Óscar Martínez is not one to shy away from danger. A Salvadoran through and through, this man searches for the truth in Central America, walking through cities overrun with crime and where the narcos rule the law, Guatemalan jungles concealing massive drug plantations legally owned by narcotraffickers, even […]
Friday 15th July It was difficult to get the alliteration on this one, so I sort of cheated. Oh well. A view from the Wall. V. foggy that day, which made it refreshingly crisp-great for the climb. We woke up even earlier today; a tumultuous six o’clock. So […]
Wednesday 13th July Correction on yesterday’s promise of today. Turns out it was the Summer Palace, not just some park round the corner. (Chinese can be very vague sometimes.) My lesser other half (LOH) once again slept like a baby, whilst I woke up at five and […]
Monday 11th July It was all fine up till then. School had just finished, the weather was as good as typical post-Brexit England was going to get and my hay fever was ‘apparently’ finally subdueing after a long bout of itchy noses. But then came the 11th of […]
Hi all. I knows it’s been a while since my last post (my bad) due to end of school frivolities (exams, performances, trips, being social in general) but now I’m finally done, right in the ‘heat’ of summer. Malheuresement, I am going to China tomorrow for a month. […]
Train from Durham got cancelled...yay...
