Meals with friendly Paisas

Today I experienced the true, open friendliness of the Paisas (the people from the department of Antioquia).

I was going to have a solitary lunch in a shopping centre, but as I sat down a man with a black mustache and a colored t-shirt approached me and asked if he could sit down. Of course, I said, and we started talking, and Ricardo, as we can call him, showed out to be a salesman for a clothes company, a profession he seemed to have the right personality for. Anyway, it was a pleasant conversation and after the lunch Ricardo invited me for a cup of coffee which I rejected since I had to get things done in the afternoon.

Later, in the night, I stopped by a empanada place and there a thin man in his fifties started talking to me. We can call him Aras and he showed out to be the son of a Colombian man and a Lithuanian woman who had fled the war in the 40's. Aras was once the national motorcycle champion of Colombia. Just like Ricardo, Aras invited to continued friendship and asked me to call him to take a ride on one of his motorcycles.