Blog | Pootlings

Feb 20, 200814 min read

A week in Havana

Having cleared immigration at a snail's pace, and settled into our hotel with a welcome mojito and a burst of "Guantanamera", we decided...

Feb 18, 20085 min read

Fidel's Cuba - a potted history

Cuba was originally populated by the Arawak Indians, a melange of folks from the Orinoco River and some blow-ins from nearby islands....

Feb 10, 200810 min read

The Ecuadorian Amazon

En route to the Upper Amazon, Guayaquil (pronounced Y-a-Keel - our stepping off point), is pretty short on attractions, except for a few...

Feb 8, 20084 min read

Simon Bolivar - a potted biography

Feted as the liberator of South America, there’s barely a town on the continent that doesn’t have a street/square/park named after him,...

Oct 11, 200611 min read

Tripping around Corsica

Corsica was the one region of France that Edmee hadn’t visited, so we took Easyjet from Orly, picked up my trusty little Citroen 3 from...

Oct 5, 200527 min read

A Christmas Serendipity

Having departed Oman, we spent a couple of days delightfully at sea, and at leisure. Lazy breakfasts to start, a bit of sport baiting the...

Oct 4, 200517 min read

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

Arriving at Dubai airport at 3am is not as easy as it should be. Having walked a country mile to board an up-escalator, one then strolls...

Oct 4, 200521 min read

Alaska

Having sailed out of San Francisco Bay on a warm summer’s evening, by the time we reached open water, the fog bank had engulfed any view...

Oct 2, 200543 min read

Sicily Won

It’s a quick flight from Naples to Palermo – 30 minutes, just time to have some blood orange juice – before disembarking into the heat...