Wandering around La Paz yesterday I started noticing that there are also tons of murals about the Zebras de La Paz.  Couldn’t resist 🙂
If you’ve spent any time at all in Guatemala or Honduras, you will have seen at least one (and probably several) Mayan ruins. Tikal in particular is incredible (at least that’s what my memory from 16 years ago tells me), but I have also visited Copán in Honduras, as well as several other lesser-known sites….
One of the key things I wanted to do while in EstelĂ was visit Don Alberto GutiĂ©rrez, a bit of a recluse who has spent the last 40 years carving all sorts of designs into the stones on his farm in the Tisey-Estanzuela Nature Reserve just outside of town. Once again, I arranged a day trip through Treehuggers, and…
Day 2 of our trip through the Salar de Uyuni had us exploring the Tunupa Volcano. This was the bit that turned the regular 3-day trip into a 4-day trip and I was super-keen to get out and do a bit of walking again. We first of all visited the mummies of Coquesa – with…
Arrived in CamagĂĽey, undecided on how long to stay.  A quick walk around the town and look on the internet (I really wish I’d bought a guidebook for Cuba!) didn’t reveal too much to do and my decision to stay only 1 day (2 nights) was decided by the Casa Particular I was in –…
Poked my nose into the municipal library in Camagüey and it was like going back in time.  No computers. No flexible furniture. Blackboard. Really not that many books. And card catalogues!  Love it that Fidel has a whole drawer for himself 🙂
When it’s Arctic Char season in Greenland, you have to make the most of it! This invariably means that you end up with more fish than you can eat and fit in your freezer! One of the options to deal with this excess is drying some of the fish for later use. This practice has…