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 […]

Luging Control in Rotorua, New Zealand

For the uninitiated, Luge is a high speed thrill-seeker adventure sport, part toboggan, part go-kart. One of the world’s best sites is based in Rotorua, New Zealand atop a high mountain only accessible by skylift. The Skyline Rotorua Luge offer three tracks of varying difficulty and when my brother and I visited what is one […]

Straight and Sober in a Gay Bar

I’m a bit of a lightweight when it comes to booze. It only takes me one drink to get drunk. Problem is, I don’t know if it’s the 10th or 11th that does it. Since returning from my nine month holiday where I had the fright of my life, I’ve cut right back on my alcohol […]

Learning Spanish in Guatemala

My motivation for learning Spanish was pretty straightforward: I was about to embark on a 9 month backpacking whistle-stop tour of Central and South America, and felt that my experience would be heightened if I could speak some of the lingo. I wanted to come back from my travels with a newly learnt, practical skill […]

A Volcanic Adventure

It was my last week in the charming colonial city of Antigua in Guatemala. Four weeks were spent studying Spanish and I was looking forward to field testing my new skills in cities that weren’t so overrun with gringo’s. However, while I was still in Antigua, there were a few items I wanted to tick off […]