Serendipity and viticulture
Friendships form without warning, I’ve learnt, and projecting their trajectory is an impossible task. You just never know who you’re going to meet one sunny day in Mendoza, Argentina’s greatest...
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Blog
My blog features some of my more personal writing, usually impressions from my travels.
A slice of life in Lima
They call it la garúa. Today, it swallowed Peru’s largest city whole. A dense, white fog that hid the tops of even relatively low buildings, that concealed the ocean and...
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Food for thought, thoughts on food
Scolded. I consider myself scolded. One of my closest friends, a dedicated food guru and creator of some of the greatest culinary delights I have ever had the pleasure to...
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How the Amazon made me feel
Our boat driver kills the engine with a single click. It is silent. A moment later, our guide turns off the enormous torch he has been using to search for...
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Where the sun was born
People travel and they talk. They form opinions and pass these on to friends and fellow travellers, they rave and condemn, they write guide books and online reviews. You listen...
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Move your body
Slowly, I close my eyes. And snap them open. And close them again. And open them. As much as I try to search for a slither of light, for a...
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Impressions of Bolivia
My weeks in Bolivia have passed by with ease and fluidity, with a gentle contentment and a wide-eyed wonderment. Instead of running my fingers over a keyboard, I have run...
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The dinosaur of the Argentine
I spend my week in Argentina on the back of a stegosaurus. He moves laboriously, with gentle movements that have me rocking from side to side. His flesh is calloused,...
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Learning about life in a land of dust and salt
My heart hammers in my ears. I attribute it to one of two things: either its the whopping altitude I suddenly find myself at, or it’s the fact that I’m...
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