festive Season what with Christmas, New Year, the Carnaval del Diablo in Riosucio, the crowning of Miss Universe and the inauguration of Donald Trump. Interesting mix when you think about it: commemorating the arrival of the […]
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