In my first week in Colombia it has been put to me by several Colombians that they have “a lot” of holidays. The whole of last week was basically a holiday for Christmas/New Years(?) and just when it seemed like things were picking up there was another one today for epiphany. Sadly this meant that there was no free coffee at our office today. That wouldn’t really be a problem were it not for the sad fact that the coffee was locked up so we couldn’t even make it ourselves. On top of which, basically the whole town was closed. As a result I had a very American oriented day and got coffee at Starbucks and food at Subway. Somehow a fellow Remote even managed to get coffee delivered to the office later in the day which was a real lifesaver. With most things closed it ended up being a pretty quiet day, but I did get a lot of work done.