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Canterbury, Uk – February 2008 Caitlin Al-Najjar (aged 12) / Deanna Stewart (aged 9) Caitlin’s story: We had set off in my mums work car. It wasn’t that flashy, just right for a group of five: Me, Deanna, Rosie, Doggy and Mum. It took us a while to get there because the traffic was so [...]

Costa Rica, Liberia – Jan 2008 Regina I took a TransNica $28 bus to cross the border into Costa Rica today. Most of the paperwork was done by the bus conductor: he collected our passports and returned with visas in hand a while later. We proceeded to customs down the road but they did not [...]

Manchester – July 2007 mcdog It was raining in Manchester. It was raining everywhere in the UK according to the radio. It had been raining for almost the whole six weeks we had been back in the UK. Did we care? Not then we didn’t, we were sitting in the airport, watching planes take-off in [...]

Bulgaria, Balchik – Nov 2007 Dogrose November saw us pay a return visit to Balchik, a charming Bulgarian port town on the black sea coast. We were back in Bulgaria looking at properties for sale and to get a feel of what the country’s like in the winter months. It was a definite contrast to [...]

Bolivia, La Paz – Oct 2007 Regina How could I forget the sights we saw on the way to the main plaza and cathedral? There are vendors everywhere. They are usually women called cholitas in native dress which consists of a shiny fringed shawl over a skirt with many meters of fabric and many pleats. [...]

UK, London – October 2007 Rosie If you love Oriental food make your way to Oriental city, 399 Edgeware Road, Colindale, north-west London where you’ll find a small shopping mall with a large food hall and Oriental supermarket. This relatively unknown gem is home to a variety of independent shops where you can purchase every [...]

Bulgaria, Bourgas – 2007 mcdog Walking to the bus station was very pleasant in the cool of the morning. There was a bus at the stop, and it was the bus to Burgas; or is it Bourgas? Nobody seems to know, both spellings are widely used, sometimes on the same document. The bus had air-con [...]

Mexico, Cozumel – 2007 mcdog You can’t get close to the ferry pier in Playa del Carmen without being hassled by ticket sellers. The first to approach us used the ‘conversational’ method, big mistake, we were looking to buy tickets for a ferry, not a tour. We moved on before he finished, the ferry was [...]

Bulgaria – 2007 mcdog Hot Coffee We manage to fall out of bed at a reasonable time, it’s still morning, and get down for breakfast in the hotel. Then it’s back up to the room for a cuppa.We head down to the beach to marvel at the acres of browning and burning flesh and drink [...]

Mexico – Bacalar 2007 Dogrose/The Barefoot chef As things slowly return to some kind of normality after Hurricane Dean tore it’s way through Mexico I received an email from an acquaintance I met in Bacalar. We only spent a brief time in each others company but we had quite a lot in common and talked [...]