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Medellin – Sept. 2017

John Waller
From Medellin 2017. Posted by John Waller on 8/31/2017 (65 items)


The weather is PERFECT in Medellin!

Opening scene from Otello

Ready for opening night of Otello


Visited a trout farm on my bike ride in Guarne. The little Café on the left cooks th…
They raise the fish in pens in the stream and move them down as the get bigger. The b…

Juan Pablo was a very patient guide. He encouraged me to keep going when my lungs fel…
We encountered a convoy of 12 German/Swiss Land Cruisers going from Buenos Aires to C…

Jurate Svedaite-Waller has a hard time relaxing, this is an attempt
From the back row…
From the front row…



The end is near for Desdemona
The view from our amazing AirBnB
First chance to relax after a memorable run of Otello
Jurate Svedaite-Waller finally found some good Columbian coffee

We’re pretty sure a lot of the graffiti around town is paid for by the city – another…
The cable cars are an extension of the metro to get to the poorer pueblos of the city…
… and there is an additional line to go the the top of the mountain and beyond!
The public space in front of the Museo de Antioquia is home to 23 large bronze sculpt…

A well-fed Roman in the moonlight.
Medellin is busting and alive!
Back home, partial view at night.
More nature street art

My beautiful wife ❤️
There are no signs for the museum, we just kept walking up side streets till we saw t…
That was Pablo’s favorite panhead that he used to ride around Medellin with his posse…
Pablo had himself jailed in a prison they called The Cathedral

I’m sitting in the seat Pablo ate his last supper
One of the 23 hiding spots in the house – they had oxygen tanks just in case
Roberto Escobar was the money man for the Medellin cartel for which he served 14 year…

Our AirBnB, maybe the most interesting building in Medellin!
You cannot help but smile lounging with this view
The whole city spread out below
The perfect ending for a wonderful week for me and three weeks for Jurate Svedaite-Wa…

The perfect ending for a wonderful week for me and three weeks for Jurate Svedaite-Wa…

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