Bogota, 7th November 2024

My first full day in Bogota was a tiring, beflummuxing experience. True enough, I hadn't gone on an intensive 'learn all you can in a day/Spanish for idiots' course. It wouldn't have sunk in anyway.
Arriving early in the morning didn't help. I grabbed a few hours sleep in between watching films on the plane - the new 'Dune', and 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'. Both good in very different ways. I'd read the first two Dune books back in the '70s. The first one good, the second not very.
Bogota is big on graffiti, it has to be said. It seems like every flat surface is covered in garish scrawls, and some wobbly ones too. The artistic merit of said scrawls is, shall we say, dubious or a matter of taste.
The traffic is bad, bad. I'm thinking of wearing my Covid mask tomorrow.Read more