Traffic signs – Cuba
Not often you see traffic signs like these … But they are everywhere in Cuba – reflecting the more traditional modes of transport that many Cubans use.

Not often you see traffic signs like these … But they are everywhere in Cuba – reflecting the more traditional modes of transport that many Cubans use.

There are several things in Latin America that try your patience if you let them – people who take one look at you and push in line in front of you because they assume you don’t speak the language, waiting for who-know-how-long when the chicken bus you are on stops for who-knows-what reason (there is never an…
First day on the overland truck started with a quick overview of the truck itself, where everything goes and how everything works. Then it was loads of photos with the owners of the hostel and off down the tiny backstreets of Almaty in our humungous beast! Took forever to get out of Almaty, and then…
The image of a large, grey, two-story abandoned building with hints of red around its window panes had haunted me ever since I first moved to Nuuk. I desperately wanted to visit this building and see what else the site contained (other images were few and far between) and finally had my chance on a…
When deciding what I’d do for the 4 days I’d have to wait for Pedro and Raúl to return from the Galapagos, I discovered that the timing would overlap very nicely with the end of the 2nd annual Festival Internacional de Artes Vivas Loja (otherwise known as the Loja Festival). And given that I’d wanted to visit…
The other reason (apart from Kuelap) that Chachapoyas won out over the other towns with archaeological sites was that the Sarcophagi of Karajía really captured my imagination. I’d come across them on the Atlas Obscura website that Charlotte put me onto and I just had to visit another site with “big heads” given I’d done…
I arrived in Quito on the Independence Day holiday – commemorating Ecuador’s departure from Greater Colombia on August 10, 1830. As part of the festivities around this, and also as part of the “Summer of Arts” in the city, several of the most important buildings in the Historical Centre of Quito were lit up in the…