Colombia

Colombia is

The lines of raised cement in the sidewalks to help the blind people

Cheap restaurants

Que chimba

Red brick buildings

Restaurants with black metal, wood, and greenery everywhere

Wedding rings on the right hand

Roundabouts

A town square with a Catholic Church on one side

Waiters never refilling your water

Women with plastic surgery

Skinny jeans

People selling suckers or gum in the street

Paisa women with their kids on the street selling hand beaded necklaces

Metrocables

Gorgeous graffiti that looks like murals

Street vendors not negotiating prices

Arepas

People blasting salsa music into the wee hours of the morning

A fascination with Route 66

The taxi drivers being dishonest

Clear and open spanish

Warm people

Salsa music

So green everywhere

The pairs of police on the motorcycles

Rocks or bricks or anything in the metal utility holes in the sidewalk

Red brick

Great public transport and walkable city

Curvy streets

El clasico

Street corn and kebabs

La 70

White ugly men with beautiful women

Trees everywhere

Land of reggaeton

Empenadas

Bunelos

Mondongo and paisa tipica comida

Didi moto

Beatiful catholic churches

Poblado and Laureles

Men dressed in pants and sneakers

The local soccer jerseys with the green and white stripes

Botero’s gorditas

City lights on the mountain

English acoustic covers

Fancy malls

10% servicio without any service

People being on time when we don’t need them to and late when we don’t need them to

The green and white Medellin flag

The Bad Bunny/La Solar aesthetic of bright cartoon people and hearts and suns

Beggars apparently renting kids to appear more sympathetic

Getting to pick where to sit in a restaurant

Little corner stores and pharmacies

QR code menus

Small men’s clothing boutiques

The guy selling and yelling “aguacate!”

The guy playing the recording selling tomate de árbol and it saying “vitaminas!”

Matt running across the street real quick to buy ketchup

Everyone in the country celebrating Holy Week

People living in 3D on the sides of the mountain

The typical lunch consisting of a soup as a starter, a juice, then rice, beans, a meat, avocado, a plátano

Guava and cheese flavored things

Crazy football games where people would throw streamers onto the field