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Holiday in Colombia (4): Bogotá (part 2)
August 30th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
For Silvia and me, Wednesday evening should have been a quiet farewell to Bogotá after a short visit to the capital, but we had finished the afternoon alone in the city centre while the rest of our British group took an optional cable car ride. We needed to return to the hotel and find somewhere […]
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Holiday in Colombia (3): Bogotá (part 1)
August 30th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
Our one full day in Bogotá started at 9 am when we were collected from our hotel in the north of the city and driven into the city centre for a museum visit, a walking tour, and another museum visit. There was so much traffic that the journey took three-quarters of an hour. First call […]
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Holiday in Colombia (3): Zipaquira
August 29th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
Tuesday was a light day in terms of tourist sights since essentially we were travelling from the town of Villa de Leyva (which we left at 9 am) south to the capital city of Bogotá (which we reached at 5.15 pm). We broke the journey three times: a comfort break where we had breakfast on […]
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Holiday in Colombia (2): Villa de Leyva
August 28th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
After a difficult night’s sleep because of jet-lag, today was spent around and in the town of Villa de Leyva, with a morning trip west to two interesting locations outside town and an afternoon walking tour of the town itself. The valley in which all these places are located is some 7,000 feet (2,144 metres), […]
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Holiday in Colombia (1): arrival
August 26th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
My latest overseas visit is with my sister Silvia on a tour of Colombia organised by the company Cox & Kings. In my 70 years, it is the 73rd country that I have visited – the 13th in Latin America. Now, if you travel outside your own continent, there are bound to be challenges, […]
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An account of my recent visit to Cyprus – before a new trip to Colombia …
August 24th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
This year, my foreign travel seems to be to countries with names all beginning with C: China fourth time), the Czech Republic (28th time), Cyprus (first time), and now Colombia (another first time). As I’m about to set off to South America for my latest overseas trip, you might like to check out the account […]
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Are you a middle child? If so, it’s your day.
August 12th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
As you probably know, the Americans have a day for almost everything and today they celebrate National Middle Child Day. Two thoughts occur to me. First, it is widely thought that birth order influences personality and this idea is discussed on the Day’s web site. But I’m not sure how much scientific evidence there is for […]
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1976 and 2018: two exceptionally hot summers – but a lot of differences
July 28th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
I remember the long hot summer of 1976. It was the summer I became a father and my life had never been sunnier. But, as explained in this article in the “Mirror” newspaper, there were lots of other things that made that year a better one than this year for so many people in Britain.
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Holiday in Cyprus (8): Pafos
July 1st, 2018 by Roger Darlington
Sunday was the last day of our tour of Cyprus and was dominated by visits to two archaeological sites, neither of which I had heard of before this holiday. First though, we were taken on a half hour walk along the seafront of Limassol, an attractive city which, with some 200,000 citizens, is beginning to […]
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Holiday in Cyprus (7): Troodos Mountains
June 30th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
On Saturday, we were out for over nine hours on a day trip to the Troodos Mountains, a location that is 90 million years old and now a UNESCO global geopark. The mountains themselves are not far from Limassol, but the mountain range is extensive and our minibus had to proceed really slowly because we […]
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