Barichara is without a doubt one of our favorite places on earth. Not only charming…., but utterly dreamy…. quixotic …. a starry-eyed hamlet. Its Spanish colonial architecture, uniform red-tile roofs, undulating wide cobble-stone streets, and white-washed homes with perfect peekaboo windows…all emanating the aura from the pages of a romance novel. And, for this good reason, Barichara is often the…
Folded amongst the rolling Andes and undulating countryside of Colombia’s Santander region, Guane is a colonial Colombian pueblo utterly lost in time. When we took our first steps into the village, it was eerily quiet. Soundless. No children. No dogs. No chickens. Few people. The narrow, cobbled streets were all all lumpy and lovely and the white-washed houses seem sublimely…