“Isn’t it dangerous there?” I think this might be one of the questions we have heard the most since we started talking about travelling the world. Before we left, people would ask us about certain countries and then immediately follow it up with something about how dangerous they were supposed to be. Sometimes it was…
There is a question I started asking people as I was able to sit at the “adult table” in conversations: “What do you wish you had done more of in your life? Is there anything you regret not doing?” I don’t really remember when I started asking it. Maybe it was because I was becoming…
“Isn’t Medellín dangerous?” That was one of the questions we heard before we went. Not once, but again and again. People would hear that we were going to Medellín and immediately ask whether we were sure about it. We had heard enough stories ourselves to know why they were asking. Crime, drugs, the history of…
We booked our flights to Medellín pretty spontaneously. By the time we were actually on our way, I think both of us were a little nervous. Medellín is one of those places where you hear a lot of different things before you go. We had heard the usual stories about safety, crime and everything else…
There is a version of Medellín that is very easy to fall in love with. The mountains, the views, the warm weather, the Metro, the dancing, the cafés, the fruit and, most of all, the people. We met so many lovely and welcoming people during our time there, and there was always something happening somewhere…