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The death of Paul Gauguin – 8 May 1903
No CommentsRead more“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of ‘revolutionary’; and it is…
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Birding in The Gambia
Read more170 different species in just 10 days! Last week, just as the birds fly south to escape the British winter,…
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The death of Hernán Cortés – 2 December 1547
No CommentsRead more“He came dancing across the water with his galleons and guns, Looking for the new world in that palace in…
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Magic portal teapot
Read moreA visit to the Santiago house of poet Pablo Neruda. Known as the Chilean ‘Shakespeare’ and revered as that nation’s…
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The death of Captain Robert Falcon Scott – 29 March 1912
No CommentsRead moreIn the 1960s space was the final frontier. But just 50 years earlier, the final frontier was the South Pole.…
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Machu Picchu magic
Read moreA lifetime’s ambition is finally achieved with a visit to the ‘lost city of the Incas’, Machu Picchu, Peru.
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The birds of Peru – jungle
Read moreAfter watching the birds of the coast and mountains of Peru we flew east to Puerto Maldonado, a frontier town…
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In praise of Peruvian mammals
No CommentsRead moreOur trip to Peru earlier this month was punctuated with sightings of all kinds of wildlife: birds, insects, lizards; and…
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Crossing the equator
2 CommentsRead moreThe equator is an imaginary line on the Earth’s surface equidistant from the north and south poles. Last month I…
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New Zealand landscape
Read moreNew Zealand has two outstanding advantages. Firstly, it has a tiny population, only four million, a quarter of which live…
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