Personal Blog
Thunder and Turtle Eggs at Los Zorros & Padre Ramos Reserve
https://www.flickr.com/photos/morph/15324342157/sizes/c/ We took a microbus (minivan) from León to Chinandega. We could see tree-coated volcanoes right from start, flickering like a zoetrope through the trees at the side of road. While I [...]
León – Crumbling Under its own Passion
Jet lag and exhaustion caught us around 22:00 so we got an early night and woke to the sounds of a metalwork shop jangling through the gap between the wall and ceiling. It was the [...]
Between Belfast and Managua, Lost in Time
San Salvador Airport, El Salvador. Airport Time. Timeless time. Tired and impatient in the no man’s land between timezones and nations. Between the Here that we wished you were at, and the There back at [...]
Pulau Weh (Part 2): Farewell to the Sun
We took a bechak from Freddie's to the island's western horn. So steep was the road through the forested island that I had to walk alongside the bechak at one point. But after endless climbing [...]
Pulau Weh (Part 1): Where the Sea Meets the Sky
The fast ferry took us off the northern tip of Sumatra, cutting a smooth course through the waters between the mainland and Pulau ("island") Weh. We haggled with pushy bechak drivers for a ride over [...]
Banda Aceh: Almost a Touch of Class
We allowed three hours to get from Friendship Guesthouse, in the jungle village of Ketambe, to the airport at Kutacane, 35km to the the southeast. We were a few minutes late starting and the next [...]