Ballooning over Bagan
Some experiences, as they say in the Mastercard ad, really are priceless. Although disappointingly often, you need some dough to be able to afford them. Point in case: ballooning over the temples of...
View ArticleLittle Big Apple
Ahhhh, Argentina. We arrived in Buenos Aires on 3 Jan after a long but rather lovely flight from London (first class! Yeah!!!). We feel we did a pretty good job in terms of value for money, all told,...
View ArticleDon’t Cry for Me Argentina…
…The truth is, I’ve been quite happy On an estancia Near Buenos Aires Just riding horses…..and eating sausage A key part of Argentina’s heritage, estancias are the big old farm estates where...
View ArticleAn Antarctic Adventure
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (otherwise known as New York City, c. 2009), James and I met up with an old colleague / friend who was on his way back home from an amazing round the...
View ArticlePolar Plunge!!
James is much braver than me. Also much less susceptible to the cold and with less heebie jeebies about deep water. So he got to do the polar plunge, whilst I relied on the protection of needing...
View ArticleA brief update….
Well, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks. Rio, New York, London. Hiking, parading, and generally strutting our stuff. But not much time for blogging. Sorry. AND we’re fast approaching the end of our...
View ArticleMy Hero…
So, hiking in Torres del Paine like the intrepid adventurers we are. Hurrah for us! Only on the last morning there, I did something epically stupid. I left my passport, safely wrapped up in its...
View ArticleGetting it Right
Sometimes, the very best thing to do is sit by the pool in the sunshine and read a book. Reader, we loved it. There is definite survivorship bias in this blog. Amazing experiences get glowingly written...
View ArticleCarnaval!!!!
James and I had had quite a long discussion about exactly how to end our trip. I mean, there have been so many amazing, incredible highlights: how can you possibly find something to cap it all off?...
View ArticleSeriously Struggling to Describe the Sambadrome
As you can imagine, finishing our world trip has been pretty hard for us; strangely, I feel I have been avoiding finishing the blog because this will mean that Lucy and my journey of a lifetime is...
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