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  • 14. Oware
  • 15. Liming – On the Edge
  • 15. Liming – St Vincent and Bequia
  • 15. Liming – The Emerald Isle
  • 15. Liming – Bathsheba
  • 15. Liming – Settling
  • 16. Sand in the Sandwiches
  • 17. Airplanes
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Monthly Archives: March 2016

Climbing the Andes – Night out in Quindia

Then we turned of the main road onto a still wide, but much quieter byway.  And immediately we started to climb.  Despite the fact I could see little out of my right hand window, I knew we were cli…

Source: Climbing the Andes – Night out in Quindia

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Posted on March 31, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Climbing the Andes – A slow start

Two days after my trip to Gorgona, Mauricio (I suppose to get me out of Lucy’s house) promised me another trip.  It was to travel north towards Armenia and into the Central Cordillera between Medel…

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Posted on March 30, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Gorgona Trip – Paradise at last

 Go to the First post in The Gorgona Trip Possibly the most magical moment of the whole trip to Gorgona was the trip home.  The little coaster we had travelled in had dropped us off and moved on, s…

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Posted on March 29, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

WHEN I WENT TO – Starting the new blog soon

Hope you can join me in the new stories soon in St Helena, Ascension, Lesotho, Maldives, Mauritius, St Vincent, Montserrat, Haiti, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Guinea,

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Posted on March 28, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Gorgona Trip – in the camp and around the island

In the afternoon, Graeme and I decided to try out the hammock.  This yellow net had been provided by Chris, one of Graeme’s English friends in Cali, and we were all thumbs trying to get the thing s…

Source: The Gorgona Trip – in the camp and around the island

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Posted on March 28, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Gorgona Trip – Starting to immerse

I was slightly stunned at this sight but called over the guide, and at the same time tried to stem the flow of blood by clamping up the hand.  However, because it was on the side of the hand that n…

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Posted on March 27, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Gorgona Trip – The prison and trouble on the reef

I tossed my bag over into the small wet fishing boat and precariously dangled for a moment between the two boats.  We loaded up our boat and set off in a wide loop to the shore, where the only way …

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Posted on March 25, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Gorgona Trip – Bumpy Crossing

The land opened out again as we neared the coast and a sprawling, dilapidated city came into view.  This was Buenaventura.  After the Amazon rainforest and the loneliness of Darien, this was the wi…

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Posted on March 24, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Gorgona Trip – The drop to the Pacific

Two weeks of hanging around Cali was beginning to tire both myself and Mauro out.  I needed a complete break to see something of the countryside around.  He found a blue and red leaflet that showed…

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Posted on March 23, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Time in Cali – Caught up in the corrida

Go to the first post in Time in Cali Football was not the only sport which Colombians followed.  As in many Latin American countries, bullfighting still holds an attraction especially in rural area…

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Posted on March 22, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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