The next step on the trail

Since returning home the last few weeks have been a blur of jet lag (washing clothes at 2am in the morning), Christmas family commitments a...

I t is raining and cold when we leave at 6:15am. The hotel is so new that the walkway linking it to the airport terminal is still under co...

We wake up to a rather dark, misty and wet morning. Everyone else is still asleep but Rob has breakfast set up for us at 7am in the kitchen...

Ever the accommodating hosts, Brian and Jan have breakfast ready for us early so that we can start our journey north. This has been our fir...

At 5am I wake up to an almost deafening chorus of amazing birdsong. It's layer upon layer of complex melodies and continues until it be...