Two days from Anse Amyot and we would be in Tahiti, pretty much half way across the Pacific.  I remember thinking back to sailing in the UK when a two […]

I write this at 4am in the morning, soon to be 3am tomorrow morning.  I think.  I am on night watch and we are just about to enter the Eastern […]

Formerly named “Bay of Dicks” after its imposing phallic rock formations, missionaries apparently took offence and renamed the “Baie de Verges” to “Baie de Vierges” – the Bay of Virgins.   […]

“What is this world if, full of care, we have no time to stop and stare”?  My sister tells me that this poem by William Henry Davies was a favourite […]

My good friend Toby has told me I have become a little too brief and less of a story teller in these blogs. I thought I was saving you time. […]

…and around lent too. How biblical. I don’t think I have ever given up so much for lent, which seems an apt theme to describe this journey of around 7,000km […]

Crossing into Costa Rica, I had turned up during a big Rodeo in Liberia.  The bull was joined by a couple hundred spectators actually in the ring, tormenting him, while […]

At many times I have wondered why I am squandering a redundancy pay-out that could have set me up a new business, or given me quite a few relaxed months […]

I should have planned Mexico to Guatemala better. A 5 hour bus to Chetumal ended with a taxi driver persuading me to let him take me to the Belize border, […]