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...

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

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...