Wed 07 – Thu 08 Aug 2019 Eight months ago, when exploring Costa Rica in the very first week of our most recent world travels, we met a...

Tue 06 – Wed 07 Aug 2019 ‘Sweet Sixteen and Never Been Kissed.’ More accurately, eighteen rather than sixteen (years since we first came...

Sun 04 – Mon 05 Aug 2019 On Sunday morning, it was ‘Tomato Pasta Situation Critical’. Having irresponsibly leapt at the chance of...

Sat 03 Aug 2019 I winced as I crawled across the floor of the tent to the door-flap. I’d just woken with my usual, everyday backache,...

Fri 02 Aug 2019 Dave got up early and walked about 2½ miles in a loop heading north, collecting wild strawberries for breakfast. This...

Thu 01 Aug 2019 No excuse, we had plenty of warning. Just like the slow, dozy mosquitos that give such a long warning of their approach,...

Wed 31 Jul 2019 We got up and had a leisurely breakfast, enjoying more than half a day relaxing around the lovely campsite at Shallow Bay...

Mon 29 – Tue 30 Jul 2019 Monday, the day we were to head towards the west side of Newfoundland via Deer Lake. We decamped efficiently and...

Sun 28 Jul 2019 It was our last day in St Johns, the capital, before heading to the other side of Newfoundland, so we thought we’d do the...

Sat 27 Jul 2019 Our delightful campsite neighbours don’t seem to need much sleep. Goodness knows what time they went to bed last night,...

Fri 26 Jul 2019 This morning, the rain had stopped in favour of sunshine and clear skies, and we now had food and camping gas. We ate a...

Thu 25 Jul 2019 After just six hours sleep, I awoke through sheer hunger at 4:30 a.m. local time. There was still nothing to eat, and no...

Wed 24 Jul 2019 Why is it always so difficult for us to set off travelling? Every time, there is something. And, every time, it is...

After nearly six weeks of back-to-nature camping in Newfoundland and remote wilderness areas of the USA’s Pacific North West, I have...

Llanos de Cortes: a stunning waterfall in natural surroundings about a mile’s pretty walk from the main highway. Dave and I had been...

Oh dear, sometimes we get it very wrong. Not only had we chosen to camp for over two weeks at the wrong time of year in the wet tropics...

After the significant effort we had made to get tickets to enter the area around Volcan Poas, the active volcano just outside San Jose...

Tuesday There is always something. The first time we embarked on a backpacking adventure, just Dave and myself, it was the very first bus...