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bickerss comments on eating in medellin What are the opening hours for MU - everytime I went to go, it was shut.
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bickerss comments on Trip report (with pixes) on Parque Tayrona http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Arrecifes.jpg
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bickerss comments on Trip report (with pixes) on Parque Tayrona like this one http://badicalindustries.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/tayrona_beach.jpg
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bickerss comments on Trip report (with pixes) on Parque Tayrona Darloup - make sure you go back to Tayrona for the area around Arrecife (sp) - those beaches are amazing, with rainforrest coming right down to the sand.
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bickerss comments on Senorita Colombia was chosen for special reason me to GF - ''Why do they always choose the ugly women to be Miss Colombia, or enter the pagent, when Colombia has amazingly beautiful women who can 'out beauty ' the pants off these women. Answer - POR Q ELLAS TIENEN MUCHO DINERO O UN ESPOSO CON MUCHO DINERO TRAQUETO!!! Because they have a lot of money or a drug lord boyfriend with a lot of money!!
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bickerss comments on One Room for RENT in Sabaneta Available from the 22th of november same same - I had emailed her a long time ago from a previous post to look at the room on behalf of a friend; no response !!
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bickerss comments on Rio or Colombia? Go to Florinopolis down south- god I miss that place; fantastic!
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bickerss comments on furnished apartment wanted in Santa Marta for 2-3 months oneforyour.. Not in SM, however Arrecife (sp) in Tayrona had rideable waves (not good but they were there - dangerous beach) and on the other side of Tayrona there is a new sirf school that has opened. Fishing you could do anywhere I guess. Lots of water sports around - it is a great area - I like a big (ish) city to live in otherwise I would be living there in a hearbeat!!
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bickerss comments on Senorita Colombia was chosen for special reason freaky - they should have given it to the lady in the dark dress handing out the initial crowns.
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bickerss comments on Beautiful Apartment for Sale in El Poblado, Medellin - Price lowered to 199,000,000 Pesos Great area and very nice apartment - very well constructed, especially when compared to the newer options.
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bickerss comments on Rio or Colombia? Tropical - thank; great info. Have to agree with Simon on the danger part of Rio.
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bickerss comments on Bogota vs Buenos Aires BA as a city to Bogota, but there is something about Colombia.
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bickerss comments on Rio or Colombia? Fortaleza and surrounds is my next Brazil trip - I hear it is amazing there. On my past visits I have only managed to get as far as Salvador (which drove me crazy due to the hassle). Fav place so far was Rio and Florinopolis (sp). also really liked Parati etc. The real is going wild!!
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bickerss comments on furnished apartment wanted in Santa Marta for 2-3 months in Rodadero it is easy - they rent to foreigners without all the #$%&; at first my friend had to pay a few months up front - now he is just month by month. There are 3 gringos in the same building and it is very nice. For that price though it is a 1 x bedroom, furnished without washing machine. Washing machine delivery was 7 k I think for 4 hrs.
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bickerss comments on furnished apartment wanted in Santa Marta for 2-3 months What is reasonable to you? In Rodadero (next door) a friend lives in a great building with 2 x pools, security, sea views, very near to supermarket, 5 minute walk from the beach for 800,000 pesos a month and you can find cheaper. Very good price I think - probably cheaper in Santa Marta.
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bickerss comments on Rio or Colombia? Rio blasts Cartagena out of the water; no comparison. The party (if that is what you are after) is 100 times better, the beaches 100 times better, amazing women, international city and stunningly beautiful. Cartagena is beautiful for the old city, however apart from that, it looses its appeal very quickly. I could spend months in Rio, whearas 3 days and i am ready to hightail out of Cartagena. Cons against Rio - much more expensive if you are in the tourist parts and a lot more dangerous for petty crime. oh - and Rio has Porky's and pay by kilo restaurants which are fantastic!!!
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bickerss comments on BARRANQUILLA-SANTA MARTA planning a trip next week From rodadero pay a visit to: Minca; nice town in the mountains about 30 mins away. Good for lunch, river swimming ( waterfall), hikes and bird watching. Park Tayrona - spectacular. 2 day visit to La Guajira well worth the effort and money. In Rodadero get an apartment rather than a hotel - cheaper and more comfortable.
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bickerss comments on Bar Lilias - Rodadero Sorry about the photo sizes - I could not reduce them as I am on a trial version of microsft and it has locked me out.
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Local Rodadero disco
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Iguana in the street
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bickerss comments on Bar Lilias - Rodadero
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Kids jump off the bridge to collect coins thrown in from people passing buy
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Sand castle to free the kidnap victims
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bickerss comments on Bar Lilias - Rodadero
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Playa B;anca - about 15 minutes in a launch. Not really worth it. cost is 40 k 1 to 4 people (ie 1 person will pay 40 k and 4 total of 40 k if you have the numbers).
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Lunch - 8 mil deivered.
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beach to the rear
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Mike new bar Sat Night.
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Coconut sweets are seriously yummy
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bickerss comments on Bar Lilias - Rodadero
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Beach View - Carpas were 8 k ea, chairs 3 k ea
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beach view from apartrment balcony
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bickerss comments on When is the next Santa Marta Meetup? you should have starters drinks in Mike's new bar.
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bickerss comments on Escape Artist Article sorry - meant to be in Ecuador section; appreciate it if the mods can move there.
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bickerss comments on Envigado Unsafe?...... park poblado is not deserted at midnight on weekends, not are the streets.
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bickerss comments on Andres Carne de Res Much better in Chia, but still good in Zona Rosa. Was there last night - not too many people.
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bickerss comments on Envigado Unsafe?...... I go to Envigado all the time and it is fine - cool place to hang out.
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bickerss comments on Envigado Unsafe?...... I go to Envigado all the time and it is fine - cool place to hang out.
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bickerss comments on Envigado Unsafe?...... I go to Envigado all the time and it is fine - cool place to hang out.
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bickerss comments on Pablos son says sorry Pablo Escobar's son apologizes in film about drug lord's crimesLuis Andres Henao, Reuters November 12, 2009, 4:05 am Send Email IM Share DeliciousTwitterMyspaceDiggStumble UponFacebook Print Reuters © Enlarge photo BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The last phone call Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made before he was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop was to his son, and many thought Juan Pablo Escobar would follow in his father's footsteps. But 16 years later, he is asking his father's victims for forgiveness by appearing in the documentary "Sins of My Father" that premiers this week at Argentina's Mar del Plata film festival. Juan Pablo Escobar fled Colombia in 1994, a year after his infamous father was shot dead by security forces. Since then he has led a quiet life as an architect in Buenos Aires under the name Sebastian Marroquin. "As members of the Escobar family, we have to accept responsibility for what happened and ask for forgiveness for everything Colombia suffered because of my father's crimes," Marroquin told Reuters. Marroquin, 32, said he decided to throw off the veil of anonymity in an effort to bring reconciliation to his homeland, where security forces continue to battle cocaine-smuggling gangs who stepped in to fill the void left by the big cartels of the 1980s and 1990s. In the film "Sins of My Father," Marroquin tells the story of the drug lord and meets the sons of two of his most high-profile victims: former Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla and presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan. Lara and Galan dared to confront Escobar about his drug smuggling, and paid with their lives. Galan's oldest son said meeting Escobar's son in Bogota had helped his family find closure. "We felt very nervous and uncomfortable at first ... but in the end we felt relieved and freed from feelings of anger," Claudio Galan explained. "We thank him for this." POWERFUL CRIMINAL Pablo Escobar was the boss of one of the world's most powerful criminal organizations and Colombia's most-wanted fugitive. Thousands of people were killed in violence unleashed by his Medellin cartel. Escobar's fortune reached more than $3 billion, according to Forbes. The film gives a glimpse into Escobar's family life, with Marroquin recalling how the cocaine kingpin read bedtime stories to his younger sister and taught him to ride a bike. He also describes the family's multimillion dollar homes, the trips around the world, and how his father selected had more than 200 exotic animals flown to his ranch, Hacienda Napoles. "I felt like I had been born in Disneyland and I enjoyed all that magic, but it didn't last," he said. Everything changed when Escobar ordered Lara's killing. The next day the family escaped to Panama and later went into hiding in Honduras. When they returned to Colombia they feared they would be kidnapped or killed by the drug lord's many enemies. Marroquin said life became unbearable as security forces tightened the net around him in the years before his killing. During one raid, the family was forced to live off a pot of tripe that was going moldy for more than a week despite having $2 million in cash stuffed into their luggage. "It made you realize drug money can't save you," Marroquin said. "We were starving with $2 million next to us and we couldn't even buy a pound of rice." A tough state crackdown has improved security in Colombia in recent years, but murders and kidnappings linked to the drugs business continue to plague the world's top cocaine supplier more than 15 years after Escobar's death. Marroquin hopes the movie will foster dialogue in the Andean nation. "There's a point where preserving my life isn't as important as fighting for something larger," Marroquin said. "I might be a dreamer, but I've done this because of that conviction."
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bickerss comments on Colombia Rated No 4 on Lonely Planets Medical Tourism List Hardly would call that racism - lack of knowledge about the rest of the world perhaps.
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bickerss comments on EAFIT, people who studied there or are studying there, please step inside I do not have that many kind words for EAFIT's language department; from what I have seen and heard it seems like a money grabbing debacle, altough the current person I know attending classes thinks that they are quite good. He is also going to go to the Blacksheep for a few lessons, so he may review his thoughts on EAFIT.
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bickerss comments on Colombia Rated No 4 on Lonely Planets Medical Tourism List http://travel.ninemsn.com.au/world/969694/lonely-planets-top-spots-for-medical-adventures
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bickerss comments on EAFIT, people who studied there or are studying there, please step inside yep, a spanish class level 3 or 4.
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bickerss comments on EAFIT, people who studied there or are studying there, please step inside I have a friend at EAFIT at the moment, and while I usually do not have anything good to saty about it, he is in a class with just he and one other, so it seems they do commence courses with less than 8 students at this time.
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bickerss comments on BUYING A HOUSE IN SANTA MARTA hardly any gringos in Rodadero - I know 3 living here and saw 2 x gringas (Swiss - who apparantly live here two) in the 4 days we have been around. There was a chiva that came through Saturday with a bunch of gringos (drunk Brit girl riding shotgun on the roof screaming her head off) but soon left back to SM or Taganga.
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bickerss comments on Weather in Santa Marta right now??? Someone le me know please? here since Friday - raining most nights but great weather during the day (up to 36 degrees).
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