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...

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...

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

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

Water in the South Pacific tends to circulate counter-clockwise, driven by trade winds and the Coriolis effect. The Humboldt Current, consisting of...

Expanding on the last post, here are lots of pictures of stone walls, loosely mortared together with rambling commentary. These two are from...

I now have some data about how planes work when landing in high places. This chart shows our journey from Lima to Cusco, starting at sea level and...

We watched the Life Of Brian on Netflix the other day (what? not Christmas-ey enough?) - mostly because Susan had never seen it before, but also for...

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

We left Barcelona at the end of September for the Low Countries: from olives, wine, and anchovies to cold rain, beer, and moules frites. And to...