Colombia

Three months moving between coffee farms, colonial towns and the Caribbean coast, and by a wide margin the country I was most reluctant to leave. It was never really part of the original plan — more a place I kept extending my stay in, one more town or one more hike at a time, until the extensions were most of the trip.

I arrived expecting a stopover and left having built a life there for a while: a routine, a favourite comedor, people I still message. It's the country that convinced me to keep going rather than fly home after the first year, and the one I'd go back to first.