June 15, 2014

Returning to Medellin, the City of Eternal Spring

Leave a Comment / Colombia, South/Central America

As the plane descends for its landing into Jose Maria Cordova Airport, thirty minutes outside of Medellin, Colombia, the view looking looking down is of […]

Returning to Medellin, the City of Eternal Spring Read More

Hi, I’m Phyl!

I’m a lapsed travel writer and photographer and have been absent from these pages for too long.

My niche is: “adaptive re-use of space” which translates to re-using or re-purposing old buildings for a new life while retaining their historic integrity. This is gaining momentum world wide and we are seeing old buildings such as banks and post offices transformed into high fashion boutique hotels, abandoned warehouses becoming restaurants and coffee houses, and revivifying entire neighborhoods that would otherwise have been flattened by the bulldozer. What’s old is new again and people love the patina of age that enhances these developments and sets them apart from new construction.

Please read on to see where I’ve been more recently and what I’ve been doing.

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30

Returning to Medellin, the City of Eternal Spring

COME ALONG WITH ME ON

the road less traveled