Tagged With: Mompox
The Tripbase Best-Kept Travel Secrets Project
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo Mexico & Colombia Photos: Francisco Collazo Cuba Photo: Brayan Collazo ** Back in December, Lola Akinmade invited me to participate in the Tripbase Best-Kept Travel Secrets Project. Time got away from me and I never followed through. Earlier this week, Katie Erica, the writer who started the project, invited me to … Continue reading
The Boys of Mompox
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo Photo: Francisco Collazo * I’m still organizing photos from 2008. It’s an enormous task. I came across this one today and just couldn’t stop staring at it or thinking about it. The boys of Mompox. “Will you forget us like everyone else?” they asked us before we left. How could we … Continue reading
Feliz Ano Nuevo!
Text & Photos: Julie Schwietert Collazo Happy 2009! One of our big projects this year (there are so many!) is to really get Voces de Mompox/Mompox Voices up and running. If you’re new to CollazoProjects, Voces de Mompox is an after-school program we started in Mompox, Colombia back in July during our month-long visit to … Continue reading
The House of Memories: Mompox, Colombia
{Note: La Casa de los Recuerdos, or The House of Memories, is the name of the nursing home in Mompox, Colombia, which we visited in early August.} Written by: Julie Schwietert Collazo Translated by: Francisco Collazo [English version; vease abajo para la version en espanol] * What strikes me–of all things–as I sit down to … Continue reading
La Corraleja/The Bullfights of Mompox
Francisco’s article about the bullfights of Mompox was published recently on The Washington Times’s travel blog. The English version can be read here, y la version en espanol se puede encontrar aqui. Below is a video Francisco shot on the first day of the Mompox bullfight, or la corraleja. If you are sensitive to animal … Continue reading
