Dec 29, 2014
Jim Davies is the kind of person I want to sit down with and buy a beer or three and listen to his tales of derring do here in Colombia. The incongruity of it all is almost too much to fathom as he regales us in this week's episode with stories about his new friendship with the one and only Faustino Asprilla, his...
Dec 23, 2014
Forgive me for saying this from the off, but I am particularly pleased with this show for you with Julia Symmes Cobb. It has the perfect balance between history, Colombia, journalism and quirky eccentricities of the past. So, get this, I met Julia - a freelancer in Colombia for Reuters and the Washington Post - through...
Dec 15, 2014
Doing his first ever media interview as a writer here on Colombia
Calling, we take the opportunity to talk about Colombia and his new
novel The Gallows Gem of Prallyn with Canadian diplomat Ian
McKinley.
As always, the interview takes the form of an interesting
exploration of the experiences people encounter as...
Dec 8, 2014
Imagine our surprise to find out that the sumptious elixir that is a British cider could be found and enjoyed here in Bogota. So, after attending a launch party hosted by Julian and Emma, the brains behind the importation of Cider to Colombia, I knew it would make for an interesting show to have a sit down with them to...
Dec 1, 2014
Addressing some serious issues of cultural differences and what it
is like to be of asian descent and in Colombia, we take the time to
sit down with Jessica Wong, the author of the blog
www.onechineseincolombia.com.
In a frank and often amusing interview we learn about Jessica's
adaptation to life in Colombia, why...