Greetings from Mykanos. I just got back here from a pretty torrid time in Bogotá during which both Adriano’s exhibition and the physical form of my book ‘Better Than Cocaine: Learning to grow coffee, and live, in Colombia’, saw the light of day. When gallery owner Boris offered Adriano the opportunity to be part of […]
Greetings from Mykanos. I have just returned from Bogotá, where the weather was 15ºC, varying between sunny and light clouds. Here, in, the bush, it is sunny and 26ºC. Nothing remarkable about that, it is usually thus, and in fact is uniform throughout the year. Bogotá is known as the City of Eternal Autumn, and […]
Greetings from Bogotá. There’s been another long pause since my last Letter, but all for a good reason. The reason? I was waiting for certain things to come to fruition so I could include them. The trouble was that every time we got close, another thing would come into view. First thing was a commission […]
Greetings from Bogotá Yes I know, it has been a while since my last Letter and some masochists amongst you have actually been asking when the next one would arrive? The answer is self-apparent … today. The delay is not the result of lack of interest or lack of subject matter. There are plenty of […]
Greetings from Mykanos. It’s been quite a while since you last heard from me, and I imagine some of you were counting your blessings not to have to even consider whether wasting time reading my ramblings would be worth it. For those more tolerant, or with more spare time, I can assure you that my […]
Greetings from Mykanos. Happy New Year! That is a very traditional salutation to mark the transition from an anything but traditional 2021, to a hopefully far more positive 2022. But if we thought we would wave Covid goodbye as we turned the page on the calendar, we were sadly disappointed. Omicron seems ubiquitous and rapidly […]
Greetings from Mykanos. This month, the letter from Colombia is definitely ‘C’ … for Covid, the pandemic of the century, and for the Cosecha, the main coffee harvest of the year. Not surprisingly, one is far preferable to the other. As far as Covid is concerned, it is almost as though it never happened here […]
Greetings from Bogotá. Yes, you read right. For the first time in 17 months I am in our apartment in Bogotá. Two weeks after my second Astra Zenica shot I had my first plane flight since February 2020. It was from Pereira’s new airport terminal, which was only being constructed when we were last there, […]
Greetings from Mykanos. As I write this, but hopefully not as you read it, we are enduring a ‘Paro Nacional’, or national strike, here in Colombia. It started as a protest against the new tax regime proposed by the Government, which was an attempt to raise money to fund the shortages caused by the pandemic. […]
Greetings from Mykanos. I am sitting here, on the veranda outside the bedroom, looking across the palms and bougainvillea, past the towering guadua undulating in the morning breeze, at the neighbour’s house, which is currently being further enhanced by another bungalow. Like us, he has been in uninterrupted residence for almost a year and seems […]
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