Theatre Festival

I usually moan about how the cultural scene in Bogota is so small and useless. But I must be honest and admit it's actually quite good––although you have to really engage and search for the events that are taking place all over the city––and it's been improving lately.

One of the things I believe has contributed the most to the development of a cultural atmosphere in the city is the Theatre Festival, which occurs every two years. This time, it took place during the past two weeks, and I loved going around the streets with my lovely sister to see some of the shows.

Love,

Eat Like A King!

One of my best friends loves joking around saying that she's never ashamed to go out and eat like a man whenever I'm around. According to her, I'm one of the women who eats the most in her social circle––apart from her!

Although I do try not to over eat, there's nothing better than allowing myself to indulge in huge meals every once in a while. That's exactly what I did yesterday, when I went out for lunch with my mum and my sister. Here's what we got:

We started with one of the best versions of the focaccia I've ever had in my life. It's honestly one of my favourites!

We then moved on into some fried calamari.

And then shared a sirloin strip steak and chicken with BBQ sauce, together with mashed potatoes and salad.

Finally, we shared an ice cream and a passion fruit cheesecake.

Oh, and we had a summer drink to celebrate the start of the sunny days. By that I mean I drank a San Pellegrino Aranciata!

Love,

Photography: Laura Beltran-Rubio

Learning Photography

I told you yesterday my beautiful sister had to do some photography project during the weekend. We went to one of the public libraries in the city, which is a truly beautiful place.

After we had brunch and came back home, we had the chance to look at the photos my baby sis had taken. Although she is a beginner, I actually like her photos. Don't you?

Love,

Photography: Maria C. Beltran

Receiving The New Year

For New Years Eve, I wanted to share some time with my mum and my sister, while doing something calmed and relaxed. So instead of going out partying, we went for dinner at La Mina Steak & Lobster (which is located at the JW Marriott Bogota hotel), one of my mum's favourite restaurants in Bogota.

The menu consisted of six dishes, all of which were absolutely delicious.

We started with crunchy crab claws with a thai peanut sphere over smoked panka hot pepper.

Then we had a foie gras terrine, with bagel crunch, lychee foam, and balsamic syrup.

We moved into a warm prawn ceviche with sweet potato and manchego cheese dauphin.

By this moment, we were ready to cut all the flavour out with a red fruits and ciroc vodka sherbet.

Have I mentioned there was a saxophonist playing live all the time?

Our main dish consisted of two parts: salmon with osceta prestige caviar over cilantro mashed potatoes and red wine vinaigrette, and Surf and Turf (i.e. steak with green pepper sauce and garlic stone crab), with potatoes stuffed with corn.

I chose to drink some Chardonnay with my supper, which was absolutely perfect! I think this might be my favourite type of white wine!

Finally, for dessert, we had a pistacchio crème brulée––which was my favourite––a chocolate cake and some sort of grape flan with ice cream. I must admit that this was probably my least favourite part of dinner, in part because I was full by the end of my main dish, but also partly because I didn't understand the flavour of the flan.

Naturally, with all that food, we needed to have some herbal tea to help our digestion.

At this point, we had already spent around three hours eating, and we finished just in time to cheer the New Year. We drank some champagne and saw the fireworks in the hotel's terrace...

...Just before going back home to sleep happily, with our bellies full––until yesterday around 2pm!

Love,


Oh, and my mum and my sister wish you all a Happy New Year!