Rehab or relapse? Or both?  All is revealed….  Turn up the music for this one! The story continues… Cup (crowd surfer supreme) is popping in to Salvador for Carnivale, and then Chris, Wayne and the Capt. will cross the equator, bound for the Caribbean.  Sacrifices to Neptune mandatory*. * to quote Wikipedia: During […]

I thought Arnhem Land was remote, but this place is something else.  Physically grand and forbidding, St Helena carries its history on its sleeve. Jamestown turns out to be an English-style village sitting in a narrow green valley dwarfed by the barren, almost vertical cliffs each side.  Someone forgot to […]

HOW IT ALL STARTED – NEW YEARS DAY…. 9:00 am, in the lounge: Let’s celebrate! Start of the great Atlantic adventure, etc. Glass of bubbly? Another? 11:00 am, on the plane: Glass of Champagne before take-off, sir? Why certainly! A little top up sir? 11:30 am: Your pre-lunch drink order […]

Well, the gurus definitely got off-piste this time. What’s not to like about a coastline of wild storms, incredible vistas, wonderfully welcoming people and cheap beer?  Impossible to capture in a few minutes of video, but what the heck!

Wild, magnificent, untamed. An unparalleled mountain scape carves a magnificent corner, around which two great oceans compete in constant combat, occasional fury. How appropriate that this place marks the entrance to exotic Asia. The charts are littered with the marks of wrecked ships – some 3,000 by all accounts (that’s […]