Seeking direction from the top of an iceberg in Qikiqtarjuaq Harbour Arctic Canada Arctic Canada may not be on everybody’s winter travel list. However, visiting communities like Qikiqtarjuaq on Baffin Island, or Yellowknife, the relatively metropolitan capital of the Northwest Territories, really does offer an extraordinary glimpse into another world. A world and a rich […]
The Guyanas It is hard to know where to start really, when describing the Guyanas. Most folks don’t know where they are, and those that do have only a fleeting memory of school geography, or perhaps collecting stamps. The Three “Guyanas” lie on the northeast coast of South America. They are politically different, two independent […]
It is reassuring to know Manari Ranch exists. Our world seems to travel too fast, as we stumble from one crisis to another, each event often caused by the sheer speed to which we have accelerated our lives. We look to media all day, reflect upon it rarely and act upon its’ desires all of […]
Let me introduce Peter Joseph, an Amerindian from St. Ignatius in the Rupununi. Peter is an Amerindian, and lives in St. Ignatius, a settlement of 2,000 folks living adjacent to the Guyanese community of Lethem. The village, home to both the Makushi and the Wapishana people was officially settled in 1909 by a Jesuit priest, […]
By the time that I was finally faced with an armed man demanding money, I laughed; it had been that kind of day. Up early to drive 650kms south from Puerto Ordaz to the border town of Santa Elena de Uairen, we set off in a reasonably jolly mood, tempered slightly by the effects a […]
Travelling to Guyana via Panama with COPA may not seem to be logical, but then again, nor are travel junkies. Here’s the thing. When one is a points junkie like me, travel routings become secondary to the availability of the elusive redemption seats. Coupled with my interests in travelling to some rather unusual places, this […]
Here’s the story. In October last year, I rented a car from Hertz in Toulouse for a couple of weeks. I have done this several times over the past seven years, and it has always been smooth. When the vehicle was returned to the airport, completely unscathed, full of diesel and with only a further […]
“The Lusitania”, the overnight train from Lisbon to Madrid The Train It would help to be very small, which I most certainly am not, but I still like travelling by overnight trains. The Lusitania operates daily from Lisbon to Madrid, and although I had travelled on it before, I wanted to repeat the performance. Sleeping […]
I am not quite sure why I find the post-Soviet countries so fascinating, but I do. Over the past ten years, I have visited all of those in Europe, except Montenegro, and it is quite remarkable how each has evolved since the end of the Soviet era. Of particular interest to me have been the […]