Yes, you read it right.  After months of being AWOL, guru productions has been found, resuscitated and forced back onto the editing floor.  Here is what came out: VIDEO 1: Grenada to the Panama Canal – with Noni, Tim and Janice, then Bernardus and Karsten, and finally Mike and Prue.  […]

The party’s over!  What?  Why? How?  It turns out that finishing a World ARC rally is as surreal as the rest of trip.  That feeling: ‘it-can’t-possibly-be-true’ has morphed into ‘it-can’t-possibly-be-over’. RESTING AT LAST – THE FLEET IN ST LUCIA     THE LAST HARRAH Then again, if we have to […]

SOMETIME IN LATE 2010 <phone call> Capt K:  Hi darling!  How are you? Cup:  Fine, fine, but where are you? Capt K: Grenada! Cup: Spain? Why? Capt. K: Not exactly. The Caribbean, honey. Dreadlocks, rum punch and that wonderful weed.  Cup:   You didn’t! Capt K: (all innocence) What, my […]

To quote Chris: ‘Well, it was an adventure’.  These are Warrell Words – rose-tinted restraint, laced with courage capsules.  The cocktail?  Take a 3 metre cross swell; add a sprinkle of rain squalls; mix in 25 knots on a tight reach; throw in a water-maker hiccup, and then stir with […]

Take 50% African, 40% European, and 10% native American.  Mix for 500 years.  Add an endless procession of religious orders, throw in oppressive colonisers, and somewhere out the other end pops Carnaval – a mere 4 million people, one-week long street party in a city with a population of 3 […]