{"id":285487,"date":"2026-02-07T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:59:13","slug":"my-solo-travel-adventure-in-colombia-i-quickly-learned-that-my-30-day-streak-on-duolingo-was-not-going-to-cut-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285487\/","title":{"rendered":"My solo travel adventure in Colombia:\u00a0\u2018I quickly learned that my 30-day streak on Duolingo was not going to cut it&#8230;\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">After Maxine Bramley left her job as a TV reporter for a bucket-list adventure, she realised her 30-day Duolingo streak was not going to cut it \u2026\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maxine Bramley in Guatap\u00e9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/80fd310a-0f0d-4c3f-b260-0f4ddc630644.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Maxine Bramley in Guatap\u00e9<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As my moto taxi drove past what I was sure was my hostel and continued deeper into the Colombian jungle, I was convinced I was about to meet my end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Clinging to the driver on the back of this rickety moped, the worst possible scenarios of what could happen to a female solo traveller in the middle of the night in the jungle flashed through my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Maxine Bramley left her job as a TV reporter for a bucket-list adventure, she realised her 30-day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898,128197,137286],"class_list":["post-285487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-shp","tag-signature-enjoy-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}