* New year’s eve was a wonderful affair with my mother, sisters, niece and nephew, brother(s) is law and Melissa. Bogota as always, a city full of wonders. When I was a kid I remember it being a colder city (global warming?). It was fun to travel by bus all the way to a nearby small town (Zipaquira) and go 200 meters underground into the Salt Cathedral (formerly a salt mine).

* David Bowie died a couple of days after releasing his very last album Darkstar.