A Detour in Uruguay, January 2018

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  This past week has seen me take a short detour through Uruguay. It’s made me realise that almost everyone south of the Equator loves a good barbecue – whether it’s a braai, a barbie, a churrasco or a parilla. …

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Kalalau Trail, Hawaii, USA December 2015

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Aloha! I have just returned from another brief escape – this time to hike the Kalalau Trail on Kauai Island in Hawaii. I am determined that a pair of hiking boots will take me to see the most amazing landscapes …

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Roatan, Honduras, December 2007

Like a wagon wheel caught in a sandy rut my journey has stalled for this past week on a small island in the Caribbean off Honduras.  A little travel-weary perhaps, I was easily entranced by the turquoise waters and “no …

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El Salvador, December 2007

Well I can´t believe December is already upon us and that another week of my journey has flown by.  I started the week at Copan Ruinas in Honduras – the little town at the site of the most southerly city …

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Rum ‘n Lobster & Vampire Bats, November 2007

Well it´s been another week and I spent the first part of it sailing the turquoise waters of the Caribbean on a 45ft yacht, making my way down the coast of Belize.  We stopped on a whim at any reef …

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Jungle Jane, November 2007

Well another week seems to have slipped by and I find myself in Belize.  The little thatched huts of lowland Guatemala have given way to brightly painted ramshackle wooden houses, complete with tin roof and front verandah, the berry-brown faces …

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Of Chicken Buses and Temples, November 2007

Since last I wrote I forged further into the Highlands of Guatemala to a place called Chichicastenango, the venue of probably the most famous weekend market in the country.  I arrived there by chicken bus which is a Guatemalan phenomenon …

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Hola de Guatemala, November 2007

So I am alive and currently in the Highlands of Guatemala.  I left the USA last Saturday and I couldn’t have felt more like Dorothy clicking her red shoes together – wake up in Cleveland Ohio and then suddenly in …

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Polar Bears, Canada, August 2006

Well I have just returned from taking one of my 3 precious weeks of leave this year and have squandered it on a polar bear expedition in Northern Canada.  I have had this trip in my back pocket for years …

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