Just before I left Colombia in September 2015, I took a tandem paragliding flight in San Felix, high in the hills north of Medellin, with Medellin Paragliding My original plan was to take my Paragliding pilots license there, or in Floridablanca, near Bucaramanga, but that didn't work out because … Read More…
Don Hernan – Silletero Extraordinaire
Don Hernan, 82, is a Silletero (saddle man, or chair man), who owns a flower farm with his brother in the small pueblo of Santa Elena, an Andean town above Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia. He still carries the flowers on a 150lb wooden backpack in the Feria De Las Flores (Festival of the Flowers) … Read More…
New Year, New Beginning…
Well, that's that bit over - completely stuffed with assorted roast wildfowl, wine and chocolate, and feeling the worse for it, too! Now that all the festivities, and any associated overindulgence-related embarrassments, are over, it's time to get down to business and start writing the next chapter … Read More…