Category: Medellin
August 3 – 11, 2024. We love a good festival! And lucky us, we were in Medellín for one of Colombia’s biggest festivals, La Feria de las Flores. The first Feria de las Flores was held in 1957 to celebrate…
June 8 – August 13, 2024 To get from the Medellín airport to the city you travel 15 miles, 5 of which go through the second-longest tunnel in Latin America, the Túnel de Oriente. In the tunnel, there are signs…
The Metro was packed. It was Sunday afternoon, and we were heading to our first cultural event with our Spanish School in Medellín. At our stop, the majority of the passengers poured out. We stayed with the flow, funneling one…
July was a busy month. We moved twice, a friend from the US visited us, and we took 3 1/2 weeks of Spanish classes. The first 5 days were spent in the Manila area of Poblado finishing up the 4-week…
June started for us somewhere in the air on the way to South America. We saw the sunrise on our layover in Panama and landed in full daylight in Cartagena. We had come to Colombia to fulfill our plan of…
