We crossed into Bolivia, following the shore of Lake Titicaca by bus. Reed-yellow landscapes, angular vilages and scrubby hilltops interspersed views of the blue lake.
At Tiquina, the bus pulled up next to the lakeside and we were ushered out…
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18 days after we left Perú, on 7th December, President Pedro Castillo moved to dissolve Congress in his country, a Congress which was about to take a vote on his removal due to corruption charges. Almost immediately, Congress did vote…
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Mountain roads carried us through valleys, across streams, then traversed mountainsides; our bus followed the six-metre strip of rubble that separated the sheer cliff face that climbed to the heavens on one side from the plunging drop into oblivion on…
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Wow, Perú!
I’m blown away by the welcome we’ve found in this country; and especially that here in the town of Huaraz, in the neighbourhood just east of Avenida Confraternidad Internacional.
We’ve been staying in this barrio for just four…
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It took over a week to realise that altitude sickness was affecting my state of mind as well as my body.
A sea-level creature by nature, I may occasionally climb to 30 or 40 metres to rig a topgallant…
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When I began researching #The Springbank Voyage, I knew it as a local tale, as the crew included four sailors from Yell – Nicky Tulloch, Tammie Irvine, James Hardy and Lawrence Tait. (There turned out to be an Arthur Harrison…
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New Album - 'The Springbank Voyage' - coming in Summer 2022
I'm very excited to announce that I've got a new album underway - and it was a great boost just before Christmas to learn that I'd got funding from…
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The possibility of running a musical sailing trip seemed like a dim hope just a few months ago. But with a hopeful, music-starved group, and a careful regime of testing and preparation to avoid any virus…
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It's hard to say who had suffered more from the 18 months enforced 'lay up' - me or the sailing ship Lady of Avenel.
While I've been isolating in a Glasgow flat or a Cullivoe croft writing music, gaining…
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