Instead of avoiding it, use translation tricks to improve your English

Photo: Romain Vignes, Unsplash If you’ve been told you should never translate when learning English, forget it…instead use your Spanish...

Rafting with the FARC in Colombia: Rafts of possibilities

The landscapes are perfect along the river Pato. Photos: Oli Pritchard Excombatientes are building a new tourism industry of rafting in...

Giro d’Italia 2019: Gladiators…ready!

Giro favourite ‘Superman’ López on his visit to the Cocuy mountain range last year. This year’s Giro d’Italia finishes in an old Roman...

Show us your papers

Do you trust a politician with a PhD more than one without? Photo: Caleb Woods, Unsplash An obsession over qualifications often misses the...

Happy Birthday Estéreo Picnic

The Irie Kingz chilling in ‘La Nevera’ de Bogotá. Photo: Alisson Cantor The capital’s leading independent festival is...

Only muppets like Christmas

Christmas is the worst time of the year and you’re all soft in the head for enjoying it. Or I’m just a spectacular Stooge who could do with a...

Real Quiz: Can you answer these 100 questions about Bogotá and Colombia?

Submit your email below to download the answers to the Real Quiz and be in the running to win great prizes, thanks to our friends at Lure...

Oli’s big topic: The right to blasphemy

[caption id="attachment_33202" align="alignnone" width="1600"] After so much ado, the controversial Marduk did not play in Bogotá. Photo:...

Pet adoption is an option

[caption id="attachment_32871" align="aligncenter" width="1060"] Volunteer Maria Camila shows us Brandy, just one of hundreds of dogs in need of a...

Bastards y Diablos: Interview with actor-producer Dillon Porter

[caption id="attachment_32800" align="alignnone" width="960"] Dillon Porter (left) says that the Colombian weather played into the filming of...