This is Not a Holiday

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] Now, I'm not a huge fan of clothes. That isn't to say I'm a naturist who travels the globe...

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] In 2005 I travelled across the Nubian Desert, in North Sudan, in a variety of pick-up...

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] How many sleeping bags do you own? Now, how many do you think you should own? Big...

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] Self-sufficiency – the watchword of the nWD traveller, along with night-bus, streatery and...

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] Ah, the old waterproofs dilemma: wherever you’re going, unless it’s Antarctica, there’ll...

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] Oh Lonely Planet – what have you become? I used to scoff at guidebooks when I first...

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] Adaptability – always a good thing, whether it’s switching effortlessly between riding a...

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] Spillage - never a good thing, whether it be an environmental accident or a more...

I recognize this place – it’s where we arrived three months ago. I ate at the same little plaza and watched the young muchachos riding...

Bombshell! My whole trip shifted on its axis, again, in Trinidad when I got, without exaggeration, the shock of my life. Landing at Port...