blue balance barcelona

These photos turned out this way by accident: we’d fiddled with the white balance setting the day before, and forgot to change it for a while in the bright sunlight. Despite this, I quite like the blue-tinted appearance it gives to the park!

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Manzanillo

Manzanillo is one of those beach resorts that Mexicans recommend, after they’ve already recommended all the other ones. I can’t think why. It’s actually the closest to Guadalajara, a bare four hours in one of the luxury buses. The restaurant strip is a bit crappy, judging by the beyond vile, [...]

Mexican Monsters

Recently Albs, Shona and I went to Mexico City. This was my third time there, (the past two times were last year), and since I’d already done a lot of the usual things, I for once did a bit of research. This led to us going on the Saturday to a less [...]

Tequila Sunshine

That would be Tequila the place, everyone, and not the beverage, although one thing does often lead to another…
While my sister was visiting we decided to do an easy day trip from Guadalajara, and Tequila is one of the best-known destinations within an hour or so of the city. We looked into the [...]

Save the Best for Last

On my last day in South Africa, somewhere between suffering over two hours sleep, returning my (scratched, grrrrrr) rental car, and packing, I went on a game drive with my friend Mostafa and some friends of his.
The game drive was different from the safari in Pilansberg because the animals are not in such a wild [...]

Impressions of Cape Town

In two days, I didn’t see much of Cape Town at all, given the little trips to see penguins, the Cape of Good Hope, and Table Mountain. But what I did see, and what was obvious within about thirty seconds of arriving in the city, was that it’s a far nicer place than Johannesburg.
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At the End of the World

This is how it is at the end of the world. Two Transylvanians with an expensive camera, a Catalan Independentist, a Canadian and her penguin… all arriving in a blue convertible Mini-Cooper.
The Cape of Good Hope: the emotional and metaphorical, if not actually factual, tip of the continent.

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Penguins!

As many people who know me should know, penguins are one of my favourite birds. Along with herons… I think I’m intrinsically drawn to birds that walk stupidly! And hummingbirds, which come to think of it, do they walk at all?
Anyway, of all the fun and exciting things on a weekend trip to [...]

I should have been….

…here! Sniff!

watching this…

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Magical Mozambique

After a 13 hour drive that included two flat tires, the night of the jackal, and finally parking in a field next to a helicoptor, we arrived in paradise.

By paradise I mean an enormous balcony looking out over nothing but the Indian Ocean. Weather that was overcast but deliciously warm. An almost deserted [...]