Baby turtles and Christmas in Los Barriles

After four days camping on a beach with not quite enough water, it was time to drive somewhere with a shower. We arrived in Ciudad Constitución ready for a nice hot shower. This didn’t eventuate, luckily they had cold water and we had a home-made hot shower packed on the roof-rack. Problem solved. We finally parted […]

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Safe and Almost Sorry in South Africa

      Passing the Zimbabwean side of the border was hassle free, leaving us plenty of extra emotional space to be excited about returning home (for one half of the party) and meeting up with family. Crossing the South African side of the border was never going to be simple, I had in fact […]

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El Cuco, still…

Well, so much for plans…Our eternal intent to leave this place seems flawed.  We got up this morning and packed up camp fully intending to leave Cuco.  We drove north to the local point break on our way out of town, figuring it was worth a look before leaving.  We …

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Potosí: The saddest place in South America?

Jupapina, near La Paz, Bolivia [by Paula] We’ve just spent our third Christmas and new year away from home. As we’re living in a proper house and have been temporarily adopted by Emma, Rolando and family, it was more like a ‘normal’ Christmas than the others. There was...
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Christmas wishes

Well, I really can’t believe how Christmas has snuck up on us this year!  It is amazing to think that this time last year we were in Western Sahara – Dakhla to be precise.  We were enjoying the sun and warmth, and savouring the freedom of our life changing decision to...
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