Back to school in Nicaragua

Finally some news! Some of you were left wondering of our existence in recent weeks due to the lack of articles published on the site, which was due to us spending three weeks in Nicaragua taking Spanish lessons in order to improve our efforts with the language before tackling the last two months of our […]

Whistle stop Los Angeles & Mexico

We had a pleasant, though slightly chilly flight from Tahiti to Los Angeles, arriving at LAX at 9am. We would not spend long in LA as there would be too many temptations for our tight budget. We had booked accommodation at the Days Inn Airport centre via hot-wire for 2 nights: double room with wifi, […]

Rumble in the Jungle

We said good bye to sunny Mabul Island and took the boat at 16.00 to the mainland. It was a longer, more bumpy and wet ride back and we made a couple of stops for emergency boat repair! Upon arrival in Semporna we checked into Sipidan Inn, an oasis in an otherwise dirty town. A […]