Back in 2014, before I completed my big freighter ship travel, I thought long and hard about the sorts of things that I wanted to get from my holidays. After a lot of consideration, I came up with a list - a stately set of ideals that I wanted to attain whilst sailing aboard a 450 tonne cargo ship amongst a crew of Burmese. The list included ( Read more... )

Just a wonderfully wholesome sort of a festival with a 'genuine kinship' feeling between the festival goers, and zero amount of pretense. In no real order ( Read more... )

I neither like nor trust Accra as far as I can throw it. So for me, the premise of a night out on the town with our volunteers comes with a level of EH&S thinking akin to an SAS operative, and I guess being the oldest person in the group (other than Brendan and Neil, of course - the former who I trust completely but who is exhausted on a Saturday ( Read more... )