Article by Tom on his visit to Colombia, in Sunday Times

[jobrodie]

Well this is delightful A lovely long article all about his visit to Colombia (if you don't have a subscription you can register free and they'll let you view a couple of articles).

He mentions in the article (and the editor includes details at the end) that he travelled with a company called Plan South America - I had a look at their Twitter feed and it's full of the most gorgeous pictures.

I'm quite a feeble sort of traveller and tend to avoid places where I might get bitten by things, or lost, so enjoyed this vicariously with no plans to go there myself.

"In the Colombian version of boules — a game called tejo — players take it in turns to throw metal pucks at lumps of gunpowder until they explode. It’s a good metaphor for a country that is recognisably European yet wildly adrenalised at the same time. And clearly Colombia’s reputation for violence has made people think twice about visiting it. But those days appear to be over. At no point did I feel unsafe. Not once. On the contrary, I experienced only warmth and kindness."

Jo

[lintu]

Thanks Jo . I could not figure out how to register for free . Can it be because I live outside the UK ? I will try again but it was no giving me any Free reader options .

[jobrodie]

Hmm, perhaps that's it - but try this just in case.

I'm assuming you can see the title, picture of Tom and a paragraph of two or text before his article stops suddenly? Below that what I see is a dark grey bar with white text telling me I'm "now logged out", then below that are two panels one in a lovely sort of teal-blue colour on the left and a pale grey one on the right.

The bluer one invites me to 'Register now' for my choice of two articles a week. I gave it a name and an email address and *ping* the article appeared once I'd registered / auto-logged in.

If you see something else it may be that the site offers different visitors different views depending on geo-location. In which case we've reached the extent of my usefulness on this matter I'm afraid haha.

Hope this works and you can enjoy the article,
Jo

[lintu]

Jul 31, 2016 12:43:10 GMT -5 jobrodie said:

Hmm, perhaps that's it - but try this just in case.

I'm assuming you can see the title, picture of Tom and a paragraph of two or text before his article stops suddenly? Below that what I see is a dark grey bar with white text telling me I'm "now logged out", then below that are two panels one in a lovely sort of teal-blue colour on the left and a pale grey one on the right.

The bluer one invites me to 'Register now' for my choice of two articles a week. I gave it a name and an email address and *ping* the article appeared once I'd registered / auto-logged in.

If you see something else it may be that the site offers different visitors different views depending on geo-location. In which case we've reached the extent of my usefulness on this matter I'm afraid haha.

Hope this works and you can enjoy the article,
Jo

Thanks  so much Jo !  I  figured  it  out  and  was  able  to   read  his  very  lovely  travel  article  ! YAY  

I'm happy now .  I loved  his  discription  of  eating  ants    

I  hope  I  can   read  more  article  now  . There  is a back  log  of  some  but  you  can only  read  2 a week ?

[lintu]

I hope he writes more travel articles .

[ignacia0k]

great contribution, I finally read the entire article, I could not read , thanks for the info

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[jobrodie]

Oh I'm pleased that people were able to read the article. I hope for more too. I wonder if they might make it a bit more multimedia-ish - whenever I go away anywhere I tend to take sound recordings of stuff (using the voice memo app on my phone, it's a bit more subtle than making a video and they take up less space!). Wonder what interesting things one might hear around Colombia!

Jo

[Ale Smallbone]

... an audio version of this article would be fantastic 
All of his articles  are welcomed  I wonder if he still writes for The Spectator

[lintu]

I hope he travels to more places to write articles .