‘Why is your camera so big?’ the Cuba customs officer asked. ‘This is a professional camera. Why do you have this?’ I’ve been asked this question many times before. Usually I laugh it off or make a joke and the guy waves me though. But not this time. I’m at José Martí International Airport… Cuba. It’s […]
It has been nearly six years since Dave and I spent a Christmas in Australia with all of our family around us. Six years! Sometimes I find that difficult to believe myself. The last time we were home in Australia was nearly three years ago when we went back to get married on a swelteringly hot […]
The large clap of thunder sounded and then the torrential downpour began. It was a typical afternoon in Cuba in August – rain arrived almost at exactly 4pm each day and on this particular day we happened to be caught in it. I spotted a Cuban tour agency and grabbed Dave’s elbow. We’d been meaning […]
There are places you go on your travels – places everyone tells you to go – simply because someone told you that it’s a ‘must see’. But sometimes these places can be overwhelmingly disappointing. Like when I lived in Paris and everyone said I had to see the Mona Lisa. What a let down that […]
‘We may get lucky,’ the Captain of the Tequila shouts to me above the roar of marine engines. ‘It’s the end of the season but…’ He shrugs. You never know. I’m sitting with this salty Mexican on the very top deck of a fishing smack swaying like a metronome on the crossways Caribbean Sea. The […]
