Quick notes on food and drinks: Orinoco - we went three days in a row. Long queues at peak hours but it moves pretty fast and you can always get a...

Origen Mezcaloteca Mercado de 20 November - good local stuff; Smoke Alley is intimidating and very meat heavy La Olla - went twice El Lechoncito de...

We ended up in Mérida almost by chance, as it’s one of the closest places you can fly to from Havana. This was fortuitous, as it’s a really nice city...

I really wanted to visit Chixulub because of the impact crater, but of course you can’t see it at all. It is quite a nice place on the shore of the...

First, a big caveat: this was all drafted in 2019 and not published until 2025. A lot of things have changed since then, not least that the US...

The first thing to strike me in Cuba was their evident love of the Rule Of Three. Every self-respecting organisation, it seems, has adopted a...

I’ve pretty much given up dead-tree media this year, with the exception of a couple of cheap second-hand books I picked up along the way and then...

We had planned to stay just one night in Bogotá before catching the morning flight to Havana, but we weren’t sure how difficult it would be to get a...

Susan and I started debating our travel philosophy before we even left Singapore. She was very much in favour of spending at least a month at a time...

This travel sketchbook started in October 2018, the previous three months I was drawing on loose papers originally thinking it’ll be a lighter...

I’ve used Lonely Planet for a long time. Back in the 1990s they were often the only halfway-reliable (1) source of information about out-of-the-way...

This meta-post represents the boundary between what was published in 2019 (and subsequently moved over to the new site), and what was drafted on my...