Category Archives: Central & South America

This post from my trip in May 2018 features : Grenada, Barbados, St Vincent & the Grenadines, St Lucia, St Kitts & Nevis and Antigua I had no real interest in going to the Caribbean.  I didn’t think that I would discover anything particularly interesting; the colonial history is shameful and recent history dogged byContinue reading “74. The Lesser Antilles (Caribbean)”

This post, from January 2018, features: Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Mexico The adventure starts with BA243 departing Heathrow at 12.55 for Mexico City.  A Boeing 787 aka a “Dreamliner”.  After 11 hours it is no dream, I can assure you.  In the intervening 20 years between the 777 and the 787, all Boeing have comeContinue reading “73. Mayan Trail”

In January 2016 I read “Wild Coast”, by John Gimlette, and found it very interesting as it is part travelogue and part history about a region of South America I knew very little about.  The term “Wild Coast” appears to have been coined by 17th century Dutch explorers (de wilde kust) and refers to theContinue reading “49. Panama, Guyana and Suriname”