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The cost of living get so high (rich and poor they start a’ cry)
To kick this off, I’m going to give you a rundown of the last five places that I’ve lived in: Double room in five-person share in Stoneybatter, north Dublin / a period of around four months in 2016 /...
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Getting from A to B dangerously (and the need for divine intervention)
(Still sorting out the insurance on that phone that got nicked. Photos will be less blurry once that’s all sorted.) On a surface level, the one thing that separates Medellín from European city of...
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Don’t worry, be happy (because you’re going nowhere)
(That claim form for my insurance was put in on Saturday, so hopefully it’ll be less than two weeks before I can start taking half-way clear pictures again. Although it could be a lot longer. I don’t...
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So close and yet so far away (it’s a no from me Jim)
A list of names outside a polling station in Medellín Colombia has voted, and it’s a No. As anyone who woke up to the news alerts on the morning of Brexit will know, there’s nowt so queer as folk,...
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Narcos is a helluva good programme (but not if you live here)
(Last week some of this blog made it’s way onto TheJournal.ie. Major shoutout to my old boss Susan Daly for making that happen.) If you haven’t seen Narcos and plan on watching it, this contains a few...
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Living out in the streets (with children’s mouths to feed)
An indigenous family on the streets of Medellín (Image taken from Cosas Del Alma blog) (I would just like to preface this by saying this is going to read like an vaguely racist 18th century travelogue,...
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Five reasons to be happy that Trump is the US President! (And other parlour...
[The blog went off the boil because it takes a while to write and I have a fair whack of Spanish study to be doing. Back now though.] Preparation H – the only hemorrhoid cream you’ll ever need OK, so...
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Is having sex with prostitutes OK? (and who is paying for all of this)
Drug use always looks worse close-up and in black and white. During the first few weeks that I was attending Spanish classes at a university here in Medellín something became apparent. There was an...
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The virtue of being a romper (hygge for the great unwashed)
(Hey, thanks to everyone who has read this blog over the last ten weeks. All 15 of ya. I am going back to Ireland on the 17th so I’m going to write this one where I slag off the Danish and then one...
View ArticleSex, sex, drugs and more sex (deep and meaningful reflections)
So, this is going to be last entry into this blog, so thanks to anyone who read any of it. It has been a great way of keeping in contact with people and also hearing from some people I hadn’t spoken...
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