We arrived in Medellin, our home city, on January 21th. We had only decided to come home a couple of days ago so our families had only known for about 48hrs that we were coming, Carlos family was not even in Medellin, they were on the Colombian coast for holidays. But we wanted some family time, some warm weather and a bit of a break, so what better place to do it than Colombia!
We arrived in Colombia just in time for Carlos grandfather’s 103 birthday… as you can imagine it was a big celebration with many family members.
While in Medellín we found a graffiti tour which runs on Comuna 13, once upon a time one of the most dangerous neighbourhood in the country. Nowadays the culture has changed and they found out that bringing tourists to the neighbourhood brings income for many families. We spent around 2 hours walking around Comuna 13 with a local graffiti artist who explained about the dark past of the neighbourhood and showed most of the graffiti in the area. It was nice to see the recovery of this area of the city, if you are in Medellín we highly recommend you sign up for the tour.
We were also invited to Carlos’ cousin wedding, again another opportunity to catch up with aunts, uncles and cousins.
We also got an invitation to go to an orchids competition… as weird as that sound Marcela’s aunt belongs to an orchids association and every few months they run competitions, where orchids growers bring their best plant to be judge.
Time flies by when we are in Colombia, every day we have invitations for lunch, dinner and snacks… we had eaten a lot in Japan and now in Colombia we will be gaining a few pounds for sure.