WELCOME TO THE SPORTS AND SUITCASES BLOG
Gain an insight into the Sports and Suitcases site and learn what I intend to blog about
4th Jan 2026 | 3-min read
Hi everyone! Happy New Year, and welcome to the Sports and Suitcases blog pages!
To give you the briefest of introductions: my name is David, I’m from England, and I like sport! I’ve always found it time-consuming to search across the internet and social media to learn about the competitive sport I could play in a new city. Enter Sports and Suitcases.
I’ll play sport wherever I am!
Sports and Suitcases is a sports guide/directory for expats and digital nomads in, for now, Lima and Medellín. Use the site to discover the local and expat sports scene, reach out to the relevant teams and clubs, and start playing sport and exercising in your new home from home. However, whilst my primary focus is on sport and exercise in Lima and Medellín, and potentially other cities around the world (Chengdu, China, anyone? 🐼), I'm sitting on a lot of travel knowledge about Peru and Colombia, as well as other destinations.
Why I want to write blogs
Other people’s blogs, and, in the days before social media, the boom of blogs and travel sites, and the general digitalisation of all things travel, even simple TripAdvisor travel posts (like someone sharing what time that one morning bus passed along the main road on its way to the Ecuador-Peru border five hours away) have helped me so much when it comes to choosing locations and planning trips. I believe I’ve got knowledge and experiences worth sharing, so, I’d enjoy giving something back in my own small way to fellow travellers, expats and digital nomads through these blogs and, indeed, this site.
What will the Sports and Suitcases blogs be about?
For the time being, I intend to blog about sport and sport-related travel or trips, such as where to buy a pair of football boots or cycling day trips. If I’m being honest, I’m not entirely sure which direction I’ll go in. I may well branch out to other aspects of expat life and the more pressing day-to-day matters foreigners face when they move to Lima or Medellín. Sport, after all, is often low on people’s priority lists when they choose to relocate themselves to far-flung locations around the world.
The road along the cliffs above Playa Roja at the Paracas National Reserve, Peru
Final thoughts whistle
I hope these posts prove useful. What would you like to know about in the future? If you have a topic in mind or a question for me, share it with me below. I’ll do my best to help.
