Cali Men and Medellin Women

Two of my favourite cities while trekking through Colombia were Cali and Medellin. While backpacking through jungle terrain for three days to find La Ciudad Perdida (The Lost City) fellow travellers regaled me with stories from the two cities. Having just arrived in Colombia on the Northern edge, I was keen to find out more.

Black Jack

This time last year I was stationed in the South of Costa Rica in the beach town of Quepos. The weather was a toasty 30 degrees, and I was spending the days leading up to Christmas on the beach a stones throw from my hostel. In summary, it was paradise. Except for the fact that […]

Salar de Uyuni

One of the coldest, driest and most isolated places I managed to visit on my South American trip was the famous Salt Plains of Bolivia. It’s also probably one of the most photographed areas in the world not least because of it’s stunning beauty but because of the optical ‘mirror image’ of the land reflecting […]

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 […]

Space Diving in Honduras

OFF THE MAINLAND coast of Honduras in Central America, there lie two small islands – Utila and Roatan – renowned for their hedonistic nomadic lifesyle. The big draw for travellers aside from getting wasted is the pristine coastline, and clear waters ideal for deep sea diving. Diving is big business on the islands and competition is […]