An Australian Dream
For everyone in Australia who loves to use limes in their cooking and their drinks… How about 12 juicy (yes they really are) limes for 50 cents?

For everyone in Australia who loves to use limes in their cooking and their drinks… How about 12 juicy (yes they really are) limes for 50 cents?

As I leave Nicaragua for El Salvador, some final Nicaraguan public transport observations. Micros I actually promised a blog post about this ages ago and am now finally getting around to it. On certain routes in Nicaragua (most notably around the Pueblos Blancos where La Mariposa Spanish School and Eco-Hotel is located) there are not…
Walking up a back street in Dushanbe on the way to the Hostel I came across these girls playing “elastics“. It made my heart absolutely sing to watch them 🙂 I have such fond memories of playing this game back in primary school – we were totally obsessed with it! It seems things have…
Just for fun 🙂 Remember at the start of the Silk Road Tour how we got stuck in the mud in Kazakhstan the first day I joined? Well, Gayle, James and the London-Sydney Overland group visited the Tamgaly Petroglyphs today and went to have a look at what our special site looks like 6 months…
One of the many fabulous things about the Finca Esperanza Verde is the opportunity to spot a wide variety of wildlife. For example, if you want to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner with hummingbirds – this is a wonderful spot! But hummingbirds (colibri) are not the only birds here – not by a long…
Frederik Elsner! As part of my ongoing fascination/obsession with Greenland (I spent 5 weeks there last year, will spend another 4 weeks this year, and already have plans for 2019), I started listening to music by Greenlandic bands and very quickly came across Nanook. Nanook The band was formed by brothers Christian and Frederik Elsner…
One of Estelí’s claims to fame is that it is the largest cigar producer outside of Cuba. Cigar manufacturing is the biggest employer in the region and the surroundings are filled with tobacco plantations and really cool looking drying and fermenting sheds that are absolutely enormous! So, when I found myself with a free…