Category: Voyager

What’s worse than having to sit for 9 hours in a cramped economy-class aircraft seat for 9 hours? Answer: discovering that you got your calculations wrong, and it turns out it’s actually 12 and a half hours. What could possibly be worse than that? Answer: spending an extra one and a half hours sitting in said seat after boarding, waiting...

We’ve just arrived at our overnight hotel, a stone’s throw from Gatwick airport, from where we are due to fly to Ecuador in the early hours of tomorrow morning. As we drove around the M25, there were endless matrix signs warning of high winds tomorrow, and the latest weather reports are talking about the latest storm-with-a-name, Katie, hitting the whole...

In a few days time  (Easter Monday), I will be flying out from Gatwick Airport bound for Ecuador, on another adventure, running watercolour workshops aboard MV Voyager (Voyages of Discovery). It promises to be very different from the experiences roughly one year ago, when we sailed to Iceland on the Voyager, in pursuit of the total eclipse. There should be no rough...