I remember when I was 15 and living in France, my host sister went on holiday to the Brazilian Amazon jungle. I was amazed. Weren’t there anacondas living there that could suffocate you in your sleep? Wasn’t the jungle overrun with pumas that could attack you as you walked by? Weren’t there remote tribes that […]
Cuenca is the kind of city you can visit without having any plans at all. We didn’t! We came to the city with a vague idea to learn Spanish at a local language school while we house sat a local home for 10 weeks and get to know the city a bit. No list of […]
Whenever I find myself about to try an exotic new food in some far flung foreign land I find myself thinking about the dinner scene in the classic movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Let me set the table… Indy and his sidekick Short Round are sitting at a long table in an […]
My dad had just bought a new Mazda 626 sedan with – amazing at the time – a digital dashboard display. To eight year old me, this thing was the DeLorean and the Millennium Falcon all rolled into one. My mum softened things a little bit by playing cassette tapes of Spandau Ballet, Bronski Beat, The Traveling […]
We’ve been living in Ecuador for two months now and every time we meet someone who’s been to Quito, my first question is “Did you eat at Zazu?” When they reply with a yes, I’m inclined to high-five them. If their answer is a no, I slowly look away and shake my head in disappointment. […]
