It was 5am and still dark when we set off along a steep farm track in the heart of Belvidere. The countryside was silent, not a cricket stirred, and only the sound of our feet tramping through rough grass and over stone disturbed the absolute serenity of the morning. We walked for around half-an-hour. A [...]
The boatman calls himself Nature Boy. He rows standing up in the stern of his colourfully painted wooden skiff, on the look-out for a boa he saw yesterday that was resting on the pale and twisted branch of a bloodwood tree. I am seated on a damp bench in front of him. The river disappears [...]
Dating as far back as the early 1400s, Auerbach’s Keller is one of Leipzig’s oldest and most famous restaurants. Frequented by the student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the mid 18th century, much of its fame and notoriety is due to the writer’s love of the place and its inclusion in his celebrated play, Faust. [...]
I spent last night in a small aluminium fishing skiff with two friends. We bobbed around just off the Roseau bay front, Newtown and the port at Fond Cole from midnight to around 5am. I have been fishing with them before and they are always good company. The fishing was slow, very few bites and [...]
