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Post by barrumundi on Nov 15, 2015 9:02:45 GMT -5
I live in what is normally a very quiet neighbourhood. We are just out of town on the edge of a rural area and most of the houses around us are empty during the week and quite often nobody around on the weekends either, EXCEPT for long weekends. One of our neighbouring properties is an old house surrounded by beautiful gardens and some huge trees that at different times of the year are covered in magnificent flowers. There is a couple of caretakers that are actually full-time gardeners and they can be seen constantly mowing the lawns and raking the leaves etc. They live in a couple of cottages in back of the main house. There is a big hedge all around the property but I can see into the garden from my upstairs patio. Sometimes on the weekend there is one or two cars parked near the house and a couple of people can be seen walking in the garden. There is never any noise or loud music.
This weekend there is seven carloads of people and it has been non-stop fireworks since yesterday lunchtime. Not the piddly little fiz-bang rockets, no, these huge explosives sound like Apolo13 taking off and then they explode with lots of rapid-fire AK47 type loud cracks and then (wait for it) a huge BOOM that send sound waves so strong you can feel the walls vibrate.......and it is RELENTLESS!
The dogs are shaking like jellyfish and I'm looking on the internet for flights back to Australia. Will I last the weekend.......I don't know.
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Post by juanmiguel on Nov 15, 2015 10:50:29 GMT -5
Welcome to Colombia. You have probably been lucky so far. I have suffered the same (in one way or another) in all places lived in Colombia. Frequently, in my experience, the kids of the owners (usually city people) take over the place and invite all their friends to party party party. When it comes to sound I have found that many Colombians, of all ages have no respect for others as is done in many other countries. Loud music is a norm. And others consider it normal. Colombians often tell me, just ignor it. Relatives of mine live in an estrado 5 neighborhood in Bogotá with a park nearby. Someone comes almost daily to blast window shaking music so that old ladies can do aerobics, this even means at 8 am on Sundays. Why one needs loud music to exercise makes no sense to me. A school is a block away from our current dwelling. And sometimes they play music so loud that I have to raise my voice for my wife to hear me. While Colombians like to consider themselves more etiquette minded than other people of the world, ( such as say hi to everyone when arriving and bye to everyone when leaving) when it comes to rumba and music all of that seems to go right out the window. I have heard people in other countries complain of the same thing when groups of Colombians get together.
Just hope that the children of the owners have not just come of age with the ability of them and their friends to drive cars to the family finca and beginning their years of party.
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Post by barrumundi on Nov 15, 2015 15:54:21 GMT -5
I think I have to start seriously looking at building a weekender cabin up at the farm so I've got some place I can escape to on the long weekends.
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Post by barrumundi on Nov 17, 2015 8:35:35 GMT -5
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Post by dandl93 on Nov 17, 2015 9:11:20 GMT -5
Quiet neighborhood jajajajajajajaa Wait till the concerts and Futbol games start in the new remodeled stadium behind your neighbor hood
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Post by gallito on Nov 17, 2015 13:40:07 GMT -5
We stayed in an eco resort near Tolu;cabins were similar to that one.
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