Ah, Patagonia!
I’m halfway through my calafate berry cheesecake when the cry goes up in the dining dome: “Puma-aaaa!” My fellow campmates spring...
Robert Young: Carnival in the belly
Robert Young’s name is synonymous with his clothing label The Cloth, which started twenty-seven years ago in Trinidad as a design...
One year in Bangkok
Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport is 16,671 kilometres from Piarco International Airport, Trinidad. That’s over twenty-one...
Peak conditions: taking on the Caribbean’s mountain ranges
Twice the heights St Lucia’s Gros Piton and Petit Piton are icons of the island’s mountainous landscape, and a challenge for hikers....
Mountains of memory: Jamaica’s Cockpit Country
Viewed from above, it’s immediately apparent why this region was dubbed “The Cockpits” by British soldiers in the seventeenth...
Marajó Island: green days by the river
On weekdays the Praia do Pasqueiro is almost deserted. But on even a somewhat overcast Sunday the neatly thatched huts lined up above the...
Float away: five ways to enjoy being out on the water in the Caribbean
Open water in Guyana In most of the Caribbean, “open water” means the sea. But in Guyana, the land of many waters, it can also mean one...
Los Roques: 50 shades of blue
Eighty miles off the coast of Venezuela, scattered near the more famous ABC islands of the Dutch Antilles, the Los Roques archipelago is a...
