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

Almost everything can be booked on line nowadays, including bus, train, and plane tickets. There’s much less consistency, though, over whether you...

We booked an “eight day cruise” (actually seven nights, arriving late and leaving early; hence also equivalent to a four day trip plus a five day...

Susan spent a lot of her time on board drawing people. “Yate” is Spanish for “yacht”, by the way. Our friendly crew. Rafael certainly had an amazing...

Lima is almost 4,000 km south of Venezuela on the Pan-American Highway, but all the way up through Peru and into Ecuador, next to the usual sellers...

We had heard bad things about the big border crossing into Ecuador at Huaquillas, and good things about Cuenca and the Podocarpus National Park near...

There’s a long, and fascinating, tradition of textile production in Peru. Despite the fragility of natural fibres, a remarkable number of pieces of...

Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about exchange rates, unless they have to for some reason, such as making significant foreign...

Puno is the Peruvian gateway to Lake Titicaca. The city itself is a bit sad. The impressive colonial Plaza de Armas is surrounded by a few streets of...

Cusco (also Cuzco, Qosco, or Qoscu, depending on whether you're using Spanish or Quechua orthography, and from which era) is beautiful, but it's...

“So how was Machu Picchu”, you’re probably asking by now - but we’re mostly doing this chronologically, and there are a few more steps before we get...

It’s been more than a month since we left Santiago for the final time. I’ve been meaning to write something about how things were there but have been...

Tetouan is a town in Northern Morocco, 60 km from Tangier. Nicknamed the White Dove, with a sculpture of a white dove in a square, the city’s walls...

I've packed just a few brush ink pens and a thin sketchbook. My little pans of travel watercolour tin was corroded during travel, thus needs...