Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007
Subject: The Trumble Travels - Colombia I
After spending a few days in Ecuador, Rich and I flew from Quito to Bogotá, Colombia on September 22. Bogotá is a city of about 9 million and is at a high altitude (about 2550meters or 8350 ft) helping make the climate very pleasant. The stereotype of Colombia being a dangerous place with kidnappings and drugs is not accurate of Bogotá which is a very nice city with many malls and restaurants.
On two different occasions we ate at different Crepes & Waffles restaurants. Crepes & Waffles is a chain of restaurants that started in Colombia but has now spread to several countries. In Colombia (and maybe elsewhere too) they try to employ women who are heads of households as a way to help them out. The food is quite nice too.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.crepesywaffles.com/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcrepes%2Band%2Bwaffles%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX
More on Colombia: http://www.compassion.com/about/where/colombia.htm
It doesn’t have much to do with anything but kind of interesting to run across a candy with TTT on it.
Stroganoff in a bread bowl you can eat at a Crepes & Waffles restaurant. Also feijoa juice which is made from feijoa fruit which is something I don’t know that we have in the States (not in Colorado at least). According to wikipedia, feijoa is also known as pineapple guava. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feijoa
On Sunday afternoon, after attending church with Henry and his family, we drove quite a ways up in the hills on the north side of Bogotá on the way toward the town of La Calera and went to Restaurante Parrilla El Mirador Del Embalse.
Lulo Juice. Lulo is also knows as naranjilla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naranjilla
Rich with steak. Dan with pork, chicken, and beef. Also, both of us have potato and plantains.
Dan with Bogotá in the background.
Dan in Simón Bolívar square. The congress building can be seen in the background.
For lunch one day we walked a short distance from the office to Las Acacias which serves typical Colombian food.
Clockwise from left. Veronica, Carlos, Dan , Rich.
Our waiter and me
Guanabana Juice
Cow Stomach soup
El Corral restaurant. How can you go wrong with a burger called “Tres Quesos” (Three Cheeses)? I had Swiss, double cream, and blue cheese on mine.
A different Crepes & Waffles restaurant
Statue of Simón Bolívar.
His victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He is called El Liberator (The Liberator) and the "George Washington of South America."
Source: Harvey L. Johnson from this site http://www.bolivarmo.com/history.htm
His victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He is called El Liberator (The Liberator) and the "George Washington of South America."
Source: Harvey L. Johnson from this site http://www.bolivarmo.com/history.htm
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