Packing for the First World
My first real independent travel was a half-year round-the-world jaunt, and I overpacked accordingly. From the bleak European winter to malaria in the Caribbean, I was equipped for every eventuality. […]
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There’s something Particular about Cuba’s Casas Particulares
I arrived at my first Cuban casa particular at 3am, having just landed in Havana. Knowing I’d be arriving at a shitty hour, I’d made a reservation, but the streets […]
The best view in Taxco
There isn’t really a bad view in Taxco. Its buildings are too white, its roofs too terracotta-tiled, its streets too cobbled, its plazas too crooked, its churches too Baroque, its […]
Morelos Journal 1: Surprise Pilgrimage to the Mysterious Mountain Pyramid of Pulque
The wonders of Couchsurfing. With precious little time in Cuernavaca, I’d planned to arrive in the city and start rooting around for Malcolm Lowry relics. Instead I found myself heading […]
On the rising banks of the River Paraná…
Wherever I went in Paraguay, people asked me what I was doing there. Sometimes it was a foreign couchsurfer temporarily living in the country, more often it was a local […]
