Off2 Colombia Blog - Colombia Travel Guide and Tips

Welcome to the first in our series of Colombia Portraits. These are a series of interviews we have conducted with expat professionals here in Colombia. Why Colombia? What investment opportunities are there? Should you, dear reader, consider the move? [caption id="attachment_584" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Eric Tabone, Bogotá Business English Our first interview is with founder and manager of Bogotá Business English, one of the best English schools in Colombia's capital city. Introduce yourself... What's your name, where are you from and what do you...

Bogotá is a city bustling with culture; from the historical museums and galleries of La Candelaria to the bohemian neighborhood of La Macarena and further, in the trendy, artistic bars of Chapinero and the numerous galleries in the north of the city. Art even follows you as you travel; impressive graffiti murals, often politically-charged, dot the city and give the art lover plenty to discuss without even leaving the city’s Transmilenio. Fernando Botero's depiction of Pablo Escobar's death Discovering everything the...

Joe’s got a week off of work during autumn and he’s decided to spend it in Colombia, so Joe brings himself, his suits and a nice amount of money (although he’s not exactly rich) to Colombia for a couple of weeks. He has 2 days allocated to Colombia, and that’s where I come in. Joe’s asked me to help him organize 2 days for him in Bogotá. Joe knows I live here, so Joe trusts my opinion. I don’t want to...

A city of 8 million, one of the 30th biggest cities in the world, almost always gridlocked with traffic and stretching far beyond the eye can see, Bogotá is big and can be intimidating. So big is it that visitors can feel overwhelmed when they arrive, and certainly as though their chances of discovering anything nice, charming or green are limited. Not so, Señor Traveller! In fact, Bogotá has over 1000 park areas and its main park, Parque Bolívar, is bigger...