Peter Humphreys, 46, and media teacher, Ana Rebolledo, 37, met on a roof terrace in Colombia in 2018. They married last year but, due to the visa process, are living apart in Lancaster and Buenos Aires
When Peter Humphreys, a writer, took a trip to Colombia in January 2018, he’d been hoping to catch up with an old friend. “Just before I left I found out he wasn’t going to be there, but I thought it would be fun to go anyway and attend the Hay literary festival in Cartagena,” he says. Not long after he arrived, he spotted Ana Rebolledo, who was staying at the same hotel. “I was too shy to speak to her at first,” he admits.
Eventually, he asked if she spoke English, and the pair struck up a conversation while they were sitting on the hotel’s rooftop terrace. “I was travelling alone around South America at the time,” says Ana, a video editor and media teacher who was based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. “I thought he was very friendly and cool. He asked if I’d liked to go to one of the festival events with him.”
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