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 […]
Quite why tourist would want to visit the North Pole is open to debate, but each year a few hundred hardy souls head to the eccentric Camp Barneo to continue to The North Pole. Folks want to reach this point of some geographically importance, but little social value. They arrive by foot, well actually on […]
I have not written much about The Baltics, and it is a sad omission. The Baltic Sea covers a vast area of northern Europe, and a history that back to the Hanseatic League and forward to the contemporary structures of Northern Europe. St. Petersburg For most of the Cold War period, the region was the […]
European Trains are a fine way to travel I have, for the past ten days, been travelling in Europe to a tight schedule. Although nominally “retired”, but we shall explore that term at a later time, I have some interesting projects that require me to present myself at a variety of European locations within a […]