Topic
Paperwork, housing, money, transport. The things you look up in advance.
5 entries
September
2026
2 entries
10 September · Article
The last digit of your number plate keeps the car off the streets one day a week, from five in the morning to eight in the evening, across the whole valley. Plus the licence that expires after six months, a fine over six hundred thousand pesos, and road death figures that make me uneasy.
10 September · Article · La Candelaria, Medellín
Three hundred thousand people in six communes have had water every other day since late August. The city broke its temperature records in May, Ideam expects a strong El Niño into March, and the grid operator warns that power may not stretch through December. What the rule says, why it landed on the hillsides, and what it means for a trip.
August
2026
3 entries
26 August · Note
Today I finally bought a mobile plan from Claro, the local operator and probably the best known one.
26 August · Note
Have you driven around southern Italy, Rome, Naples or Sicily? Maybe a few Greek islands? Have you seen the traffic in Armenia, Turkey or Egypt? And did it seem insane by our standards?
26 August · Note
Forget about English. In Medellín you will get by in English almost nowhere. Only a small minority speaks it, mostly people higher up the ladder or those who work abroad or with foreign clients.
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