Okay, developed world. Are you ready for a spray? Auckland sucks. And it sucks in the same way that Sydney sucks. In the same way Vancouver ...

I've been at this Spanish thing now for a month. I speak a little, somehow. I've never taken a proper course in it or ev...

I was in tears today. The horse ride has lasted a week. There are seven other riders, including the lead guide, Marc, and his ad...

I'm not a beginner at this. I've done it before—endurance riding in Turkey and Mongolia, a week or two each time. Eight ...

Cancún. Famous for being a resort town. The stunning 25km-long narrow isthmus separating the lagoon from the sea is named the Ho...

I'm not sure I'm enjoying this. Bloody Volaris Airlines. First, two weeks before my flight out of Oaxaca, they cancel it and propose...

In some quarters—probably over the border in places like Arizona and Texas, and perhaps less so now than once before but nonetheless—there i...

I lost my phone! Oh my gods, no. Right at the start of my big trip?! How could I be so careless! Sat in my plane seat I jumped up. It wasn...

Itchy feet. The summer of 2022 is the first time since rolling COVID lockdowns that the public is able—ready and eager—to travel en masse a...

EPILOGUE The matador thrusts the sword down between  El Toro's  shoulder blades, burying it to the hilt in an  estocada  aimed at the ...