Within a week of my arrival to Medellín, I found myself strolling the cobblestone main square of historic Santa Fe de Antioquia for the first time. The bustling center was awash with the warm amber glow of streetlights as the…
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Month in Review: February 2015
I don’t know about you guys, but for me February seemed to come and go in the blink of an eye. How on Earth do two absent days feel so significant? I’m inching ever-closer to my departure from Medellín, so…
8 Things to Consider Before Moving to Medellín, Colombia
So, you’re interested in leaving your home country to live out your days as an expat in the green pastures (figurative pastures, of course) of Medellín, Colombia, eh? After the overwhelmingly positive response I received following my recent post titled The 12 Best Things About…
¡Habla Paisa! Your Guide to the Best Colombian Slang
I’ve always been a lover of languages, and of Spanish especially. Though I didn’t know it at the time, the many years I spent studying Spanish in school would do very little to prepare me for actually living in a Spanish-speaking country.…
Back to the Caribbean: Revisiting Santa Marta More Than One Year Later
Returning to a place I’ve been before after a significant amount of time has passed is always a fun little game. I’ve changed, the place has changed, and I find it rather entertaining to try and guess which of the…
Month in Review: January 2015
First thing’s first: Happy 2015, y’all! Is this the year Marty McFly really traveled to in Back to the Future? No one seems to know anymore. If so, their predictions of hover boards were a little off base, and I…
The 12 Best Things About Being an Expat in Medellín
Life has pulled me in some interesting directions over the past few years. In all honesty, I never could have predicted that I’d wind up living as an expat in Medellín, Colombia. I couldn’t have predicted, when I landed in this city…
A Taste of El Poblado
In this week’s edition of Leah Leaves the Apartment, I’m taking you on a little photo tour of my favorite haunts (read: restaurants and cafes) in El Poblado, an affluent neighborhood in Medellín that’s–surprise, surprise–popular among expats. Yes, yes, Medellin…
My Colombia Bucket List
I feel as though I just arrived in Colombia yesterday, yet I’m suddenly finding myself with limited time remaining in this beautiful country and feeling pressured to make the most of it. In case you haven’t heard, I’ve been doing all…
Month in Review: December 2014
Are months getting shorter or is time going faster these days? It must be one of the two, because I could swear I just wrote one of these yesterday and yet here we are, 31 days later, me not even…
