this the key of colombian behaviour, if what you want is not in conflict with what I want, I will probably help you. You want a good time, we want you to have a good time, ask around if you are not sure if it is safe to do what you want to do.
Where do you live in Colombia? I lived in Cartagena for two years, not in the heavily touristed Los Muralles, and servers were basically lackadaisical and disinterested. I'm Canadian. Our etiquette tends to respect a fairly large personal bubble. Not so in Carta. People tend to clump together, naturally, and make no effort to avoid each other on the sidewalk. To the point that two people walking opposing directions in a large empty square sometimes barely miss each other passing. This was my experience, anyway. I also noticed that people tended not to hold doors open for each other. This was not an irritant to me, but is was noticeable. I wonder if it's a Coste`no thing and different for Cachacos. I absolutely agree that Colombians are polite gregarious people. I loved living there.
@@guyjperson Interesting to hear your experience! I'm back in Australia now, but when I was over there, I was living primarily in Bogotá and Manizales. I did a fair bit of traveling around the country though, including the Atlantic coast, and definitely agree with a lot of what you've said about costeños.
decent colombian will try to help turist, to improve colombia image, as we are traumatised about our bad image and try to avoid any related with drugs or armed conflict.
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Nice one. I really think you're pretty on the spot for an overall sense of things.
this the key of colombian behaviour, if what you want is not in conflict with what I want, I will probably help you. You want a good time, we want you to have a good time, ask around if you are not sure if it is safe to do what you want to do.
Where do you live in Colombia? I lived in Cartagena for two years, not in the heavily touristed Los Muralles, and servers were basically lackadaisical and disinterested.
I'm Canadian. Our etiquette tends to respect a fairly large personal bubble. Not so in Carta. People tend to clump together, naturally, and make no effort to avoid each other on the sidewalk. To the point that two people walking opposing directions in a large empty square sometimes barely miss each other passing. This was my experience, anyway.
I also noticed that people tended not to hold doors open for each other. This was not an irritant to me, but is was noticeable. I wonder if it's a Coste`no thing and different for Cachacos.
I absolutely agree that Colombians are polite gregarious people. I loved living there.
@@guyjperson Interesting to hear your experience! I'm back in Australia now, but when I was over there, I was living primarily in Bogotá and Manizales. I did a fair bit of traveling around the country though, including the Atlantic coast, and definitely agree with a lot of what you've said about costeños.
decent colombian will try to help turist, to improve colombia image, as we are traumatised about our bad image and try to avoid any related with drugs or armed conflict.