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Three things I wish I knew before coming to Colombia

Ok, I could write 100. Yet for today, we will discuss three.

Sara Burdick
3 min readSep 12, 2022
Palomino, Colombia

When I first visited Colombia in 2018, these things shocked me, I was a novice. Since then I have had to learn to bend and be flexible with adapting to living in a new country, culture, and language.

These are three things that I wish I would have known, more of a ¨hey, guess what no blogger talks about, because honestly it is not that exciting, but valuable ¨.

Check your receipts and change before leaving the store.

My boyfriend will hand me the receipt to ensure we were charged only for what we purchased. It would never occur to me to do this in the states.

Cash is king, and you must always check to ensure the correct amount has been given back. Also when you pay, they will check each coin and count it to make sure the amount is correct.

The next tip is something that I saw my boyfriend doing this morning, and naturally, I said what are you doing?

Check your bigger bills to make sure they are real.

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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