It’s 2016 and that only means one thing – time to reflect back on the last year and my favourite bits of 2015. This year it feels more about the lessons that I learnt throughout the last 12 months but firstly here are my best moments of 2015: My Best Moments of 2015 1. Reaching… Continue Reading…
Prison is not a place which conjures up images of a Disneyland but being banged up abroad in certain countries are definitely worse than others. Always one for a new adventure, I jumped at the chance to accompany my hosts to their weekly prison visit. After all, I was here to find out about the… Continue Reading…
It’s less than a week until I reach the big 40 and to say that I am contemplating my life is an understatement. When I was younger I had no idea where I would be at this age. Most women desire to be married and have children by this stage. I never had that desire…. Continue Reading…
During my solo travels to Central America, I travelled from Costa Rica to Nicaragua. In this post, I share my story of the border crossing and explain how to cross the Costa Rica Nicaragua border from Liberia to Penas Blancas As soon as I crossed the border from Costa Rica to Nicaragua, I felt different…. Continue Reading…
Chiva Tour Cartagena It was during my trip to Cartagena that I came across a novel way of utilising transport: on a Cartagena chiva bus tour. Originally known for transporting people around Colombia, these unique, colourful buses with a character of their own, now spend their nights (and days) transporting tourists around the old walled… Continue Reading…
For the last week I have been doing a lot of soul searching and making some decisions about my life. Being a freelance writer is tough. Working in the most competitive industry for writers is really hard. There is no guaranteed income or regular wage and sometimes you have to wait weeks or even months… Continue Reading…
It was one of the nicest sunrises I had seen. Hues of pink shone across the waves and pink fluffy clouds floated gently in the sky. Being so close to the waters edge, listening to the gently lapping of the waves each night as I drifted off to sleep, I felt incredibly lucky. I had found… Continue Reading…
I had left La Fortuna and was heading to Monteverde. It was time for more of Costa Rica’s rainforest and the thing that I was most excited about – seeing a sloth. Getting to Monteverde from La Fortuna was a delightful mission in itself. A bus ride and a boat then another bus ride which… Continue Reading…
If you’re planning on visiting Costa Rica, here’s my experience of hiking Cerro Chato One moment it was there, then in a blink of an eye it was gone, covered in a swirl of thick mist as it sifted over the summit of the volcano leaving nothing but a view of grey cloud. As the… Continue Reading…
I could feel myself floating in and out of consciousness, as the sound of beating drums grew closer. Was this all a dream? Being at Geo Paradise and wanting to understand more about shamanic rituals, I had decided to take part in an ayahuasca ceremony. I am not usually one for hallucinogenic drugs but a series of serendipities… Continue Reading…
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