Tag: adventure

*Travel*, Asia, Indonesia

Big Bad Mount Bromo and the glorious futility of hindsight

The most unexpected days of your life start with you munching your way through a cup of wet Indonesian coffee grounds while flicking ants off semi-stale white bread. That we now know. Invariably you then hop on the back of a passing motorbike and ask the driver to take you up to an unnamed roadside settlement in the East Javanese mountain region of Wonotoro. I … Continue reading Big Bad Mount Bromo and the glorious futility of hindsight

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*Travel*, Central America, Cuba

What’s that huge knife for? (a Cuban roadside adventure)

Pirates brought me to Camagüey. Not in the way that you might have hoped but bear with me while I set the scene a bit anyway. Currently Cuba’s third largest city, Camagüey sits about three quarters of the way down the island East from Havana. It used to be on the Northern coast, but its position near the sea turned out to be convenient for … Continue reading What’s that huge knife for? (a Cuban roadside adventure)

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