Cosecha in the time of Covid

Cosecha in the time of Covid

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 […]

Bogota bound

Bogota bound

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, […]

In good company

In good company

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 […]