Stargazing in Chile

When I backpacked around South America almost two years ago, other well travelled gringos would wax lyrical about the valleys and mountains of Chile, with an enviable landscape that had to be seen to be believed. I was always a little dubious at such claims given that those who usually said them were virgin backpackers […]

Swimming with Sharks

IF I HAD created a bucket list in my teens, swimming with sharks would have been near the top. Probably somewhere wedged between scoring the winning goal for Blackburn Rovers and meeting my childhood crush Gillian Anderson aka Dana Scully. The decade of my twenties brought with it a little less daring, and a little more caring. Especially when […]