2nd February 2015 / Destinations, Mexico, North America, On the road / 2 comments

Not many travellers make it to Campeche. Those who do are mostly long-term travellers doing a loop through the Yucatan, Guatemala, and Belize. Campeche’s walled historical centre is small, only nine blocks long and five […]

29th January 2015 / Destinations, Mexico, North America, On the road / 13 comments

Merida is the capital of the state of Yucatan (Mexico), and dubs itself “the cultural capital”. I have also heard it called “the white city”. I arrived there on January 15 with rather high expectations. […]

20th January 2015 / Destinations, Mexico, North America, On the road / 8 comments

As soon as I got out of the bus terminal in Valladolid last Sunday, I knew that I would like the place. Here was a real Mexican town, with colourful colonial buildings to boot. Under […]

16th January 2015 / Destinations, Mexico, North America, On the road / 18 comments

Isla Mujeres (the “Island of Women”) is a skinny 8-kilometre long island located 15 minutes by fast ferry from Cancún. No matter what the guidebook says, it’s a tourist island full of North American vacationers […]

8th January 2015 / Destinations, Mexico, North America, On the road / 5 comments

“I need shade” said Carrie or “I’m going to get sunburned”. Behind us were kilometres of sand, and even more kilometres of sand lay ahead of us. It was almost noon and the sun was […]

8th December 2014 / Africa & Middle East, Destinations, On the road, Turkey / 4 comments

After a few days in Istanbul, I started researching in earnest where to go next. With only two weeks in Turkey, this late in the season, I hadn’t planned on a grand country tour, but […]

30th November 2014 / Africa & Middle East, Destinations, On the road, Turkey / 2 comments

If you’re visiting Istanbul for the first time, it’s almost guaranteed that you will end up in Sultanahmet at some point. Even though this area of Istanbul is very touristy and has expensive food, it […]