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3 Travel Bloggers and a Baby: The Interviews
Blog: GoBackpacking - 21 September 2010
Never before in my 33 years had I spent so much time around a baby.--------- *** 48-Hour Thanksgiving Sale ***Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Enter TURKEY as the coupon code to receive 50% off a Premium Membership. Offer expires 11:59pm EST, November 26, 2010.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Blog & Life Update From Medellin
Blog: GoBackpacking - 20 September 2010
The more time I spend in Medellin, the more normal it feels.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Photo Essay: The 6,000 Horses of La Cabalgata
Blog: GoBackpacking - 26 August 2010
Imagine 6,000 horses trotting through your city...--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Feria de las Flores: Medellin’s Biggest Street Party
Blog: GoBackpacking - 25 August 2010
Since its inception, the festival has exploded into a week long series of events.--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Friday Flashback: Sightseeing in Medellin
Blog: GoBackpacking - 20 August 2010
Here I am, drafting this post while living in Medellin once again. It feels like the last year and a half since I first arrived in the city has flown by. Looking back, I packed a lot of sightseeing into my first few weeks in the city. The Botanical Garden and New Aquarium Parks and [...]--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Photo Essay: Fireworks at the Feria de Las Flores in Medellin, Colombia
Blog: GoBackpacking - 12 August 2010
To start the festival, they had live music downtown with a fireworks show at the end.--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Photo Essay: Sexy Colombian Models
Blog: GoBackpacking - 5 August 2010
Every July, Medellin plays host to Colombia’s annual fashion week, Colombiamoda.--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Colombia’s Love Affair with Arepas
Blog: GoBackpacking - 21 July 2010
Arepas are a staple of the Colombian diet...--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Photo Essay: Scenes from Medellín
Blog: GoBackpacking - 24 June 2010
Medellin, Colombia is a city of 2 million that still feels like a village. --------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Photo Essay: Soccer Around the World
Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 June 2010
I caught 3 matches on 3 different continents, and they were all exciting. --------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Bad blogger!
Blog: Cogs Watch - 19 May 2010
Believe it or not, it's been three weeks since our visit to the Amazon and we've covered a lot of ground in the meantime. In fact, we've moved countries, we're now in Colombia! For us, constant moving around subsequently leads to blog neglect. I'm trying my best to rectify the situation with a report of the last few weeks, not only to keep Mum happy, but for my own records when I get home.
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Colombia – how the world should be (except maybe for the cocaine)
Blog: Boodle's Adventure - around the world in 365 days - 19 May 2010
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Why I’m Moving Back to Medellin
Blog: GoBackpacking - 17 May 2010
I've reached the tipping point where I can support myself through a personal passion.--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Beauty
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 11 April 2010
Several guidebooks and every travel blog I've read about Medellin comments on the extreme beauty of the women who live here, largely because of the inordinate number of them who have had plastic surgery. This might explain why there were only single men staying at our hostel (besides ourselves). It would definitely explain their disgusting conversations outside our window about the "conquests" they've made while being here. "When in Rome"...as one of them so eloquently put it.
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第五十天：Feeling Good in Medellin
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 6 April 2010
從地鐵站往下看到的Medellin市道13句鐘的巴士，不算難捱，睡不好但還可支撐著就是了。Medellin 不愧為大城市，有著完善的地上鐵系統。從巴士總站到旅館，全程不需 20 分鐘。而這地鐵可與曼谷或北京的媲美 (肯定比巴塞隆拿和巴黎的先進)；到站下車了，周遭環境寧靜整潔，我想起柏林和倫敦的住宅區... 為甚麼全部類似的城市都在彼岸呢？原來這裡像歐洲！Medellin 是本旅程的首個真正遊歷之摩登大城市。它文明，可更有人情味 -- 坐纜車俯瞰全城之貌時，同車姊弟向我偷拍，想應該與我是外地人有關吧... 我們早了數個站下車，與一般遊客坐足全程有異，整車人緊張地叫我們留下，說車程還未完... 之後坐上另一輛纜車，幾位小女孩看看我又互相對望，輕聲討論著；我聽到英文 'Do you speak Spanish?' (現在回想她當時大概在練習吧)，可她又不是向著我説，我繼續觀看車外風光；
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Day 51: Friendly Medellin
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 5 April 2010
Fernando Botero's sculptures in Parque Berrio After a day in Medellin, we're on the road for the coffee region of Colombia. It's a relief to be in the mountains, away from the sticky heat of Cartagena. Weather makes a huge difference to the comfort of travel - we felt reenergized in Medellin, there was a Euro vibe to the city, clean and modern, and exploring it without sweating a gallon made it
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Not Looking for Pablo Escobar in Medellín, Colombia
Blog: Trip Down - 17 March 2010
As my muffler had cracked and melted my seat (making for an uncomfortably warm ride) and my tire had become warn enough to make driving in the rain dangerous, I decided to go to the same mechanic (Mr. Bike) as Torben. While driving there with Torben on the back the bike started slipping – as [...]
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Waiting for the bike to be repaired, Medellín, Colombia
Blog: Trip Down - 12 March 2010
I haven’t updated for 1.5 weeks because I’ve been in Medellín waiting for my bike to be repaired. Medellín has a tendency to become more appealing with time. At first glance it seems like another sprawled, car congested American city set in a vast valley albeit with good natural light and a lot of trees [...]
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Photo Essay: Airports & Airplanes
Blog: GoBackpacking - 11 February 2010
I boarded everything from a 6-seater in Botswana to a jumbo jet to Thailand.Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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Interview – An American Expat In Costa Rica
Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 September 2009
Astrid, Casey (middle) and me in Medellin I met Casey during my last week in Colombia. More than a decade earlier, he had left the United States to start his own business in Central America, which surprised me considering how he seemed about my age! In the interview below, he talks about his move to Costa [...]Your Free Subscriber Download
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Update: The Colombia Trip
Blog: GoBackpacking - 23 August 2009
As I shared last Thursday in Would You Accept a Free Trip to Colombia, I was asked to head down there next month for 2 weeks to see the best the country has to offer and blog about my experiences. I was 99% sure everything was in order, however I learned how important it is [...]Your Free Subscriber Download
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Would You Accept A Free Trip To Colombia?
Blog: GoBackpacking - 20 August 2009
I’m not going to get all sentimental on you, at least not for long.
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Video of the Week – Colombiamoda 2009
Blog: GoBackpacking - 15 August 2009
When I decided to stay in Colombia earlier this year, and start a new blog, Medellin Living, one of the goals I set for myself was to be in a position to attend Colombiamoda, the country’s annual fashion week held every July. I knew it would require a press pass, but I figured there was [...]Your Free Subscriber Download
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Marvellous Medellin
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 5 August 2009
After not really liking Bogota, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Medellin, Colombia’s second city. I needn’t have worried – from the moment I arrived in the bus station I had a feeling I was going to love it. Considering the city was notorious in the 80s and 90s as the home of Pablo [...]
