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Kristin Radermacher
Originally from Minnesota, I moved to Colombia in August 2009, three months after my college graduation from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, to pursue a career in teaching.
I currently teach 8th grade math at a bilingual American school in the city of Cali. Outside of the classroom, I love to travel and I am busy taking every opportunity to experience more of Cali, other parts of Colombia, and South America in general.
In addition to this, I enjoy reading, blogging, exercise, watching baseball, yoga and a good Juan Valdez coffee.
I currently teach 8th grade math at a bilingual American school in the city of Cali. Outside of the classroom, I love to travel and I am busy taking every opportunity to experience more of Cali, other parts of Colombia, and South America in general.
In addition to this, I enjoy reading, blogging, exercise, watching baseball, yoga and a good Juan Valdez coffee.
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The Best Beaches in Colombia
Bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Amazon River, and full of countless other rivers, lakes and streams, Colombia has no shortage of places to get your feet wet. Mostly I love a good adventure vacation where I can raft down a river, swim in the Amazon, kayak on the Pacific Ocean or go caving. However, every once in awhile you just nee ...May 10 -
Adventures By Day & Treehouse Sleeping By Night at Rio Claro Nature Reserve
If you were anything like me growing up then you watched the movie Swiss Family Robinson one too many times for the main reason of seeing the awesome treehouse they built for themselves! As a little girl, the idea of sleeping under a roof, but still very much outdoors and surrounded by nature seemed absolutely magical. At Rio C ...Apr 21 -
La Tierra de Aventura: San Gil & Barichara
Nicknamed "La Tierra de Aventura" or The Land of Adventure, the Santander region of Colombia lives up to its name. Located in the middle of the country, about six hours north of Bogota, this part of Colombia is known for its scenery - complete with deep canyons, raging rivers and majestic mountains. San Gil San Gil is a ...Apr 15 -
Make the Most of a Weekend in Salento
Right in the heart of Colombia’s Eje Cafetero (Coffee Axel) there is a highway, which runs between the cities of Pereira and Armenia. Each lovely in their own right, the real gem of this region comes when you deviate from this road and dip down into the pleasant mountain town of Salento. As your bus turns off the main road the fresh smells of the ...Mar 22 -
Finding Good Coffee in Colombia
I don’t drink a cup of coffee every single morning. Unlike many, I do not rely on that first 8 (or more) ounces to get my day started. However, there are few smells, tastes and traditions I enjoy more than chatting over a good cup of coffee. In anticipation of my move to Colombia in the summer of 2009, I spent time daydreaming about& ...Feb 16 -
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Alex Owen
I lived my formative years in South Wales and studied in England. My first real travelling was a month spent in Mexico in '96, I suspect that it was then that I realised that travel would be a big part of my life. After graduating I went away for 2 years, seeing Thailand, Australia and New Zealand and heading home via North America.
Back in the UK I secured a job with a management consultancy firm with a postponed starting date and thus spent the best part of a year travelling Latin America. After 6 years working in The City, I left the UK on a racing yacht, destination: Australia.
Leaving the boat in Panama I found myself again in Latin America, fulfilling my wanting to return some day. I travelled a while and decided to settle in Colombia. I currently run a British Pub in Bogotá.
Back in the UK I secured a job with a management consultancy firm with a postponed starting date and thus spent the best part of a year travelling Latin America. After 6 years working in The City, I left the UK on a racing yacht, destination: Australia.
Leaving the boat in Panama I found myself again in Latin America, fulfilling my wanting to return some day. I travelled a while and decided to settle in Colombia. I currently run a British Pub in Bogotá.
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When I Was Little
When I was little, El Dorado was the place Esteban et al. were searching for in the cartoon ‘The Mysterious Cities of Gold’. However, according to what I learned at Guatavita, El Dorado has nothing to do with hard-to-find jungle cites… La Laguna de Guatavita is a crater lake in rolling countryside lying about an hour to the north of&nb ...Feb 18 -
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Peter Martin
I've been blogging since May 2008. I started my blog before traveling to Peru as a way to update friends and family back home. I've kept it going since then as a way to share whatever interests or moves me, and I rarely post about the same topic more than a few times.
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Loving Medellín
I’ve been here for less than a day. But I can already say: I love Medellín. This city is beautiful, it’s fun, many of its great attractions are free or cheap, and it’s everything Bogotá isn’t. Bogotá’s streets are a mess of pavement and mud, even in nice neighborhoods. Medellín’s are well paved, even attractive, through all the parts of the cit ...Feb 18 -
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Eva Laura Siegel
I´m a 27-year-old public health researcher in the area of HIV/STIs originally from San Francisco, California.
In 2008 I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina on more or less of a whim, and since then I´ve lived in Cali, Colombia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is where I currently write from.
When I´m not talking to people about their sex lives, I read far too many articles online, do a lot of ill-recommended cooking experiments, wander around the city, and go to music and dance stuff.
In 2008 I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina on more or less of a whim, and since then I´ve lived in Cali, Colombia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is where I currently write from.
When I´m not talking to people about their sex lives, I read far too many articles online, do a lot of ill-recommended cooking experiments, wander around the city, and go to music and dance stuff.
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Why I love Colombian supermarkets Featured
Our very first day in South America, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, my sister and I made a grocery list and walked to the market down the street, only to find that the first 3 items on our list—peanut butter, oatmeal and plain yogurt—were nowhere to be found. Instead they had an entire aisle devoted to dulce de leche and about a thousand varieties of ...May 03 -
Santa Marta Eats + Arepa de Huevo Featured
Though I thoroughly enjoyed Santa Marta’s beaches and historical sights, let’s not pretend that one of my favorite things about my trip to Santa Marta wasn’t the eating part. Food is way up there on my list of reasons to travel, and Santa Marta has lots of great things both to eat and drink. Fresh juice stands are all over the place, off ...Mar 24 -
Taironaka
Tayrona Park in Santa Marta derives its name from the indigenous people, the Taironas, who have lived in its mountains for centuries. I don’t need to tell you what the Spanish conquest did to their population, I’m sure you know how that same old awful story goes, but many of their descendants continue to live in the region. Ciudad Perdid ...Mar 15 -
Santa Marta City
You might think that after my time in Tayrona it’d be a bit of a downer to go back to the city, but frankly, though I loved the park I wasn’t at all disappointed because Santa Marta is a pretty charming place to “have” to come back to. Founded in 1525, Santa Marta is the oldest city in Colombia, and much of the colonial archite ...Feb 25 -
El Parque de Tayrona
Some destinations loom large in the collective imagination. Leading up to my trip to El Parque de Tayrona, everyone who I mentioned it to had the same reaction: It’s gorgeous, it’s amazing, can we come too? I admit to going into it rather blindly, excited by everybody else’s excitement, but other than that pretty clueless as to what exactly made Ta ...Feb 15 -
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