Tag: South America

  • Argentina 2025

    My experience of an emergency visit to A&E at Stoke Royal hospital in November, did not deter me from undertaking an adventure in Argentina at the end of the year. The travel insurance company said I was covered, and no medical professional offered any objections…so off I went. I left Manchester for Frankfurt on New…

  • Colombia 2024

    Colombia has fascinated me ever since I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo) when I was studying Spanish A level at Stoke College. Marquez was a Colombian writer who, in 1982, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years if Solitude). The fictional town of Maconda, which…