by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 7, 2023 | Blog
March 7th 2023, Panama City. Anyone travelling across the Americas by land, north to south or, like me, the other way around, faces a major obstacle in the middle. It is known as the Darién Gap — the gap being the fact that there is no road linking South and...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 6, 2023 | Blog
Puente Linda, February 28th 2023. After my few days with the migrants in Necocli and Capurganá, I made a dash for Bogota, feeling that it was time to progress my own journey into Central America. The road south from the Gulf of Darién was good and passed through some...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 4, 2023 | Blog
February 27th, Capurganá, Colombia. Every morning as the sun rises over the Caribbean, hundreds of people gather on the beach at Necocli, a small town on Colombia’s north coast. Surrounded by suitcases and black bin bags containing all that they have, or all...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 3, 2023 | Blog
February 20th 2023, Cúcuta Well over seven million Venezuelans have fled their homeland in recent years. For a country of some 30 million people, that’s close to a quarter of the population upping sticks and getting out. In effect, Venezuela is bleeding people,...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog
Cúcuta market, February 18th 2023. “Where are you from?” the car passenger shouted at me out his window, smiling, as we were both stopped at traffic lights.”Irlanda, Irrr-land-ah. Ireland,” I shouted back.”Amazing! Amazing! Welcome to...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog
February 11th 2023, Ibague, Colombia. The square is dirty and black and filthy and it gets to look worse as the dusk turns to night. It’s a square that goes nowhere. That is to say, it leads nowhere. You don’t drive or stroll into this square, marvel at...
