Florida, USA: We have Lift-off at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
What comes to mind when you hear the acronym NASA? Astronauts, rockets, tales of heroic daring-do, ingenuity and exploration. A couple of days here at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral Florida ticked all of those boxes and more.…
Florida, USA: Dodging ‘gators on an airboat in the Everglades
For some people of a certain age mention of the everglades evokes memories of a park ranger, a child and a real pet bear careering through grasslands on an airboat – yes, the TV series Gentle Ben. Enquiries here in…
Guatemala: Easter celebrations in Antigua and on the shores of Lake Atitlan
We like to think we make a big deal of Easter in our house. Jim likes to go out a day or two in advance to invariably buy up the equivalent of the UN stockpile of chocolate Easter eggs of…
Guatemala: Lost in the jungle at Tikal
Tall limestone pyramids peeking above the jungle entangled in vines and covered in moss, with steps from top to bottom. If this is how you imagine your Mayan ruins, then Tikal is the place for you. The first archaeological remains…
Gear update: nine months into the round the world trip
Warning: if you are a fan of gear, minutiae or gear minutiae you are in for a treat. Anyone else (is there anyone else?) should skip this one. This is a geeky yet epic rollercoaster of a post about what…
Guatemala: The incredible IRTRA Xetulul theme park and Xocomil water park
Outside of Guatemala, or perhaps Central America, it is likely that few will have heard of IRTRA and its parks. We are talking here about Xocomil (the water park) and Xetulul (the theme park), next door to each other on…
Homeschool – start of summer term
It’s hard to believe we are already two thirds of the way through our Worldschool adventure as we embark on summer term at Newton School. There are definitely things the kids miss about real school, particularly their friends, organised sport…
Exploring the cloud forests of the Peruvian Chachapoya people
The land of the Chachapoya people lies in north western Peru, some 200 kilometres from the border with Ecuador and a similar distance from the Pacific coast. It is here that the far western approaches of the Amazon rainforest meet…
On top of the world in La Paz
We didn’t know what to expect when we landed in La Paz from Uyuni, one hours flying time to the South, only that it would be a lot busier than our time out in the salt flats in the south…
At the Copa, Copacabana!
No, not the Copacabana that Barry Manilow famously serenaded – this is the original Copacabana in Bolivia on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Copacabana beach in Brazil was named after the Bolivian original following the tale of a group Brazilian…
Family Odyssey Rocks
Adventuring Together
