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...

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...

Hello there. We’re now in Mexico, and I’m still writing up our week in the Galápagos. I wanted to break radio silence quickly, though, to warn...

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...

We’d been carrying around way too much stuff for too long, so after coming back to Lima from the altiplano we decided to take a box of extra stuff to...

A solitary voyager embarked on an infinite journey would require an infinity of transit lounges - J. G. Ballard, Report on an Unidentified Space...

What we tend to do when self-catering in an apartment, serviced apartment or a house with a kitchen is basically buy ingredients for tasty dishes we...

A couple of days before we left Morocco, an alert popped up on both of our phones saying that there was new timezone information to download. I've...