Do you want yoga with that?
Would you like Yoga with that? I declined the offer of yoga for three mornings. I’m not against people stretching and contorting their...
The lava it burns
The lava burns! The lava is supposed to be in the crater not in my leg. I'm half way up the side of a 2800m hissing and breathing volcano...
No tengo hamburguesas
No tengo hamburguesas! It's not a statement you expect from a waitress at McDonald's. But the unexpected is often the best part of...
A bike named Hank, poets and mermaids
Santiago We eat breakfast amidst the colourful explosion of tomatoes, avocados, red onions, nectarines and other neatly stacked fresh...
Bushrangers, beers and pies: On a steel horse we ride
Published: Sunday Star Times - Escape & Stuff.co.nz (2015) Paul is set for a feed tonight. "I've got me a nice roo haunch," he salivates...
Cast under Baracoa's spell in remote Cuba
Published: Dominion Post -Life & Stuff.co.nz (2015) Her name is Maria. She is as sultry as the thunderstorms that roll in from Atlantic...
Tattoos and temples
Published: Sunday Star Times - Escape & Stuff.co.nz (2015) Our passage up the swollen coffee-coloured waterway has sputtered to a halt....
Kingdom in the sky
Published: Sunday Star Times - Escape & Stuff.co.nz (2015) The dusty track vanishes into thin air. The firm ground beneath me moments ago...
