Santa Catalina is a fishing village circled by real estate sharks. There is already blood in the water and so it is only a matter of time before the feeding frenzy begins in earnest.
But right now you can still meet a surfer from Devon there who attended the same boarding school as Winston Churchill yet [...]
I have spent the last three or four weeks watching the sea. The rise and fall of the tides; an endless ebb and flow. A constantly shifting surface comprised of liquid light and the sky, stirred by random eddies and hidden currents.
It has put me in a reflective state of mind.
I wonder why I am [...]
Bocas del Toros can only be described with a slew of tourist brocheure cliches.
A group of interlinking islands surrounded tropical beaches fringed by swaying coconut palms, monkeys, sloths and birds above in the forest canopy. The echoing throbbing roar of a distant troupe of howler monkeys.
Fingers of light and shadow shoot across the sky as [...]
Recently I’ve discovered podcasts and one that I particularly like is Radiolab. According to their own website Radiolab is:
…where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and encouraged to grow…
The style is something you will either love or loathe – personally, I’m in [...]
People in Guatemala are very poor.
Tagged guatemala, miscellaneaThe impossible enormity of the task of attempting to record everything disheartens me. Seemingly indelible images unfold before my eye in a constant stream – vivid and fresh – but by the end of the day they are faded and dull, lost in the vast ocean of impressions.
The flash of a bright yellow-orange [...]
Riding the freeway across a flat desolate industrial area of Vera Cruz, I wrestle with the fundamental existential dilemma: Is enjoying yourself essentially the same as not enjoying yourself? Somewhat reluctantly I reach the conclusion that it is probably so.
So I wonder why I only wish to record the pleasing and the beautiful here – [...]
In general, travelling on my bicycle makes me ridiculously happy but, even so, there are some days I view the world with a somewhat more critical eye than others.
I leave the hills behind me and ride through the flat sunny plains south-east of Zacatecas, where I find the terrain is a little uninspiring and the [...]
I spend my time in Zacatecas sampling the various culinary delights available on the streets and in the markets and admiring their sheer beauty.
I enjoy cheap meals which can be found in a range of restaurants, specialising in different regional delights.
The hostel boasts a modest kitchen, which I make the most of, to cook yet [...]
When I return to the men’s camp site dinner is ready and people are scattered around eating and talking. The conversation drifts over a variety of topics, as it always does in large groups. One man is expounding volubly on the difficulties of negotiating life in prison. He is discussing the conflict that exists between [...]
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