A priest. A still-beating heart. Blood flowing down sacrificial steps until it flooded the ground some 30 metres below.
That’s my first mental image of Mayan culture, the…
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How Slaves Found Freedom in Barbados (And How We Can Do The Same)
When the change came, the island held its breath. What would happen the following day?
Would people turn up to work? Or would they leave?
Sunday Soothing – The Shores of Playa Maya
Sometimes, you need to take the time to stop. To pause for breath. To fill your senses with everything that’s beautiful and to let the world’s cares, concerns and curmudgeonly characteristics sit sloppily in a pile to be dealt with tomorrow…
Standing Alone on Slavery, Barbados
The problem, if you happened to be a slave owner, was that slaves just kept on dying. It was bad for business. Arguably, this also caused problems if you happened to be a slave, but…
Freedom and Slavery in Barbados – Part Two: It’s Not All Black and White
Part two about slavery in Barbados – and how it’s not what you might expect.
Zhang Huan Rising – Something’s Sweeping Through Toronto
I’m not sure which I saw first. The creeping hands…The lashing tail…Fervent, frantic, fevered wings dipping into water…Or something else entirely……
Freedom & Slavery in Barbados. It’s Not Black & White
The Club, Barbados My room has the perfect view. At dawn, sparkle spills across the [...]
There’s More to Barbados Than The Beaches
But let’s face it, they’re a great place to start I’m writing this in a [...]
Barbados, George Washington, And Me.
“In the cool of the evening we rode in the country and were perfectly enraptured [...]
Behind Closed Doors in Toronto
“If you see a door, open it.”
No, these weren’t the words of a self-help guru or spiritual master. These were the words of a Torontonian as she left us at…
Lost Passports & Luxury in Toronto
It started in a hostel. Or perhaps a budget hotel. A misguided gesture of love – my boyfriend at the time doing the laundry for me. It became an unequal disaster. Two passports in a…
Street Art in St Vincent’s & The Grenadines
I’m not sure where you are this early November morning, but I’m seeping through the slow winter mist and feeling slightly invisible. Just the time, I thought, to rustle up these…
Tea Time & The Tequila Worm
If travel teaches you anything, it is this: that one man’s hangover-inducing, paint-stripping, memory-erasing spirit shot is another man’s artisanal specialty. Take tequila…
Introducing Beach Thursday
It’s one of those days. My fingertips are racing across the keyboard, images of cinnamon, chilli spice and chocolate dance through my head and my notebook overfloweth with scribbles of what I have seen. Or, more accurately…
Mexico Revisited. What is it like to go back?
Sometimes life has a very sweet symmetry. This weekend I travel to Mexico, to stand [...]
A Journey Along Alaska’s Maritime Highway
This summer, I was lucky enough to make a solo trip to Alaska. While this wasn’t my first
BriBriArtolution – An Experience Inside a Bri Bri Village in Costa Rica
We navigate upstream in dugout canoes. A man with an outboard motor is in the back…
A Bit of Bequia Beauty
The view from where I’m sitting involves a stack of post-it notes, papers and files. Through the window, a limp and lifeless cloud suffocates the air, not shifting, not darkening. Nothing.
So instead…
The World’s Best Fast Food, Cartagena
Fast forward to the close-set streets of Cartagena, in sticky, colourful Colombia and her words resurfaced after all these years…
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