The second country we visited on our recent West Africa tour was Togo, a narrow country sandwiched between Ghana on the west and Benin on the east, with a small border with Burkina Faso to the...
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A Visit to Lake Volta, Ghana
Lake Volta was the first stop on our recent tour of West Africa. It was lovely to get out of the chaotic city of Accra and into the Ghanaian countryside. The Volta region is little-visited,...
Abbaye de Fontfroide, Corbières, France
One of the joys of spending our summers where we do is that there are so many places to visit within an hour or two's drive. I spent a recent afternoon at the Abbaye de Fontfroide. Nestled...
Driving in Trinidad
The best way to see this beautiful and diverse island properly is to hire a car. If you're about to do any driving in Trinidad, here's some information which you might find...
A tour of the Angostura Distillery, Trinidad
In one of my former lives, I worked as a wine merchant and sold copious quantities of Angostura Bitters to the bartenders of London and the south-east of England. Indeed, we always had a...
Trinidad’s east coast
The sky was dark grey and there was definitely rain in the air, but today was the day when we had planned to drive to Trinidad's east coast and a bit of bad weather wasn't going to stop us! ...
Everything you didn’t know about Hummingbirds!
I have written about our encounters with Trinidad and Tobago's incredible hummingbirds, both at the Asa Wright Nature Centre and at Yerette. This post is full of mind-blowing...
Yerette, Home of the Hummingbird, Trinidad
Even though we had seen hummingbirds up close at the Asa Wright Nature Centre in Trinidad, we didn't want to miss the opportunity to see more and, more importantly, to...
Waterloo Temple in the Sea, Trinidad
Like many of the places we visited in Trinidad, Waterloo Temple in the Sea wasn't the easiest place to find! Our sat-nav had it in a totally different place to where the...
Caroni Swamp and Bird Sanctuary, Trinidad
When I saw the large group of tiny, uniformed school children waiting to join the same boat tour of the Caroni Swamp and Bird Sanctuary as us, I have to say my heart sank. ...
