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Chasing Peaks: Six Months at Buena Vista Surf Club
Note: this is one of two unusually long posts covering the six months we worked at Buena Vista Surf Club. If I was ever going to finish it, let alone keep it to a few [...]
My View from the Lip: Six Months of Surf and Self-reflection on the Nicaraguan Pacific
Note: this is an unusually long post, as it covers a six-month period in one place. And, while this post focuses on our surfing experience, it runs simultaneously with the more general piece about [...]
The Dirty Secret About Paradise: It’s Boring
I'm specifically talking about the postcard idea of "paradise" here, something like white, palm-fringed sand under empty blue skies, or a palatial suite at a five-star boutique hotel. Whatever it looks like to you, the trouble with "paradise", [...]
My Favourite Animal Encounters From Around the Globe
Here's a trivial and subjective list of some of the encounters I've had with wild animals that have, for widely different reasons, stayed in a special place in my memory. They're in no meaningful order. Albatrosses, [...]
Back to Civilisation in Granada, via Masaya & Apoyo
After the highlands of the north, we travelled south by bus to the city of Masaya. On the way we were struck by how uncultivated Nica was. Rather than crop-filled fields, we saw large areas [...]
Hoofing it Through the Cloud Forest in Miraflor, Northern Highlands
Note: Following the previous post from Los Zorros, in the northwest of Nicaragua, we travelled by bus to Estelí, in the more central northern region of highlands that border Honduras. We followed instructions for where [...]