In downtown Bogotá, you can find plenty of music stores where music lovers can find whatever quirky tastes they have in music. These places, where fancyness is not an issue, resemble little garages that have been rearranged to serve as a music store. The man in the picture is Mr. Jose Beltrán. He has devoted…
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Bogotá, Colombia
Shopkeeper Stories is a project that celebrates small business owners around the world, and it is an honour for me to feature a guest entry from Juan Manuel who introduces us to a music shopkeeper in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. Juan worked as a consultant at a bank for many years with a degree in…
Sweet Stalker
You can get a cold mug of sugarcane juice at almost any market in Singapore where hawkers extract sap directly from the stalks without using any additives. (You can see the pressing machine in the photograph.) Sugarcane is not a fruit but a type of grass that resembles bamboo. From plantations around the world, the stalk voyages across multiple…
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